Afghanistan’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced that it intends to hold an exhibition of its export goods in Turkmenistan, according to a bulletin from Turkmenistan’s Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
To increase exports and international trade, the Afghan ministry intends to host over 30 exhibitions both domestically and internationally in the coming months.
After the previous exhibition of their products held on March 4-6 of this year, Afghan manufacturers signed a number of contracts with Turkmen companies. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, chairman of the Halk Maslahaty (People’s Council) of Turkmenistan, ordered 100,000 cubic meters of marble from Afghanistan, to be used in the construction of buildings in the city of Arkadag. Turkmenistan also will buy 50,000 tons of iron and 6,000 tons of steel beams.
