Tajik authorities are currently selecting companies for participation in an exhibition of Tajikistan’s industrial goods that is scheduled to take place in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, next month.
“The preliminary list includes more than 130 companies. We are currently selecting companies and the final list of the companies will be prepared little later,” Dilshod Mirsaidov, an official with Tajikistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), told Asia-Plus in an interview.
Earlier, Tajik Minister of Industry and New Technologies, Shavkat Bobozoda, told Asia-Plus that sixty-four Tajik enterprises are expected to participate in the exhibition in Tashkent.
“They will put on display their achievements in mechanical engineering, mining, light and food industries, and aluminum production,” the minister said, noting that the preference will be given to products of the food industry.
An agreement on holding mutual industrial exhibitions was reached between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at the beginning of this year.
The exhibition of Tajikistan’s industrial goods will be held at the Uzexpocenter in Tashkent from October 11-14.
Meanwhile, a delegation of traders from Uzbekistan that came to Dushanbe in April this year to show off their wares in Tajikistan caused a minor sensation.
The fair that was held in Dushanbe from April 17 to 20 was the first of its kind since independence — a fresh signal of a potential thaw between the neighboring nations that have had a generally frosty relationship since the Soviet collapse in 1991.
The goods on display at the Poytakht-90 trading house ranged from the small — everyday products like candy, fabrics, medicine and footwear — to bigger-ticket items like buses, cars, air conditioners and refrigerators.
The fair served as a showcase for around 160 Uzbek companies. For the first three days of the event, the companies were just displaying the goods, but a frenzy of sales marked the closing day.
