This meeting is part of a participatory approach adopted by the State Secretariat for Foreign Trade, with the aim of broadening the debate with local economic actors and operators to collect concrete proposals to enrich the foreign trade action plan.
Speaking on this occasion, the Secretary of State to the Minister of Industry and Commerce, responsible for Foreign Trade, Omar Hjira indicated that the 2025 Foreign Trade Roadmap aims to establish a coherent and consensual action framework including concerted measures dedicated to accelerating Moroccan exports and promoting and strengthening the international influence of national products.
The government official, in this sense, highlighted the various potentialities of the Souss Massa region as a real economic hub on a national scale, indicating that exports from the region, particularly those of food products, exceeded 4.7 billion dirhams in 2022.
Furthermore, Mr. Hjira insisted on the importance of further promoting promising industrial sectors in the region, citing in this regard shipbuilding, textiles, the chemical industry, the mechanical and mining industry, and the agri-food, as well as the seafood processing industry.
This meeting in Souss Massa aims to collect proposals and realistic and achievable measures, in the wake of a participatory approach involving all economic actors operating in the export and foreign trade sectors, he said. -he explained, highlighting the possibility of concluding partnerships with the region within the framework of the foreign trade action plan.
For his part, the wali of the Souss-Massa region, governor of the prefecture of Agadir Ida-Outanane, Said Amzazi, stressed that this meeting constitutes an opportunity for consultation between all the actors concerned, with a view to developing effective and efficient recommendations, allowing the region, which is full of enormous potential, to benefit from the Foreign Trade Roadmap.
For his part, the President of the Regional Council, Karim Achengli noted that the region’s development plan places the industry and foreign trade sector at the center of its concerns, expressing the total adherence of Souss Massa to the different stages of developing the 2025 foreign trade action plan.
During this meeting, the other speakers reviewed the assets and constraints linked to the export and foreign trade sector in the Souss Massa region.
Note that the regional consultation meetings for the development of the 2025 Foreign Trade Roadmap aim to emphasize the potential of each region across the Kingdom.
This Roadmap will be developed as part of a participatory approach aimed at ensuring sustainable and balanced development for the foreign trade sector, in light of the recommendations and proposals that will be formulated during the various consultation meetings.
