The expansion of Africa’s multilateral trade interactions with Asia countries is constrained by a number of factors. These include the imbalance in the structure of level of their trade, the inadequacy of the industrial infrastructure for the promotion of relations, the incidence of flooding of the African market with substandard goods from Asia countries, inability to implement various multilateral agreements between the two continents and most significantly, corruption.

Globe Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is an independent, non-political and non-profit global organization dedicated to fostering international trade, cultural and humanitarian cooperation with the main focus on economic growth and development. In collaboration with Federal character agencies, Trade Nigeria, Global Trade Organizations is instituting a Baltic -Africa Economic and Investment Forum, which is part of the Organization’s annual joint trade mission.