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Coffee Plantation Development Enterprise (CPDE) announced that it had earned 84 million birr by selling coffee at local and foreign markets over the last fiscal year. The enterprise sold 64,000 quintals of coffee during the reported period.

Countries to which the enterprise exported coffee include the United Sstates, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden.

About 49.5 million birr of the 84 million birr profit was obtained from over 16,000 quintals coffee sold locally.
According to the director general of CPDE, the amount earned from the export of coffee is up by 56 million from last year’s earnings. 

Ethiopia has not signed the COMESA Free Trade Agreement. Some professionals say that this could keep Ethiopian businesses from benefiting from the initiative.

Businesses in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) states will now be able to participate in tenders issued in one another’s countries with a 15 percent preferential treatment against international bidders.  

All the same, Ethiopian businesses will still enjoy the preferential treatment although tariffs will be levied on their exports to COMESA states as the country has not signed the FTA, Gashaw Debebe, secretary general of the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations, said.

Tigray has launched an 11,000-metre first phase drill program at Harvest project.

Tigray Resources Inc., a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on advancing early stage mineral projects in Ethiopia, announced yesterday that it would begin trading on the TSX Venture Exchange today under the symbol TIG.

Early this month Tigray Resources Inc had received conditional listing approval from the TSX Venture Exchange.

OTC Markets Group Inc announced today that Ethiopian Potash Corp., a Canadian mineral exploration company, was now trading on the highest tier of the OTC market, OTCQX.

Ethiopian Potash began trading today on the OTC market's prestigious tier, OTCQX International.

"The OTCQX platform offers investor-focused companies a winning combination of quality control, transparency, and broader visibility to U.S. investors," said R. Cromwell Coulson, president and CEO of OTC Markets Group.