Thread by @realkelvin07

The entire process of exporting

• NEPC certificate
• eCO (Certificate of origin)
• NXP (Net export proceeds)
• Origin warehouse for export clearance certificate
• Acquiring bill of laden from shipping line
• Checks from FPIS, NAFDAC, FMARD for quality assurance

All these needs to be packaged into a course for SMEs in a drive for exports. Small businesses need lecture on

• Processing raw material into semi finished or finished products
• How to acquire a foreign offtaker
• Difference between LCs, credit line and offtake agreement

What I see often is governments train their ambassadors on key processes, policies and controls their resident companies doing business in a local country will have to undergo to succeed. In rare cases, the ambassadors even organize events where they make introduction

For their companies. Question I have to ask? How can the NEPC, CBN, Ambassadors and designates, NACCIMA, DMBs, FMITI, FMARD, FMF work together to ease doing business metric as it regards exporting.

I admire the work EU business delegations are doing in Nigeria- tight ship.