What we do

American Packaging and Export LLC, APECO, registered in Commonwealth State of Virginia is set-up to assist foreign companies; especially in the sub-Saharan regions of Africa to:

Have access to and benefit from American Technologies and expertise,

Help to popularize the use of American products by packaging and exporting American goods and services to various regions of Africa. Presently, American Packaging and Export Company (APECO) offers needed assistance to interested individuals in exploring the potentials of emergent markets of sub- Saharan African regions with American counterparts.

APECO services include the introduction and exposure of invaluable American products, services and technologies to provide solution to some of Africa's most urgent needs particularly in the areas of infrastructures.

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In 2002, U.S trade with sub-Saharan Africa which totaled $25 billion was concentrated in the energy sector and passenger aircraft sales. Now, American exports to Africa and investments are rapidly diversifying. There are more resources available to both small and medium sized American companies to do business in Africa than thought possible years back. The African continent is constructing new airports, building roads, and revamping telecommunications systems. More advancement is being made to enhance its Internet and IT capabilities and most state-owned industries are also being privatized.

Foreign companies are, for the first time, approaching the continent's more than 600 million people as a legitimate market segment that cannot be ignored. There are huge export opportunities for everything from refurbished construction equipments and frozen chicken to beauty products and solar lighting appliances.

There are great import opportunities to explore. The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is offering thirty-eight sub-Saharan African nations the most liberal access to the U.S. market. This offer is available to any country or region that does not have a free trade agreement with the United States. In 2002, AGOA imports increased by ten percent to $9 billion, in which the textile and apparel imports totaled $803 million, in 2002, more than double the 2001 figure. (US; Dept. of Trade and Commerce)

In 1996, most media headlines picture Africa in its struggles with its political affairs, poverty, havoc, revenge and fefugee experiences. A step away from these front pages reveals more depth and wealth about Africa which is very optimistic and promising in opening up into the world of international trade.

 

The 1996 media picture of Africa was too frequently one of headlines and havoc, revenge and refuge, politics and poverty. But moving away from the front pages to examine Africa in-depth reveals another revolution, quieter but more optimistic: Africa, the last continent in the post cold-war era to do so, is opening up to the world of international trade.

Did you know that...

• Sub-Saharan Africa will be a market of 1.2 billion consumers by the year 2020?
• Sub-Saharan Africa already exports $12 billion in products to the United States, and U.S. merchandise exports to the same region jumped nearly 24 percent in 1995, to $5.4 billion?
• Thirty-three Sub-Saharan countries are already members of the World Trade Organization?
• Thirty-one Sub-Saharan countries have economic reform programs in effect through the World Bank?
• One in ten people live in Africa, yet Africa has only one out of every 50 of the world's telephone lines?