01/11/2016
Saudi Exports Development Committee in a workshop of Asharqia Chamber yesterday
The head of Business Development Committee Export Development, Bassam bin Hamed
Al Aujan, in a workshop held Tuesday, November 1 in the headquarters of Asharqia Chamber that gathered a number of Saudi exporters, the Committee participated in 37 specialized international
exhibition and forum in all industrial sectors, aiming to promote Saudi products
and to show its quality, also its commercial delegations for more than 7 countries, such as: Kazakhstan, Morocco, Egypt and the Maldives, with the aim of enhancing the trade and economic relations and
increasing the amount of trade exchange.
Al
Aujan said that the Committee aims to
enhance market access and promotion in strategic markets, to encourage Saudi
products in the international markets, and contributing to raise the level of
competition, and accessing the new markets, to meet the requirements of the
phase.
Al
Aujan introduced a brief presentation in
the workshop about the Committee and its roles to promote exports in Saudi, briefing them
in six connected roles starting with empowerment and promotion, development,
and ends with providing information, advice and strategies, pointing that the
strategic map, in which it starts with, based on the improvement of the
readiness of export of small and medium institutions and the need to find
and provide opportunities for companies ready for export, as well as working to
improve the efficiency of the export environment and facilitate the access to the
international markets.
Al Aujan
said that there are 2229 registered company so far in the Committee, pointing
to the body followed and implemented the training programs and workshops
surpassed the 120 Workshop in 8 cities in order to develop export readiness of
small and medium enterprises.
Regarding
the e- role of the Committee to improve
the efficiency of the export environment and facilitate access to markets,
the Committee according to Al Aujan
began to make an e-chart about the export
challenges, and aims to identify the most prominent obstacles and challenges
facing the exporters, in addition to the issuance of the second edition of the
export guidance, which serves as a total reference to
the requirements of exporting and the procedures
based on the actual requirements of each party, and according to the desired
product to export to get the best results of the export process.
For
his part, the Head of Planning and Strategies in the Saudi Exports Development Committee, Abdulrahman bin Muaiad Al Qurtas, shed the light
on targets for the future export development Committee, pointing that the Committee has determined future goals according
to the Kingdom Vision 2030 and the targets of the National Exports
Development Program 2020, saying: ( according to the
vision, the Committee is keen to play its role in r increasing the non oil
exports from 16% to 50% of the total production), pointing that according to
the national program there is an ambitious plan that the Committee being a contributor
to the increase in non oil commodity exports in value of 185 billion
riyals to 330 billion riyals by 2020 to work with the authorities in the export
system, to reduce the average time to export from 15 days to 7 days.
