Africa-Press – Angola. The directorate of the First Tributary Region, which covers the provinces of Cabinda and Zaire, held a meeting with local businessmen from the various branches of economic activity, with the aim of presenting the fundamentals that underlie the revision of the Tariff. customs.
The meeting also served to listen to importers, traders and other agents that intervene in the commercial network about the great difficulties they face, especially with regard to the process of importing and exporting goods and the rates in force.
The deputy governor for the Economic Sector, Romão Macário Lembe, highlighted the framework that the Executive intends, with the revision of the Customs Tariff, such as the need to make “trade more robust and efficient, to ensure the country’s macroeconomic stability, for via the increase in national production and consequent supply of consumer goods, gradually reducing the import of goods”.
For the official, “to make the country economically stronger, it is necessary to invest more and more in customs services, in order to obtain more sources of income, aiming at satisfying the basic needs of the population”.
From the Tariff Department of the AGT, Filipe Francisco, informed that the process of changing the Customs Tariff “will be based on the principles established by the World Customs Organization, with general lines of relief and aggravation based on products produced by local industries and goods that serve as inputs to the national productive sector”.
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