President Nyusi opens FACIM International Trade Fair today

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President Nyusi opens FACIM International Trade Fair today

8:48 CAT | 28 Aug 2017

File photo / President Filipe Nyusi

President Nyusi officially opens the 53rd edition of the Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Fair of Maputo (FACIM) in Ricatla, Marracuene district, Maputo province, today, and will preside over the award ceremony for top exporters, Domingo reports.

Minister of Industry and Commerce Max Tonela visited the FACIM site on Saturday to check up on preparations and declared that exhibitors were putting the finished touches to their stands at a gallop.

Minister Tonela said that everything was ready for the start of the event, which runs from today, Monday, to Sunday 3 September, and that the Fair’s covered and open areas were one hundred percent occupied by both Mozambican and foreign companies and institutions.

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Tonela said the government hoped that national and foreign exhibitors would take advantage of the opportunity to develop partnerships and expand the country’s range of exports.

“This is why we have a strategy of promoting the sharing of information among companies on export opportunities within the framework of agreements that Mozambique has with other countries in the unilateral and bilateral spheres,” he said.

Exhibitors should take advantage of this initiative to sell national products across borders, the minister said, and should also look at FACIM as an instrument for the development of international trade that would reflect in the promotion of investment in Mozambique.

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“This is an international fair and one of the objectives is to promote the increase of exports, find markets, and develop the opportunity for interaction between investors and exhibitors in order to win foreign investment to Mozambique,” he said.

Minister Tonela said that the fair would help the deepening of the country’s partnerships in the American market and the European Union in addition to the opportunities available in the Southern African Development Community countries and bilateral agreements promoted within the framework of the World Trade Organisation.

By Idnórcio Muchanga

Source: Domingo