{"id":29042,"date":"2016-09-30T08:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T08:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/government-launches-national-trade-facilitation\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:22:35","slug":"government-launches-national-trade-facilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/government-launches-national-trade-facilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Government launches National Trade Facilitation Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Rwanda has launched a National Trade Facilitation Committee (NTFC) to address the challenges encountered by exporters and importers including extended dwelling time at some border posts.  }<\/p>\n<p>The committee which is led by the Ministry of Trade and Industry follows Trade Facilitation Agreements signed between the government of Rwanda and International Business Community in December 2013. <\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Trade and Industry, Fran\u00e7ois Kanimba who presided over the launch has said that it will benefit Rwanda as a landlocked country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cooperation is meant to establish international agreements on how trade should be exercised. They are great agreements that will play a commendable role for our landlocked country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> Kanimba explained that the new committee including representatives from the government and private sectors will improve trade and reduce the cost of importing and exporting.   <\/p>\n<p>Patience Mutesi, Trade Mark East Africa Country Director has said that they will collaborate with the National Trade Facilitation Committee to effectively execute its duties. <\/p>\n<p>She explained that they already collaborate with the government of Rwanda in activities which facilitate business including implementing one custom border post , advertizing products through technology and setting of invasive scanners which verify  loaded  merchandises in a container without offloading.  <\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of Private Sector Federation in Rwanda, Nkusi Mukubu Gerard said that the new committee will foster the respect of trade facilitation agreements.<br \/>\n\u201cThe new committee will be sharing with us reforms in prices and laws early so that we can give suggestions before going into force,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The NTFC is comprised of various bodies including the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Rwanda Revenue Authority among other business corporations.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15395 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_waeubucuruzi_naeinganda_fran_ois_kanimba_.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Trade and Industry, Fran\u00e7ois Kanimba\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15396 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-1298.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Rwanda has launched a National Trade Facilitation Committee (NTFC) to address the challenges encountered by exporters and importers including extended dwelling time at some border posts. } The committee which is led by the Ministry of Trade and Industry follows Trade Facilitation Agreements signed between the government of Rwanda and International Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29042"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29042"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}