AMCHAM NEWS
Increasing Advocacy
Cooperation
with Other Chambers
AmCham has led a number of initiatives over the past
year toward increasing its communication and cooperation on business advocacy initiatives with other
business associations in Skopje. AmCham is open for
cooperation on the business advocacy front, since we
believe our interests generally align with other organizations, we all have limited resources and a coordinated
approach would be more impactful. AmCham identifies advocacy priorities via our Board
and committees to ensure that we focus
our energy on policies that truly impact
the overall economic environment in the
country and impact many companies, big
and small, local and foreign.
Our Board President was also recently invited to join
a Northwest Chamber initiative to agree on a set of
business recommendations toward minimizing the economic impact of the country’s current political crisis.
While AmCham didn’t ultimately join this initiative, we
believe our input improved the final message and look
forward to other opportunities to cooperate.
AmCham is open for cooperation
on the business advocacy front, ...
In late 2014, at the suggestion of a number of attendees at our corporate member meeting with 4 Ambassadors to Macedonia, AmCham organized a meeting of 7
international business organizations and economic diplomats from 5 embassies. The group agreed to increase
information sharing on their advocacy efforts to identify
cooperation opportunities.
Most recently, AmCham convinced the State Tax
Authority to begin holding quarterly meetings with representatives of at least 10 local and international business interest associations. Th