Cameroon Trade Hub

COMMUNITY FREE TRADE ZONE

Posted on 2024-07-31
ZLECAF

Given the major concerns expressed by ECCAS Heads of State and Government regarding continental integration, and the current state of affairs, which reveals that only four of the 11 countries are compliant. The Commission has been instructed to take the necessary steps to prepare and submit a draft roadmap for the operationalisation and launch of the free trade area by July 2025 at the 25thordinary session scheduled for September 2024.

With this in mind, a regional capacity-building... Read more

IMPORTATION OF DOMESTIC GAS

Posted on 2024-07-29
Commerce

Cameroon has benefited for many years now from an annual 5% subsidy on the cost of domestic gas, a precious commodity. According to SNH, 21% of consumption was covered by local production in 2021. In 2022, Cameroon officially spent CFAF 75 billion on subsidising domestic gas consumption, due to the rising cost of hydrocarbons on the world market.

With this in mind, Mr Okie Johnson Ndoh, Chairman of the Ad hoc committee in charge of petroleum product imports for the second half of 2024,... Read more

AfCFTA

Posted on 2024-07-09
ZLECAF

This landmark event took place on Friday 5 July 2024 at the Container Terminal of the Port of Douala-Bonabéri and was presided over by Trade Minister Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana.

The ceremony was also attended by Mr. Auguste Mbappe Penda, General Manager of the Cameroon National Shippers' Council (CNSC) and Chairman of the Ad hoc sub-committee charged with implementing the AfCFTA guided trade initiative in Cameroon, and Mr. Cyrus Ngo'o, General Manager of the Port Authority... Read more

CASSAVA AND ITS DERIVATIVES

Posted on 2024-04-22
Commerce

Within the framework of the import-substitution policy driven by the Government of Cameroon, the cassava value chain - production, processing and marketing - will be an essential asset. The Government and its partners in the secondary sector of the economy are working hard to see that SOTROMAS S.A (a company specialising in the industrial processing of cassava), based in Sangmelima in the South Region, is able to operate at full capacity.

With this in mind, a consultation... Read more

Events

The Seventh Edition of the CHINA INTERNATIONAL IMPORT-EXPO (CIIE)

Date: 05 November 2024 - 10 November 2024

Place: Shanghai - China

Contact : Mr. Roger Menyomo of the Foreign Trade Department at the Ministry of Trade 237 696 136 427

Organised by the China International Import Expo Bureau and the National Exhibition and Convention Centre (Shanghai)

3rd edition of the Economic Actors' and Local Development Fair (SAEDEL)

Date: 19 October 2024 - 26 October 2024

Place: Kribi - Ngoye

Theme: “The State, decentralised local authorities, private sector and local development”.

Placed under the High Patronage of the Governor of the South Region, the Economic Actors' and Local Development Fair (SAEDEL) is an exchange platform bringing together business persons and organization decentralised local authorities. It features regional festivals, business meetings, exhibitions and panel discussions. The goal is to make Cameroon's regions more attractive through the organisation of events and to lay the foundations for local development by improving the living conditions of the local population.

Contacts : +237 620 0021 95/620 23 42 92/677 88 63 22 /655 69 88 85/

Email : mcommunicateur@yahoo.fr/www.saedel.cm

Organiser : Agence mon Communicateur Sarl

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