Organizational issues related to holding an exhibition of Uzbek industrial goods in Dushanbe were discussed at a meeting of Sharif Said, the head of Tajikistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), with his Uzbek counterpart Batirzhan Asadov that took place here recently, according to the Tajik CCI press center.
The sides reportedly agreed to hold the next exhibition of Uzbek goods in the Tajik capital in March this year.
Tajik CCI head expressed readiness to provide assistance with organization of the exhibition. According to him, the main objective of organization of such exhibitions is in studying existing economic potentials of both countries.
Said and Asadov, in particular, noted that exhibitions are an effective instrument of economic, investment and innovation policy.
They highly appraised mutual exhibitions and business forums that were held in Dushanbe and Tashkent last year, the Tajik CCI press center said.
An agreement on holding a Tajik exhibition in Tashkent and an Uzbek exhibition in Dushanbe was at a session of the Tajik-Uzbek intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation that took place in Dushanbe on January 10.
Recall, an agreement on holding mutual industrial exhibitions was reached between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at the beginning of the last year.
A delegation of traders from Uzbekistan that came to Dushanbe in April last 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.
Tajikistan held an exhibition of its industrial goods in Tashkent from October 11 to 14. Some 150 Tajik companies participated in the exhibition that took place at the Uzexpocenter. They put on display their achievements in mechanical engineering, mining, light and food industries, and aluminum production. The preference was given to products of the food industry.
