Ambassador Minxhozi says import from Albania has increased 30% more than to 2018

He said that for the first six months of this year Albania has exported 106m euros of goods to Kosovo, compared to the same period last year, 30% growth.

Even Kosovo has increased exports to Albania by 10%, as in the first six months of this year it has exported goods worth 31m euros to the country.

The Tirana Chamber of Commerce data stating that for the first 6 months of 2019, the number of Albanian businesses that have exported to Kosovo does not exceed the figure of 800 commercial subjects, Minxhozi says it is insignificant when it is seen that the trend of trading goods has positive trends.

“E said in real figures Albania has exported 106m euros of goods, and Kosovo has exported 31m euros of goods. Compared to the same period last year, it turns out Albania has exported 30% more and Kosovo 10% more. This is official data, and it's not data from different claims. I am taking the total volume of exchanges between Albania and Kosovo, that is more accurate. It doesn't matter if there are 800 or there are 700 or there are 600 of them because there are probably 600 of them, for example, that they're not creative ones that did an activity in Kosovo 10 years ago, and today they don't exist in the letters, they're called economic bodies that function or they're the same thing that Kosovo does in Albania, I'm not going to get into the game of the numbers of companies that they are, but I'm going to say the trend is on the rise, that's very important”, Minxhozi said.

Regarding the economic barriers between Kosovo and Albania, Minxhozi said improvements have been made year-on-year, but some of them need legal intervention and undergo study.

For the scanner's payment, Minxhozi said it is under consideration to take off payment for the goods that are transitary in Albania, while not seeing the nation's Road tax as of great concern, as according to him, depending on the frequency of movement, companies take the discount.

Another issue is that of Victorial certificates. A business from Kosovo costs such a certificate in Albania 15 euros, but for the export of some food items at once costs rise.

Kosovo businesses have consistently demanded that Kosovo's phytosanitary certificate be recognised in Albania as well. But according to Minxhozi they have been significantly reduced, but it is working to reduce their numbers even further.

“not a certificate is several certificates. It has to do with the various institutions that it would be one if we removed it, but it has dozens of certificates, and by month to month, a vast majority of them continue to be recognised by both sides. Here I will sacrifice, not the bureaucracy they have, but by increasing the volume, by increasing all these d.m. You said come out like those mushrooms. They should be seen to reduce them. If we look at what they were like two years ago, their numbers were evidently reduced”, Minxhozi said.