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32 PART 3. CREATIVE INDUSTRIES POLICY REVIEW
$828 billion to $3 trillion during this period. Exports from South to South have increased faster than
exports from South to North, revealing further opportunities for developing countries to engage in
trading relationships with one another.
South-South trade of creative goods reached nearly $60 billion in 2008, tripling in six years. This
represents an astonishing rate of 20 per cent annually; while South export to the North has been
growing at an impressive, but relatively slower, annual rate of 10.5 per cent. For developing countries,
art crafts are the most important creative goods, accounting for 65 per cent of these countries' share in
the world market for creative industries.
Mozambique could benefit from the trade links it has with partners in the South such as Asia-Pacific,
Latin America and the Caribbean and within Africa. It should also take advantage of the numerous
cooperation agreements established while strengthening the creative sectors by tailoring policies to
enhance their creative industries and the competitiveness of their products in regional and international
markets.
Chart 4 South-South Trade of all creative goods, 2003-2008
(in millions of US$)
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South-South Trade all Creative Goods
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Source: UNCTAD global database on the creative economy
3.7.2 REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
All Creatives Goods
Mozambique’s foreign policy is largely focused on South Africa, the SADC, the African Union, the
New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Western donors and Portugal. The government
has entered regional, multilateral, bilateral and preferential trade agreements.
The country is involved in the development of the cultural and creative industries at a regional level
through the SADC and the Nairobi Plan of Action for Cultural Industries in Africa (December 2005)
and NEPAD priorities.
The Mozambican Strategic Plan for Culture (PEEC) was written in compliance with the Charter for
the Cultural Renaissance of Africa of the African Union. 81 The PEEC was also written in coherence
with the Nairobi Plan of Action for Cultural Industries in Africa, in particular, the objectives to
strengthen the economic contribution of creative sectors to the country’s development. 82 Mozambique
has also taken into account the SADC protocol on culture in the development of the creative
industries. The NEPAD culture priorities are also incorporated into the PEEC. However, its focus with
respect to the creative sectors is on indigenous knowledge.
81 Republic of Mozambique, MEC: 10.
82 Republic of Mozambique, MEC: 11.