Moroccan Businessmen in Abidjan in November

A delegation of Moroccan businessmen is to pay a visit to the Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) next November for talks with local peers on means to upgrade cooperation and partnership in the frame of the new trade and tariff convention concluded by the countries.

The new convention was sealed last September in Rabat during the visit of the Ivorian prime Minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan.

The Moroccan-Ivorian joint commission will hold its coming session during the first three months of 1999.

Trade exchanges between Morocco and Cote d'Ivoire reached an overall value of 472.1 million Dirhams ($1 = 9.5 DH) in 1997, with imports worth 267.1 million DH and exports worth 105 million.

Morocco's imports from Cote d'Ivoire are mainly made up of coffee, wood, and natural rubber while exports concern ready-made garments, canned fish, shoes, fresh fish and drugs.