Mexican trade mission will visit Azerbaijan

Baku. 24 April. REPORT.AZ/ Mexican Trade Mission will visit Azerbaijan from 23 to 30 April.

Report was informed in the Mexican Embassy in Azerbaijan. 

As a result of the promotion activities of the Embassy of Mexico in Azerbaijan aimed to boost the relations with Azerbaijan, a Mexican Trade Mission will visit Azerbaijan from April 23 to 30, 2018. 

The trade mission will be composed by several Mexican tequila producers and a representative of the National Chamber for the Tequila Industry (CNIT). The Trade Mission will carry out various business meetings and tastings, aimed at Azerbaijani businessmen, importers and distributors of beverages. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the market of Azerbaijan for this drink. According to the data of Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan in 2017, 52% imported alcoholic ethyl beverages (excluding vodka, whiskey, rum, aguardiente, gin, wines and liquor) are of Mexican tequila.

Tequila, the third spirit most exported in the world, after whiskey and vodka, is a distilled spirit originating in the town of Tequila in the state of Jalisco, in Western Mexico. On 12 July, 2006, the Mexican region that produce this beverage was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations

Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO), under the name of Landscape agavero and ancient industrial facilities of Tequila.

Tequila is an emblematic drink of Mexico, symbolizing its history, its culture and the diversity of the country. The well-known traditional Mexican beverage is a suitable mean to bring closer the Azerbaijani community with various representations of Mexican culture and gastronomy, as well as to know the varieties of the drink and the stages of production of the tequila.