The corona pandemic poses challenge for companies worldwide : tangency restrictions make outside trade relations and the hunting for new products and honest suppliers more difficult . Many of the outside trade fair that serve as important link exchanges have been postponed . Import Promotion Desk ( IPD ) , the moment packaging enterprisingness funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ( BMZ ) , has developed a salmagundi of online service to keep its study . In virtual coming together and swap fairs , IPD experts support German and European companies in open up Modern supplying mart and connect them with selected producers from developing country and emerging nations .
In autumn and spring , in the traditional business deal mediocre season , IPD strengthens its measure to promote imports and presents cautiously shield producer from selected partner countries , both at virtual craft fairs and in its own serial of virtual matchmaking event . German and European importers have the chance to meet new trading partner despite the COVID-19 limitation . IPD focuses on the forestry and agricultural sector . These include the sectors instinctive ingredients for intellectual nourishment , pharmaceutic and cosmetics , sassy yield and vegetable , trim down flower and technical Natalie Wood . moreover , IPD is active in the touristry sector , which also cook an important part to efficacious economical evolution in developing state and emerging nations .
“ The requirement for virtual networking is vast , ” says Dr. Julia Bellinghausen , Head of IPD . “ We have already been able-bodied to arrange a large number of contact between importer and our partner land and the discussion between likely byplay partner are very intensive . Even during the pandemic we are in close contact with the producers in our married person country and support them in their export to Europe . We go on to screen out the exporters and thus we can guarantee criteria such as product quality , exportability and mental ability . ”
“ The COVID-19 limitation are hitting strange trade intemperately , ” explains Gregor Wolf , Member of the executive board of the German Wholesale , Foreign Trade and Services Association ( BGA ) , who lead up the establishment of IPD together with the developing organisation sequa gGmbH. “ With the freshly created practical program , importers can preserve their sourcing and producers from developing rural area and emerging nations can find new gross revenue market place . Thus IPD closes a strategical gap at the interface of development cooperation and strange trade even in these times . ”
The virtual swop fairish calendar of IPD for the new twelvemonth is already well fill . The IPD experts will come with producers from the 13 pardner countries to legion craft fair , include Fruit Logistica 2021 , Biofach 2021 , Carrefour du Bois 2021 , and ITB Berlin 2021 . In add-on , further IPD matchmaking events are planned , for example on disregard flowers and solid food ingredient and impertinent fruit & vegetables from Africa .
For more information : Import Promotion Desk ( IPD)www.importpromotiondesk.de
