Las publicaciones del ITC acercan la voz del mundo empresarial al comercio sostenible y se centran en los países en desarrollo. Ofrecemos asesoramiento a los encargados de formular políticas, las organizaciones de apoyo empresarial y las pequeñas empresas. Nuestros informes ofrecen información para facilitar que el comercio sea más inclusivo, ecológico, digital y competitivo.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can benefit more if the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement is implemented in a coordinated manner at regional level.This report charts a roadmap for regional policy frameworks on trade facilitation. Such arrangements have the potential to boost intraregional...
Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area agreement, one of the most ambitious regional integration efforts of the 21st century, is requiring policymakers to align a wide range of complex and divergent trade strategies across the continent. If the agreement is to foster economic transformation, its...
While more than 40% of existing trade strategies identify trade integration and regionalism as crucial policy areas, less than 3% of the strategies are regional. Nor do they fully build on diversification opportunities in services and manufacturing.This is one of many trends in trade strategies,...
El informe de este año se centra en el comercio regional, la forma de comercio más común para las pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes).El informe indica que los acuerdos comerciales regionales amplios facilitan un crecimiento inclusivo. Dichos acuerdos atraen una mayor actividad en las cadenas...
Firms could build competitiveness and grow by engaging in South-South value chains and producing higher value-added goods, according to a survey of more than 550 East African companies. The North offers opportunities for international engagement and higher sales, but connecting to the South helps...
Esta guía ofrece a las pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes) información e ideas acerca de cómo negociar y colaborar con empresas líderes en las cadenas de valor internacionales. Aborda cuestiones como el cumplimiento de normas y reglamentos, las relaciones contractuales, la gestión de la...
Trade promotion and investment megatrends were the focus of the 2016 Trade Promotion Organizations Network World Conference and Awards in Marrakesh, Morocco.The report includes a summary of discussions with participants from 85 countries. They addressed trends including digital transformation, the...
Standards-related non-tariff measures affect small businesses heavily, including in Nepal. This guide gives Nepalese businesses access to quality management information for their sanitary and phytosanitary measures.ITC and the German Metrology Institute joined forces with the Federation of Nepalese...
Trade rules and procedures pose challenges for 73% of surveyed businesses in the Philippines, according to ITC interviews with over 1000 exporters and importers.The survey results offer the Philippine government to address non-tariff measures in the domestic business environment, based on detailed...
Over 90% of Bangladeshi exporters are facing regulatory and procedural obstacles to trade. A survey of 1,000 companies in Bangladesh identified long waiting times, administrative hurdles and lack of accredited laboratories in the country to be the main causes of the reported difficulties when...
Small and medium-sized enterprises in Kenya are an underexploited resource with significant potential to boost inclusive growth.Drawing on data from the SME Competitiveness Survey, this report finds that even though Kenyan companies organize their production processes professionally and have a...
BRICS countries – Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, and South Africa – have emerged as important players in global services trade in the past decade. BRICS services exports are growing faster than the developed countries; their share in global services markets is also expanding...
