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Textile development: A technical management centre in the making

Agreements and other framework agreements are regularly signed between the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Technological Development (MINMDT) and industry managers. "This is a necessary step in the implementation of the industrialisation master plan that continues to make important strides in its operationalisation," Minister Ernest Gbwaboubou said in Yaounde. The minister was speaking on 27 August 2018 during the signing of a new framework partnership agreement... Read more

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Cooperation : Agreement on Bamboo and Rattan

The International Organisation for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) now has its sub-regional office in Yaounde, Cameroon. This is the substance of the headquarters agreement signed on 2 September 2018 in Beijing between INBAR and Cameroon. The Cameroon Minister of External Relations, Lejeune Mbella Mbella and Dr. Hans Friederich, INBAR Director General, representing his organisation, signed the agreement at the Cameroon Embassy in China.

As a reminder, in March 2018, the President of the Republic... Read more

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EPA : Business persons enjoy tariff reductions

Two years after its entry into force on 14 August 2016, the Cameroon-European Union Bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is yielding benefits.  Some 319 importers enjoyed substantial tariff reductions by 30 June of this year. All in all, goods worth 145 billion CFAF were imported with a tax gain of 4 billion CFAF. The Cameroon-based Louis Dreyfus Company, which specialises in the sale of agricultural chemicals, topped the list of importers after carrying out some 163 transactions... Read more

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Opportunities : Three hundred and sixty projects in the pipeline

The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Technological Development has set up a database of projects. In the area of agri-food, It holds that investors are needed to build ten production units for tomatoes and fruit juice, starch from maize, cassava and semolina, two sugar factories, the extension of banana factories in Penja, pepper in the Moungo, ten milk production units in Tignere, Garoua, Ngaoundere and Maroua, many plants for making flour from tubers, including cassava, yam, cocoyam, potato,... Read more

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