240611FIRST IMPORT/EXPORT WHOLESALER APPROVED
By Aloysius Laukai

Following the establishment of the Bougainville-China Cooperation Committee the BEC has also approved the first Bougainville Import and Export Wholesale Company this week.

The company will be responsible for the direct importing of goods from China and Exporting of Agriculture, Marine and other produce from the Autonomous Region.

In making the announcement, ABG President JOHN MOMIS said that the business will definitely cut out the many middlemen in Papua New Guinea and thus reducing the price of goods in Bougainville.

The company would be owned by Bougainvillean shareholders with the ABG getting shares on behalf Bougainvilleans who are not able to buy their own shares at the initial stages.

Comments

[Aga]

I support the initiative by ABG on direct imports from the manufacturers in China.Direct imports is better than ordering cargo from Papindo in Lae or Tropica and Shao in Rabaul.Quality control is a paramount policy that is yet to be in placed. If ABG fails to undertake this policy, we are going down with junck as we see currently.Australia,New Zealand, USA, Singapore,etc.etc, order their clothes and stuff from China, how ever,they place their orders according to the type and quality they want, not just what is already manufactured and waiting for sale. eg,Quick Silver/Billabong are is designed in Australia but manufactured in China.There is no reason why Boungainville can not do that.

[Tim Ashton]

David/eagle hardware has been importing direct for a number of years
I would have thought the ABG has many items on their agenda requiring their input rather than "reinventing the wheel"

[Crux]

What I think the government did right was having an export organization in place. However, the foundation of international trade seem deem at the moment. The government is not taking seroiusly, the back bone Bougiavillians, the cocoa and copra people lived with before the Bougainville crisis. There is no funding into research for improving agriculture technology and mitigating probelms of cocoa pod bora. Furthermore, trading at an international level means there is supplus in stock. There is tsill room for producing more and variety of products that we can produce here on Bougainville. Ever since, the formation of the ABG, there seems to be very slow progress in every thing it does. When are we standing up for a faster and proactive development process the people at real grassroot level desire. ABG stop talking high with less progress and the ground level.

[Junior]

QUALITY DOES MATTER HERE...WE DONT WANNA IMPORT JUNK FROM CHINA WHICH ARE ON SALE THROUGHOUT PNG..HOPEFULLY WE CONTROL IT WITH THIS DEAL..