Since Monday, April 28, 2025, managers of 35 exporting SMEs in the Haut Sassandra region have been training at Daloa. The workshop focuses on analysis and market access tools as well as non-tariff barriers in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA

The training was initiated by the ZLECAF Committee (CN-ZLECAF). According to the project manager, Israel Coulibaly, his vision is to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the norms and regulations in force in this continental free trade area and to equip à them with the necessary skills. Practical skills to meet the challenges of the trade that takes place there. For two days, these business leaders learned à to understand market access conditions and à effectively overcome non-tariff barriers to based on tariff databases, alert systems on non-tariff barriers and various other instruments whose

A en croire Israël Coulibaly, “dans a competitive economic environment, it is essential that every business, large, medium or small, has access à strategic information and to concrete tools to identify, penetrate and thrive in international markets”.

It should be noted that the ZLECAF is a project designed by the African Union to remove the barriers that hinder trade on the continent and at the same time promote “ambitious, inclusive and sustainable” economic integration by creating a single market in which services, goods and people would circulate freely.