Companies operating in industrial parks can transact in foreign currency while selling and buying raw materials with each other beginning this month, according to a new directive issued by the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE).
The new directive was issued two weeks ago to enable investors to buy or sell raw materials or inputs in foreign currency when they are manufactured by companies that operate in any of the industrial parks. The purchaser will settle the payments from its foreign currency retention account.
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