Roles and Functions

• Establish and regulate commodity and trade standards.
• Collect, evaluate, and publish data pertaining to Commerce and  Industry.
• Establish and enforce standards for business practices.
• Promote sound dev elopement of foreign and domestic trade.
• Issue Import and Export Permits.
• Control quality of goods and commodity imported into and exported from the Country.
• Implement efficient and effective trade management system including pre-shipment Inspection of imports and exports.
• Monitoring and regulating prices of essential goods.

Structure of the Ministry

The Ministry has three distinct bureaus:

• Bureau of Administration
• Bureau of Commence & Trade and
• Bureau of Industry

The three bureaus are subdivided into 13 Divisions and they are: Personnel, Finance, Electronic Data Processing, Information, and Planning & Research, Foreign Trade, Domestic Trade, Inspectorate, Price Analysis & Marketing, Standards, Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Industrial  Development,   Industrial Administration & Supervision.