In light of the developments in global offshoring and Bangladesh’s rise in IT/ITeS services, a joint team of KPMG India and KPMG Bangladesh undertook a study to explore the IT/ITeS sector in Bangladesh. A project supported by the ITC and CBI, the study included benchmarking the Bangladeshi IT/ITeS industry with the other leading offshore services destinations to ascertain the opportunity in Bangladesh as a global offshoring center...
Today ITC launches the first two of 27 reports outlining business perspectives on non-tariff measures. The reports, entitled Sri Lanka: Company Perspectives and Burkina Faso: Perspectives des Entreprises, are part of the new ITC series of reports being issued in 2012 and 2013...
Non-tariff measures (NTMs) are increasing in number and complexity, making it difficult to analyse and mitigate them, and posing rising challenges to exporters. That is the main conclusion from ITC seminar ‘Non-tariff : New challenges and the road ahead’ held in Geneva, Switzerland...
Introduced in 2010, the ITC Trade Leaders Program aims to build capacity of the selected promising young professionals on trade related matters during their 5 months stay at ITC. Applicants from LDCs, LLDCs, SIDS and SSA countries are eligible to apply...
ITC is organising a seminar today to focus on the issues raised by Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) for exporters based in developing countries. You can follow the latest updates from the seminar, taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, on the ITC twitter account...
During a visit to the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange and the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce on 30 January, Pascal Lamy, WTO Director-General, recognised ITC's work in improving the country's export competitiveness, whilst noting that 'International trade must in the future be measured by how much value is added to a country’...
Last month, Artesanías de Colombia welcomed an ITC-led delegation from the Dominican Republic seeking information about the Colombian model that would help enhance the island-nation's handcrafts industry...
TradeMap, ITC's web site dedicated to providing trade statistics for international business development, has recently added new data for 2011...
Egyptian exporters often struggle to take advantage of the broad range of opportunities presented by e-commerce. On 17 January, an ITC team took part in a workshop to address this problem...
Vanilla and ylang-ylang producers in Comoros, where half the population lived below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day in 2008, will benefit from an ITC mission aimed at making exporters of the country's two main cash crops more competitive...