Nigerian Export Promotion Council has held a workshop in Enugu to enlighten potential and registered exporters on a wide range of export opportunities in the United States of America market.
The workshop leveraged on the advocacy programme on African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
The Regional Cordinator, NEPC, Enugu, Mrs Gertrude Ukoanam told the over 100 participants that there are over 6000 eligible products that can be exported under the AGOA platform.
These include agricultural products, foods and beverages, bulk and finished products, textiles and apparel and jewellery.
They also include leather products, auto motives, metals and articles, wood and articles of wood, etc.
Ukoanam explained that there were also trade benefits like the Harmonised Tariff Schedule which is a preferential duty rate an exporter would enjoy under AGOA.
She told the participants that they would at the end of the programme be equipped with basic knowledge of the procedures and documentation of exporting under the AGOA platform.
“Let me state here that the need to have an educative session of this nature for our exporters is timelyý, and its significance cannot be overemphasised especially now that our economy is experiencing dwindling income from oil reserves.
“Therefore, in line with the Federal government economic recovery plan, our aim is to consolidate on the Federal Government efforts towards an urgent need to diversify our economy and take advantage of the non-oil as a tool for sustainable economic drive, and AGOA is one of such tools,” Ukoanam stressed.
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