By BUUMBA CHIMBULUGOVERNMENT has launched two strategies meant to improve Zambia’s trade by providing traders and the business community platforms for the reporting, monitoring and resolution of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs).The State launched the national strategy on the elimination of non- tariff barriers impacting Zambia’s trade and while re-launching the NTBS SMS reporting tool.Commerce, Trade and Industry Permanent Secretary, Mushuma Mulenga, said promotion of trade was key to enhancing productivity, employment creation and the attainment of sustainable and inclusive growth.Mr Mulenga said the development of the national strategy on elimination of non-tariff barriers impacting Zambia’s trade had been necessitated by a number of challenges.He said these challenges included inadequate coordination among border agencies, burdensome technical framework and inadequate information on procedures and requirements for exporting and importing among many others.On the elimination of non- tariff barriers impacting Zambia’s trade, Mr Mulenga said the strategy had been developed to attain a regulatory and administrative framework that promoted […]
STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE TRADE LAUNCHED
