We can help your firm by working with you to evaluate and implement value addition to current products in current markets or by facilitating your entry into new markets.

Traditional exports from Sierra Leone include a diverse group of agricultural products and mined minerals, such as coffee, cocoa, piassava, chili pepper, cashews, ginger, and rutile, bauxite, iron ore, gold and diamonds.

• Value addition should be more widely pursued in these product areas. We can work with you to understand international standards and demand for processed products so that you can expand or develop activities. Some examples of opportunities include:
• Diamond cutting and polishing,
• Processing of nuts into oil, syrup, etc.
• Processing of oil palm products into margarine, soap, and biofuels.
• Processing of fruits into juice,
• Canning fish,
• Furniture making.

We can help companies that produce products domestically to research the prospects of delivering these products to international markets. Some product areas that are poised for export development include: handicrafts; fruits, such as pineapples, mangoes, oranges, and grapefruit; vegetables; timber and wood products; fish, shrimp, and lobster; nuts, such as groundnuts, and cashews; fresh cut flowers; beeswax and honey; oils, such as palm and coconut oil; calaba beans and cow pea, sesame seeds, almonds, salt, and snails; and locally manufactured products, from juice drinks and mineral water to paint and confectionary.

We also provide information on mechanisms for market access and export procedures.