EVALUATION OF THE PROCESS OF THE ACTUAL ENTRY OF THE DRC INTO THE ZLECAF AND THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE HOLDING OF THE 15th MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN TRADE OF THIS ORGANIZATION IN KINSHASA
The Democratic Republic of Congo, through its Minister of Foreign Trade, reassures of its availability to take the remaining steps to make its effective entry into the African Continental Free Trade Area-ZLECAF to thus make effective the tariff dismantling for certain products and therefore the elimination of customs duties for the latter.
The task force set up by the Congolese Government is already working on the domestication of the tariff offer, the establishment of an interministerial committee with the presence of the private sector and on the development of the national ZLECAF strategy, but also on the tariff integration in the finance law which constitute these steps to be taken, said Julien Paluku Kahongya while insisting on the advantages of increasing intra-African trade.
It was during the technical meeting this Thursday in Kinshasa with the ZLECAF delegation headed by Emmanuel Mbarga, Principal Expert for Market Access Issues and Regional Advisor for Central Africa dispatched by Wamkele Mene, Secretary General of this pan-African economic organization
Concerning the preparations for the organization in Kinshasa of the 15th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Trade of the ZLECAF next October, experts from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the ZLECAF have refined strategies for the success of this major meeting.
Let us recall that thanks to the commercial and economic diplomacy led by the Minister of Foreign Trade in Zanzibar in the United Republic of Tanzania during the 14th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Trade, the DRC had won the organization of this meeting of the Council of Ministers.
