30 Marzec 2020
The trade fair will also include the IATF Conference, which will run alongside the exhibition, featuring business leaders, ministers, trade financiers and other high-profile personalities addressing major African trade and investment issues. In addition, there will be a Virtual Trade Fair, a digital platform to enable businesses to participate remotely, including after the physical trade fair would have ended. Country Days have also been set aside to allow interested countries dedicated days to highlight their trade and investment opportunities.
Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of Afreximbank said: “Tariffs, protectionism, poor infrastructure, lack of market information and other barriers to trade have severely constrained intra-African trade and impeded the continent’s economic development for decades. With the operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area starting to remove many of these obstacles just two months before the Intra-African Trade Fair, there has never been a better time for Africa’s vibrant and varied business sectors to grasp the opportunities to exponentially increase their intra-African and global trade.
The Intra-African Trade Fair will widen networks and introduce new trading partners for business and government buyers and sellers from across Africa and beyond, enabling them to tap into new markets in multiple regions. Those attending the Trade Fair will be ideally positioned to access a single market of over 1.2 billion people and reap the full commercial benefits of the AfCFTA.”
The inaugural Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2018), which took place in Cairo in December 2018, generated business deals worth more than $32 billion and drew accolades from many of the participants for the impact on their businesses. One Nigerian businessman reported that a business introduction at the event “has changed the course of (his) company with a global reach now into South East Asia, Middle East, Africa itself and South America.”
For further information about IATF2020, exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities, or registration, please visit: www.intrafricantradefair.com