The Export Promotion Centre (CEPEX) is organizing from October 26 to 29 a mission of Tunisian businessmen in Abidjan, an informed source from the centre told African Manager.
This mission that will involve the sectors of production and assembly of automotive components and related professions aims to boost Tunisian multi-sector exports to West Africa.
Also according to our source, this mission aims at prospecting opportunities offered by the Ivorian market for automobile spare parts, while developing business contacts with professionals and stakeholders in Côte d’Ivoire. This is besides strengthening partnership and above all increasing Tunisian exports to this growing market.
On the agenda, B2B meetings between Tunisian private operators and their Ivorian counterparts, as well as site visits.
Côte d’Ivoire, a potential to be tapped
Tunisia’s exports to Côte d’Ivoire have increased from 30.4 million Tunisian dinars (MTD) to 71.3 MTD between 2011 and 2015, up 29% in five years, according to the figures released exclusively to African Manager
Tunisian products exported to the Ivorian market are basically toilet paper, cement, manufactures, semolina, gypsum, medicines, machinery and mechanical appliances, olive oil, etc.
Tunisia imports cocoa, sheets of wood, sawn timber, natural rubber, cotton and frozen fish.
In addition, Côte d’Ivoire is a country of great promise presenting actual business opportunities and it is also a huge construction site where works are multiplying.
Among the most successful sectors in Côte d’Ivoire there are infrastructure and construction, recycling of waste plastics for packaging manufacture, recycling of cardboard and paper, production of paper on the basis of cellulosic waste, agro-industry, retail, transport, telephony, mining industries, energy and oil.
