The commerce of the province of Haut-Lomami

The tertiary sector is dominated by commerce and transport. Small retail trade provides income to a
large part of the population in rural and urban areas. He is held by pops, Furthermore, almost devoid of
processing units, due to lack of sufficient electricity, Haut-Lomami depends on the outside to supply
itself with manufactured and petroleum products pétrolier (gasoline and diesel). These needs have
favored the emergence of trading companies, some of which also carry out the transport activity. This is
the case of the company Maison Mesyg and the Établisse

Summary on the trade :

Definition : Commerce brings together statistical units (enterprises, legal units or establishments)
whose main activity consists of reselling goods purchased from third parties, without transforming
them.

- the goals of : commerce means the economic activity of buying and reselling goods and services,
especially buying with the aim of reselling at a profit or profit.

- the three types of trade : the organization of commerce can take different forms. We
distinguish in particular 3 main forms of commerce: integrated or branch commerce, “isolated”
independent commerce and commercial commerce.