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Dr. Adeeb Afifi, Director of the Foreign Trade and Exports Support Administration at ADDED,
said that the workshop is part of series of activities and seminars organised by the department,
which aim to provide incentives and assistance for the private sector, to increase Abu Dhabi’s level
of exports to other countries by encouraging non-oil exports, with the aim of achieving the goals
of the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 of increasing the value of the emirate’s non-oil exports
to 11 percent of its GDP.
He added that the participants of the first session of the workshop’s first day discussed the major
economic and development characteristics of the emirate’s export and investment sector, as well
as its level of income and the economic growth and role of trade in the UAE’s development, in
order to highlight the structural characteristics that should be considered, while drafting a
development strategy for encouraging investments and exports.

He went on to say that the second and third sessions addressed the issue of how to draft this
development strategy, and the policies of diversifying exports by developing the local investment
and competitiveness environment, as well as improving the emirate’s competitiveness, to increase
its level of exports and investments in high-value-added sectors.

Dr. Afifi explained that the second day of the workshop saw discussions on the nature of recent
industrial policies that aim to achieve structural transformation and economic diversification
through analysis of the latest tools that can help realise these strategies, such as industrial clusters
and investment maps, as well as the use of commodity space methodologies and value chains as
instruments to adopt economic diversification policies and develop exports and investments.

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