AFLAI, through its work promoting industry coordination and integration, is also well placed to help African countries to participate successfully in the Doha Development Agenda and to advocate for special and differential treatment in multilateral negotiations.
The "Meet in Africa" meetings and the activities of AFLAI are both critical steps in allowing the African leather sector to represent itself more effectively in important intergovernmental trade negotiations.
AFLAI participants proposed that Addis Ababa should host the next meeting, in 2004.
ITC, the Semaine Internationale du Cuir group and AFLAI organized the event, with the support of the Centre for Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries of the Netherlands, For more information, contact Giovanni Dada agilo, ITC Senior Market Development Officer, at dadaglio@intracen.org