HELD IN KINSHASA OF THE WORKSHOP ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA-ZLECAF IN THE DRC
Kicking off yesterday Friday in Kinshasa the implementation workshop of the African Continental Free Trade Area-ZLECAF in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Minister of Foreign Trade declared that the full implementation of this pan-African economic organization should contribute to advancing the structural transformation of Africa and to reshaping the markets and economies of the countries which signed this agreement.
The ZLECAF opens the doors to a market of more than 1.3 billion consumers,
thus offering new prospects for Congolese exports, particularly in the mining, agricultural and industrial sectors.
The attractiveness of the DRC could increase thanks to the ZLECAF by thus attracting new foreign direct investments creating jobs and technology transfer and
promotes regional integration, which could strengthen cooperation between the DRC and its neighbors, particularly in the field of infrastructure and reduces trade barriers to thus strengthen the diversification of the Congolese economy, added Julien Paluku Kahongya.
To accelerate the effective entry of the DRC into the ZLECAF and thus make the tariff dismantling effective for some of its products, the task force set up by the Government is already working on the domestication of the tariff offer, the establishment of the interministerial committee with the presence of the private sector and the national ZLECAF strategy concluded the Minister of Commerce while welcoming the presence of ZLECAF experts dispatched by Wamkele Mene, its Secretary General.
Note that during this workshop, delegates from the various State services including the DGDA, the OCC and other experts were equipped with the ZLECAF
