The Market News Service (MNS) provides current price information and qualitative information such as market trends, industry news, regulatory updates, trade show reviews and interviews with market players on a wide variety of commodities. MNS improves international market transparency by providing market intelligence that addresses the needs of its beneficiaries in developing countries. Our team of product specialists draws its information from a network of over 230 correspondents in 54 countries worldwide, collecting up-to-date market intelligence and price information that can affect the market situation of specific products.

ITC produces MNS reports on the following sectors:

Gum Arabic and Gum Resins
Spices and Culinary Herbs
Tropical and Off-Season Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (European Markets)
Fresh Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs (Middle East Markets)
Fruit Juices, purees and pulps (FJP&P’s)
Essential Oils and Oleoresins
Pharmaceutical Starting Materials
Agro-based Organic Products
Cut Flowers and Ornamental Plants
Medicinal Plants and Extracts

Access to MNS reports

MNS reports are available free-of-charge to trade support institutions, enterprises and research institutions in developing countries and, for a fee of USD 400 per sector per annum, to users in developed countries. Click here to register.

Background 

ITC created MNS in 1978 to address the lack of transparency in the international markets and to improve decision-making through the provision of up-to-date price information.

MNS aims to increase the international competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in developing countries and assist TSIs to support businesses, in alignment with ITC-s overall objective.

Copyright Policy 

MNS reports have been prepared without formal editing, as a service to exporters and industries in developing countries.
MNS reports are only available for dissemination under prior written approval from ITC.

No part of the reports may be reproduced, copied, or duplicated, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior permission in writing from ITC.

The mention of specific companies or of certain commercial products and/or brand names does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by ITC in preference to any other companies, products and/or brand, mentioned or unmentioned.

The designations employed and/or the presentation of material, including but not limited to such information as is contained in or indicated on any MNS map, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the International Trade Centre concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.