Namibia is ready to tap into a single market of about 1,3 billion people, while growing at home and industrialising the local economy to produce good… - Lucia Iipumbu

It also liberalises services and aims to tackle non-tariff barriers which hamper trade between African countries, such as long delays at the border

The ministry has put in place the requisite legal and regulatory building blocks to fully industrialise Namibia; to strengthen its trade both locally, regionally, continentally and globally; and to vigorously enable small and medium enterprises to develop and flourish

We also passed a policy last year and are busy with a law that is about to be enacted for special economic zones. We will then be able to designate specific areas in specific regions for specific industrial activities in manufacturing and the biggest sectors of our economy – mining, fishing, agriculture. We have looked at the specific areas and designated them for their competitive advantage