Page 16 (j) promote joint industrial development projects as well as the creation of multinational enterprises in priority industrial sub-sectors likely to contribute to the development of agriculture, transport and communications, natural resources and energy. 9. In order to create a solid basic for industrialization and promote collective self reliance, Member States shall: (a) ensure, on the one hand, the development of industries essential for collective self-reliance and, on the other, the modernization of priority sectors of the economy especially: (i) food and agro-based industries; (ii) building and construction industries; (iii) metallurgical industries; (iv) mechanical industries; (v) electrical, electronics and computer industries; (vi) pharmaceutical, chemical and petrochemical industries;. (vii) forestry industries; (viii) energy industries; (ix) textile and leather industries; (x) transport and communications industries; (xi) bio-technology industries; (xii) tourist and cultural industries. (b) give priority and encouragement to the establishment and strengthening of private and public multinational industrial projects likely to promote integration; (c) ensure the promotion of medium and small-scale industries; (d) promote intermediate industries that have strong linkages to the economy in order to increase the local component of industrial output within the Community; (e) prepare a regional master plan for the establishment of industries particularly those whose construction cost and volume of production exceed national, financial and absorptive capacities; (f) encourage the establishment of specialised institutions for the financing of West African multinational industrial projects; (g) facilitate the establishment of West African multinational enterprises and encourage the participation of West African entrepreneurs in the regional industrialization process; (h) promote the sale and consumption of strategic industrial products manufactured in Member States;

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