New Business Ethiopia

Ethio international footwear Cluster Cooperative society Ltd has planned to export its leather products to Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.

With the aim of boosting the production and export earnings, the Government of Ethiopia has decided to lift the tax on semi-processed leather exporters of, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said.

The government of Ethiopia has secured $103 million export earnings from products manufactured in industrial parks over the first nine months of its fiscal year started July 8, 2018.

Continuing its decline Ethiopia’s export income for the first nine months of the fiscal year started July 8, 2018, goes down by about 9 percent compared to same time last fiscal year.

BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – Tigist Kebede, 38, resides in Sebeta where she and her husband launched TGA Leather, about three years ago. As the demand for their leather products both local and abroad is increasing, their modest company has managed to provide job for ten employees.