The SME and the global market place

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The International Trade Centre UNCTAD/ WTO (ITC) is the focal point in the United Nations system fortechnical cooperation with developing countries in trade promotion. ITC was created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1964 and since 1968 has been operated jointly by GATT (now the World Trade Organization, or WTO) and the UN, the latter acting through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). As an executing agency of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), ITC is directly responsible for implementing UNDP-financed projects in developing countries and economies in transition related to trade promotion. ITC works with developing countries and economies in transition to set up trade promotion programmes for expanding their exports and improving their import operations. This covers six areas: ¦ Product and markét development: Direct export marketing support to the business community through advice on product development, product... Tovább

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The International Trade Centre UNCTAD/ WTO (ITC) is the focal point in the United Nations system fortechnical cooperation with developing countries in trade promotion. ITC was created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1964 and since 1968 has been operated jointly by GATT (now the World Trade Organization, or WTO) and the UN, the latter acting through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). As an executing agency of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), ITC is directly responsible for implementing UNDP-financed projects in developing countries and economies in transition related to trade promotion. ITC works with developing countries and economies in transition to set up trade promotion programmes for expanding their exports and improving their import operations. This covers six areas: ¦ Product and markét development: Direct export marketing support to the business community through advice on product development, product adaptation and international marketing for commodities, manufactures and services. ¦ Development of trade support services: Creation and enhancement of foreign trade support services for the business community provided by public and priváté institutions at the national and régiónál levels. ¦ Trade information: Establishment of sustainable national trade information services and dissemination of information on products, services, markets and functions to enterprises and trade organizations. ¦ i ¦ Humán resource development: Strengthening of national institutional capacities for foreign trade training and organization of direct training for enterprises in importing and exporting. ¦ International purchasing and supply management: Application of cost-effective import systems and practices in enterprises and public trading entities by strengthening the advisory services provided by national purchasing organizations, both public and priváté. ¦ Needs assessment and programme design for trade promotion: Conception of effective national and régiónál trade promotion programmes based on an analysis of supply potential and constraints, and identification of related technical cooperation requirements. In addition to specific technical cooperation projects with individual developing countries and economies in transition, or groups of these countries, ITC provides services from its headquarters in Geneva that are available to all such countries. These include publications on trade promotion, export development, international marketing, international purchasing, supply management and foreign trade training, as well as trade information and trade statistics services of various types. The broad policy guidelines for ITC's technical cooperation work are determined by the governing organs of ITC's parent bodies. Recommendations on ITC's future work programme are made to these organs by ITC's annual intergovemmentaí meeting, the Joint Advisory Group on the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (JAG). ITC is headed by an Executive Director. Several hundred staff work at ITC's headquarters and in the field. In addition a number of consultants are assigned to !TC projects in developing countries and economies in transition. For more information contact: International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO Palajs des Nations TeL: (41 _22) 730 01 11 1211 Geneva 10 Fax: (41 -22) 733 44 39 Switzerland E-mail: itcreg@intracen.org Vissza