ExportEngaging in an export business in Ethiopia is a good business venture; export from the country is growing and the government also encourages the sector. Ethiopia's main export product is coffee; the country is credited to be the birth place of coffee and it has long been its major export product. Not only that, coffee plays a central role in the Ethiopian social fabric. According to the data we found from the Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority and Ministry of Trade and Industry, 176,390 mt of coffee was exported from Ethiopia in the budget year of 2007/08 and the country earned USD 424,144,000. USD 188,047,000 was earned from the export of oil seeds from country and the export of GOLD, Chat (Qat), Hides and Skins, Pulses, and Flowers ranked from 3rd to 7th in earning the country a substantial amount of foreign currency. Ethiopia overall gained USD 1,185,083,000 from exports in the budget year 2007/08.
We have put regulations and procedures to export coffee and other products out of Ethiopia in this section on Export Regulations and Procedures page; you can further see details of documents needed for Export permit approval, advice in relation to exporter-foreign buyer relationship, application for quality certification and procedures on customs declaration. You can also find a brief explanation on VAT Registration and Zero Rate VAT for the exporter.
The Most Exported Goods out of Ethiopia page has a five year data on the major exports (a table and a graph), as published by the Ethiopian Customs Authority (renamed as Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority).We have provided names and addresses of Ethiopian exporters (who export from Ethiopia) in the exporters section of our business directory. One can contact these export businesses in Ethiopia via email, phone from the directory.
The Export Promotion Department /EPD/ is one of the functional departments of the Ministry of Trade and Industry that followed an organizational restructuring in 2004. Formerly, it was called the Ethiopian Export Promotion Agency /EEPA/, which was established in November 1998 under Proclamation No. 132/1998.
Its address is:
Export Promotion Department of Ministry of Trade and Industry
Location: Bole Road, opposite Bole Printing Press, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
phone: + 251 115504177/+251 11 5504162
Fax:+ 251 115505192
Email:
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