Industry minister asks US to support JEDCO

AMMAN — Industry, Trade and Supply Minister Maha Ali and Kenneth Hyatt, deputy undersecretary for international trade at the US Department of Commerce, on Tuesday discussed ways to enhance bilateral economic cooperation at all levels, especially trade.

Ali stressed the importance of increasing bilateral economic cooperation and benefiting from the Jordanian-US free trade agreement, which has contributed to improving the trade volume between the two countries, especially increasing Jordanian exports to the US.

The minister also called on the US to support the Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO) which supports micro-projects and creative ideas. Ali invited US companies to run investments in Jordan for having promising opportunities in many sectors, especially in the industrial, ICT and energy sectors, among others.

Hyatt said the US aid programme to Jordan focuses on three main sectors: renewable energy, health and ICT. He also noted that there are a lot of economic fields, where economic cooperation is available for US companies to have their schemes in the Kingdom.