Sunday, October 6, 2013

Ethiopia: Delegation Leaves for Chicago to Attend the Third Ethio-U.S. Trade and Investment Forum 


A delegation comprising more than seventy Ethiopian business leaders engaged in agriculture, export trade, tourism, floriculture sectors left for Chicago yesterday (October 5,2013) to attend The Third Ethio-US Trade and Investment Forum.
The delegation is led by Dawano Kedir, State Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Forum is organized by Wafa Marketing and Promotion PLC in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Ethiopian Embassy in USA, Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), members of the Ethiopian business Community, and other governmental offices.
The Third Ethio-USA Trade and Investment Forum is scheduled to take place from October 8-13, 2013 in United States of America, Chicago. On the occasion, Ethiopian business leaders are expected to undertake Business-to-Business (B2B) discussions with US and other African businesses. The Forum is said to have an important role in in encouraging inflow of Foreign Direct Investment to Ethiopia as it offers platform for Ethiopian business to forge business ties with US investors who are interested in Ethiopian products and services.
Ethiopia will also take part in the 9th US-Africa forum, which is expected to be attended by big US companies and investors and African investors drawn from different African Countries to promote the investment trade regime in Ethiopia and Ethiopian products and services. Wafa Promotion and Marketing PLC, a local company engaged in business promotion , has organized three similar forums times in USA , and forums in India, UK, Italy, Russia and Japan once.
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