THE Tanzania Bureau of Standards is establishing offices in all ports of entry across the country including airports, harbours and border stations to curb inflows of subs-standard goods.
TBS Director General Mr Joseph
Masikitiko during the ongoing African Organisation for Standardisation
(ARSO) ‘Made in Africa Expo,’ and Meeting taking place at the Arusha
International Conference Centre (AICC) here.
“We are setting up TBS offices at the
Tanga seaport, to complement the one operational at Dar-es-salaam
harbour; we also have one at Namanga border in Arusha while there are
ongoing efforts to establish others at Holili, Lunga Lunga, Horo Horo,
Isebania, Serari; Rusumo, Kobero,Kabanga, Mutukula, Tunduma and
Nakonde,” he said.
Mr Masikitiko added that TBS was also
establishing zonal branches in Arusha (Northern), Mbeya (Southern) and
Mwanza (Lake Zone) being the first step towards having Bureau of
Standards branches in each and every region in future, to bring services
closer to the people.
The African Organisation for
Standardisation (ARSO) ‘Made in Africa Expo,’ has brought together
institutes of standardisation from across the continent to discuss means
of facilitating Industrialisation in Africa with a view to boost the
export trade and facilitate access to new markets while curbing
sub-standard goods in the process.
“The best way to reduce infiltration of
sub-standard goods is by encouraging local industries and production
through buying our own locally made goods,” stated the ARSO Secretary
General, Dr Hermogene Nsengimana, who added that, it was wrong to
believe that substandard goods were cheaper.
“If we join hands in buying our own
goods, there will be bulk production and eventually prices will drop
significantly while also ensuring that we use products tailor-made to
suit our local needs and of better quality,” stated the ARSO official.
Speaking during the meeting the ARSO
Secretary General, Dr Hermogene Nsengimana, highlighted the fact that,
despite experiencing regional economic growth in recent years, Africa
commands meagre 1.5 percent share of the world’s total manufacturing
output with.
That is despite the fact that with a
population of 1 billion residents and abundant resources the continent
has enough manpower to boost its productivity but Africa continues to
slump compared to Europe’s productivity share of 24.7 percent, North
America’s 22.4 percent share; the Asia Pacific region’s 21.4 percent;
the 17.2 percent for East Asia and 5.8 percent for Latin America.
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