Welcome to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

The DRC’s rich endowment of natural resources, large population size (approximately 65 million) and generally open trading system provide significant potential opportunities for U.S. investors. At the same time, the DRC remains a highly challenging environment in which to do business.

For the past two years, the World Bank’s Doing Business report rated the DRC as the most difficult country in the world in which to do business. Underdeveloped infrastructure, inadequate contract enforcement, limited access to credit, continued insecurity in the eastern part of the DRC, lack of adequate property rights protection, and high levels of both bureaucracy and corruption continue to constrain private sector development.

Trade Events

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• CAPE IV, Petroleum Industry Exhibition, March 2010

Export-Import Bank

Office of the United States Trade Representative