PNG Made

Council Chief Executive Officer, Chey Scovell told Loop PNG today that “having lived up to the terms of the Agreement, our members, local manufacturers have been at continuous disadvantage by our MSG counterparts not implementing the Agreement in accordance to the Agreement.”

Scovell was responding to Fiji’s ban on the import of Ox & Palm into their country.  

“My members acknowledge that Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu are relatively small markets, indeed combined that are only a single province in PNG, however size isn’t the issue, its fair trading. 

He is the former director-general of the trade division within the Department of Trade, Commerce and Industry.

“Papua New Guineans must consider buying PNG made products, although it is slightly expensive because the cost of production is very high.

“If you go to countries like Fiji, there are billboards everywhere saying buy Fiji made products, in PNG we have to do that.

“Before we sell to the world we must buy our own products, let’s not buy second-hand goods from other countries,” Ambassador Rai told Loop PNG.