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- Soft to the touch: Cambodian silk producers find new buyers, increase profits
  
  Cambodian silk producers who benefited from an ITC project to boost technical and marketing skills have seen their profits rise by 20% to 30%...
- First-ever woman coffee exporter in Papua New Guinea secures premium price from major international buyer
  
  Coffee farmer Marey Yogiyo has been selling coffee to buyers in her native Papua New Guinea for 16 years. Earlier this year,...
- Halal certification helps Egyptian dairy group quadruple sales to Malaysia, find new markets
  
  Mohamed Abd El-Wahab had never given a passing thought to halal certification...
- United States safety certificate could quintuple Peru’s exports of indigenous food products
  
  Industry players in Peru expect sales to the United States of sacha inchi, a nutrient-rich traditional plant, to jump to US$ 2.5 million in 2015, following the lifting of a major barrier to trade in their largest export market...
- Gaining market intelligence through ITC tools
  
  ITC’s suite of market intelligence tools contributed to US$ 126 million in exports in 2014, according to feedback from users. The tools, which are accessible online for free, are particularly instrumental to users in LDCs, where local sources of trade intelligence are often unavailable... ...
- Benchmarking: Helping TISIs ‘AIM’ higher
  
  Based on the theory that what is not measured cannot easily be improved, ITC has for years been working with TISIs around the world to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses – and see how they match up against their peers....
- Côte d’Ivoire tackles NTMs with trade obstacles alert
  
  Assahouré N’Goran used to wait six months to get the weight certificate required to export cocoa beans to Belgium. Since June 2014, his waiting time has dropped to just two weeks...

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- Buenos Aires Declaration on Women and Trade: first seminar on gender-based analysis and trade
  
  The first seminar in support of the Buenos Aires Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment, which over 120 WTO members and observers endorsed on the margins of the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference, will be held on Friday 16 March 2018 at the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland...
- Promoting SME Competitiveness in Hungary
  
  The Hungarian National Trading House (HNTH), in collaboration with the International Trading Centre, has conducted a firm level data collection exercise to assess the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in three key sectors of the country’s economy ...
- WEDF 2016: Standards, a Gateway to Global Markets
  
  Businesses and policymakers have strategic choices to make about selecting and investing in standards, a key to international value chains. This session outlined key findings of ITC’s flagship report “SME Competitiveness Outlook 2016: Meeting the Standard for Trade” and showed how businesses and policymakers can address these issues...
- TDS 2015: SMEs, Connecting to Global Markets
  
  As part of the 2015 Trade and Development Symposium taking place in Nairobi, ITC and IDB are organising a joint session to discuss how SMEs can effectively connect to global markets. The increased integration of developing countries into the global trading system continues to transform the trade landscape. The logic of such integration is that firms can no longer just rely on being competitive in the domestic, or even regional, market to ensure their long-term survival. Watch the event here.
- SME Competitiveness: Why it Matters – WEDF, Doha
  
  ITC presented its new annual flagship publication, the SME Competitiveness Outlook 2015. This year’s theme was: Connect, Compete, and Change for inclusive growth. The report contains rich data for trade and investment institutions, and investors.
- ITC 2015 Working Papers
  
  In 2015, ITC launched its new Working Papers series. The first set of working papers focus on SME competitiveness, trade and development.
- SMEs and Global Markets: The Missing Link for Inclusive Growth, March 2015
  
  At this ITC policy debate first findings of the forthcoming ITC SME Competitiveness Outlook were presented to the Geneva based policy and trade expert community as part of ITC’s consultation exercise on the forthcoming flagship publication.
- SME Competitiveness, Trade and Development Workshop, March 2015
  
  In preparation for the launch a new flagship publication on SME Competitiveness, ITC organized a workshop where the authors of the SMEs, Trade and Development Series presented their initial findings. You can find more information including their presentations here.

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