Cambodia Should Seek Other Markets: Expert

By Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
25 September 2009

Cambodia should find additional markets for its export products and not heavily depend on the US and Europe, a senior economist from the Asian Development Bank said.

“For a country like Cambodia, exports are always going to be important, but maybe what one should think of is not just export to the US or to Europe,” Rajat Nag, the ADB managing director-general, told VOA Khmer in an inclusive interview last week while on a trip to the US.

While the US and European markets remain important, Nag said, Cambodia should also take advantage of the Asean Free Trade Agreement, by trying to export products to Vietnam, India or China.

“These are also important and large markets,” he said.

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