Publications

This report shows how sustainability standards can be a powerful tool for post-pandemic recovery.

Four services sectors are key to an economic transformation. This report calls them 'connected services.' Transport and logistics, financial services, information and communication technologies, and business and professional services contribute directly to economic growth – with an increasing...

The EC-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) has created business opportunities in services sectors and other investment opportunities. This guide looks at opportunities for Caribbean enterprises in Europe, as well as openings for European businesses in 13 Caribbean markets. Key features of...

Standards and regulations have a major impact on SME competitiveness.

The design of governance structure of social and environmental sustainability standards determines how accessible they are to producers in developing countries.The increase in consumer demand for sustainable trade has given rise to a growing array of social and environmental standards. This joint...

Standards and regulations have a major impact on SME competitiveness.

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.

Jointly published by ITC, WTO and UNCTAD, this annual report presents tariff-based market access conditions for goods applied by 164 WTO member states and other countries. This year’s focus is an overview of global tariff conditions (bound and applied) on COVID-19-related medical products and...

Jointly published by ITC, WTO and UNCTAD, this annual report presents tariff-based market access conditions for goods imposed by 164 WTO Members and other countries. The report contains aggregated product statistics, tariffs imposed and faced by each economy, and an overview of non-tariff...

The State of Sustainable Markets 2021 is the sixth edition of the annual report on the status of sustainable markets, which the International Trade Centre (ITC) has been publishing jointly with the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL and the International Institute for Sustainable...

The rhinoceros faces the risk of extinction in the wild if current poaching rates continue. Viet Nam, a main market, uses horn as an ingredient in Traditional Asian Medicine (TAM). An ITC survey of 1000 consumers of TAM, including 239 rhino horn users, found they preferred rhino horn that is...