Following the rulings of the Regional Origin Committee, the Ministry of Trade proceeded with the official issuance of approvals benefiting 14 national economic operators, authorizing the admission of 120 additional references into the Community preferential regime. This ninth wave of homologation, validated following the work of the May session in Douala, brings the tricolor portfolio to 91 companies and 1,328 eligible products. This record consolidates the country's leadership in volume of registrations within the unified space comprising Gabon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, the Central African Republic, and Cameroon, significantly outpacing its sub-regional partners in terms of validated industrial diversification.


Beyond the immediate advantages linked to the abolition of traditional customs barriers within the common market, these certifications constitute a strategic springboard toward continental integration. The supervisory authorities emphasized that this compliance offers local industrialists and processors a privileged launchpad for obtaining the status of approved exporter within the framework of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

By freeing themselves from the procedural burdens linked to individual origin certificates and gaining the ability to establish their own export declarations, beneficiary structures strengthen their competitiveness.


Supported by institutional and consular bodies, national economic actors now have a consolidated normative framework to transform their productive potential into sustainable market shares, both at the scale of Central Africa and across the vast chessboard of the pan-African free-trade zone.


Bernardo

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