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Policy reform essential for Pakistan to improve trade with India

01/02/2013 04:50:03 AM

That was the conclusion of experts at a public-private dialogue in Pakistan, on 16 January 2013. The event was organized by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development (PITAD), with the official endorsement...

ITC and CIDA discuss future cooperation

29/01/2013 09:03:46 AM

Mr Paul R. Samson, Director-General for Multilateral Development Institutions at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), on 29 January visited the International Trade Centre (ITC) where he was met by member of ITC’s senior management led...

Vanuatu delegation visits ITC

28/01/2013 10:34:33 AM

HE Mr Roy Mickey Joy, Ambassador of Vanuatu to the European Union and the Kingdom of Belgium, on 22 January met a team of senior International Trade Centre (ITC) representatives, led by Deputy Executive Director Mr Jean-Marie Paugam, at ITC’s Geneva...

Joined-up value-chain thinking

21/01/2013 03:43:08 AM

Approximately four million people in developing countries move from rural areas to live in cities every week. While living in rural locations, these people had access to supplies of basic fresh produce of some sort in a local market or from family smallholdings....

Plenary sessions prove most popular at WEDF 2012

08/01/2013 04:57:22 AM

The more than 900 delegates attending the World Export Development Forum (WEDF) 2012 had a chance a to rate the sessions they attended and surveys show that the events plenary sessions were the most engaging.On top came ‘Improving commodity supply chains...

WEDF hailed as informative and engaging

08/01/2013 04:39:11 AM

More than 900 delegates from 60 countries participated at the World Export Development Forum 2012 (WEDF) held in October in Jakarta, Indonesia. And the feedback from the participants is unison: WEDF is relevant, informative and engaging.A survey carried...

ITC’s Trade Map country data reaches record high

28/12/2012 09:53:23 AM

Up-to-date trade data for more than 110 countries is now available on ITC’s Trade Map, helping businesses and trade support institutions (TSIs) to analyse international trade flows impacting their business, so that they can identify and export markets...

Ghana: producers and industry experts co-author yam sector strategy

23/12/2012 01:06:12 PM

When SalamaTulari sat at her roadside shed in Tamale peddling yams and wondering how she'd ever come up with the money to expand her business, she never imagined her voice would help determine the future of Ghana's strategy to develop its yam industry.But...

Private sector and government cooperation key to maximising benefits from Liberia’s WTO accession

20/12/2012 09:32:04 AM

That was the message at a meeting earlier this month where representatives from private sector associations and government ministries and agencies met to discuss Liberia’s bid for WTO membership. At the three day event, attended by over 50 participants,...

Bangladesh readies itself for global business

11/12/2012 11:52:17 AM

‘Bangladesh has positioned itself as a prime location through enhancing its capability and skill availability, lower costs of operations, and by making targeted investments into telecom and IT infrastructure.’ That was one of the key messages delivered...

The new study about Python Skins

10/12/2012 08:25:59 AM

The report, Trade in South-East Asian Python Skinswas launched today by the International Trade Centre (ITC), in co-operation with TRAFFIC and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and reveals that the trade in python skins is...

ITC’s website goes mobile

07/12/2012 07:22:09 AM

The International Trade Centre (ITC) has launched a mobile version of its website, intracen.org, optimized for a wide range of smart phones used by its global audience. The launch comes in response to changing consumer behaviour, which has seen the proportion...

Germany provides €2 million funding for ITC in 2013

07/12/2012 06:47:33 AM

Mr Thomas Fitschen, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, on Tuesday 4 December presented the International Trade Centre (ITC) with €2 million (US$ 2.6m), the...

Enhancing the export competitiveness of Pakistan’s livestock and dairy sectors

06/12/2012 11:19:18 AM

Poor public and private sector collaboration is restricting the export potential of Pakistan’s livestock and dairy sector, in spite of the fact that the country is the fourth largest milk producer in the world. At a public private dialogue event in Lahore...

ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative steps on to the global fashion catwalk in Rome

06/12/2012 10:31:17 AM

Simone Cipriani, Head of the International Trade Centre’s (ITC) Ethical Fashion Initiative took centre-stage at the recent conference ‘The Promise of Africa’, which is the flagship luxury conference of the International Herald Tribune (IHT). The annual...

Paraguay’s ambassador on visit to ITC

05/12/2012 02:57:46 AM

Senior members of the International Trade Centre’s management team lead by Executive Director Ms Patricia Francis on Monday (3 December) received HE Mr Juan Esteban Aguirre, Paraguay’s Ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations...

Lao PDR: accession commitments discussed ahead of WTO accession

30/11/2012 10:34:15 AM

That was the message at a stakeholder conference on WTO accession in Vientiane, Lao PDR, on November 27th, where private sector representatives, academia, society players and government officials discussed Lao PDR’s WTO accession commitments and...

ITC assists Nigeria on trade-policy reform

28/11/2012 10:20:37 AM

Responding to a request from the Government of Nigeria, the International Trade Centre (ITC) recently hosted a high-level roundtable, including a peer review, to help stake the way ahead for Nigeria’s new trade policy. Currently being prepared, the updated...

Lesotho’s trade minister visits ITC

26/11/2012 07:26:57 AM

The International Trade Centre (ITC) on Tuesday 20 November received a delegation from the Kingdom of Lesotho to its Geneva headquarters to discuss with representatives of ITC’s senior management past and future cooperation to improve the country’s export...

Pakistani trade officials are trained on investment

23/11/2012 05:22:25 AM

That was the message from Mr. Tahir Maqsood, Director General of the Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development (PITAD), speaking at the inaugural session of a two-day training course on “Trade and Investment” held on 10 and 11 November at PITAD in...

Celebrating 125 years of Swedish exports

23/11/2012 04:34:23 AM

Celebrating its 125th year, the Swedish Foreign Trade Association, or Sveriges Allmänna Utrikeshandelsförening (SAU) as is its Swedish name, hosted an anniversary seminar on 21 November to look back at its history and the challenges ahead. The International...

IA83 EXPORT STRATEGY OF THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY

20/11/2012 09:33:13 AM

ITC project

IA91 Project development: Strengthening cassava communities to improve food security, access to markets and incomes

19/11/2012 05:14:20 AM

ITC project

ITC recognised for supporting Tajikistan in WTO accession preparations

15/11/2012 08:44:59 AM

The meeting was the inaugural session of the public-private dialogue on “Making the Most of WTO Accession: Financial Services Negotiations and Liberalization”, where participants commended ITC for its role in Tajikistan’s accession process. In the World...

ITC and WIPO join forces with Tanzania to brand Zanzibar cloves

15/11/2012 07:14:06 AM

To maximize the value of Zanzibar cloves, ITC will provide the branding methodology and training within which IP will be positioned, while WIPO will take the lead on developing an IP strategy for Zanzibar cloves...

ITC Executive Director leads Future Global 100 meeting on Eastern Europe’s economy

24/10/2012 12:36:27 PM

Ms. Patricia Francis, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre, will today co-chair a Future Global 100 (FG100) meeting in Warsaw, attended by European and international government and business leaders...

Uganda, Jamaica, Mexico, and Austria win the 2012 TPO Network Awards

18/10/2012 01:47:14 PM

The Uganda Export Promotion Board, Jamaica Promotions Corporations, ProMéxico and Advantage Austria were today announced as the four winners of the 2012 TPO Network Awards for having shown excellence in trade export development...

Boosting Business for Trade Promotion Organizations through Innovation

18/10/2012 05:05:27 AM

The 2012 TPO Network World Conference, Transforming TPOs’ Business through Innovation, today opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over two days, against the backdrop of the on-going global economic crisis, Trade Promotion Organizations will, explore

how they can promote innovation, improve their operations, and better meet the needs of their exporters.

WEDF 2012 Highlights Role of Finance Access in Emerging Market Export Success

17/10/2012 07:39:58 AM

Discussions on overcoming barriers impeding access to trade finance in emerging markets bookended the 13th edition of WEDF 2012 today. The event has brought together 400 delegates representing more than 40 countries from across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America to debate approaches to expanding trade flows between and within the world’s growth markets...

Understanding NTMs means understanding trade interests

17/10/2012 05:49:17 AM

Understanding the policy implications of non-tariff measures (NTMs) is crucial to policymakers and researchers for them to defend the trade interests of Pakistan, according to Mr Tahir Maqsood, Director-General of PITAD. Mr Maqsood was addressing the...

Finance: fuelling the trade as the engine of growth

17/10/2012 04:03:05 AM

'Financing Trade Between Emerging Markets' was the topic of the fourth and final plenary session Moderating the session, Ms Frida Libwina, an anchor with Metro TV, Indonesia, set the stage by pointing out that while it is recognized that SMEs are the...

SMEs in LDCs, services exports and women business owners

17/10/2012 02:40:22 AM

The key question during ‘LDCs: integrating SMEs into global value chains’ how best to integrate SMEs into global value chains, had in fact been an on-going underlying theme throughout the first two days of WEDF. Panellists nevertheless argued that a...

Export Supply and Value Chains Take Centre Stage on Day Two at WEDF 2012

17/10/2012 01:53:49 AM

With the world’s population recently surpassing the seven billion mark and on track over the next forty years to add two billion more, primarily in the developing world, optimizing developing countries’ export supply chains helps advance global food security while boosting interregional and intraregional trade flows, according to discussions at day two of WEDF...

Changing consumer behaviour, shifting value chains

16/10/2012 12:21:43 PM

The new demand for better value-added products creates opportunities for even small nations to gain market access and benefit – as long as they are able to find niche sectors in which they can be competitive and where their companies can scale. As for...

Commodities, competitiveness and innovation in the supply chain

16/10/2012 11:04:17 AM

At ‘Innovations Along the Supply Chain: can smallholder producers ever succeed in the export supply chain’, ITC’s Rob Skidmore, the session’s moderator, set the stage for the debate by pointing out that more than one billion people rely on smallholders...

International Trade Centre and Institute for Supply Management agree on reciprocity deal

16/10/2012 07:06:10 AM

Agreement sets forth mutual recognition of supply chain management certifications. ITC and ISM have entered an agreement based on mutual recognition of each institution’s supply chain management certification programs...

Trade at the heart of food security

16/10/2012 05:14:30 AM

Food security was on the agenda at the first plenary session, ‘Improving Commodity Supply Chains for Greater Regional and Global Food Security’, of the second day of WEDF 2012. A complex problem that affects all countries, it coincided with and gave...

WEDF 2012 Opening Plenary - Marta Lucia Ramirez de Rincon

16/10/2012 04:43:02 AM

WEDF 2012 Opening Plenary - Marta Lucia Ramirez de Rincon The Growth Markets’ Potential: What their emergence means for the future Ms Marta Lucia Ramirez de Rincon Former Foreign Trade Minister CEO, National Coalition for Colombian Manufacturers

WEDF 2012 puts focus on the rise of growth economies

15/10/2012 01:44:45 PM

Opening this year’s WEDF at the Shangri-La hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called for the revival of the WTO-led Doha Development Round, and for the need to bring back growth through increased trade and economic development....

The potential of growth markets

15/10/2012 01:39:48 PM

Speaking at the WEDF opening plenary session, ‘The growth markets’ potential: what their emergence means for the future’, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, warned that growth in developing countries should not be expected for another five years. Emerging...