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Users' Feedback
MAS has received a number of positive and constructive comments from users of its market analysis portals and services. These are just a few:
“Organizations like ITC are in the business of making things happen…The WTO ITC partnership has been there for a long time and I personally support what they do. They have a track record of helping initiate trade flows. What ITC does well includes the publication of tariffs in a databank which is available to business so that they don’t have to make 50 phone calls when they want to export something…”
Pascal Lamy, Director-General, WTO
Video address to ITC's JAG, 25 April 2007
“…what you are doing is an enormous task, dealing with a long list of countries, different languages and cultures, some of which do not like to cooperate, and some of which their laws are not clear even within their own country, as is the case with the Russian Fed. Import tariffs on some items. There are other websites/databases that try to mimic what you are doing, but some research reveals that their databases are many times out of date, contradictory, and cumbersomely formatted.”
Alejandro Padua
Email 21 March 2007
"The Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the WTO, Geneva has been granted a free access to the Market Access Map thanks to the support of SECO during the year 2006. This tool has been an important help to this Mission for its negotiations at the WTO and for analyzing the market situation of our trading partners. "
Dr. Mohammad Saeed, Commercial Counsellor
Permanent Mission of Pakistan to WTO
Email 10 January 2007
“I just got back from Suva attending the regional market access workshop and greatly appreciate the training package provided. I have learn't that this software is of vital importance to us (PNG Investment Promotion Authority), especially when undertaking market research for specific products to the world market. The PNG Investment Promotion Authority is responsible for the PNG EPA Investment Promotion & Protection Agreement (IPPA+) as well as researching special niche markets globally. In terms of market access issues of many of our products, this software gives much confidence to negotiate better with.”
Kini Mala
Investment Promotion Authority of Papua New Guinea
Email 16 May 2006
"We have been using Trade Map and Product Map extensively in South Africa... We are currently in the process of adding analysis to Product Map's Product Performance Index (PPI) calculations and linking the PPI to local industry data in order to examine the relevance of individual Product Maps in the local context, in terms of contribution (directly and indirectly) to value added and employment."
Dirk Ernst van Seventer
Trade & Industry Policy Strategies (TIPS)
South Africa
E-mail 12 January 2004
“I have just scanned through your pages on Mali and I am trying to figure out which information may be helpful for my classroom teaching. The answer is "All of them!" Great pages, excellent graphs, topical material."
Thank you very much for the page.”
Dr. H. Obdenbusch
E-mail 18 November 2003
“Back from Tbilisi, I wanted to thank you and your colleagues most sincerely for having given me access to the data files you maintain. It was extremely useful during the training sessions. I spoke to the officials about ITC's excellent work, but really the web-site did the job better than I could - everyone found it very useful indeed. I strongly encouraged them to join.”
Prof. J.D.A. Cuddy
Graduate Institute of International Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
"I've read your application of the TradeSim (second version) for the Mexican case, which I've found very interesting. I really appreciate the detailed explanations given through all the paper concerning both the variables and the methodology implemented."
Braulio Desentis
Mexican Bank for Foreign Trade (Bancomext)
E-Mail 28 August 2003
"We thank you for your invitation letter of 4 August 2003 to join your Product Map network of "Business information for going global".
We have joined the web site "www.p-maps.org" and find that your web site is sure to be of great help to us in our work."
Tran Tuan
Director Can Tho Trade
E-Mail 27 August 2003
"As a specialist I consider TradeSim the most advanced version of gravity model. But it seems that it may be strengthened by inclusion of bilateral institutional variables … Good luck and thank you for your work."
A. Goldman
Russia
E-Mail 3 August 2003
"In fact as a private business man I really enjoy by participating in this seminar. I think I have learned a lot from the seminar which is going to guide me in all my business activities. It is my wish that you organize such events once in a year so that we can upgrade our knowledge and think strategically.
Thank you and hope that you will invite me anytime you organize such educational and business-wise seminars like this."
Mr. Osae Nyanpong Kwabena
Osae Nyanpong & Sons Ltd.
Kumasi - Ghana
E-Mail 2 August 2003
"I am delighted to have been given permission to access TradeMap. In past terms I have used ITC's country pages extensively in my undergraduate International Trade classes. Your Revealed Comparative Advantage data and the outstanding graphical presentation of the Export Performance data are a teacher's delight and allow students to write country papers in a manner that would otherwise be quite unmanageable."
Dr. John Berdell
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Chicago, Il USA
E-Mail 18 July 2003
"I would like to thank you and the staff of MAS and ITC in general for an excellent seminar. I benefited a lot through participation in the seminar in addition to being present at ITC, and this allowed me to interact with the best in the field of trade promotion, and I hope to stay in close contact with ITC.
Finally, a big thank you for all of your generous help."
Mohammad Attoun
Information Manager
Ramallah, Palestine
E-Mail 15 July 2003
"I hope you are doing well. I would like to thank you for the excellent workshop you managed last week in Geneva. It was really interesting and helpful in our efforts to enhance growth and trade."
Neritana Begaj
Resource Center Coordinator
Albanian Center for International Trade (ACIT)
Tirana, Albania
E-Mail 15 July 2003
"I must say that the data I have used (via the internet) has been very good. Please tell your people that the ability to analyse import and export data and relationships has been very useful to us."
Wendy Davidson
Wendy Davidson Enterprises Pty Ltd
Australia
E-Mail 27 February 2003
"I will be teaching an international trade course to B.A. level students at CIDE...I want to use the TradeMap as a tool to help them understand the real world of international trade (and its tariffs and non-tariff barriers)."
Dr. Antonio Ortiz Mena L.N.
Director División de Estudios Internacionales
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. (CIDE)
Mexico
E-Mail 22 January 2003
"Recently one of my students at WU Vienna drew my attention to your countries database. I am really delighted with both the material and the way it is presented. Very very useful for our teaching purposes. Congratulations!"
Dr. Albert Hofmayer
Department of Applied Regional & Economic Geography
Inst.f.Econ.Geography
Regional Development & Environmental Management
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Vienna, Austria
E-Mail 20 January 2003
"ITC is a technical cooperation organization whose mission is to support developing and transition economies, and particularly their business sectors. It has a wonderful collection of country data, so if you need to know how much vodka is imported to Azerbaijan or the principal exports of Zambia, this is the place to look."
GMGreer.com
US-based Security Industry Data company
16 October 2001
"…TradeMap, Product Map, and Country Map … have responded to one of the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Industry's major preoccupations with regard to achieving a better mastery of information in order to have strategically oriented investment activities for the production of goods and services in Haiti."
Hon. Stanley Theard
Ministère du Commerce et de l'Industrie
Haiti
(translation) 20 July 2001
"TradeMap and Trade Secrets are two very important tools of the trade, for they will allow for a more thorough understanding of the international marketplace...
The introduction by TIDCO of TradeMap and Trade Secrets is an important tool to assist entrepreneurs in Trinidad and Tobago in their export thrust. I wish to urge all entrepreneurs to make good use of the TradeMap and Trade Secrets. I myself am impressed with these two publications"
Hon. Mervyn Assam
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Consumer Affairs
Trinidad and Tobago
17 November 2000