Ms Damali Ssali, the Ag. Country
Director TradeMark East Africa, Uganda believes that the recently launched
Trade Information Portal will further improve the ease of doing business in
Uganda through making information about Uganda’s exports, imports and goods in
transit readily available for traders and consumers alike.
“The most recent World Bank Doing
Business Report indicated that Uganda had declined from 115 in 2017 to 122 in
2018. We expect that the launch and
operationalisation of the Trade Information Portal will contribute to Uganda’s
improvements in the Word Bank ranking on ease of doing business in 2019,” Ms
Ssali noted at the launch of the trade information portal.
“The Uganda Trade Information
Portal is a trade facilitation platform providing access to fully transparent
practical step-by-step guides to the licenses, pre-clearance permits and
clearance formalities for the most traded goods in and out of Uganda: at each
step, the trade portal tells the user where to go, who to see, what documents
to bring, what forms to fill, what costs to pay, what law justifies the step
and where to complain to in case of a problem.
“The Trade Information Portal is
implemented by the Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives (MTIC) and the
National Trade Facilitation Committee, in partnership with the East African
Community Secretariat (EAC) and with support from United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), TradeMark East Africa (TMEA), United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and International Trade Centre (ITC).
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