NEWS: ECOWAS concerned about Low Quality Products exported to EU
The Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS) says confidence in products exported from the region to the European market is very low. Between June 2016 and October 2018, a total of 24 notifications were issued on products exported from the ECOWAS region in two years. According to the organization, it received the notifications from international bodies including the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), questioning the level of quality of the products which included agricultural products such as cocoa beans, chemical products such as body creams, building and construction materials such as cements and iron rods as well as paints. At an ongoing seminar in Abidjan on a new policy to ensure high quality of products , Chief Technical Advisor of the West Africa Quality System Program, Aka Jean Joseph Kouassi said the trend is impeding trade growth in the region. "We want to export, if we want to export to abroad for example