Today ITC launches the first two of 27 reports outlining business perspectives on non-tariff measures. The reports, entitled Sri Lanka: Company Perspectives and Burkina Faso: Perspectives des Entreprises, are part of the new ITC series of reports being issued in 2012 and 2013...
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...
Non-tariff measures (NTMs) are increasing in number and complexity, making it difficult to analyse and mitigate them, and posing rising challenges to exporters. That is the main conclusion from ITC seminar ‘Non-tariff : New challenges and the road ahead’ held in Geneva, Switzerland...
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...
During a visit to the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange and the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce on 30 January, Pascal Lamy, WTO Director-General, recognised ITC's work in improving the country's export competitiveness, whilst noting that 'International trade must in the future be measured by how much value is added to a country’...
As its three-year Business Environment Support and Trade Facilitation (BESTF) project in Mozambique comes to an end, ITC is preparing a final report detailing its accomplishments...
TradeMap, ITC's web site dedicated to providing trade statistics for international business development, has recently added new data for 2011...
Egyptian exporters often struggle to take advantage of the broad range of opportunities presented by e-commerce. On 17 January, an ITC team took part in a workshop to address this problem...
CIDA's Director-General of Strategic Policy, Tobi Nussbaum, visited the ITC offices in Geneva on Tuesday 17 to speak with ITC Deputy Executive Director, Jean-Marie Paugam, about the organization's work, results achieved and plans for the future...