Trade Leads

Despite its small market size, Benin may be used, with its fairly efficient port, as a re-exporting country for its landlocked neighboring countries and for Nigeria which has a market of 150 million consumers.

U.S. companies could find success in exporting electronic products, cosmetics and toiletries, telecommunications equipment, electrical power systems, transportation equipment, cotton industry equipment, and medical equipment.

The best prospects for major projects are infrastructure projects (road, airport, port and rail way construction), housing, telecommunications, tourism, and the energy production sector.