Over the last seven years, the International Trade Centre (ITC) has become more focused and its interventions more impactful, said outgoing Executive Director Patricia Francis, addressing the 47th annual meeting of ITC’s Joint Advisory Group (JAG)...

The International Trade Centre (ITC) and The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) have congratulated the Republic of Tajikistan on its official accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and reaffirmed their commitment for continued...

ITC looks forward to support businesses coping with new opportunities and challenges as Russia and Vanuatu become the trade body’s 156th and 157th members.

ITC urges policymakers at WTO’s Committee on Trade and Development to accelerate efforts to ensure gender equality and do more to empower women.

Speech by Mr. Pascal Lamy, WTO Director-General. Delivered on Day One of the 46th Session of the ITC JAG, 21-22 May 2012. Monday, 21 May 2012, 10:20-10:30...

Government officials from 26 developing countries participated in WTO’s first-ever Advanced Course on Trade and Environment in Geneva, Switzerland, with ITC’s Trade and Environment Programme providing part of the training...

Ethiopia has a better chance of becoming a member of the World Trade Organization than any other least-developed country, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said. This is largely due to Ethiopia's status as the second-most populous African nation, with more than 82 million inhabitants, even though other LDCs have bigger economies, Lamy told Mulu Solomon, president of the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations, on January 30 in Addis Ababa...

The Council for Multilateral Business Diplomacy provides its perspective on the WTO's Eighth Ministerial Conference.  In its current newsletter, it draws conclusions from the proceedings and analyses the speech of ITC's Executive Director, saying,...

More government contracts should be awarded to female entrepreneurs, particularly in developing and least developed countries, as they learn about the ins and outs of the procurement process and acquire the necessary skill-building with the assistance...

Innovative ways of thinking are necessary in order to respond to the ever-changing global economy, according to Patricia R. Francis, Executive Director of ITC. In her speech during the opening session of the WTO MC8, Ms. Francis emphasized that ITC is reinventing itself to keep up with the changing environment in order to provide state of the art value to the poorest countries...