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PART ONE NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AFGHANISTAN AFGHANISTAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND AFGHANISTAN INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF INDUSTRY (ACCI) COMMERCE (AICC) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Shahr-e-Naw House No. 91 Ministry of Interior Road Street 2, Shash Darak Opposite Indian Embassy Kabul Kabul Phone: (93 70) 296281 Phone: (93 7) 52002669, 9810184, 9326479 E-mail: [email protected], E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] URL: www.acci.org.af URL: www.aicc-online.org.af Year established: 1939 Year established: 2004 Principal functions: Principal functions: • To provide credit information about Afghan and foreign • To advance and promote the economic environment for companies; business; • To liaise between the private sector and government • To encourage investment; agencies; • To advocate responsive Government, quality education, and • To promote exports by marketing Afghan goods; transparent business dealings while preserving Afghanistan’s • To act as a mediation body in disputes between local unique culture and values. businesses and foreign companies; • To encourage Afghan and foreign companies to invest in Services/activities: Afghanistan; • To assist with construction and rehabilitation of holy sites. • Serves as a voice for Afghanistan’s business community and assists in the creation of a business association network. Services/activities: Publication issued: • Acts as an intermediary in establishing business contracts between Afghan businesspeople and their counterparts • AICC Position Paper of Agriculture (2005, English and Dari). abroad; • AICC's Review of Custom Reforms (2005). • Facilitates and promotes Afghan businesses in their efforts • Guidelines for Private Sector Input into the Legislative to increase exports; Process (2005). • Furnishes foreign importers with information on economic • Importance of Private Sector on Free Market Economy (2005). conditions, market prospects, exporters and trade-related • Tax Policy Paper (2005). regulations in Afghanistan. Local Branches: Publication issued: In addition to its headquarters in Kabul, AICC has six regional • Business Directory. offices in Nangarhar (Jalalabad), Kandahar, Mazar-e Sharif, Heart and Oruzgan. Further offices are planed in Kunuduz, Bamyan and Local Branches: Parwan. 22 local branches. Offices abroad: Membership structure: AICC has international affiliate branches in Washington D.C (AACC), Dubai (ABC), Rotterdam (NAICC) and in Beijing. It The Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry is made of plans to establish offices in many other countries where Afghan following sub-organizations: traders and investors have a presence, including France, Germany, Islamic Republic of Iran, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, • Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Provinces, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. • Union of private Industries, • Union of importers, Membership structure: • Union of exporters. AICC has more than 3000 individual members from different Category: businesses and around 24 affiliate association. Chamber of commerce. Category: Chamber of commerce. 1 AFGHANISTAN INVESTMENT SUPPORT AGENCY AFGHAN NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY (AISA) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Karte Parwan (near British Embassy) Opposite Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kabul Kabul P.O. Box: 329, Kabul Phone: (93 02) 103404 Fax: (93 02) 103402 Phone: (93 20) 2200189 Mobile: (93 70) 275511, 234528 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Fax: (93 20) 2200189 URL: www.aisa.org.af E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 2003 Year established: 1964 Principal functions: Principal function: • To license all private businesses and investments; • To promote productive private domestic and foreign • To issue marine, aviation, fire, motor and accident investment, thereby, laying a solid foundation for the growth insurance. of capital markets and hence the Afghan economy; • To promote and and articulate issues of importance to the Services/activities: private sector and to seek to influence policy and to initiate measures crucial to the development of a market-oriented • As detailed under Principal function. economy as well as sustainable growth of trade, commerce and industry; Local branch: • To work for the integration of Afghanistan in the global market through greater access to foreign direct investment and Herat Branch to address how Afghanistan’s private sector can best cope Inside Traffic Office with and derive the maximum benefit from globalization. Herat Services/activities: Mazar Branch North of Rawza • Issues all necessary permits, licenses and clearances (online); Mazar-e-sharif • Provides general information on investment opportunities; Balkh • Provides judicial details on investment, tax, labor, insurance and environmental laws/regulations and social/ecological Nangarhar Branch standards; Near Traffic Office • Provides financial information regarding banking facilities, Jalalabad City labor costs, and investment incentives; • Supports in the acquisition/leasehold of land; Membership structure: • Assists in custom clearance of material related to investment; • Organizes conferences and symposiums on important Afghan National Insurance Company is a member of Asian investment issues; Reinsurance Corporation in Bangkok. • Undertakes research, surveys and reviews on issues, which are considered to be of vital importance for investors; Training: • Holdes regular consultations, dialogues, seminars and workshops with stakeholders. Undertakes training courses in English and local languages, which are open to participation from other countries. Publication issued: Category: • The Investor (quarterly). • Investment Guide. Insurance. • Tax Guide. • Afghanistan Image Brochure. • ISA Reports (Priority Sector Profiles): - Agro-business and Agro-processing. - Infrastructure, Construction & Construction Materials. - Energy & Mining. - Information Technology Sector. - Carpets and Handicrafts. - Transport and Logistics. Category: Investment promotion organization. 2 AFGHANISTAN AFGHANISTAN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT E-mail: [email protected] STRATEGY (ANDS) URL: www.epaa.org.af Office/postal address: Year established: September 2006 Gulkhana Palace, Principal function: Sedarat, Kabul - Afghanistan. • To promote Afghanistan’s participation in the processing, marketing and distribution of its commodities. Phone: (93 75)2014821 Services/activities: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ands.gov.af • To act as an implementing agency of the export promotion policies of the Ministry of Commerce and Industries; Year established: 2006 • To Promotes export and participates in international trade fairs; • Coordinates both the public and private sector initiatives to Principal functions: create an enabling environment for competitive exports and contribution to the generation of jobs; • To present Afghanistan and the international community • Operates EPAA exporter service centre hotline; with a comprehensive study of development priorities within the nation; Publications issued: • To present strategies which work towards the attainment of United Nations Millennium Development Goals; • Product and country profiles which cover findings of research • To present a unified strategy that all government agencies and development activities, provide export marketing subscribe to address economic, social, and security needs; information and advice on all aspects of foreign markets. • To synchronise strategies between different government • Afghan Export Directory. agencies within the nation; • To help categorize development needs and helps stakeholder Products/commodity responsible for: identify areas of needs. Focus lies on four sectors with traditionally considerable export Services/activities: potential, namely agribusiness; carpets; handicraft and decorative articles; and marble, minerals and gemstones. • Organizes regular consultations, dialogues, seminars and Training: workshops with stakeholders. • Conducts research, surveys and reviews on issues, which are • In House Company Training: The target groups for EPAA considered to be of vital importance to the private sector. training activities for the private sector are export managers • Conducts the consultation process in order to involve and other staff responsible for exporting in small and medium systematic and participatory analyses of poverty. enterprises throughout the country; • Addresses short-and long-term tradeoffs of alternative policy • EPAA Training Center for Export (ETCE): decisions, and the impact of proposed reforms on the most 1) EPAA training modules ”Your Gateway to the world” vulnerable and marginalised social groups. introduces trainees to the knowledge needed to do business abroad. Publications issued: 2) Further series of training modules: • Global entrepreneurship, • Millennium Development Goals: Country Report 2005 • International marketing, < • International trade finance, http://www.ands.gov.af/src/src/MDGs_Reps/1.summary%20repo • Market entry and distribution, rt%20english.pdf > • International trade research, • For a full list of papers and reports, please refer to < • Legal aspects of international trade, http://www.ands.gov.af/documents.asp > • International trade management. Category: Category: Government medium-term development framework Trade promotion organization. EXPORT PROMOTION AGENCY OF AFGHANISTAN (EPAA) Office/postal address: Ministry of Commerce Kabul Phone: (92 75) 2006331 3 MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY Office/postal address: