Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries

Membership Benefits

A set of base services are offered to all members irrespective of their membership category. The service offerings are then scaled up from the baseline services in accordance with their membership category.  Moving forward, ACCI endeavours to deliver more targeted services to its membership.  In general membership services include:

  • Communicating the interests of Afghanistan’s business community to the government via public policy roundtables and direct advocacy efforts;
  • Providing information on domestic and international trade missions and exhibitions, as well as organising conferences, seminars, and matchmaking events;
  • Providing business and investment related information as well as advice on business and investment opportunities;
  • Maintaining and providing up-to-date information on public tenders and procurement opportunities;
  • Publishing a monthly magazine which includes up-to date business information and the contact information of new members.;
  • Offering member discounts for rental of conference rooms with telephone, internet, simultaneous translation equipment, and photocopier machines;

Providing business development, advocacy and arbitration services; and Facilitating visa application procedures.

Members and Business Associations

The Chamber’s current membership exceeds 37,000 members and business associations which include 25 major business associations representing every significant sector of the economy.  ACCI’s members and business associations account for well over 90 % of the total Afghan workforce.  The major business associations are shown below:

  1. Afghanistan Builders Association (ABA)
  2. Afghanistan Industrialists Association (AIA)
  3. Federation of Afghan Craftsman and Traders (FACT)
  4. Afghan Women’s Business Federation (AWBF)
  5. Union of Kabul Food Grain Traders (UKFT)
  6. Afghanistan Leather and Tanneries Association (ALTA)
  7. Afghan Carpet Exporters Guild (ACEG)
  8. Afghan Money Changers Association (AMCA)
  9. Afghanistan National Food Association (ANFA)
  10. Association of Afghan Freight Forwarding Companies (AAFCO)
  11. Afghanistan Exporters Union (AEU)
  12. Afghanistan Bankers Association (ABA)
  13. Afghanistan Dry Fruit Exporters Association (ADFEA)
  14. Afghanistan Masonry Industrialist and Traders Association (AMITA)
  15. Afghanistan Marble and Granite Producers Association (AMGPA)
  16. Afghan Marble Industrialists Association(AMIA)
  17. Afghanistan Economic Reporters Association(AERA)
  18. Association of Kabul Carpet Producers (AKCP)
  19. Afghanistan Women Business Council (AWBC)
  20. Afghanistan Importers Association (AIA)
  21. Afghan Consulting Companies Association(ACCA)
  22. Eastern Zone Transporters Association (EZTA)
  23. Afghanistan Housewives Business Association ( AHBA)
  24. Afghanistan Pharmaceuticals Producers & Importers Association (APPIA)
  25. Afghanistan Women Business Association (AWBA)
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