T
he eighth edition of the
trans-border trade fair
for the Central African
Economic and Monetary
Community, CEMAC, codenamed;
FOTRAC (Foire Transfronteliére
Annual de la CEMAC) will hold
from June 23 to 5 July, 2017. In
the past, the event opened to
friendly countries like Senegal,
Niger and Benin. The confluence
nature of the host town, Kye-ossi, South Region of Cameroon
that borders CEMAC countries
of the Central Africa Republic,
Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville
gives the gathering a unique
touch of a regional grouping.
Ahead of the get-together, government officials in Cameroon
led by the Minister of Trade,
Luc Magloire Mbarga have been
fine-tuning preparations to provide befitting welcome to their
guests. Looking at thousands
who attended the last such event
with Democratic Republic of
Congo, Gabon, Senegal and
others, the same trend could
be repeated this year. Most
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises that showed up for the
trade fair not only made brisk
business selling their articles
at the exhibition village, but
equally made useful business
contacts.
Female groups and individual
business actors dealing in items
such as; dresses in dye form
and local cotton fabrics, arts
works, food items, handicrafts,
trade-practitioners with locally
made herbs, local laboratories
struggled to outdo each other
at the exhibition.
With exact figures on either
the take home package for the
traders or the number of participants in former editions, the
sustained organisation of the
event not only demonstrates
the interest and attractiveness
of the event, but also a sense of
togethernees required within
the CEMAC and beyond. Each
exhibitor took home not less
than FCFA 100,000 from the
commercial interaction opportunities that they had mostly
through direct sales of their
pro...
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