PTT Saobracaja Srbija, Serbia’s national post company, will launch services to small exporters next month as the government tries to bolster exports, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said.
Export deliveries worth up to 1,000 euros ($1,386) will be part of the PostExport service to make it easier and cheaper for small exporters to sell their goods abroad, Cvetkovic said today in Belgrade.
The new procedures will benefit small and medium firms and entrepreneurs, a segment of the economy that generates 40 percent of the Serbian exports, 55 percent of gross domestic product and 66 percent of all active jobs, according to Dejan Trifunovic of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.
The chamber will monitor the impact, which is likely to be most obvious in exports of textiles, metals and food to countries in the Central European Free Trade Agreement, he said.
Serbian exports expanded 21 percent from a year earlier to 5.5 billion euros in the first eight months of the year. Exports to CEFTA members Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Moldova, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo, stood at 2.12 billion.
