Central Africa's free trade instruments gaining traction in DR Congo

Abstract

A total of 49 leaders from the public and private sectors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have completed a two-day training to appropriate rules of origin procedures for accrediting national industrial products into the ECCAS-CEMAC Harmonized Preferential Tariff regime. Facilitated by the Sub regional Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the training took place in Kinshasa as part of a series that has already benefitted local investors and administrative officials in Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, Gabon and Chad. The Kinshasa training brings the number of persons trained to take advantage of the ECCASCEMAC Harmonized Preferential Tariff regime to boost intraregional trade in Central Africa to 261 across five countries of the sub region. Actors in the rest of the countries of the sub region will also be reached.