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Regional trading arrangements (RTAs) have been around for centuries and preceded the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which made explicit provision for customs unions and free-trade areas. The number of RTAs notified to the World Trade Organization...
Africa recently took what many hoped will be a giant leap towards better regional integration among countries across the continent. Leaders from 26 African countries meeting in the Egyptian seaside town of Sharm el Sheik on 10 June signed an agreement to create the...
ITC is helping connect India with East African markets. That’s a win-win solution for traders on both sides of the Indian Ocean, writes Susanna Pak
Energy ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations recently signed a joint statement on energy security. Its fundamental principle was that energy security is a common responsibility. A given nation relies on neighbouring countries and on coordinated...
Non-tariff barriers and trade restrictions in developing countries did not figure much in the Millennium Development Goals and this continues to be the case in discussions on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The Open Working Group was formed in...
Upcoming ITC events 23 March Myanmar National Export Strategy launch, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar 26 June 49th: Annual meeting of IT C’s Joint Advisory Group, Geneva, Switzerland 2-3 September Women Vendors Exhibition...
Energy management and efficiency is not just for big companies. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can also achieve considerable savings through such programmes. Smaller buildings consume almost half of overall energy use and have the potential to save approximately US$30 billion annually,...
E-learning has been revitalized thanks to the advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), with scores of top level business and scientific schools and universities joining hands under brands such as Coursera, edX or Udacity. Hundreds of thousands of people have ...
Coffee farmer Marey Yogiyo has been selling coffee to buyers in her native Papua New Guinea for 16 years. Earlier this year, she became the first ever woman in the coffee sector to receive an export license – and promptly saw the price she received rise 63% above the...
Women – as entrepreneurs, heads of households and consumers, among other roles – are crucial to ending poverty and boosting global prosperity. They are key to success in international trade. However, gender-specific hurdles to working, trading and earning the...
International Trade Forum talks fashion and development with Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean on who she made the leap from catwalk to drawing board Trade Forum: You started off as a model before deciding to design clothes and accessories yourself. What made...
More than 100 women leaders met in Santiago de Chile at the end of February to attend an event called by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet entitled ‘Women and Power: Building a Different World.’ They came to discuss new strategies to tackle poverty and...
