Quinoa will take lead role as Peruvian natural and organic products go on display at BioFach 2013.

ITC’s NTFII team hosts debate at Digital World conference in Dhaka.

Participants at the World Export Development Forum rate the most engaging sessions.

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...

ITC workshop looks at how to improve packaging of mangoes and cut costs.

Responsive design eases access to intracen.org on mobile phones, especially in developing countries.

Trade in Southeast Asian Python Skins shows that problems of illegality persist in $1bn python-skin trade...

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...

Handicrafts from Jordanian manufacturers are now on the shelves of boutiques in the Louvre Museum in Paris following support from ITC’s Enhancing Arab Capacity for Trade (EnACT) programme.

Private sustainability standards can be an effective tool to foster sustainable development, according to a new paper.

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...

Fahim Mashroor, President of the Bangladesh Association for Software and Information Services, explains why Bangladesh will be the next IT offshoring destination.

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: Faced with an on-going financial crisis SMEs, the backbone of the economy in emerging economies, trade-finance programmes seek to fill the gap left by a drop in world trade.

WEDF 2012: Plenary session participants hear how the rise of the middle class in emerging economies creates new demand for higher-value products and services.

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...

WEDF 2012: Parallel sessions at WEDF’s second day shed light on how to integrate SMEs in the value chain, better promotion of services exports, and how to increase procurement for women.

WEDF 2012: Panellists at parallel sessions at the first day of WEDF 2012 discuss public-private partnership, the critical role of infrastructure to enhance competiveness, and how non-tariff obstacles to trade can be overcome.

Emerging markets will account for upwards of 80% total global GDP growth in 2012, driven in part by trade within and between these markets.

WEDF 2012: Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono today opened the annual World Export Development Forum, which this year is held in Jakarta under the theme ‘Linking Growth Markets: New dynamics in global trade.’

New ITC study: Africa's Trade Potential: Export Opportunities in Growth Markets.The International Trade Centre (ITC) today announced the findings of a major analysis of sub-Saharan Africa’s trade potential...

Poor communities in Fiji find ways of generating income from surprising places with ITC's help.

Four Ethiopian women-owned enterprises score commercial triumph at one of Germany’s largest trade fairs.

ITC’s Executive Director discusses trade issues in the United Arab Emirates with al-Bayan, while ITC’s Ethical Fashion Initiative is covered in the New York Times.

ITC's Director of Market Development Anders Aeroe explains why and how ITC’s NTF II programme is helping producers in Africa and Asia to improve their livelihoods.

Who is the largest producer of cashew nuts and who is the biggest importer? A recent factsheet prepared by an ECOWAS-Ten expert reveals the facts.

Tanzania seeks to overcome barriers to trade with the help of ITC survey on non-tariff measures.

Bangladesh’s ICT industry is thriving, but it needs to be more inclusive of women if it wants to stay successful in the future.

Geneva-based African officials are trained in how to use and take advantage of ITC’s market analysis tools. 

Business-practice assessment of EFAL highlights value and benefits of Ethical Fashion Initiative’s social-enterprise partner in East Africa.

Survey on non-tariff measures seeks to identify and understand barriers to trade faced by Guinea’s private sector.

FAO and ITC workshop in Yaoundé aims at improving the use of cold chains in Sub-Saharan Africa’s agriculture sector. 

ITC holds sessions on business law and regulations for small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs in the Central African Republic. 

Increased social-media appearance will keep coffee producers and exporters (and interested coffee addicts) updated on all things coffee and serve as a forum for coffee dialogue. 

A delegation from Republic of Liberia on 17 July visited ITC for discussions on ongoing trade-support programmes and the possibility of ITC support in its WTO accession negotiations. The Liberian delegation was led by Deputy Minister for Commerce and...

Mangoes are produced in abundance in Senegal’s Niayes region. Exporting them has proved trickier, which is why farmers asked ITC for help to improve their produce.

ITC’s buyer-seller development partnerships aim at increasing exports of mangos from Senegal to Europe.

Global trade and barriers to trade were the main topics at a visit to ITC by a delegation from Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce.

The Kenyan Competitive Tree Fruit project, supported by the Netherlands Trust Fund, bids to improve the profits of Kenya’s fruit sector.

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) exporting from developing countries suffer the brunt of complying with market access conditions.To make market entry rules more transparent, ITC has redeveloped its online analysis tool Market Access Map, available as 30 June 2012. Users in developing countries and territories can use the tool at no cost...   

Coffee-strategy update provides deeper analysis of Uganda’s coffee sector and action plan for producers and exporters.

Patricia Francis, ITC’s Executive Director, and Turkey’s incoming ambassador to the WTO, exchange views about future opportunities.

ITC’s Certified Trade Advisers’ Programme is being extended, enhancing the capacities of senior trade advisers to guide SME managers and enabling them to coach other trainers.

ITC’s Ethical Fashion Initiative will join forces with Instituto-e, a Rio-based civil-society group, to develop sustainable materials and products for fashion and lifestyle brands.

Government officials and business leaders at ITC-supported conference in Khartoum call for Sudan’s WTO accession to be brought back on track.

ITC’s EnACT programme helps Tunisian organic producers and exporters showcase their products in Dubai.

Businesses do not have to choose between profits and contributing to inclusive growth. ITC, at an event to be held within the framework of Rio+20, will demonstrate this through business models which turn a profit while also integrating marginalised communities in a sustainable way...

There are many opportunities for developing countries to increase their trade in the transition to a green economy.  ITC and its partners, at events to be held within the framework of Rio+20, will balance the debate on risks associated with moving towards a green economy with results of a study which demonstrates concrete examples of opportunities for trade...

Bangladesh takes centre-stage at WSIS Forum 2012, while ITC’s Anders Aeroe highlights role of information and communications technology in creating growth in low and medium-income countries.

ITC mission to Nairobi bids to improve micro producers’ business skills.

The International Trade Centre (ITC) and the Government of Indonesia have announced that they will host the World Export Development Forum (WEDF) in Jakarta on 15-17 October 2012 under the theme ‘Linking Growth Markets: New dynamics in global trade.’...

ITC’s Trade Support and Regional Integration Programme for the Côte d’Ivoire (PACIR) will on 7 and 8 June host a workshop in Abidjan to inform and discuss about the commercial aspects and implications of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). ITC will...

In the four years since ITC first approached the world’s biggest fashion houses to promote its Ethical Fashion Initiative, the programme has gonefrom strength to strength. Starting from little more than a solid strategy and a selection of East African...

As growth in the global economy has slowed, protectionist forces have persisted — even expanded — in the form of NTMs. Generally speaking, NTMs consist of anything that gets in the way of commerce, including administrative fees, paperwork, inspections,...

In July and October 2011, through a programme organized by ITC and COMESA, a group of Ethiopian leather tanners travelled to India and Italy to meet with prospective buyers. The business owners, all members of the Ethiopian Leather Industries Association...

Addressing ITC’s annual Joint Advisory Group (JAG) meeting, Ms. Patricia R. Francis, Executive Director of ITC, spoke about ITC’s focus on building partnerships with beneficiaries and other trade-related technical assistance agencies, and on developing innovations in delivering services in accordance with countries’ needs to the benefit of small-and medium-sized exporters...

The half-day seminar on building awareness on Food Safety in World Trade was held in Chiclayo, Peru and involved 70 participants...

ITC's Enhancing Arab Capacity for Trade Programme (EnACT) enables 28 companies to make their first food connections at the Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL) food show in Montréal, Canada...

This week, Zambia will host the 2nd African Organic Conference. Over 300 delegates from 40 countries are expected to participate at the event in Lusaka from 2-4 May 2012. Representatives from governments, inter-governmental institutions, UN agencies,...

Creating export opportunities for women and youth is not only important for sustainable growth in the Arab region, it is possible. ITC highlighted success stories during an event it hosted on 22 April within the framework of UNCTAD XIII…

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...

Rapid growth in the number of supermarkets in country and the increasing presence of major players like Shoprites, Spar, Game, Pick and Pay, and Woolworths has created many opportunities for local industries in Mozambique. GS1 is the international standard...

With Mozambique’s SMEs increasingly participating in international trade, smaller companies with export potential are looking for relevant, simple to understand, up-to-date and practical information on export packaging. The Packaging Information Centre will help to answer their questions…

While Bangladesh is recognized as a growth-oriented, high-potential economy, the image of the country abroad lacks positive...

Today’s final Silk Sector Steering Committee meeting takes stock of the achievements of the Silk Project and notes its positive results. It will also outline the potential for the future of the sector...

Bangladeshi companies develop contacts and business at the Centre for Office and Information Technology (CeBIT) 2012 Trade Show in Hannover, Germany...

Patricia Francis, ITC's Executive Director, joined Ambassador Betty E. King, the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, Ms. Ruth Y. Goldway, Chairman of the United States Postal Regulatory Commission and Ms. Violette Ruppanner, President of the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT), at the US Mission in Geneva to debate how to optimise the effects of leveraging the power of women's networks...

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...

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...

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...

On the 14 and 15 January, ITC's Enhancing Arab Capacities for Trade (EnACT) Programme, in partnership with the Ghardaia Chamber of Commerce, held a two day workshop for young entrepreneurs on web marketing for trade in the city of Ghardaia, 600 km South of Algiers...

Kyrgyz dried-fruit entrepreneur Akhtiyam Koshveev hoped that a Moscow trade fair he attended in 2007 would land him a few new clients. It landed much more: business contacts he made at the Prodexpo fair have enabled him to quadruple his production and...

The Centre for African Women Economic Empowerment in Ethiopia (CAWEE), one of ITC's ACCESS! Focal Point institutions, recently developed a website to help bolster its efforts to promote female exporters in the country and in the African continent at large...

ITC to send intelligence reports on Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Business Information Services as it expands into the southern and eastern Mediterranean region...

Brazil, the world's fourth-largest mango exporter, is serving as an example for African countries that grow the fruit to learn how to improve efficiency and tackle problems that hinder production. To this end, the ITC and the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) organized a field visit to Brazil's Petrolina region in November so that African entrepreneurs could benefit from Brazilian producers' experiences and knowledge...

Samoa’s accession to the WTO is a key step towards accelerating the Pacific nation’s economic growth and increasing the prosperity of  its people, Samoan officials said as the WTO accepted its 156th member in Geneva earlier today. WTO Director-General...

The International Trade Centre (ITC), Senegal and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (CBI) have agreed to work together on a project aimed at bolstering exports of the African country's mangoes to Europe. The Senegal NTF II Project "Enhancing...

Least Developed Countries need to become more active in WTO negotiations to reap the full benefits of accession, need to improve the business environment for small and medium size enterprises and show results to donors, said tradeministers from LDCs...

As part of the Netherlands Trust Fund Phase II (NTFII) Bangladesh project, representatives from 12 Bangladeshi Information Technology (IT) companies met with 20+ Danish companies on 7 December to discuss...

Climate change is driving changes to both production and market access for the Kenyan Horticultural industry. ITC, PIP together with the Kenya Fresh Produce Exporters Association (FPEAK) are organizing a workshop to providean overview of the sustainability...

The WTO General Council acknowledged several ITC accomplishments in its report adopted at its annual meeting on 30 November in Geneva. It highlighted ITC’s assistance to Least Developed Countries in their WTO accession process, the organization’s...

Exports by clothing companies in Kyrgyzstan increased by $20 million in the first ten months of 2011, according to figures released by the country’s statistics office earlier this week. This is double last year’s growth rate, a welcome news to a...

ITC, lead agency of the Vietnamese Joint Programme for Green Production and Trade, has agreed to set up close cooperation with CBI’s Export Coaching Programme to support the country's home decoration and home textiles sector together...

ITC's Ethical Fashion initiative played a pioneering role in using high-end fashion to help the developing world, according to a recent article in FT Magazine. The article acknowledged ITC's role in creating the ethical fashion movement, whose mission is to involve marginalized communities in the production of handbags, jewellery and other fashion items designed by Western fashion brands...

Only inclusive and sustainable growth will provide a long term solution to the current economic crisis, said ITC Executive Director Patricia Francis at a business forum in Spain last night...

In 2001 the People’s Republic of China joined the WTO. Ten years on and China is leading global export figures and has become the world’s second largest economy. In light of this success story as well as the current backdrop of the wider global economic...

The workshop aims to build on the momentum generated at LDC IV on tourism development as a means to reduce poverty, to progress on the dialogue, project formulation and resource mobilization for LDCs...

In a recently released report by the UN Secretary General, ITC's Ethical Fashion programme was commended...

ITC is working with partners to bring together women business owners from around the world and top-level executives from multinational companies for business matching and mentorship. The connections and learning experiences...

This week (19 - 21 September) the World Trade Organization (WTO) is hosting its annual public forum to discuss the latest challenges affecting world trade. NGOs, governments, industry, members of the public and other interested parties will take part - in person and online - in discussions based around topics such as food security, trade in natural resources, "Made in the World" and value-added trade, and the future for the global trading system...

Artisans from the Caribbean will showcase their products in Santo Domingo at an event designed to expose their companies to international markets. The Design Caribbean trade show, which will be held September 1 – 4, 2011, is the culmination of...

Designers in the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica are gaining valuable exposure to international processes and practices in the field of product design as the International Trade Centre (ITC) holds workshops aimed at honing the skills...

Creative industries can contribute significantly to economic growth in the Caribbean, but first good and timely information on the sector is needed, the International Trade Centre (ITC) will tell ministers and top officials at a meeting later this month.The...

The International Trade Centre (ITC) is bringing together tourism experts from the private and public sectors to work on tangible projects for some of the world’s least developed countries at the World Export Development Forum (WEDF). The one and...

Producers of sustainable Vietnamese handicrafts, created with the help of ITC, were put on display at the LifeStyle Viet Nam trade fair in Ho Chi Min City in April. The fair, organized by the country’s handicraft exporters association – VIETCRAFT...

The government of Kenya, represented by the Kenya Export Promotion Council, presented the Ethical Fashion Programme (EFP) to Mr. Lamy as the number one Kenyan project in terms of poverty reduction and empowerment of women. Photographs from the trip included in this article...

ITC’s Modular Learning System in Supply Chain Management (MLS-SCM) Global Network Roundtable 2011 brought together experts in supply chain management from around the world to exchange views and share best practices under the theme of “How to Build Sustainable Supply Chains”. The event, hosted by MAPICS Consultancy Sdn Bhd, was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 6 – 8 April 2011 with more than 70 members of the MLS-SCM network attending.

The Maasai Woman- a social-economic Engine of Maasai Life Vincent Odour 2011-01-17   Once in Maasailand, one cannot miss the sight of a woman either at work, tending animals, carrying a baby while breast feeding, fetching fuel wood from the surrounding thicket, carrying water containers, or b

Building linkages for export success is a new handbook that explores the different ways that closer collaboration between national standards bodies (NSBs) and trade promotion organizations...

A recent user survey on the International Trade Centre (ITC) market analysis tools (MAT) has revealed their positive contribution towards ITC’s mandate: export impact for good.

ITC has announced that bids to host the 2012 Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) Network World Conference and Awards are being accepted until 1 October 2010...

ITC's Ethical Fashion Programme in Kenya, which helps small and medium-sized businesses in the fashion sector to export their products, has received a major boost with the signature of a partnership agreement between ITC and Kenya’s Export Promotion Council (EPC)... 

Exporters increasingly using ITC’s online tools to find new markets. Demand for the International Trade Centre’s web-based trade analysis tools has increased dramatically as businesses...

Tourism and trade can be powerful drivers of economic growth in Africa and they have much in common when it comes to the policy environment needed to get the best out of them.

Building a network of Pacific women in business. More than 50 Pacific business women from 14 Pacific nations and Timor Leste will gather in Port Vila, Vanuatu, later this month...

With growth in trade essential for developing countries to emerge from the global economic and financial crisis, the International Trade Centre (ITC) has published two comprehensive business guides...

Champagne, Roquefort cheese, Scotch whisky, Parma ham, Feta cheese – these well-known product names are but a few of the legally protected brands that flourish in developed countries, bringing employment and revenue...

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