START THIS MONDAY IN KINSHASA OF TECHNICAL MEETINGS AS A PRELUDE TO THE 16TH MEETING OF THE ZLECAF COUNCIL OF TRADE MINISTERS SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 15, 2025 IN THE CONGOLESE CAPITAL
The Kinshasa meeting will mark a decisive turning point in the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area-ZLECAF to thus increase intra-African trade with the free movement of people, goods, services and capital, hence a road map must be developed to allow each member country to accelerate the realization of this large African common market.
It was the Secretary General for Foreign Trade, Jules Muilu Mbo who declared this on Monday in Kinshasa on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, giving the go-ahead for the meetings of the focal points for the implementation of the ZLECAF, Customs Directors and experts for the settlement of disputes, as a prelude to the holding of the 16th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Trade of the ZLECAF planned for April 15 in the Congolese capital.
In front of experts from the 54 member countries, the Secretary General for Trade insisted on the implementation of concrete and realistic strategies to face the challenges of the diversification of African economies with the development of regional value chains, infrastructure and electricity.
On this occasion, Jules Muilu reassured that with the removal of tariff barriers, the Democratic Republic of Congo, which must make its products competitive on the market by placing emphasis on respecting quality and compliance standards,
has more to gain than to lose by being in the ZLECAF;
economic operators are therefore called upon to seize this opportunity, he insisted.
For his part, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the ZLECAF called on the representatives of the countries to accelerate the effectiveness of the latter which augurs a strong, prosperous and stable Africa
Note that these technical meetings will continue all this week in Kinshasa
