Press release…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro opened the 2nd Turkish Export Products Fair organised by the Mediterranean Exporters’ Associations (AKİB) in Venezuela, which Türkiye sees as the gateway to South America. Maduro stated that they aim to increase the bilateral trade volume of 550 million dollars to 800 million dollars and said, “In the first half of 2025 in Türkiye, we will reinforce the brotherhood between the two countries by organising fairs in Venezuela in the second half of the year.”
At the Venezuela Turkish Export Products Fair held in the capital Caracas with the support of the Ministry of Trade and coordination of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM), products and services of all sectors, especially agricultural machinery, food, cleaning materials, hygienic products, personal care products, textiles, ready-to-wear clothing, cosmetics, kitchen supplies, electrical household appliances, chemicals, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, furniture, paper and forestry products were introduced.
Export potential of agricultural and food products is 1.2 billion dollars…
In the table of potential agricultural and food products with a total volume of 1.2 billion dollars in the Venezuelan market, the first place is the bagasse and solid wastes left over from soybean oil production with a volume of 325.5 million dollars. This is followed by cane/beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose (solid form) with a volume of 160.7 million dollars. After these products, food preparations not included elsewhere in the tariff with a value of 112.3 million dollars, wheat flour with a value of 102 million dollars, pasta and couscous with a value of 96.4 million dollars, sugar products not containing cocoa (including white chocolate) with a value of 77.2 million dollars, sweet biscuits and wafers with a value of 71 million dollars, soya beans with a value of 53.7 million dollars, 45, 2 million dollars worth ethyl alcohol, 39.2 million dollars worth preparations used as animal food, 33.4 million dollars worth canned fish and molluscs, 28.8 million dollars worth chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa, 26.4 million dollars worth milk and cream, 20.1 million dollars worth canned peas, 17.5 million dollars worth apples, pears and quince…