
Baku will host the Azerbaijan-UAE business forum on Oct. 20, 2016, said the Azerbaijan Export and Investments Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO) in a message Oct. 6.
It is expected that the business forum will be attended by entrepreneurs engaged in the spheres of tourism, logistics, food industry, construction, agriculture, pharmaceutics, packaging and production of perfumes, fire protection systems, uniforms and others.
The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates amounted to $55.66 million in January-August 2016, which is by 35.4 percent more than in the same period of 2015, according to Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee. Almost all volume of the trade turnover accounts for the goods import from the UAE.