Publications

International business investors can embed sustainability in each step of their operations. This guide describes the social, environmental and economic practices that international firms must understand when entering a new market.

This is a national companion guide to the publication The Business Guide for Sustainability in Foreign Investments.

This is a national companion guide to the publication The Business Guide for Sustainability in Foreign Investments.

This is a national companion guide to the publication The Business Guide for Sustainability in Foreign Investments. The companion guide presents an overview of Ethiopia’s environmental and social regulations for investment operations in agroprocessing and light manufacturing. It also provides...

This is a national companion guide to the publication The Business Guide for Sustainability in Foreign Investments.

Enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises in Togo can protect them from the effects of crises and unleash their potential to trigger economic transformation.

Investment facilitation is key to a post-pandemic recovery and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This publication combines insight and analytical expertise relevant to negotiating and implementing investment facilitation for development. It is intended to support the WTO negotiation on...

Jointly published by ITC, WTO and UNCTAD annually, this report has tariff-based market access conditions for goods, imposed by the 161 WTO members plus other countries and territories. The first part presents aggregated product statistics. The second part covers tariffs imposed and faced by each...

The SME Competitiveness Outlook argues that small and medium-sized firms are the ‘missing link’ to inclusive growth.

Benefitting from the LDC services waiver depends on taking 10 key actions; ITC can help. The guide also outlines how ITC can work with LDCs to benefit from this new preferential access opportunity

Greater access to information about export opportunities is essential for determining SME export success.SMEs which participate in international trade are more productive than those which do not. Integration into global and regional markets is thus likely to help close the productivity gap between...

This case study of a Chinese solar panel producer investigates the role of services in manufacturing value chains, and highlights the effect of government policies on photovoltaic industry development and international trade flows. Up to 40 types of services are required to manufacture solar panels,...