ECA praised for "excellent initiative" in Central Africa

Cameroon’s minister of trade has described the upcoming meeting of the Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts for Central Africa (ICE2017) as an excellent initiative, given its focus on promoting industrialization, regional integration and the consumption of products made in Central Africa. They discussed progress made by other RECs in promoting intra-Africa trade, noting that “Central Africa is lagging behind other sub-regions, but that its success stories should be emulated and replicated for scale and transformational change.” They also concurred that “by maximizing trade in intermediate goods and fostering backward and forward integration, countries in Central Africa will benefit more from trading with each other than with the external world.”