THE National Competitiveness Commission (NCC) believes the added costs and potential red tape of the Conformity Based Conformity Assessment (CBCA) programme will cause short-term problems for businesses, harming Zimbabwe’s competitiveness.Initially introduced in 2015, the CBCA programme is a scheme designed to verify the quality and safety of imported goods to safeguard consumers and the local…
Import quality checks hurt competitiveness
The current climate, riddled with policy uncertainty, burdensome regulations, and high taxes, actively discourages SMEs from formalising.