DITF records 3.6bn/- total sales in fair

DAR ES SALAAM: THE Tanzania Trade Development Authority (TanTrade) preliminary assessment shows that total sales of 3.6bn/- were registered at the just ended 48th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF).

Tantrade Director General Ms Latifa Khamis said recently that the goal was to make at least 4bn/- sales during the 16 days of the exhibitions.

“This is just the initial assessment which covered only 14 days out of 16 days of the trade fair. Generally, the 48th DITF is a success story,” she said.

The said the 47th DITF registered total sales 3.8bn/- where 3,500 companies including 268 from abroad took part in the exhibitions.

The 48th DITF edition created a number of market opportunities including 73.3 per cent domestic, 2.4 per cent foreign and 24.3 per cent both domestic and foreign markets.

Ms Khamis said the assessment was conducted in collaboration with the National Bureau of Standards (NBS).

She said that until July 11th this year, the total number of registered participants were 3,886 compared to 3,500 of the 47th DITF exhibition.

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Ms Khamis said of the total number of participants, 3,435 were from within and 451 participants from outside the country. Furthermore, she said a total of 3,286 out of the total number of participants were from the private sector and 217 from the public sector.

She said also that the total visitors were 327,456. Furthermore, she said a total of 28 foreign countries participated in the 48th DITF exhibition namely China, Turkey, India, Singapore, Syria, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Japan, Mozambique, Indonesia and Mauritius.

Others are Oman, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Rwanda, Comoro, Zambia, Ethiopia, DRC, Ghana, Korea, Russia, Italy, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Switzerland and Burundi.

The DG said that the Tantrade has implemented the instructions given by the Zanzibar President Dr Hussein Mwinyi when closing the 47th DITF exhibition to help local producers to capitalise on the opportunities of the new African Continent Free Trade Area (AfCTA), East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) markets and other regional and international markets by producing quality products.

Its implementation has been done by TanTrade in collaboration with regulatory authorities such as TBS, WMA, GS1, SIDO and by conducting training on the quality of products needed to increase the competitiveness of their products to enter the international market.

She said also that Tantrade has succeeded in obtaining the Algerian Coffee market under the AfCFTA, as well as traders obtaining more markets for products produced in the country, especially in the EAC and SADC regions.

“Business people have been able to use various opportunities to access markets including participating in exhibitions, conferences, dialogues and B2B held locally and abroad,” said Ms Khamis.