Those participating in the meeting./ Photo: CEOE
The Diplomat. 06/07/2018
The Secretariat of State for Trade, CEOE and the Chamber of Commerce of Spain have organized a business meeting between Spain and Australia in which it was declared that a Spanish business delegation will visit that country in October to explore new business opportunities.
This is what the president of CEOE, Juan Rosell, declared during the event, celebrated on Wednesday at the Business Confederation in Madrid. According to Rosell, the business delegation will travel between October 20 and 28 in response to the visit made to Spain this week by the business delegation of European Australian Business Council (EABC), presided by the minister of Rural Development, Territories and Local Governance of Australia, John McVeigh, and in which he accompanied the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Sir Peter Cosgrove.
In the same event, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, remembered that the first round of negotiations between the European Union and Australia has taken place this week in Brussels to reach a trade agreement that would bring “important benefits for both regions”, and informed that big and medium Spanish companies are already collaborating with Australian companies interested in accessing third markets, such as Asia, Latin America and Africa, through Spain. “Australia is a strategic partner for Spain”, the recently appointed secretary of State for Trade, Xiana Margarida Méndez, declared for her part.
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Spain and Australia analyze, at CEOE, bilateral business and investment opportunities
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Furthermore, the director general of the Chamber of Commerce of Spain, Inmaculada Riera, remembered that 77 Spanish companies have already established permanent operations in Australia and emphasized “the existence of a promising coincidence between the priority investment sectors identified by the Australian government and those in which Spanish companies enjoy leading positions at a world level”.
In the same sense, the Australian Minister of Rural Development, Territories and Local Government, John McVeigh, affirmed that his country offers business opportunities in the airspace, educational, tourist, information technology and development and research sectors, among others, and remembered that one of the country’s biggest infrastructures project, in which a Spanish companies participate, is being developed in Queensland.
