{"id":26808,"date":"2022-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/jba-french-embassy-talk-economic-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:31:56","slug":"jba-french-embassy-talk-economic-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/jba-french-embassy-talk-economic-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"JBA, French embassy talk economic cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jordanian Businessmen Association (JBA) President Hamdi Tabbaa and Economic Counselor at the French Embassy in Amman Myriam Safsaf on Tuesday discussed the private sector&#8217;s role in advancing economic ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting tackled existing investment opportunities and means of bolstering ties between the business communities of the two countries, according to a JBA press release.<\/p>\n<p>Tabbaa said the Jordanian business community is keen on boosting Jordanian-French trade and investment ties to positively impact their trade balance, urging businessmen to benefit from opportunities in Jordan&#8217;s promising economic sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Safsaf said the embassy will cooperate with the JBA to interconnect the business communities, particularly in agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>JBA board members, who attended the meeting, pointed to investment prospects in Jordan&#8217;s advanced medical sector and tourism after recovering from Covid pandemic repercussions.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries&#8217; trade volume stood at $328 million in 2021, $30 million of which were Jordanian exports, mostly chemicals, vegetables and foodstuffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordanian Businessmen Association (JBA) President Hamdi Tabbaa and Economic Counselor at the French Embassy in Amman Myriam Safsaf on Tuesday discussed the private sector&#8217;s role in advancing economic ties between the two countries. The meeting tackled existing investment opportunities and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2022-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}