Users

ITC's Market Analysis Services (MAS) have helped trade support institutions, trade policy makers and the business community in nearly 130 countries around the world to better target their trade promotion efforts, trade policy initiatives and export strategies through the use of on-line tools, market research and trade analysis, and through capacity building and training programmes. Some of those that have benefited from these services are listed below.

Country Map   TradeMap   Product Map: MNS, Market Briefs   Market Access Map   

Capacity Building   Single-client studies   PC-TAS

Benchmarking national and sectoral trade performance and competitiveness

Country Map is freely available on ITC's home page. Go to www.intracen.org/countries select the country you are interested in. Country Map receives around 35,000 visits per month and is used by analysts, economists, market research specialists, exporters / importers, consultancies, business associations, universities and libraries. It is extensively used in MAS' Tailored Studies, as well as:

• World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report 2001-2002; European Competitiveness and Transition Report 2001-2002. 

• National export strategy design: e.g. Viet Nam, Mongolia and the United Arab Emirates.

Trade statistics for international business development

Trade Map has been used by the following institutions around the world in over 60 countries including:

Business information for going global

Product Map www.p-maps.org receives around 20,000 visits per month. Partners include all national licensees of TradeMap and ministries, TSIs and organizations in:

Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Peru, Poland, Rwanda, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

MNS (Market News Service) www.p-maps.org/mns has over 200 subscribers and readership in the thousands. Current readers include all subscribers to Product Maps on Cut flowers and ornamental plants, Fruit and vegetables, Fruit and vegetable juices, Medicinal plants, Pharmaceuticals and medicaments, and Spices and culinary herbs.

The MNS report on Pharmaceutical Starting Materials / Essential Drugs is regularly distributed to World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Offices in Denmark, Egypt, India, Philippines, USA and Zimbabwe.

Market Briefs have been covering world markets in various products for over 15 years. Current readers include all subscribers to Product Map.

Making market access barriers transparent

ITC Partners worldwide include:

• Argentina: C.E.R.A.

• Benin: Ministry of Industry and Commerce

• Brazil: Ministério das Relações Exteriores - MRE

• Burkina Faso: ONAC Trade Point

• Burundi: Chamber of Commerce and Industry

• Côte d'Ivoire: CIEF APEX-CI

• France: Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier and Centre EURISCO, Université Paris-Dauphine

• Ghana: Ghana Export Promotion Council

• Guinea: Ministry of Commerce, Trade and SMEs

• GTAP: Global Trade Analysis Project 

• India: The Reliance Group

• International Organisations: FAO, ILO, UNCTAD, World Bank, WTO

• Kazakhstan: University of International Business, Almaty

• Mexico: LCI Foreign Trade Solutions and Bancomext

• Morocco: GTZ

• Namibia: Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI)

• Pakistan: Ministry of Commerce

• Russian Federation: Chamber of Commerce and Industry

• Rwanda: Rwandan Investment & Export Promotion Association

• South Africa: Department of Agriculture

• Sri Lanka: Ministry of Trade

• Tunisia: Ministry of Commerce

• United Kingdom: Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Oxfam

• United States of America - Wal-Mart

MAS offers a wide range of capacity building and training activities for the business sector and Trade Support Institutions focused on using market analysis tools for international business development. In 2003 and 2004, MAS conducted over 100 capacity building activities in over 50 countries. These include:

• Bolivia: Centro de Promoción Bolivia (CEPROBOL)

• Botswana: Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority (BEDIA)

• CASIN: Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations

• China: CCPIT and CIRD

• Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan): ITC and seco

• Croatia & Albania: USAID Project Office

• Côte d'Ivoire: Association pour la Promotion des Exportations de Côte d'Ivoire (APEX-CI)

• Cuba: Center for Export Promotion of Cuba (CEPEC)

• Germany: InWent Africa Regional Programme

• Guatemala: Ministry of Economy (MINECO) and AGEXPRONT 

• Indonesia: National Agency for Export Development (NAFED) 

• Jamaica: Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO)

• Kenya: Centre for Business Information in Kenya (CBIK)

• Malawi: Malawi Export Promotion Council (MEPC)

• Mongolia: Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT)

• Peru: Comision Para la Promocion de Exportaciones (PROMPEX)

• Romania: Romanian Foreign Trade Centre (RFTC) 

• Tanzania: Centre for International Business Development Services (CIBDS)

• Uganda: Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB)

• Venezuela: Banco de Comercio Exterior (Bancoex)

• Vietnam: Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency

• USA: USAID

• Zimbabwe: ZimTrade

The list below provides an overview of selected partners and areas of co-operation. For more detailed information please visit Tailored Studies.

• Abu Dhabi, Ministry of Economy and Commerce: Trade strategy

• African - Caribbean - Pacific Regional Trade Integration. The Impact of EU-ACP Regional Economic Partnership Agreements on ACP regional trade integration. Report undertaken by ITC for the European Consortium for Trade Policy Analysis (ECTA)

• CEPII (French Economic Research Institute): Trade-related econometric modelling (gravity model TradeSim and computable general equilibrium model MIRAGE); Market Access Map on trade barriers 

• China: Assessment of the role of different types of firms (foreign-affiliated, state-owned, local, private, etc.) in China's foreign trade; analysis of bilateral trade potential with partner countries 

• DGM (Deutsche Bank Group): International marketing indicators 

• DIW (German Economic Research Institute): Sino-German trade potential for SMEs 

• Egyptian group of private investors: Identification of industries interested in new export processing zone North of Suez 

• EU: Reconciliation of trade data of the EU and China 

• Malaysia (Matrade): Malaysia's Exports to West Asia: Review of Current Trade Situation, Strategies and Approaches to Export Promotion; Trade development strategy for Malaysian exports to the Middle East 

• Mauritius: Current market access conditions for Mauritian exporters and importers and multilateral liberalisation scenarios.

• Mauritius Freeport: Assessment of potential for warehousing and regional trade with Africa 

• MIGA: Identification of foreign direct investment opportunities in six African countries 

• OECD Development Centre: Analysis of trade support services in Africa and Trade statistics 

• Republic of South Africa: Identification of priority markets for South African trade commissioners 

• SADC: Potential for increasing South African imports from SADC

• Senegal: Senegal's Trade regimes, Market Access Conditions and the Erosion of Preferences

• Tunisia: The International Market Access Conditions for Tunisia's Goods

• UNCTAD: Trade performance of LDCs Trade and foreign direct investment 

• USAID: Trade potential of selected African countries with neighbouring regions 

• World Bank: Assessment of market access and protection 

• World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report 2001-2002; Global Information Technology Report 2001-2002; European Competitiveness and Transition Report 2001-2002; Environment Report 2001 - 2002; Arab Report 2002; Africa Report 2002 

• World Trade Organization: Bottlenecks to international business development in LDCs

PC-TAS is a CD-ROM containing five-year time-series and trends on international trade flows. For further information or to order, please visit www.intracen.org/pctas

Current users of PC-TAS include government ministries, chambers of commerce, exporters / importers, consultancies, business associations, universities, libraries and research institutes in:

Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE and Venezuela.