Roadmap for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Pierre Marie du Mény)
Summary: A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Pierre Marie du Mény at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
Key Findings
- Assigns the ministry industrialization, employment promotion and economic dynamism, then lists the physical installations meant to deliver them rather than leaving the objective abstract.
- Names specific trade infrastructure: purchasing and distribution centers in departmental capitals, a deployment plan for industrial micro-parks matched to regional economic potential, a large commercial free zone at either the Gonaïves or the Miragoâne port, a bonded warehouse at the Port-au-Prince quay for importing capital goods in volume, and agro-export zones with their logistics chains.
- Ties a fuel-storage measure to a household-energy target: petroleum product storage in the North and propane storage in the Miragoâne region, in order to halve charcoal consumption within five years.
- Calls for incentives sufficient to establish at least one new cement plant with a capacity of two million tonnes.
- Requires reference prices both for goods and services subject to public procurement and for purchases of basic goods and services, which is a price-transparency instrument rather than a price control.
- Assigns completion of the Common External Tariff with CARICOM to secure the country's full integration into the Caribbean Single Market and Economy.
- Places consumer protection in the same list, with hygiene and quality of marketed products and stronger quality control on food products.
Full Description
A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Pierre Marie du Mény at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
How to cite
Office of the Prime Minister of Haiti, 2017, Roadmap for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Pierre Marie du Mény), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/5-Feuille-de-route-du-Ministre-du-Commerce-et-de-lIndustrie.pdf