Kastoria: Satisfaction with the presence of the Korean trade mission

The visit of a 25-member commercial delegation from South Korea organized by the Furriers Association of Kastoria “The Prophet Elias”, the Fur Federation, the Hellenic Investment Company and the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was completed with a positive sign for the furriers of Kastoria. . The President of the Fur Federation, Apostolos Tsoukas, expressed his deep satisfaction with the agreements reached between the fur companies and the large Korean delegation and stressed that with the help of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “we will proceed with the organization of other such meetings.” other country”.

Mr. Tsoukas described as an “achievement” the fact that “after two years of pandemic, with the fur trade in decline and our businesses closed for most of the time, we managed to open the gates of the Fur Exhibition Center and organize this commercial and financial event “. He pointed out that “in Kastoria, whether you are a furrier or something else, we all boil in the same cauldron” and expressed his satisfaction that through this meeting “some companies managed to work and conclude financial agreements”.

Orienting furriers from the Russian to the Korean market will not be easy, and due to its smaller size it can in no way make up for the size of Russia’s lost financial transactions. Mr. Tsoukas stressed that the companies that will work with Korea, will need in the near future “to adapt all the models of the produced fur products” since the entire production produced in Kastoria and Siatista is adapted to the body type of the Russian market.

For his part, the Secretary General of International Economic Affairs and Extroversion at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Giannis Smyrlis, referred to the history of the organization of the business mission, stressed that the 25 members of the trade mission represent 14 large Korean companies and that they arrived in Kastoria. agreement with the fur organizations’ sectoral organizations.

According to Enterprise Greece, which monitored the meetings, there were 100 btb meetings with businessmen and 20 visits were made to local factories, while dozens of agreements were concluded with businessmen.

Addressing the furriers, Mr. Smyrlis said that “even if the war stops today, relations with Russia will not be normalized next month and we must plan our plans without having Russia.” Answering a question about the exemptions of the products from the sanctions, he stated that “the decision of the government is to ask for exceptions for the Greek products that are affected, but it is not possible to ask for exceptions for all Greek products, because the sanctions must work” .