Zero-Tariff Policy: FG urges Nigerians to boost production, exports

By Favour Ulebor
ABUJA — The Federal Government has urged Nigerian businesses to increase production and take advantage of China’s zero-tariff policy to expand exports of Nigerian products to the Chinese market.
The Special Assistant on Communication and New Media to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Magnus Eze, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
Eze said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, gave the charge in a message to participants at an international seminar organised by the Centre for China Studies in Abuja.
The minister said China’s decision to extend zero-tariff treatment to 100 per cent of tariff lines for African countries presented Niger...