Boosting Tunisian exports to US market, highlighted in Sousse seminar
Tunis, October 30, 2008- Ways of further boosting export of Tunisian products to the American market were discussed, during an information seminar organized in Sousse on Thursday, by the US Embassy in Tunisia and the Chamber of commerce and industry of the center.
Some 80 heads of exporting companies and craftsmen from the governorates of Sousse, Monastir, Kairouan and Mahdia took part in the event, during which Mrs Marideth Sandler , the Director of the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), gave a briefing on the GSP, which provides preferential duty free entry for more than 3400 products from 131 designated beneficiary countries including Tunisia.
Mrs Sandler noted the increase of Tunisian exports to the United States, which reached 504,1 million dollars including 21% within the framework of the GSP in 2008 , against 448 million dollars in 2007.
She also reviewed Tunisian products already exported within the framework of the GSP, such as olive oil, gold jewellery, glassware and metal items, stressing the need to further widen the range of products to include couscous, fruit, juices, frozen vegetables, tuna and shrimps. She also evoked the possibility of exporting handicraft items, car components, rubber products, electric items, shoe ware, and prefabricated constructions.
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