Ministry of Commerce and Industry Ivory Coast / Ministère du Commerce et de l’Industrie Cote d'Ivoire

The Minister of Trade and Industry is responsible for implementing and monitoring the Government's Trade and Industry policy.
In this capacity and in liaison with the various ministerial departments concerned, he has the initiative and responsibility for the following actions:

I. In Trade

I-1 With regard to Foreign Trade

- promoting and organizing the marketing of Ivorian products on the international market;
- initiation and coordination of negotiations and follow-up of bilateral trade agreements and conventions, especially on export commodities;
- monitoring Côte d'Ivoire's relations with international and intergovernmental organizations operating in the field of trade;
- periodic information from the Government on the situation of raw materials, finished and semi-finished products intended for export, in liaison with the Ministry of Agriculture;
- improvement of the export environment;
- participation in the animation of the activities of the attachés and commercial advisers of the Ivorian embassies and follow-up of the foreign commercial representations in Ivory Coast, in liaison with the Minister in charge of the Foreign Affairs;
- regulations defining and controlling the foreign trade regime;
- management of imports and exports of regulated products;
- participation in the development and implementation of the tariff and non-tariff entry and exit policy.

I-2 In Internal Trade

- promoting and organizing the marketing of Ivorian products on the national market;
- organization of commercial activities;
- implementation of regulations concerning commercial establishment, markets of national or regional interest, retail markets, specialized markets, general stores, hypermarkets and supermarkets;
- management of national commercial equipment;
- improvement of the distribution and supply circuits of urban and rural centers;
- consumer organization;
- promotion, encouragement, training and supervision of nationals in the exercise of commercial professions;
- participation in the distribution and pricing mechanisms of regulated products and services;
- promoting fairness in commercial transactions and consumer protection;
- definition and implementation of modern metrology and control of measuring instruments in the commercial sector;
- implementation and monitoring of competition and prices;
- crackdown on fraud and counterfeiting;
- participation, in liaison with the Minister in charge of Town Planning, with the implementation of a regulation in commercial urban planning, with the creation and the animation of the Commercial Planning Commission;
- implementation of a management policy for commercial equipment of national or regional interest.