-ITALY IS 8th INVESTOR IN BIH
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The new Ambassador of BiH to Italy Darko
Zelenika visited the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) and spoke
with the Director Gordan Milinić the new steps that should be taken to increase
Italian investments in BiH.
Italy is currently at the 8th
position on the list of foreign investors in BiH, with a total of 603 million BAM
invested so far. Italy and BiH have signed an Agreement on the Protection and
Promotion of Investments and the Agreement on the Avoidance of Double Taxation,
which significantly facilitates the procedure for the realization of
investments.
There is a great interest and chances for new
Italian investments in the metal processing sector, the wood industry, the
textile industry, agriculture and tourism. In May next year, about thirty
companies from BiH will be guests of the large MACFRUT fair in Rimini for
realization of projects in agriculture, and a business forum Italy-BiH in Rome
is planned in June in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce of Italy and
associations of Italian entrepreneurs.