ITC set to continue work to strengthen Vanuatu’s public and private sectors post WTO accession.

With Russia now firmly within the WTO family, a new paper aims to bring the country’s SMEs up to speed with the new reality.

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.

Training for officials and business managers in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe lays ground for successful WTO accession negotiations.

ITC Executive Director, Patricia Francis, today welcomed representatives from the Tajikistan government and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) to ITC headquarters for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding outlining the three parties desire to work together on Tajikistan's accession to the WTO...

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...

When I opened the 31st formal, and final, Working Party on the Accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO, jubilation and excitement were in the air. It was among the most eagerly awaited events at the WTO, bringing to a close 18 years of talks between...

With the aim of discussing business implications of Russia’s pending accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), a two-day public-private dialogue was held on 26-27 September in Cheboksary, in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. Organized in close partnership with the Centre of Export Support of the Chuvash Republic in Cheboksary, and the Cheboksary State University, this workshop was the first of its kind, bringing together businesses, academia and public sector representatives to exchange their views on how best to reap the benefits of WTO Accession. The main issues discussed included the negotiations on market access commitments in the industrial goods and agriculture sectors, as well as the process of adjusting to WTO rules and regulations through domestic reforms...