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Country Commercial Guides for FY 2000:
Cape Verde

Report prepared by U.S. Embassy
Praia, released July 1999

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APPENDIX E:   U.S. and Country Contacts

1.   Contacts in Cape Verde:

U.S. Embassy
Economic Commercial Section
Department of State
Washington, DC 20521-2460
Tel: (238) 61 56 16;  Fax: (238) 61 13 55

Cape Verdean Trade Associations:

Câmara de Comércio, Industria e Serviços de Sotavento
C.P. 105
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 72 34;  Fax: (238) 61 72 35
Mr. Orlando Mascarenhas, President

Câmara de Comercio de Barlavento
C.P.728
Mindelo, Sao Vicente
Tel: (238) 31 46 85;  Fax: (238) 31 46 86
Mr. Edmund Carvalho, President

Associação Comercial de Sotavento
C.P. 78
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel. (238) 61 29 91;  Fax: (238) 61 29 64
Mr. Alfredo Barbosa Fernandes, President

Associação Comercial de Barlavento
C.P. 62
Mindelo, Sao Vicente, Cape Verde
Tel. (238) 31 32 81;  Fax: (238) 32 36 58
Mr. Augusto B. Evora, President

Major Cape Verdean Importers

1. Adega, S.A.R.L.
C.P. 40, Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 54 80; Fax: (238) 61 54 79
Supermarket products

2. ABM & Partners, Lda.
C.P. 109, Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 63 10 23; Fax: (238) 63 10 33
Wholesale of grocery products and construction material.

3. ALUCAR
C.P. 375, S. Vicente, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 31 11 50;  Fax: (238) 31 51 69
Automobiles

4. Sociedade Comercial Vasconcelos Lopes, Lda.
C.P. 116, S.Vicente Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 32 19 92; Fax: (238) 31 55 89
Grocery products and appliances

5. Braz de Andrade (the major importer from U.S.)
C.P. 75C, Fazenda, Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 22 71;  Fax: 61 31 43
Food items, appliances, construction material

6. Edmundo Rodrigues Barbosa & Fos. Lda.
C.P. 154, Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 55 84/85; Fax: 61 12 89/ 61 35 42
Supermarket products

7. Manuel Gomes dos Anjos & Fos. Lda.
C.P. 86/88, Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 38 92; Fax: 61 68 80
Grocery products, houseware

8. C. de Vasconcelos e Herd. Lda.
C.P 4, Praia, cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 55 47/8; Fax: 61 55 46/9
Houseware, appliances

9. Estabelecimentos Bossa Nova Lda.
C.P. 129, Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 38 56/ 61 41 91; Fax: 61 16 12
Grocery products, houseware, appliances, construction material, hotel supplies.

10. Irmãos Correia Lda.
C.P.307, Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 69 98;  Fax: 61 48 33
Wholesaler of beans, grocery products, tires.

Banks in Cape Verde:

Banco de Cabo Verde (Central Bank)
C.P. 101, Ave. Amilcar Cabral, 
Praia
Tel: (238) 61 55 30;  Fax: (238) 61 19 14

Banco Comercial do Atlântico (BCA)
C.P. 474, Ave. Amilcar Cabral
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 30 09;  Fax: (238) 61 30 00

Caixa Económica de Cabo Verde
C.P. 199, Ave. Cidade de Lisboa
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 55 61;  Fax: (238) 61 55 60

Banco Totta & Açores
C.P. 595, Rua Justino Lopes, 1-2nd.
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 16 62/42 70;  Fax: (238) 61 46 12

Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Achada de St. Antonio
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 62 22 91;  Fax: 62 20 79

Banco Nacional Ultramarino (Rep. office)
C.P. 19/C, Ave. Cidade de Lisboa
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 42 32;  Fax: (238) 61 42 53

Banco Mello (Rep. office)
C.P. 469, Ave. Amilcar Cabral
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 72 50;  Fax: (238) 61 72 51

Other Cape Verdean Agencies:

Center for Tourism, Investment and Export Promotion (PROMEX)
C.P. 89-C
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 62 27 36;  Fax: (238) 62 27 37
Mr. José  Sá Nogueira, President

I.A.D.E. (Institute of Assistance to Entrepreneurial Development)
C.P. 581
Praia, Cape Verde
Tel: (238) 61 44 44;  Fax: (238) 61 24 34

Privatization Agency 
C.P. 323
Largo do Ténis, Cruzeiro, Praia
Tel: (238) 61 23 19;  Fax: (238) 61 23 34
Mr. Sergio Centeio, Director

2.   U.S. Government Agencies

TPCC Trade Information Center
Washington, DC
Tel: 1-800-USA-TRADE

U.S. Department of State
Office of the Coordinator for Business Affairs
Washington, DC
Tel: (202)746-1625;  Fax: (202) 647-3953

U.S. Department of Commerce
International Trade Administration 
Philip Michelini, Desk Officer - Cape Verde
14 and Constitution Aves., NW
Washington, DC 20230
Tel: (202) 482-4388;  Fax: (202) 482-5198

U.S. Department of Agriculture
Foreign Agricultural Service, 
Trade Assistance and Promotion Office
Washington, DC
Tel: (202) 720-7420

World Bank
Mr. Thomas Kelsey
Director, Commerce Liaison Office
Office of  the U.S. Executive Director
1818 H  Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
Tel: (202) 458-0120/0118;  Fax: (202) 477-2967

African Development Bank
Mr. Mark Herrling
Commercial Liaison
U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service
5 rue Jesse Owens
01 B.P. 1712 Abidjan 01, Cote d'Ivoire
Tel: (225) 21-46-16;  Fax: (225) 22-24-37

3.   Others:

Embassy of Cape Verde in the United States
3415 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
Tel: (202) 965-6820;  Fax: (202) 965-1207

General Consulate of Cape Verde in Boston
535 Boylston Street - 2nd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Tel: (617)353-0014;  Fax: (617)859-9798

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