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    Trade negotiations, trade rules and liberalisation commitments. These all affect businesses operating in international markets.  It is crucial for companies and trade support institutions to understand the processes, rules and commercial implications so that they may influence the decisions.

    Information

    International trade negotiations are complex processes, involving dozens or more players who may each represent different interests. Businesses and their associations must learn how to influence such negotiations, nationally and internationally, in order to best position themselves to benefit from the evolving global trading environment.
     

    ITC assists the business community in understanding the commercial implications of  multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations, and in empowering enterprises to articulate their interest and priorities to trade negotiators.  

    The business community is, in many ways, critical to the various forms of trade negotiations in the WTO forum. For example, it is the business community that can identify trade barriers maintained by other members. The business community also plays an important role in putting forward new concepts and ideas that the government negotiators may want to accept and support. 

    Engagement of the private sector in consultations throughout the negotiating process leads, above all, to better acceptance of the results of these negotiations. 

    Data and Research

    ITC provides regular, up-to-date information on trade negotiations and publications explaining the rules of the international trading system.
     

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    Advisory Services

    ITC’s advisory services establish and strengthen the mechanisms for public-private dialogue. Business-government dialogue is important because trade policy is not only about gains from trade, it is also about redistribution of income between producers, consumers and government, and about social welfare.
     

    ITC provides expert meetings on key issues, capacity building and training programmes, and country programmes. We also guide stakeholders to develop coherence among trade policy and regulatory regimes for export development. 

    Ongoing Projects:    

    • Business & Trade Policy: Training on "Trade Policy for Business Managers"
    • Support for WTO Accession in LDCs
    • African regional integration and EPAs

    Training

    We currently offer no training services in this area.
     

    Projects

    Expand this section to see our ongoing projects.
     
    • Business & Trade Policy: Training on 'Trade Policy for Business Managers'
    • Support for WTO Accession in LDCs
    • African regional integration and EPAs

  • Highlights

    Russia joins WTO
    28.08.2012
    ITC welcomes Russia and Vanuatu as WTO members

    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.

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    01.07.2012
    Opening government procurement to women’s enterprises

    In a little more than a century, 40 women have won the Nobel Prize, and there is a steady improvement in the representation of women in national parliaments worldwide. Women have achieved levels of excellence that indeed have made our world a better...

    05.06.2012
    Economic Partnership Agreements: what are the implications?

    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...

    05.06.2012
    Economic Partnership Agreements: what are the implications?

    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...

    01.04.2012
    Pinning down policies for international investment

    Despite turmoil in the global economy, global foreign direct investment (FDI) rose by 17% in 2011 to US$ 1.5 trillion. This sum surpassed average global FDI before the 2008 financial crisis. However, the fragility of the world economy will have an impact...

    20.02.2012
    One year on - Partnership agreement with the Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development and the World Trade Institute

    The Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development (PITAD), the World Trade Institute (WTI) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) met on 20 January 2012 at WTI in Bern, Switzerland, to review progress on the first year of their partnership agreement...

    09.02.2012
    Ethiopia has edge over other poor nations in bid to join WTO, Lamy says

    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...

    01.12.2011
    Poised for WTO membership: the Russian Federation

    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...

    01.10.2011
    New approaches to feeding the world’s population

    Development aid has targeted food security and agri-business for more than 40 years, but has yet to succeed in overcoming the imbalance between supply and demand. Nor has it made much impact on reducing hunger and rural poverty among communities that...

    30.06.2011
    ITC provides access in four ways to bolster trade

    ITC Deputy Executive Director addresses annual advisory group meeting Addressing the annual Joint Advisory (JAG) meeting, Jean-Marie Paugam, Deputy Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC) emphasized four innovative contributions...

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