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High regional communication costs, with 47.6% from Business
answering relevant and 55.6% from NSA, very relevant;
Week regional transport infrastructure, considered less relevant for
Business (about 33%) while for NSA, is very relevant with 55.6%;
and
High transport costs, with 40.9% stating very relevant for Business
and 50.0% stating very relevant for NSA (Table 43).
Therefore, the 18 respondents from Business and 9 from NSA
considered corruption of officials, customs tariffs currently employed,
poor regional communication infrastructure, sanitary and phytosanitary
regulations as the most relevant barriers to trade in
Mozambique.
The Business and NSA also considered as the second most relevant
barriers to trade in Mozambique the time-consuming customs
procedures and as the third most relevant barriers the substantial
paper work, bureaucracy, high transport costs and corruption of officials
(Table 44).
Impact of Regional Integration on Companies
Regarding the rise and decline of employment as a result of regional
integration both Business and NSA consider them, on one hand likely
and, on the other unlikely. Business and NSA consider that employment
will decline by 25% and 44.4%, respectively.
48.4% from Business and 88.9% from NSA said regional integration
will increase domestic production. As for investment abroad, 40%
from Business said that was unlikely while 40% from NSA stated it
was likely to occur. Referring to a high probability of closure of the
country's production, 60% from NSA considered it likely to happen,
while 35.5% from Business considered this unlikely. Foreseeing the
formation of joint-ventures with companies from other countries, as
well as of emergence of new activities, 61.3% from Business and
88.9% from NSA stated that these will, probably occur. 67.7% of
Business and the totality of respondents from NSA think new activities
will probably emerge as a result of regional integration.
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