Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries

Why invest in Afghanistan?

Three good reasons

1. Afghanistan is an emerging market of strategic importance close to some of the largest and fastest-growing markets in the world.

Afghanistan is strategically located between the energy-rich republics of Central Asia and the major seaports in South Asia providing a key transit route for Central Asian oil and gas to markets in South Asia as well as overseas. Also Afghanistan has natural access to markets of neighboring countries including China, India and Pakistan.

Mining Opprotuninty

Overall Mining Investment Opportunity Potential of Afghanistan

Estimated at up to $3 trillion dollar potential value, based on geological survey information collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and augmented from prior survey work by the British and the Soviets.
Huge potential for further exploration as the estimated valuation covers only 30% of the Afghan territory.
Afghanistan has sizeable deposits of iron ore, gold, coal, copper, oil and gas, and rare earth metals among other minerals.

Cross-Border Trading Opportunities

Paving the Way

The government has identified improvement in cross-border trading as one of the pillars of its economic growth strategy. Afghanistan is a nation rich in resources, strategically located, and its people are steeped in the business of trading. To facilitate the country’s entry into the global trading platform, a multi-pronged approach is being implemented. It is designed to create the conditions necessary to attract foreign direct investment to increase exports and reduce dependence on imports.

Investment Opportunities in Agriculture in Afghanistan

Emerging global marketing opportunities plus largely-unreported improvements in Afghanistan’s agriculture sector are attracting unexpected growth in overseas and domestic trade and investment on which American and other business have begun to capitalise.

Mining in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has huge untapped mineral reserves including gems, copper, iron, ore, gold, lithium and other rare elements. The untapped minerals of Afghanistan worth at least 3 trillion dollars, three times more than what the US estimated in recent months, the Ministry of Mines announced on Thursday June 17, 2010.