Mozambican entrepreneurs to have “best possible access to European market, without customs duties or quotas” – Clarification

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Mozambican entrepreneurs to have “best possible access to European market, without customs duties or quotas” – Clarification

7:52 CAT | 10 Dec 2015

In file Club of Mozambique / Ambassador Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, head of the Delegation of the European Union.

Club of Mozambique has received a clarification from the Delegation of the European Union in Maputo regarding an article titled “Mozambican entrepreneurs will import from Europe duty-free – Von Burgsdorff” which Club Of Mozambique translated from a Radio Moçambique report and published.

The clarification is as follows.

Following the interview with Radio Mozambique on 3 December 2015 after a briefing on the Economic Partnership Agreements under the first edition of the Week of the European Union in Maputo, a report was released containing information which is only partially incorrect.

We therefore request that the following text be inserted in order to clarify some factual elements, under the right of reply provided for in Art. 33 of the Press Law.

After erroneous news was published by Radio Mozambique, we would like to clarify that, under the Economic Partnership Agreements to be signed next year, Mozambican companies will on one side have the best possible access to the European market without customs duties or quotas.

Moreover, a large part of the products imported into Mozambique from the European Union will have preferential access to the Mozambican market, except for products that might pose a risk to the Mozambican economy in terms of important customs revenue or development of local production.

The agreements should be signed next year by the EU and the countries of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), including Mozambique, and will apply after ratification.

The list of products included in the agreement is accessible on the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission (DG Trade) web page.

Source: Club of Mozambique