Cameroon: experts trained to help remove barriers to sub-regional trade

Abstract

The Permanent Secretary of Cameroon’s Ministry of Trade – Mr. Achille Bassilekin III, on behalf of his Minister, has reiterated to the authorities of the CEMAC and ECCAS, Cameroon's concern with regard to impediments to the development of intra-community trade and the emergence of national and regional champions in Central Africa. Mr. Bassilekin III expressed this concern during the opening ceremony in Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, of a training workshop for members of the National Approval Committee and economic stakeholders in Cameroon on the procedures for accrediting their industrial products into the ECCAS-CEMAC Harmonized Preferential Tariff regime. The activity is part of a contribution agreement signed by the European Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa for the further harmonization of ECCAS and CEMAC trade policy instruments.