Tanzanian specialty products take the "CIIE Express"

Tanzania is located in eastern Africa, with a predominantly tropical climate, and agriculture dominates the country's economy. In recent years, the bilateral trade volume between China and Tanzania has grown significantly, and Tanzania has benefited greatly from cooperation with China. Since the first CIIE, Tanzania has participated in the exhibition for six consecutive years. Through the broad platform of the CIIE, Tanzanian exhibitors brought specialty exhibits such as coffee, cashew nuts, and eucheuma out of the African continent, into the Chinese market, and onto the world stage.

Coffee is one of Tanzania's traditional export crops, known as "black gold". It is mainly grown in the southern highlands such as Mount Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Mbeya. In particular, the fertile volcanic ash in the Kilimanjaro region gives the coffee here a rich texture and soft acidity, which is unique. More than 90% of Tanzania's coffee is exported, with a total export volume of 81,500 tons and an export value of US$230 million in the 2022-2023 fiscal year. On the eve of the 6th CIIE, the head of Afri Tea & Coffee Blenders (1963), a Tanzanian coffee producer, said that he had come to China many times and that all the equipment currently used by the company was imported from China, but he had not been able to establish a trade cooperation relationship with Chinese companies. In fact, the procedures for importing agricultural products are more complicated than those for ordinary products, and the CIIE provides many convenient policies for the customs clearance of exhibits, making it easy for its coffee to enter China for the first time.