Within the official visit of the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina dr Mladen Ivanić to the Republic of Macedonia on 19 and 20 April 2017, on the initiative of the BiH Embassy in Skopje it was organized the Business Forum of the Republic of Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on 20 April 2017.
On this occasion, Nina Pobrić, FIPA Investment
Promotion Department Head, had a presentation on investment opportunities in
BiH for the Macedonian businesspeople. They were familiarized with the legal
framework, low operating costs, Agreements on Free and Preferential Trade, and
the lowest rate of income tax of companies in BiH related to the region and the
EU.
On 19 April, Mrs Pobrić also had a presentation
for the representatives of Turkish companies from Izmir, members of the cluster
of IT companies and cluster of companies in the health sector. On this
occasion, she presented projects from those sectors, including reasons for
investing in the health sector and the IT sector of BiH.
She also presented possibilities for cooperation
of the BiH and Turkish companies within the meeting of the Steering Board of Macedonian-Turkish
Chamber of Commerce MATTO.
Meetings with Turkish and Macedonian companies
were held in order to discuss about concrete investment projects in BiH. MATTO delegation
visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced on this occasion.
Within the Forum Republic of Macedonia - BiH,
organized by the BiH Foreign Trade Chamber, meetings B2B were organized between
businesspeople of two countries.