ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
DIRECTORY
OF TRADE- AND
INVESTMENT-RELATED
ORGANIZATIONS
OF DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES AND AREAS
IN ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC
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2009
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
DIRECTORY OF TRADE- AND INVESTMENT-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND AREAS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
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Fourteenth edition
ST/ESCAP/2533
The designations employed and the presentation of the materials in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
Mention of firm names and commercial products does not imply the endorsement of the United Nations.
This document has been issued without formal editing. PREFACE
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has published the Directory of Trade Promotion/Development Organizations of Developing Countries and Areas in Asia and the Pacific every two years since 1983, in cooperation with the national focal points of the Regional Trade and Investment Information Network (TISNET). However, beginning with the seventh edition, the title of the Directory was changed to Directory of Trade and Investment-related Organizations of Developing Countries and Areas in Asia and the Pacific, reflecting the expansion of its coverage.
Since 2004, the information contained in the Directory has been published in a user-friendly and searchable online database, to assure easy updating and accuracy of information. The Database of Trade and Investment-related Organizations of Developing Countries and Areas in Asia and the Pacific is accessible on the ESCAP website: www.unescap.org/tid/tradedirectory/search.asp.
This PDF-version of the Directory is a collection of information that was contained in the Database as of 31 December 2008.
The information on over 300 organizations included in the Database as well as in this document was collected from questionnaires, reports, searches on the Internet and other sources. Organizations that did not respond on time to the questionnaire, or concerning which no information was collected through other means, are marked with an asterisk. The organizations are listed by country in alphabetical order, in the following categories:
Chamber of commerce, trade associations Commodity boards, marketing, and State trading organizations Export marketing boards Export processing zones Government agency Industrial promotion Intergovernmental organization Investment authorities, investment promotion organizations Productivity centres, design centres Shippers’ councils, port authorities, national shipping corporations Standards, testing and inspection bodies Trade and investment financing organizations, credit guarantee and insurance organizations, banks Trade facilitation bodies Trade fair and exhibition authorities Trade promotion organizations, ministries of trade/industry/commerce Training/research institutions, organizations with training functions Others
An alphabetical index of the organizations and a classified index in the above-mentioned categories are included.
The main objective of this Directory is to provide, in one volume, information about organizations which are crucial to trade and investment development in the region. It is hoped that, as in the past, the Directory will continue to be one of the information sources for promoting cooperation among developing countries in the region.
For further information about TISNET activities, access to the TISNET information service, the Directory’s contents and other related issues, please contact:
Director Trade and Investment Division ESCAP, United Nations Building Rajadamnern Nok Avenue Bangkok 10200 THAILAND Tel: (66 2) 2881404, 2881477 Fax: (66 2) 2881027, 2883066 E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface i
List of abbreviations xi
Part One: National Organizations
Afghanistan Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) 1 Afghanistan International Chamber of Commerce (AICC) 1 Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) 2 Afghan National Insurance Company 2 Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) 3 Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan (EPAA) 3 Ministry of Commerce and Industry 4
American Samoa American Samoa Chamber of Commerce 5 American Samoa Small Business Development Center AS-SBDC 5 Development Bank of American Samoa 6
Armenia Armenian Development Agency 7 Association for Foreign Investment & Cooperation (AFIC) 7 BSC Business and Community Development 8 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Armenia 9 Gegharkunik Chamber of Commerce and Industry 11 Ministry of Trade and Economic Development 11
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and Industry 13 Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO) 13 Caspian Investment Centre (CIC) 14 National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers’) Organizations of Azerbaijan Republic 15
Bangladesh Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) 16 Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) 17 Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) 18 Board of Investment (BOI) 19 Business Advisory Services Center (BASC) 21 Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) 21 Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) 22 Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) 23 Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) 24 Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) 25 Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka 25
Bhutan Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) 27 Food Corporation of Bhutan 27 Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan (RMA) 28 Trade Development Office 29 Tschong-Rig Knowledge Centre 29
Brunei Darussalam Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) 31 Brunei Industrial Development Authority (BINA) 31 Promotion and Fntrepreneurial Development Division 32 Semaun Holdings SDN BHD 33 Trade Department 33
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Cambodia Cambodian Federation of Employers and Business Associations (CAMFEBA) 35 Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) 35 Export Promotion Department (EPD) 36 Garment Manufacturers’ Association in Cambodia 36 Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) 37 Ministry of Commerce (MOC) 37 Phnom Penh Chamber of Commerce (PPCC) 38 Siem Reap Chamber of Commerce (SRCC) 38
China All-China Federation Of Industry and Commerce/All-China General Chamber Of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) 40 China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) 40 Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC) 41 CITIC Group* 43 Shanghai Small Enterprises Trade Development Service Center 43 The People's Bank of China (PBC) 44
Cook Islands Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce Inc. 45 Cook Islands Development Investment Board 45
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Chamber of Commerce of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea 47 Korea Trade and Economy Institute (KOTEI)* 47
Fiji Capital Market Development Authority (CMDA) 48 Fiji Chamber of Commerce and Industry 48 Fiji Development Bank (FDB) 49 Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau (FTIB) 49 Suva Chamber of Commerce and Industry 50 Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji (TPAF) 50
French Polynesia Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Trade of French Polynesia 52 External Trade Service 52 Tahiti Invest 53
Georgia Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 54 Georgian National Investment Agency (GNIA) 54
Guam Bureau of Statistics and Plans 56 Guam Chamber of Commerce 56 Guam Economic Development and Commerce Authority (GEDCA) 57 Government of Guam Portal – Official Portal for Island of Guam 57
Hong Kong, China Chinese General Chamber of Commerce 58 Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries (HKCSI) 58 Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC) 59 Hong Kong Exporters’ Association (HKEA) 59 Hong Kong Franchise Association (HKFA) 60 Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) 60 Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) 61 Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) 62 Invest Hong Kong 63 Trade and Industry Department 64
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India Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) 66 Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) 67 Basic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Export Promotion Council (CHEMEXCIL)* 68 Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BNCCI) 69 Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry 69 Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) 70 Cashew Export Promotion Council of India 71 Central Silk Board 71 Chemical and Allied Products Export Promotion Council (CAPEXIL) 73 Coconut Development Board 74 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) 76 Council for Leather Exports 76 Delhi Chamber of Commerce 77 Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited (ECGC) 78 Export-Import Bank of India 79 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) 81 Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO) 82 Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises (FISME) 83 Federation of Small and Medium Industries (FOSMI) 83 Foreign Trade Development Centre 84 Handicrafts and Handlooms Exports Corporation of India Ltd. (HHEC) 85 Handloom Export Promotion Council 85 India International Trade Centre (IITC) 86 India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) 87 Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Cochin 89 Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA) 89 Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) (Deemed University) 91 Indian Investment Centre (IIC) 92 Institute of Small Enterprises and Development (ISED) 92 Jute Manufactures Development Council (JMDC) 93 M Visvesvaraya Industrial Research and Development Centre (MVIRDC) 93 Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) 94 National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI) 95 National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NIMSME) 96 PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) 96 Plastics Export Promotion Council 97 Rubber Board 98 Shellac Export Promotion Council 99 Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) 100 Sports Goods Export Promotion Council (SGPEC) 101 Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) 101 Tobacco Board 102
Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) 103 Laboratory for Quality Testing of Export and Import Goods 104 National Agency for Export Development (NAFED) 104
Islamic Republic of Iran Institute for Trade Studies and Research (ITSR) 106 Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran (ISIRI) 107 International Institute for Trade Relations Promotion (ITRP) 107 Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines 108 Kish Free Zone Organization 108 Organization for Investment, Economic and Technical Assistance of Iran (OIETAI) 109 Technical Information Center of Iran Co. Ltd. (TICI) 109 Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (IRAN TPO) 110
Kazakhstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Astana 111 Foreign Investors' Council (FIC) 111 Kazakhstan Investment Promotion Center (KAZINVEST) 112
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Kiribati Abamakoro Trading Ltd.* 113
Kyrgyzstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kyrgyzstan* 114
Lao People’s Democratic Republic Bank of the Lao PDR 115 Department of Domestic and Foreign Investment (DDFI) 115 Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LNCCI) 116 National Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Promotion and Development Office (SMEPDO) 116
Macao, China Macao Chamber of Commerce 117 Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) 117 Macau Importers and Exporters Association* 118
Malaysia Exporters Club 119 Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) 119 Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) 121 Malaysian Automotive Component Parts Manufacturers (MACPMA) 122 Malaysia Export Credit Insurance Berhad (MECIB) 123 Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) 124 Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) 125 Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MICCI) 128 Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council (MPOC) 128 Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (MPIB) 129 Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) 130 National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (NCCIM) 131 National Tobacco Board (NTB) 131 Pepper Marketing Board 132 The Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia (PORAM) 133
Maldives Maldives Association of Tourism Industry (MATI) 134 Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company Limited 134 Maldives Tourism Promotion Board 135 Ministry of Economic Development and Trade 135
Marshall Islands Marshall Islands Chamber of Commerce 136 Trade and Investment Services Division 136
Micronesia (Federated States of) Department of Economic Affairs 139
Mongolia Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency (FIFTA) 141 Mongolian Business Development Agency (MBDA)* 142 Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MNCCI) 143
Myanmar Directorate of Investment and Company Administration* 145 Directorate of Trade 145 Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) 146
Nauru Department of Island Development and Industry* 147
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Nepal Bhaktapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI)* 148 Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) 148 Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) 149 Nepal Chamber of Commerce 149 Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC) 150 Nepal Rastra Bank 151 Rastriya Banijya Bank* 152 Trade and Export Promotion Centre (TPC) 153
New Caledonia Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New Caledonia 155
Niue Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) 156 Planning and Development Office, Office of the Secretary to Government* 156
Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Development Authority (CDA) 157 Saipan Chamber of Commerce 157
Pakistan All Pakistan Commercial Exporters Association 159 Board of Investment (BOI) 160 Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) 161 National Trade and Transport Facilitation Committee (NTTFC) 161 Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) 162 Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry 163 The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry 164 Trade Development Authority of Pakistan 164 Trading Corporation of Pakistan Limited (TCP) 166
Palau Palau Chamber of Commerce 167
Papua New Guinea Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd. (CIC) 168 Department of Trade and Industry* 168 Papua New Guinea Chamber of Commerce and Industry 170 Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry 171
Philippines Bangko Sentral NG Pilipinas (BSP) 172 Board of Investments (BOI) 172 Bureau of Product Standards (BPS) 173 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) 174 Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 174 Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) 175 International Trade Group (ITG)* 175 Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) 177 Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) 178 Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. (PHILEXPORT) 179 Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PHILEXIM) 180 Philippine Shippers’ Bureau 181 Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) 182 Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines (PDDCP) 183 Trade and Industry Information Center (TIIC) 184 Women into the New Network for Enterprenuial Reinforcement (WINNER) 184 World Trade Center Metro Manila 185
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Republic of Korea Export-Import Bank of Korea 186 Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) 188 Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) 189 Korea Importers Association (KOIMA) 189 Korea International Trade Association (KITA) 190 Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) 191 Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) 192 Korean Shippers Council (KSC) 193 Korean Standards Association (KSA) 195
Russian Federation National Agency for Direct Investment (NADI) 196 Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 196 St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry 197
Samoa Samoa Association of Manufacturers and Exporters (SAME) 198 Samoa Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. 198 Trade Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade 199
Singapore International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore) 200 Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) 200 Port of Singapore Authority Corporation Ltd. (PSA) 201 Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) 202 Singapore Commodity Exchange (SICOM) 203 Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation (SMa) 203 Singapore National Shippers’ Council (SNSC) 204 Singapore Quality Institute (SQI) 205
Solomon Islands Department of Commerce, Industries and Employment* 206 Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) 206
Sri Lanka Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) 207 Ceylon Chamber of Commerce* 208 National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka 209 Sri Lanka Business Development Centre (SLBDC) 210 Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) 210 Sri Lanka Export Development Board (SLEDB) 211 Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board (LAKSALA)* 212 Sri Lanka Importers’, Exporters’ and Manufacturers’ Association (SLIEMA) 213 Sri Lanka Shippers’ Council 214 Sri Lanka Tea Board 214
Tajikistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Republic of Tajikistan (ICC RP) 216
Thailand Board of Trade of Thailand* 217 Bureau of Trade Measures 218 Department of Export Promotion (DEP) 218 Department of Trade Negotiations (DTN)* 219 Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM THAILAND) 220 Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) 221 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 224 Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT)* 225 Office of the Board of Investment (BOI) 228 Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) 229 Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC)* 230 Thai Plastic and Petrochemical Business Development Center (TPDC) 231
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Tonga Ministry of Finance and National Planning 232 Tonga Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. 232 Tonga Trade Division 233
Turkey Export Promotion Center of Turkey (IGEME) 234 Istanbul Chamber of Commerce 234 Izmir Chamber of Commerce 235
Tuvalu Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Commerce 236
Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan 237 Uzbek Foreign Economic Information and Commercial Center “Uzincomcenter” 237
Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vanuatu 239 Vanuatu Government Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce 239 Vanuatu Investment Promotion Authority (VIPA) 240
Viet Nam Danang Trade and Service Company 241 Directorate for Standards and Quality (STAMEQ)* 241 International Consulting and Training Centre (ICTC) 245 Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) 245 Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) 248 Vietnam Superintendence and Inspection Joint Stock Company (VINACONTROL) 249 Vietnam Trade Information Centre (VTIC) 250
Part Two: Regional Organizations
Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (AFACT) 252 Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) 252 Asian Clearing Union (ACU) 253 Asian Development Bank (ADB) 254 Asian Finance and Investment Corporation Ltd. (AFIC) 255 Asian Productivity Organization (APO)* 255 Asian Reinsurance Corporation (ARC) 256 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 256 Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP) 257 Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) 258 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)* 259 Association of Training Institutions for Foreign Trade in Asia and the Pacific (ATIFTAP) 260 Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) 260 Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) 261 Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) 261 Intergovernmental Organization for Marketing Information and Technical Advisory Services for Fishery Products in the Asia and Pacific Region (INFOFISH) 262 International Jute Study Group (IJSG) 263 International Pepper Community (IPC) 263 International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) 264 Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)* 265 Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) 266 Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat* 267 Pacific Islands Small Business Development Centre Network (PISBDCN) 268 Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) 268 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) 269 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) 270 World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME) 271
Alphabetical index 272 Classified index of national organizations 276
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List of Abbreviations
ACCI Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry ACFIC All-China Federation Of Industry and Commerce/All-China General Chamber Of Industry and Commerce ACU Asian Clearing Union - Iran (Islamic Republic of) ADB Asian Development Bank - Philippines ADFIAP Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific - Philippines AEPC Apparel Export Promotion Council - India AFACT Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business - Republic of Korea AFIC Asian Finance and Investment Corporation Limited - Singapore AFIC Association for Foreign Investment and Cooperation - Armenia AICC Afghanistan International Chamber of Commerce AISA Afghanistan Investment Support Agency ANDS Afghanistan National Development Strategy ANRPC Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries - Malaysia APCC Asian and Pacific Coconut Community - Indonesia APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - Singapore APEDA Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority - India APO Asian Productivity Organization - Japan ARC Asian Reinsurance Corporation - Thailand ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations - Indonesia AS-SBDC American Samoa Small Business Development Center ATIFTAP Association of Training Institutions for Foreign Trade in Asia and the Pacific - Philippines AZPROMO Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation BASC Business Advisor Services Center - Bangladesh BCCI Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry BCCI Bhaktapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Nepal BCIC Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation BEDB Brunei Economic Development Board BEPZA Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority BIMSTEC Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation - Thailand BINA Brunei Industrial Development Authority BIS Bureau of Indian Standards BKPM Investment Coordinating Board - Indonesia BNCCI Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry BOI Board of Investment - Bangladesh BOI Board of Investment - Pakistan BOI Board of Investment - Philippines BOI Board of Investment of Sri Lanka BOI Office of the Board of Investment - Thailand BPS Bureau of Product Standards - Philippines BSEC Black Sea Economic Cooperation - Turkey BSP Bangko Sentral NG Filipinas - Philippines BSTI Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution CAITEC Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation CAMFEBA Cambodian Federation of Employers and Business Associations CAPEXIL Chemical and Allied Products Export Promotion Council - India CCCI Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry CCCI Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Bangladesh CCPIT China Council for the Promotion of International Trade CDA Commonwealth Development Authority – Northern Marina Islands CDC Council for the Development of Cambodia CHEMEXCIL Basic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Export Promotion Council - India CIC Coffee Industry Corporation Limited - Papua New Guinea CIC Caspian Investment Centre - Azerbaijan CII Confederation of Indian Industry CMDA Capital Markets Development Authority - Fiji DAFF Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Niue
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DAP Development Academy of the Philippines DCCI Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry DDFI Department of Domestic and Foreign Investment - Lao People’s Democratic Republic DEP Department of Export Promotion - Thailand DTI Department of Trade and Industry - Philippines DTN Department of Trade Negotiations - Thailand ECGC Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited - India ECIC Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation ECO Economic Cooperation Organization - Iran (Islamic Republic of) EPAA Export Promotion Agency Afghanistan EPB Export Promotion Bureau - Bangladesh EPD Export Promotion Department - Cambodia EXIM THAILAND Export-Import Bank of Thailand FAMA Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority - Malaysia FBCCI Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry FDA Food and Drug Administration - Thailand FDB Fiji Development Bank FIC Foreign Investors’ Council - Kazakhstan FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry FICCI Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Bangladesh FIEO Federation of Indian Export Organizations FIFTA Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency - Mongolia FISME Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises FKI Federation of Korean Industries - Republic of Korea FMM Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers FNCCI Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry FOSMI Federation of Small and Medium Industries - India FPCCI Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry FTI Federation of Thai Industries FTIB Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau FWEAN Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs Associations of Nepal GEDCA Guam Economic Development and Commerce Authority GNIA Georgian National Investment Agency HHEC Handicrafts and Handlooms Exports Corporation of India Ltd. HKCSI Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries HKEA Hong Kong Exporters’ Association HKFA Hong Kong Franchise Association HKGCC Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce HKPC Hong Kong Productivity Council HKTDC Hong Kong Trade Development Council ICA Indian Council of Arbitration ICC RP Chamber of Commerce and Industry Republic Tajikistan ICCI Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Pakistan ICTC International Consulting and Training Centre - Viet Nam IE Singapore International Enterprise Singapore IEAT Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand IGEME Export Promotion Center of Turkey IIC Indian Investment Centre IIFT Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Deemed University) IITC India International Trade Centre IJSG International Jute Study Group - Bangladesh INFOFISH Intergovernmental Organization for Marketing Information and Technical Advisory Services for Fishery Products in the Asia and Pacific Region - Malaysia IPC International Pepper Community - Indonesia IPIM Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute IRAN TPO Trade Promotion Organization of Iran ISED Institute of Small Enterprises and Development - India ISIRI Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran ITG International Trade Group - Philippines ITPC Investment and Trade Promotion Centre - Viet Nam
xii ITPO India Trade Promotion Organization ITRP International Institute for Trade Relations Promotion - Iran (Islamic Republic of) ITSR Institute for Trade Studies and Research - Iran (Islamic Republic of) ITTO International Tropical Timber Organization - Japan JMDC Jute Manufactures Development Council - India KATS Korean Agency for Technology and Standards - Republic of Korea KAZINVEST Kazakhstan Investment Promotion KCCI Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Republic of Korea KITA Korea International Trade Association - Republic of Korea KOIMA Korea Importers Association - Republic of Korea KOTEI Korea Trade and Economy Institute - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea KOTRA Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency - Republic of Korea KSA Korean Standards Association - Republic of Korea KSC Korean Shippers Council - Republic of Korea LAKSALA Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board LNCCI Lao National chamber of Commerce and Industry MACPMA Malaysian Automotive Component Parts Manufacturers MAS Monetary Authority of Singapore MATI Maldives Association of Tourism Industry MATRADE Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation MBDA Mongolian Business Development Agency MCCI Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry - India MECIB Malaysia Export Credit Insurance Berhad MEF Ministry of Economy and Finance - Cambodia MICCI Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry MIDA Malaysian Industrial Development Authority MNCCI Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry MOC Ministry of Commerce - Cambodia MPIB Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board MPOPC Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council MRB Malaysian Rubber Board MVIRDC M Visvesvaraya Industrial Research and Development Centre - India NADI National Agency for Direct Investment - Russian Federation NAFED National Agency for Export Development - Indonesia NCCIM National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia NCTI National Centre for Trade Information - India NIDC Nepal Industrial Development Corporation NIMSME National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises - India NTB National Tobacco Board - Malaysia NTTFC National Trade and Transport Facilitation Committee - Pakistan OIETAI Organization for Investment, Economic and Technical Assistance of Iran PAT Port Authority of Thailand PBC The People’s Bank of China PCCI Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry PDDCP Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines PECC Pacific Economic Cooperation Council - Singapore PEZA Philippine Economic Zone Authority PHDCCI PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry - India PHILEXIM Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency PHILEXPORT Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. PISBDCN Pacific Islands Small Business Development Centre Network PORAM Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia PPCC Phnom Penh Chamber of Commerce PRGMEA Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association PSA Port of Singapore Authority Corporation Limited PTTC Philippine Trade Training Center RMA Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation - Nepal SAME Samoa Association of Manufacturers and Exporters SCCCI Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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SCO Shanghai Cooperation Organization - China SEA Solvent Extractors’ Association of India SGPEC Sports Goods Export Promotion Council - India SICCI Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry SICOM Singapore Commodity Exchange SIDBI Small Industries Development Bank of India SLBDC Sri Lanka Business Development Centre SLECIC Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation SLEDB Sri Lanka Export Development Board SLIEMA Sri Lanka Importers’, Exporters’ and Manufacturers’ Association SMa Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation SMEPDO National Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Promotion and Development Office – Lao PDR SNSC Singapore National Shippers’ Council SPC Secretariat of the Pacific Community - New Caledonia SQI Singapore Quality Institute SRCC Siem Reap Chamber of Commerce STAMEQ Directorate for Standards and Quality - Viet Nam TCC Thai Chamber of Commerce TCP Trading Corporation of Pakistan Limited TICI Technical Information Center of Iran Co., Ltd. TIIC Trade and Industry Information Center TPAF Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji TPC Trade Promotion Centre - Nepal TPDC Thai Plastic and Petrochemical Business Development Center UMFCCI Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry VCCI Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry VINACONTROL Vietnam Superintendence and Inspection Joint Stock Company VIPA Vanuatu Investment Promotion Authority VTIC Vietnam Trade Information Centre WASME World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises – India WINNER Women into the New Network for Enterprenuial Reinforcement
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AFGHANISTAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND AFGHANISTAN INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF INDUSTRY (ACCI) COMMERCE (AICC)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Shahr-e-Naw House No. 91 Ministry of Interior Road Street 2, Shash Darak Opposite Indian Embassy Kabul Kabul Phone: (93 70) 296281 Phone: (93 7) 52002669, 9810184, 9326479 E-mail: [email protected], E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] URL: www.acci.org.af URL: www.aicc-online.org.af
Year established: 1939 Year established: 2004
Principal functions: Principal functions:
• To provide credit information about Afghan and foreign • To advance and promote the economic environment for companies; business; • To liaise between the private sector and government • To encourage investment; agencies; • To advocate responsive Government, quality education, and • To promote exports by marketing Afghan goods; transparent business dealings while preserving Afghanistan’s • To act as a mediation body in disputes between local unique culture and values. businesses and foreign companies; • To encourage Afghan and foreign companies to invest in Services/activities: Afghanistan; • To assist with construction and rehabilitation of holy sites. • Serves as a voice for Afghanistan’s business community and assists in the creation of a business association network. Services/activities: Publication issued: • Acts as an intermediary in establishing business contracts between Afghan businesspeople and their counterparts • AICC Position Paper of Agriculture (2005, English and Dari). abroad; • AICC's Review of Custom Reforms (2005). • Facilitates and promotes Afghan businesses in their efforts • Guidelines for Private Sector Input into the Legislative to increase exports; Process (2005). • Furnishes foreign importers with information on economic • Importance of Private Sector on Free Market Economy (2005). conditions, market prospects, exporters and trade-related • Tax Policy Paper (2005). regulations in Afghanistan. Local Branches: Publication issued: In addition to its headquarters in Kabul, AICC has six regional • Business Directory. offices in Nangarhar (Jalalabad), Kandahar, Mazar-e Sharif, Heart and Oruzgan. Further offices are planed in Kunuduz, Bamyan and Local Branches: Parwan.
22 local branches. Offices abroad:
Membership structure: AICC has international affiliate branches in Washington D.C (AACC), Dubai (ABC), Rotterdam (NAICC) and in Beijing. It The Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry is made of plans to establish offices in many other countries where Afghan following sub-organizations: traders and investors have a presence, including France, Germany, Islamic Republic of Iran, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, • Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Provinces, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. • Union of private Industries, • Union of importers, Membership structure: • Union of exporters. AICC has more than 3000 individual members from different Category: businesses and around 24 affiliate association.
Chamber of commerce. Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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AFGHANISTAN INVESTMENT SUPPORT AGENCY AFGHAN NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY (AISA) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Karte Parwan (near British Embassy) Opposite Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kabul Kabul P.O. Box: 329, Kabul Phone: (93 02) 103404 Fax: (93 02) 103402 Phone: (93 20) 2200189 Mobile: (93 70) 275511, 234528 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Fax: (93 20) 2200189 URL: www.aisa.org.af E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 2003 Year established: 1964 Principal functions: Principal function: • To license all private businesses and investments; • To promote productive private domestic and foreign • To issue marine, aviation, fire, motor and accident investment, thereby, laying a solid foundation for the growth insurance. of capital markets and hence the Afghan economy; • To promote and and articulate issues of importance to the Services/activities: private sector and to seek to influence policy and to initiate measures crucial to the development of a market-oriented • As detailed under Principal function. economy as well as sustainable growth of trade, commerce and industry; Local branch: • To work for the integration of Afghanistan in the global market through greater access to foreign direct investment and Herat Branch to address how Afghanistan’s private sector can best cope Inside Traffic Office with and derive the maximum benefit from globalization. Herat
Services/activities: Mazar Branch North of Rawza • Issues all necessary permits, licenses and clearances (online); Mazar-e-sharif • Provides general information on investment opportunities; Balkh • Provides judicial details on investment, tax, labor, insurance and environmental laws/regulations and social/ecological Nangarhar Branch standards; Near Traffic Office • Provides financial information regarding banking facilities, Jalalabad City labor costs, and investment incentives; • Supports in the acquisition/leasehold of land; Membership structure: • Assists in custom clearance of material related to investment; • Organizes conferences and symposiums on important Afghan National Insurance Company is a member of Asian investment issues; Reinsurance Corporation in Bangkok. • Undertakes research, surveys and reviews on issues, which are considered to be of vital importance for investors; Training: • Holdes regular consultations, dialogues, seminars and workshops with stakeholders. Undertakes training courses in English and local languages, which are open to participation from other countries. Publication issued: Category: • The Investor (quarterly). • Investment Guide. Insurance. • Tax Guide. • Afghanistan Image Brochure. • ISA Reports (Priority Sector Profiles): - Agro-business and Agro-processing. - Infrastructure, Construction & Construction Materials. - Energy & Mining. - Information Technology Sector. - Carpets and Handicrafts. - Transport and Logistics.
Category:
Investment promotion organization.
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AFGHANISTAN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT E-mail: [email protected] STRATEGY (ANDS) URL: www.epaa.org.af
Office/postal address: Year established: September 2006
Gulkhana Palace, Principal function: Sedarat, Kabul - Afghanistan. • To promote Afghanistan’s participation in the processing, marketing and distribution of its commodities. Phone: (93 75)2014821 Services/activities: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ands.gov.af • To act as an implementing agency of the export promotion policies of the Ministry of Commerce and Industries; Year established: 2006 • To Promotes export and participates in international trade fairs; • Coordinates both the public and private sector initiatives to Principal functions: create an enabling environment for competitive exports and contribution to the generation of jobs; • To present Afghanistan and the international community • Operates EPAA exporter service centre hotline; with a comprehensive study of development priorities within the nation; Publications issued: • To present strategies which work towards the attainment of United Nations Millennium Development Goals; • Product and country profiles which cover findings of research • To present a unified strategy that all government agencies and development activities, provide export marketing subscribe to address economic, social, and security needs; information and advice on all aspects of foreign markets. • To synchronise strategies between different government • Afghan Export Directory. agencies within the nation; • To help categorize development needs and helps stakeholder Products/commodity responsible for: identify areas of needs. Focus lies on four sectors with traditionally considerable export Services/activities: potential, namely agribusiness; carpets; handicraft and decorative articles; and marble, minerals and gemstones.
• Organizes regular consultations, dialogues, seminars and Training: workshops with stakeholders.
• Conducts research, surveys and reviews on issues, which are • In House Company Training: The target groups for EPAA considered to be of vital importance to the private sector. training activities for the private sector are export managers • Conducts the consultation process in order to involve and other staff responsible for exporting in small and medium systematic and participatory analyses of poverty. enterprises throughout the country; • Addresses short-and long-term tradeoffs of alternative policy • EPAA Training Center for Export (ETCE): decisions, and the impact of proposed reforms on the most 1) EPAA training modules ”Your Gateway to the world” vulnerable and marginalised social groups. introduces trainees to the knowledge needed to do business abroad. Publications issued: 2) Further series of training modules: • Global entrepreneurship, • Millennium Development Goals: Country Report 2005 • International marketing, < • International trade finance, http://www.ands.gov.af/src/src/MDGs_Reps/1.summary%20repo • Market entry and distribution, rt%20english.pdf > • International trade research, • For a full list of papers and reports, please refer to < • Legal aspects of international trade, http://www.ands.gov.af/documents.asp > • International trade management.
Category: Category:
Government medium-term development framework Trade promotion organization.
EXPORT PROMOTION AGENCY OF AFGHANISTAN (EPAA)
Office/postal address:
Ministry of Commerce Kabul
Phone: (92 75) 2006331
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MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Office/postal address:
Darluman Road Kabul
Fax: (93 20) 2500356
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.commerce.gov.af
Principal function:
• To improve quality of life, decent employment, and higher standards of living for all Afghans through the development of the formal economy; • To create an enabling environment for sustainable and equitable economic growth and to promote private sector development in a socially responsible free market economy.
Services/activities:
• Promotes the establishment and implementation of a legal and regulatory framework necessary to ensure the efficient and equitable operation of a free market economy; • Works to integrate Afghanistan into the regional and global economy; • Facilitates and promotes the development of a dynamic and competitive private sector.
Publication issued:
• Initiative for Regulatory Reform to Enhance Private Sector Development in Afghanistan. An Investor Roadmap, 2006. • List of Trade Agreements Signed by Afghanistan. • List of Commercial Attaches.
Training:
Between February and April 2007, approximately 8 weeks of introductory training for Private Sector Development Directorate (PSDD) staff was delivered: • Cross cutting technical training – covering topics considered fundamental to all PSDD staff. • Professional skills training – English and IT skills. • Topics covered in the technical training included Government in Afghanistan; introduction to the private sector; effective outreach; Government and PSD; the private sector in Afghanistan; Afghanistan in the world economy; introduction to investment policy; a look at markets in Afghanistan and approach to market and business development.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• Law on Foreign and Domestic Private Investment. Decree No. 134 (1381/06/02). • Afghanistan Bank Law. Decree No. 62 (1382/06/27). • Currency and Banking Law. Decree No. 63 (1382/06/27).
Category:
Ministry of Trade.
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AMERICAN SAMOA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AMERICAN SAMOA SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER (AS-SBDC) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: PO Box 2446 Pago Pago 96799 American Samoa Community College P.O. Box 2609 Phone: (684) 6991881 Pago Pago 96799 Fax: (684) 6991197 Phone: (684) 6994830 E-mail: [email protected], Fax: (684) 6998636 [email protected] URL: amsamoachamber.com E-mail: [email protected] (Director) URL: www.as-sbdc.org Year established: 1979 Year established: 1986 Principal function: Principal function: • To serve as an open forum in which members may raise and address specific issues; • To enhance economic growth and assist individuals in • To serve as a voice for the local business community in its American Samoa by developing entrepreneurial skills among relationship and dealings with all levels of Government. small businesses and the broader community through counseling, training, research, advocacy and other resources Services/activities: and activities.
• Concerns itself with common objectives and problems Services/activities: affecting local business and seeks to contribute to and assist with the formulation of Government policies that will lead to • Provides broad-based management and technical assistance; new investments and developments which will stimulate the • Provides business counseling project feasibility assessment, local economy; how to increase sales, cash flow management, sources of • Has regular contact with overseas chambers and regional funding, business operations, international trade, etc.; business councils in order to keep abreast of economic • Provides training workshops, seminars, conferences, and mini developments and to provide it’s members with information courses (custom-tailored to the needs of the small business and access to new markets for their products and services; entrepreneur); • Has close ties with all major Government departments such as • Provides information gathering and dissemination that includes commerce, education and health, and its executive meets business, industry, and economic data pertaining to small regularly with the Governor, the Senate and the House of business; Representatives to discuss matters of economic interest and • Serves as a community outreach programme of the American policy formulation which will benefit American Samoa’s Samoa Community College; economy and the Chamber’s membership. • Provides technical assistance developing a business plan, loan packaging, market surveys, inventory control, accounting and Publication issued: record keeping, etc; • Provides advocacy representing and articulating interests and • Newsletter (monthly). concerns of small business to the public and relevant forms.
Membership structure: Membership structure:
Membership is open to any person or corporation with a valid The American Samoa Small Business Development Center was business license. created as result of an American Samoa Community College (ASCC) (www.amsamoa.edu/) and United States Small Business Category: Administration (SBA) Partnership (www.sba.gov/).
Chamber of commerce. Training:
• Training courses in 2007 include business start-up, Korean language for small businesses, customer service, basic computer skills, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint; • Online training: Basic computer for small business.
Category:
Training/research institution.
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DEVELOPMENT BANK OF AMERICAN SAMOA
Office/postal address:
P.O. Box 9 Pago Pago 96799
Phone: (684) 6334031 Fax: (684) 6331163
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.dbas.org
Year established: 1969
Principal function:
• To serve the economic and development needs of the community of American Samoa through affordable financial services; • To continue to promote residential development in American Samoa by providing affordable mortgage loans for new home construction and home repair activities; • To further the development of the private sector and the economy of American Samoa by providing commercial loans to start-up and existing businesses; • To facilitate disbursement of loans and grants offered by United States Federal Agencies directly to the qualified residents of American Samoa.
Services/activities:
• Provides American Samoa with lending and investment facilities; • Assists in the promotion of private enterprises; • Aims to meet the needs of developing the economy of American Samoa; • Facilitates housing for low income families and individuals; • Promotes and develops entrepreneurship.
Category:
Banks.
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ARMENIAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (ADA) Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
Office/postal address: • Law on Foreign Investments. • Law on Licensing. 17 Charents Str. • Law on Currency Regulations and Exchange Control. Yerevan 0025 • Law on Accounting. • Law on Arbitration Courts and Arbitration Procedures. Phone: (374 1) 570170 • Law on Inspections. Fax: (374 1) 542272 • Law on Securities Market Regulation.
E-mail: [email protected] Category: URL: www.ada.am Trade promotion organization. Year established: 1998
Principal functions: ASSOCIATION FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND COOPERATION (AFIC) • To act as “one-stop shop” agency for investors; • To assist investors in setting up their business in Armenia; Office/postal address: • To help in project implementation; • To perform a liaison role with the Government; 4 Tigran Metsi Ave. • To provide information on investment opportunities in the 375010 Yerevan country, as well as investment-related regulations and laws. • Helps to find markets for products; Phone: (374 10) 525082, (374 91) 426255 • To undertake market studies and seeks out partners for joint Fax: (374 10) 562400 ventures aimed at increasing the volume of exports and development of Armenian enterprises; E-mail: [email protected] • To organize international conferences, business-forums, URL: www.afic.am trade fairs and exhibitions. Year established: 1998 Services/activities: Principal functions: • Pre-investment services; • Airport-to-airport services; • To create and develop free market relations and a stable • Facilitation for entry and exit visas; economic and investment environment in Armenia, in which • Organizes business trips to and from Armenia; private foreign companies can take risks to develop new • Accommodation; businesses with local partners; • Transportation services; • To ensure the effectiveness of foreign investment initiatives in • Logistic and administrative services; privatization process; • Office space; • To establish and develop international economic cooperation with foreign and international relevant organizations with the • Meeting rooms; purpose to attract foreign expertise for accomplishing the • Translation/interpretation; association’s tasks; • Meeting arrangements; • To promote a regulatory and legislative system that responds
• Site visits; to investors’ needs; Information provision; • • To identify investment opportunities in Armenia by sectors of • Consulting services; economy as well as their prospects and constraints; • Facilitation for notary services; • To assist various international projects aimed at the promotion • Aftercare services; of economic reform; • General counseling and facilitation; • To represent and protect the rights of the association’s • Facilitation for company registration; members at different levels of the Government and NGOs; • Event management. • To implement foreign modern technologies and know-how in Armenia and to analyze the suitability of various forms of Publications issued: innovative financing arrangements.
• Armenian Business Magazine “FORUM” (quarterly). Services/activities: • Electronics Industry in Armenia. • Investment Projects (semi-annually, English). • Keeps its members up-to-date on the latest developments in • IT Sector in Armenia.Tax Guide (semi-annually, English). legislative compliance requirements, represents its members at • Precision Engineering Industry in Armenia. different levels of governmental structures, and regularly provides education and networking opportunities for them; Membership structure: 100 per cent governmental • Conducts programmes that help the entrepreneurs in their organization. future careers in business and industry, especially in the areas of management and marketing;
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• Studies the investment climate in different sectors of the BSC BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT economy, prepares information and advertisements about investment activity and policy in Armenia, and publishes these Office/postal address: abroad in foreign business circles; • Arranges training courses for business associations specialists 1 Charents str, 1 building, 2nd floor and managers; Yerevan 375025 • Prepares seminars, conferences, and other events to help further business ties, utilize foreign expertise, including the Phone: (374 1) 571753, 574778, 574964 promotion of business partnerships; Fax: (374 1) 571753, 574778, 574964 • Sponsors programmes and events that bring together the Government, academia and the private enterprise to work on E-mail: [email protected] common problems and respond to members’ needs in both URL: www.bsc.am technical and managerial areas; • Tracks economic trends and vital statistics essential for Year established: August 1998 economic reform and foreign investment promotion. Principal function: Publication issued: • To promote the development of small and medium-sized • Mini Guidebook of Armenian Tax Legislation (Armenian, enterprises (SMEs) in Armenia by providing technical April 2007). assistance in the fields of business and management • How to Advocate Effectively - Guidebook for Business consultancy, trade promotion and business training. Associations (Armenian, April 2007). • Tax System Improvement (Armenian, April 2007). Services/activities: • Corporate Governance Development Problems and Perspectives in Armenia (Armenian, May 2004). • Business consultancy; • Customs: A Case Study in Combating Corruption in Armenia • Consultancy on business legislation; (English, April 2002). • Trade promotion and international marketing; • Shareholder's Handbook (Armenian, May 2004). • Business training; • Analysis of Armenian Business Associations’ Activity • HRM training. (Russian, June 2002). • Armenian Business Associations’ Directory (Armenian, Russian, English; May 2002). Membership structure: 5 members. • Armenian Business Associations’ Development (Russian, August 2000). Training:
Membership structure: • How to implement marketing in Armenia; • How to create “selling” advertising; The association’s activity is undertaken under the direction of its • Accounting (according to new standard) and financing board, formed of representatives of different industries, various management; recognized companies and organizations in Armenia. The board • Tax legislation in Armenia, including recent amendments; has the power to make decisions and issue recommendations on the • Legal regulations of NGO activities; basic direction of the association’s activity. • How to start small business; • Labour legislation of Armenia, human resource management; Category: • Contracting; • Banks and credit management; Investment promotion organization. • Principles of management; • Training of trainers; • Training of consultants; • HR management.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• Tax legislation (Profit tax low, VAT tax low) (1998). • Foreign Investments. • Civil Code (1998).
Category:
Business development organization.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Armavir Marz THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA 6 Hanrapetutyan street, 0901 Armavir Phone/Fax: (374 237) 63219, 50302 Office/postal address: E-mail: [email protected]
11 Khanjyan Str. Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Gegharkunik Marz Yerevan 0010 4 Azatutyan street, 1205 Gavar Phone/Fax: (374 264) 22059, 22466 Phone: (37 410) 560184 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], Fax: (37 410) 587871 [email protected] URL: www.gcci.am E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.armcci.am Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kotayk Marz Petrosyan street, 2204 Abovyan Year established: 1960 Phone: (374 222) 26035, (374 10) 443436 Fax: (374 222) 23397, (374 10) 442848 In October 2001, the National Assembly of Armenia passed the E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Law on Chambers of Commerce and Industry establishing the URL: www.ccikotayk.am organizational mode of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Lori Marz Principal function: Gortsaranain 2, Vanadzor Phone: (374 322) 60311, 60309 • To encourage the development of Armenia’s economy and its Fax: (374 322) 60145 integration into world economy; E-mail: [email protected] • To promote comprehensive and harmonized development of all kinds and to create favorable conditions for free Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Shirak Marz competition; 13 Khachatryan street, 6 Apt.; 3126 Gyumri • To serve as bridge between business organizations and Phone/Fax: (374 312) 35440 Government bodies; • To help to improve the investment policy of Armenia and Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Syunik Marz make it favorable and attractive for foreign investors; 1/20 A. Manukyan street, Kapan • To help to improve tax policies and make them more Phone: (374 285) 33557, 32499 business-oriented. Fax: (374 285) 65881, 32742 • E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Services/activities: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tavush Marz • Verifies force-majeure circumstances in correspondence 79/23 Blbulyan street, Ijevan with commercial agreements and international contracts of Phone: (374 263) 36333; (374 10) 770300 Armenia; Fax: (374 10) 740300 • Has an advisory/consultative role vis-à-vis public authorities E-mail: [email protected] and regions; • Represents the general interests of business; Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vayotz Dzor Marz • Provides information, advisory/consultative services as well 3 Mikoyani street, 3601 Yeghegnadzor as legal, arbitration and/or conciliation services; Phone: (374 281) 22113 • Promotes economic development; Fax: (374 281) 24011 • Undertakes training; E-mail: [email protected] • Organizes exhibitions, fairs, business and trade missions, URL: www.vaykcci.am and other events; • Examines goods; Yerevan Chamber of Commerce and Industry: • Provides export documentation; 11 Khanjyan street, 0010 Yerevan • Provides advertising services; Phone: (374 10) 560184, 560196, 524530 (+123, +104) • Provides translation services; Fax: (374 10) 587871 (+116) • Renders services for trade-marks and patents registration. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.yercci.am Local branches: Offices abroad: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Aragatsotn Marz Bagavan 1 street, Ashtarak Sofia 1414, Bulgaria Phone/Fax: (374 232) 33319 Phone: (3592) 9521594 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (3592) 9526231 E-mail: [email protected] Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ararat Marz Artashat Blattneho 2317 Phone: (374 235) 26275 158 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic Fax: (374 235) 21308 Phone: (420) 251617955 E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: (420) 776096823 E-mail: [email protected]
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P.O. Box.184 1807 West Glenoaks Blvd. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Glendale, CA 91201, United States Phone: (251 11) 1551888 Phone: (818) 2470603 Mobile: (251 91) 1220201 Fax: (360) 2831543 Fax: (251 11) 1560490 E-mail: [email protected]
25a Watzmann str. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: 85586 Poing, Germany Phone: (49 81) 2180904 The law of the Republic of Armenia “On Foreign Investments”. Fax: (49 81) 2180999 E-mail: [email protected] Category:
Munkacsy M. str.3 Chamber of commerce and industry. Budapest 1063, Hungary Phone: (361) 3434994 Mobile: (362) 9433651, (374) 91507304 E-mail: [email protected]
8 Khadji Mukana str., office 27 Almaty, Kazakhstan Phone: (73212) 568445, 568426 Mobile: (73004) 550303, 7702529
3 str. Pale Leya Riga, Latvia Phone: (3712) 9255867 Fax: (360) 2831543 E-mail: [email protected]
Kurosawastrook 20 2726 V.V. Zoetermeer, Netherlands Phone: (31 6) 52613115 Fax: (31 7) 93716171 E-mail: [email protected]
24 Fruze str. Vladikavkaz, Russian Federation Phone: (8672) 540417
Avtostroiteley 68 Tolyatti, Russian Federation Phone: (8482) 429111 Fax: (8482) 791256
Chistoprudny ave, 12A, office 732 101000 Moscow, Russian Federation Phone: (495) 9169224, 9169274, 9169422 Fax: (495) 9169034
Moscow avenue 138 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation Phone: (7812) 3883054 Fax: (7812) 9733740
41/18-20 Silom Soi 19 Silom Road Bangkok 10500, Thailand Phone: (66 2) 2347565-7 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.artinian.net
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain Phone: (44 20) 82037799 Mobile: (44 77) 10254998 Fax: (44 20) 82038877 E-mail: [email protected]
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GEGHARKUNIK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND • CCI Perspective Development Strategic Program of INDUSTRY Gegharkunik Marz. A guidebook about prospective programming and strategy development for all enterprises. Office/postal address: • RA Gegharkunik Marz. Economic Overview. A booklet that presents the economy of the Marz, sectors; their statistics; 16 Buniatyan street more active members of CCI and attractive directions of Gavar investments in Gegharkunik Marz. Gegharkunik Marz • Newspapers (bi-weekly).
Phone: (374 64) 224 66 Local branches: Fax: (374 64) 220 59: 4 Sevantsi str. nd Email: [email protected] City Culture Palace, 2 floor URL: www.gcci.am Sevan Phone: (374 61) 26247 Year established: 2002 Building of the Language Center Principal functions: Martuni
• To promote economic development of the region of Membership structure: More that 150 enterprises are Gegharkunik; affiliated with the chamber. • To facilitate development of entrepreneurship; • To assist to strengthening of commercial-economic linkages Category: with foreign enterprises; • To establish cooperation between economic agents and State Camber of commerce. bodies; • To form and develop a staff performance rating MINISTRY OF TRADE AND ECONOMIC improvement system in the businesses of the region; DEVELOPMENT • To assist in the formation of infrastructures for rendering information and consultation services and information Office/postal address: support; • To promote the establishment and development of 5 M. Mkrtchian infrastructures supporting entrepreneurship. Yerevan 375010
Services/activities: Phone: (374 1) 566185 Fax: (374 1) 526577 • Implements various projects which are selected by conducting surveys using questionnaires about business E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] needs. A survey for identification of capacities and needs URL: www.minted.am among one hundred enterprises is conducted quarterly. The project with the most effective evaluation in terms of Year established: 1991 (reorganized in 2002). business is being implemented, provided that resources are available. Principal functions:
Publications issued: • To elaborate the economic policy of Armenia; • To be responsible for industrial and information technology • On Organization and Holding of Audits. The booklet policy development; explains the procedure of holding audits by State governing • To elaborate trade and investment policy; bodies; rights and responsibilities of public officials; rights • To maintain an export-oriented economic climate, negotiate and duties of businesses; procedures of appeal acts and other global access for Armenian products and services to the information necessary to increase business awareness. world markets; • Organizational-Legal Forms of Enterprises in RA and their • To be responsible for the collaboration within WTO; State Registration. It gives a detailed description of potential • To attract and promote foreign investments, to create organizational-legal forms of businesses, their specifics and favorable investment and business climate continuously registration in accordance with RA Legislation. improving it; • Legislative Changes in RA Tax Environment introduced in • Many other functions. December 2002. It describes all changes related to normal
business management under the current tax environment. It Publications issued: includes also interpretations, comparisons and examples for
enterprises in Gegharkunik Marz. • Concept Paper for Sustainable Economic Development • Lease of the Coastal Sector of Lake Sevan. A manual Policy for Armenia (Ministry of Trade and Economic addressed to enterprises willing to deal with recreation Development of the Republic of Armenia, UNDP-Armenia, activity on the coastal part of the lake. The manual presents 2003). requirements of acting RA legislation and rights and
responsibilities of economic agents. An example of a model • Armenia. Administrative Barriers to Investments (FIAS, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Armenia, contract in compliance with RA Civil Code is also presented. 2000).
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• Factors Inhibiting Foreign Direct Investments to Armenia (FIAS, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Armenia, IRIS, 1998).
Membership structure: 350 members.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
All areas/industries.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• The Republic of Armenia Law on Foreign Investment, adopted in 1994.
Category:
Ministry of Trade.
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AZERBAIJAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND AZERBAIJAN EXPORT AND INVESTMENT INDUSTRY PROMOTION FOUNDATION (AZPROMO)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
31 Istiglaliyyat str. 11, Hasan Abdullayev Street Baku 370001 1001 Baku
Phone: (994 12) 4928912 Phone: (99 412) 598 0147, 598 0148 Fax: (994 12) 4971997 Fax: (99 412) 5980152, 598 0152
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.chamber.com.az URL: www.azpromo.org
Year established: 1993 Year established: 2003
Principal function: Principal function:
• To assist and promote small and medium enterprises. • To contribute to achieving balanced development of the economy of the country; Services/activities: • To implement measures necessary for the attraction and promotion of inflow of investments for creation of new jobs, • Establishes business contracts, organization of exhibitions, particularly in its rural regions within the poverty reduction fairs, business missions, etc.; strategy framework. • Provides certification, legal services and information services. Services/activities: Publication issued: • Undertakes, on a regular basis, analysis of the investment • ”CONTACT” magazine (quarterly). climate and submits relevant proposals to the Government aimed at its improvement; Local branches: • Researches experience of foreign countries in the field of investment attraction and export promotion and submits Branches in Azerbaijan towns. proposals for application of such experience in Azerbaijan; • Organizes discussions of the laws that could impact investment Membership structure: 350 members. climate and development of private sector within business audience; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Maintains close cooperation with public and self-regulatory bodies, diplomatic missions acting in Azerbaijan, international Energy sector; final product manufacturing; and agriculture sector. financial institutions, as well as NGOs and commercial bodies for the purpose of promotion of implementation of investment Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: projects; • Attracts investors and holds negotiations with them; • Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan. • Renders assistance to the investors applying to the organization • The Protection of Foreign Investments in Azerbaijan. for the purpose of obtaining preferences and privileges for them for investments in priority fields and sectors of the Category: economy of the country; • Creates and updates the database on investment and export Chamber of commerce. opportunities; • Prepares legal database for investors; • Prepares consolidated country reports for the investors on the economy of Azerbaijan; • Organizes conferences, seminars, business meetings for investors to attract more investments into Azerbaijan and setting businesses in the country; • Renders assistance to foreign and local investors in procurement of different types of services, including consulting, legal and other services; • Organizes training courses on preparations of business-plans and investment projects; • Carries out studies of regional trade (export) opportunities for Azerbaijani businesses; • Routinely assesses legal regime for exporting goods and services from Azerbaijan, and develops and submits proposals to the Government for improvement of the regime; • Renders consultancy services to the businesses who exports or plans to export goods and services from Azerbaijan; • Supports Azerbaijani exporters in identifying potential buyers;
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• Organizes and participates in trade fairs aimed at promotion of CASPIAN INVESTMENT CENTRE (CIC) “Made in Azerbaijan” trade brand internationally. Office/postal address: Local Branches: 44 J.Jabbarli street. 9A, Bala Mammad Street Caspian Plaza ground floor 4200 Lankaran Baku Phone: (99 417) 154166, (99 450) 5453000 (mobile) Email: [email protected], [email protected] Phone: (994 12) 4367750 Fax: (994 12) 4367751 Administrative Building 2nd Floor, Room #10 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Ganja URL: www.cic-az.com Phone: (99 422) 521500 Fax: (99 422) 564 863 Year established: May 2003 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Principal functions: Membership structure: AZPROMO’s activities are supervised by two governing structures: Board of Trustees and • to work with local companies helping to find partners among Supervisory Board. foreign companies for creating the joint stocks, etc.; • to help foreign companies to come to Azerbaijan market and The Board of Trustees is the supreme managing structure of find partners in Azerbaijan; AZPROMO. The main functions of the board include: the setting- • to prepare special projects for exhibitions and to build stands; up of general directions of AZPROMO’s activities, approval of its • to collaborate with international partners; annual plan of operation, election of the director of AZPROMO, • to provide franchise supplier services. and endorsement of regular reports on AZPROMO activities, among others. At the same time, by bringing together 64 Services/activities: Government representatives, private enterprises and business associations, the Board of Trustees has developed into one of the • As detailed under principal functions. most important platforms on which economic policies concerning Azerbaijan’s economic development are being discussed. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Supervisory Board: The day-to-day activities of AZPROMO are Gas and oil industry and all other economic sectors. overseen by the Supervisory Board, which controls AZPROMO´s financial matters, approves the annual financial audit, and endorses Category: financial reports and any changes to the organizational structure Investment promotion organization. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• Law on Banks and Banking Activity in the Azerbaijan Republic. • Law on state registration of legal entities. • Law about Protection of Foreign Investments. • Law on Investment Activity. • Law on the National Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Category:
Investment promotion organization.
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NATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF • Assists in composing statements, appeals, petitions and other ENTREPRENEURS (EMPLOYERS’) juridical documents, examines documents and their ORGANIZATIONS OF AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC correspondence to current legislation; • Clarifies and advises regulation of the relations in Office/postal address: commercial and labour legislation; • Offers modern conference-hall, business-meeting rooms in 57, Acad. Hasan Aliyev, 3rd Floor the centre of the city for various meetings; 1110 Baku • Renders consulting services.
Phone: (99 412) 4657242, 4657243, 4657244, 4657245, Membership structure: 2,126 entrepreneurs’ subjects 4657246 including about 35 associations and unions of economic and Fax: (99 412) 4657243 social orientation.
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], Category: [email protected] URL: www.ask.org.az Others.
Year established: 1999
Principal functions:
• To protect rights of entrepreneurs, their property and other legal interests before the corresponding state structures, municipality bodies and other organizations; • To assist strengthening the market infrastructure and development of entrepreneurship relevant to the trends of the State Entrepreneurship Development Programme; • To participate in the collective negotiations with the Azerbaijan Government and Trade Unions Confederation with the purpose of regulation of the labour relations according to the labour legislation in the country, to sign the tripartite General Collective Agreement together with the Azerbaijan Government and Trade Unions Confederation; • To provide the establishment of permanent business relations among its members, and to assist work on investment, innovation and formation of sound entrepreneurship environment as well as other projects; • To assist local entrepreneurs in search of partners in the country and abroad, participate in their information supply; • To participate in the preparation and realization of various social-economic oriented sector, regional and country programmes; • To realize the preparation of the social-economic oriented draft laws and other normative-legal acts related to the development of entrepreneurship; • To create conditions for the study of the world experience of entrepreneurship and its available application in Azerbaijan; • To assist the establishment of social-economic oriented organizations.
Services/activities:
• Analyzes the activity of entrepreneurship enterprises and invites foreign experts through the international programmes to assist in fund-raising; • Assists in search of partners abroad; • Organizes business trips to foreign countries; • Organizes trainings covering various spheres of entrepreneurship, computer and language courses; • Sends representatives abroad to promote entrepreneurial unions in the framework of the international programme; • Advises regarding legal matters, legislative and other normative-legal documents; • Provides review regarding juridical examination of documents and their correspondence to the current legislation;
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BANGLADESH CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Jamuna Fertilizer Co. Ltd. CORPORATION (BCIC) Tarakandi Jamalpur Office/postal address: Phone: (880 2) 933288 Fax: (880 2) 933288, 0982787021 BCIC Bhaban 30-31 Dilkusha C/A Karnaphuli Paper Mills Ltd. Dhaka 1000 Chandraghona Rangamati Phone: (880 2) 9564153, 9556148 Phone: (880 31) 0607-4491221 Fax: (880 2) 9564120 Fax: (880 31) 612833 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.bcic.gov.bd Khulna Hard Board Mills Ltd. Year established: 1976 Town Kalishput Khulna Principal functions: Phone: (880 041) 761436, 760268 Fax: (880 041) 761930 • To develop chemical industries; • To manufacture, market and distribute chemical products Natural Gas Fertilizer Factory Ltd. produced by enterprises under its management. Fenchuganj Sylhet Services/activities: Phone: (880 0821) 718425 Fax: (880 0821) 08226-88044, 715216 • Supervises, coordinates and controls the enterprises placed under its management; Polash Urea Fertilizer Factory Ghorasal • Sets up new industries in the chemical sector; Narsingdi • Undertakes joint ventures in collaboration with local and Phone: (880 2) 9351227 foreign entrepreneurs. Fax: (880 2) 9351223
Publications issued: Triple Super Phosphate Complex
North Patenga • Annual Report. Chittagong • BI Monthly News Bulletin. Phone: (880 31) 741358 Fax: (880 31) 741357 Local branches: Usmania Glass Sheet Factory The BCIC has the following enterprises under its management: Kalurghat Chittagong Bangladesh Insulator and Sanitaryware Factory Phone: (880 31) 670430 Mirpur Fax: (880 31) 670308 Dhaka E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (880 2) 8012442, 8011231 Fax: (880 2) 8011326 Urea Fertilizer Factory Ghorasal Chhatak Cement Company Ltd. Narsingdi Chhatak Phone: (880 2) 9350760 Sunamganj Fax: (880 2) 9352550 Phone: (880 82) 08723-56225, 08227-85140 Fax: (880 82) 715216 Zia Fertilizer Company Ltd. E-mail: [email protected] Ashuganj B. Baria Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Factory Phone: (880 2) 9351847 Rangadia Fax: (880 2) 0852874211 Chittagong Phone: (880 31) 622301-4 Products/commodity responsible for: Fax: (880 31) 610564 Urea fertilizer; ammonium sulphate; TSP fertilizer; paper; cement; DAP Fertilizer Company Ltd. liquid chlorine; glass sheet; sanitary ware; insulators; ceramic floor Rangadia and wall tiles; packaging materials. Chittagong Phone: (880 31) 632389, 622301-4 Category: Fax: (880 31) 610564 Industrial promotion organization.
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BANGLADESH EXPORT PROCESSING ZONES Services/activities: AUTHORITY (BEPZA) • Provides one window service in EPZs which includes Office/postal address: provision of infrastructural facilities such as utilities (gas, water, electricity, telephone, telex and fax), issue of BEPZA Complex import/export permits, work permits and security. House No 19/D, Road No. 6 Dhanmondi R/A Publications issued: Dhaka 1205 • Information brochures (published periodically). Phone: (880 2) 9670530, 8650058, 8650061 • List of industries in operation (by type and by EPZ). Fax: (880 2) 8650060, 9661849 • A New Horizon for Investors (English/Japanese/Korean/Chinese/French/Italian/German/Ara E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], gm- bic). [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.epzbangladesh.org.bd Local branches:
Year established: 1980 Adamji Export Processing Zone (EPZ-ADM) Adamjee Nagar, Siddirgang, Narayangang Principal functions: Phone: (880 2) 7607038, 7607037 Fax: (880 2) 8620282 • To plan, develop, operate and manage export processing zones (EPZs) in Bangladesh; Chittagong Export Processing Zone (EPZ-CTG) • To take possession of land to be acquired or requisitioned by South Halishahar, 4223 Chittagong the Government for creation and development of a zone; Phone: (880 31) 741446, 740919 • To allot land and building space in a zone to investors on lease Fax: (880 31) 740031 or on rent and to allow them to mortgage the allotted lands for E-mail: [email protected] raising loans from financial institutions or commercial banks; • To provide infrastructure facilities, including buildings, Comilla Export Processing Zone (EPZ-COM) utilities and warehouse; Airport Area, Comilla Phone: (880 81) 77055 • To process applications for setting up industries within a zone Fax: (880 81) 77056 and accord sanction in accordance with the guidelines given E-mail: [email protected] by the Government from time to time;
• To provide customs bonded facilities in accordance with Dhaka Export Processing Zone (EPZ-DAK) customs regulations for importation into a zone of building Ganakbari, Savar, Dhaka materials for construction purpose and packaging materials, Phone: (880 2) 7701004, 7701002 raw materials and intermediate goods for the purpose of Fax: (880 2) 7701003 processing for export;
• To allow import of raw materials or semi-processed or other Ishwardi Export Processing Zone (EPZ-ISD) goods required for use in the zone and export of semi- Ishurdi, Pabna processed, processed or other goods to be specified by the Phone: (880 7) 32663962 board in such manner as may be prescribed; Fax: (880 7) 32663961 • To assist in the transportation of imported raw materials and intermediate goods in bonded condition and export of finished Karnaphulai Export Processing Zone (EPZ-KAR) products; Karnaphuli, Chittagong • To provide necessary banking facilities within the zone in Phone: (88 03) 1801069, 1741100 consultation with the Bangladesh Bank; Fax: (88 03) 1801069 • To establish liaison with the port, municipal and other authorities to make arrangement for transportation of imported Mongla Export Processing Zone (EPZ-MON) raw materials and intermediate goods on bonded condition Mongla, Bagerhat and for export of finished products; Phone: (880 4) 66275199, 176208 • To sanction the employment of foreign nationals, in Fax: (880 4) 66275198 accordance with the guidelines given by the Government from time to time, to posts for which local experts is not available Uttara Export Processing Zone (EPZ-UTR) for efficient running of the industries in zone; Shongalshi, Nilphamari • To enter into any contract or agreement for the purpose of the Phone: (880 5) 5161586, 55161677 ordinance, subject to the approval of the Government; Fax: (880 5) 5161468 • To set up, maintain and manage public warehouses at any place in Bangladesh to provide customs bonded facilities in Products/commodity responsible for: accordance with customs regulations for importation into Bangladesh of raw materials, packaging materials, semi- In the industrial units of EPZs products such as garments and processed goods and accessories required for export oriented garments accessories, textile, terry towel, knitting and knit products, industries, if directed to do so by the Government. caps, electronics, fishing reel, golf equipment, metal products, plastic products, shoes and leather goods, tent, and ropes are being produced and exported.
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Locations of EPZs: BANGLADESH STANDARDS AND TESTING • CEPZ established at the port city of Chittagong, is 2.41 km INSTITUTION (BSTI) from the main seaport, 7.24 km from the international airport and 5.63 km from the main business centre of Chittagong. Office/postal address: There are currently 106 enterprises operating in the Zone; • Dhaka EPZ, established near the capital city, Dhaka, is 25 km Maan Bhaban from Zia International Airport and 35 km from the city centre. 116/A, Tejgaon Industrial Area There are currently 56 enterprises operating in the Zone; Dhaka 1208 • Mongla EPZ established near the Mongla Port sea is 105 km from Jessore Airport. There is currently one enterprise Phone: (880 2) 8821462, 9897960, 9880007, 9131582, 9894888, operating in the Zone; 9898115 • Comilla EPZ established near the Comilla old airport area is Fax: (880 2) 9131581 97 km from the capital city and 170 km from Chittagong Port. There are currently three enterprises sanctioned in the Comilla E-mail: [email protected] EPZ; URL: www.bsti.gov.bd/ • Ishurdi EPZ established near the Ishurdi Airport is 186 km from the capital city, 150 km from Bangabandhu Bridge and Year established: 1985 (through merger of Bangladesh 450 km from Chittagong Port. There is currently one Standards Institution and Central Testing Labouratories). enterprise sanctioned in the Zone; • Uttara EPZ established near the Syedpur Airport is 360 km Principal functions: from the capital city and 640 km from Chittagong Port. There is currently one enterprise sanctioned in the Zone. • To set up standards of quality and dimensions and prepare and promote the general adoption of standards – on national and Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: international basis – relating to materials, commodities,
structures, practices and operations and, from time to time, to All sectors are encouraged with particular emphasis on hi-tech electronics and electrical equipment, hi-tech engineering, leather withdraw, revise, alter and amend the same; and leather-related industries, specialized textiles, jewellery, • To consider and recommend to the Government standards for garments, automobile spares, light-medium engineering. (Industrial the measurement of length, weight mass, volume and energy; Policy 1991 encourages foreign investment through the • To promote standardization, quality control, metrology and introduction of deregulatory provisions.) simplification in industry and commerce;
• To secure compliance with the adopted standards adopted by Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: producers and users; • Foreign Private Investment (Promotion and Protection) Act, • To implement standards through the administration of a 1980. national certification mark scheme or inspection of goods or both; Category: • To provide or arrange facilities for examination, testing and inspection of commodities, processes and practices for any Investment promotion authority and export processing zone. investigation, research or promotion of export that may be
necessary and to issue test reports;
• To certify the quality of commodities, materials, produces, products and other things including food materials, whether for local consumption, export or import; • To coordinate the efforts of producers and users for the improvement of materials, products, code of practice, appliances, processes and methods, so as to eliminate the national waste of material and time involved in the production of an unnecessary variety of patterns and sizes of articles for one and the same purpose; • To establish and publish standard specifications; • To recognize, adopt or endorse as a Bangladesh standard any standard established by any other institution in Bangladesh or in any foreign country or by international organizations; • To specify a standard mark to be called the ‘Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution Certification Mark’; • To grant, renew, reject, suspend or cancel, in such manner as may be prescribed, a license for the use of standard mark; • To make inspection and take samples of any material or substance to see whether any article or process in relation to which the standard mark has been used or proposed to be used conforms to the standard or whether the standard mark has been improperly used in relation to any article or process with
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or without license; Other Committees: Variable • To utilize with the permission of the owners, the services of • BSTI Council (sets policy and oversees activities); laboratories other than those maintained by the institution and • Executive Committee (for administration and technical guidance); approve such laboratories for the purpose of the Institution; • Divisional Committee (adoption of National Standards - • To make arrangements or provide for the facilities for the members from different sectors and industries associations): testing and calibration of precision instruments, gauges and 12 members; scientific apparatus and for the issue of certificates in regard • Technical Committees (finalization of Draft Standards): 12 thereto so as to make them comply with the required members. standards; • To undertake execution of any trust or any agency business Products/commodity responsible for:
which it may consider conducive to the attainment of, its Agricultural and food products; chemicals; jute and textiles; objectives; electro-technical and engineering products. • To cooperate with any person, association or organization abroad with similar objectives. Category:
Services/activities: Commodity standard institute.
• Formulates standards of commodities, processes/systems, codes of practice, etc., on national and international bases; BOARD OF INVESTMENT (BOI) • Controls the quality of products through testing of locally produced consumer products, produce for the local market Office/postal address: and for export through the issuance of Certification Marks Licences; Prime Minister’s Office • Implements the systems of international units of weights and Jiban Bima Tower, 19th floor, measures in the country; 10 Dilkusha Commercial Area • Renders scientific/industrial/legal metrology services. Dhaka 1000
Publications issued: Phone: (880 2) 9559378, 9561430-1 Fax: (880 2) 9562312 • Standard specifications. • Yearbook. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.boi.gov.bd Local branches: Year established: 1989 Dhaka Divisional Metrology Inspectorate BSTI Annex Building Principal functions: 116-A Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka 1208 Phone: (880 2) 9899631 • To provide all kinds of facilities in the matter of investment of local and foreign capital for the purpose of rapid BSTI Regional Office industrialization in the private sector; Jamburi Ground, Agrabad, Chittagong • To implement government policy relating to the investment Phone: (880 31) 710695,500034 of capital in industries in the private sector; • To prepare the investment schedule in relation to industries BSTI Regional Office in the private sector and its implementation; 62 Old Jessore Road • To prepare area-schedules for establishment of industries in Khalishpur, Khulna the private sector and determination of special facilities for Phone: (880 41) 762152, 761542 such areas; • To approve and register industrial projects in the private BSTI Regional Office sector involving local and foreign capital; H-573 Ramchandrapur • To identify investment sectors and facilities for investment in Natore Road, Choramara, Rajshahi 6100 industries in the private sector and provide wide publicity Phone: (880 721) 775897 thereof abroad; • To invent specific devices for the purpose of promotion of BSTI Regional Office investment in industries in the private sector and their Hodua Lodge implementation; 80/81 Jordon Road, Barisal • To create infrastructural facilities for industries in the private Phone: (880 431) 55796 sector; • To determine terms and conditions for employment of BSTI Regional Office foreign officers, experts and other employees necessary for Mirza Villa, West Pathantola, Sylhet industries in the private sector; Phone: (880 821) 719547 • To prepare policies relating to the transfer of technology and phase-wise local production in the private sector and their Membership structure: implementation;
BSTI Council: 39 members.
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• To provide necessary assistance for the rehabilitation of Divisional Office Khulna industries in the private sector; Shilpa Bank Bhaban 25-26 KDA C/A • To finance and provide assistance in the financing of Khulna 9100 important new industries in the private sector; Phone: (880 41) 720017, 724716 • To adopt necessary measures for the creation of capital for investment in industries in the private sector; Divisional Office Rajshahi • To collect, compile, analyze and disseminate all kinds of Heea Bitan industrial data and to establish a databank for that purpose; CandB Moor, Kazihata • To do such other acts and things as may be necessary for the Rajshahi 6000 performance of the above functions. Phone: (880 721) 772047
Services/activities: Divisional Office Sylhet Prabaho -18, Taltala The services provided by BOI are categorized as follows: Sylhet 3100 Phone: (880 821) 724 306 • Investment promotion - Country promotions, Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: - Sector/industry promotions, - Publications on business processes. All sectors, excluding: arms and ammunition and other defence equipment and machinery; forest plantation and mechanized • Investment facilitation extraction within the bounds of reserved forests; production of - Pre-investment information and counselling service, nuclear energy; and security printing (currency notes) and - Investor welcome service (faster immigration), minting. - Registration/approval of foreign, joint-venture and local projects, - Approving work permits for the foreign nationals, Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
- Approving foreign loan suppliers’ credit, PAYE scheme, etc., • Foreign Private Investment (Promotion and Protection Act), - Facilitating utility connections (electricity, gas), 1980. - Assistance in obtaining industrial plots, • Investment Board Act, 1989. - Approving remittance of royalty, technical know-how • Industrial Policy 2005. and technical assistance fees, - Facilitating the import of capital machinery/raw Category: materials. • Policy advocacy Investment promotion and facilitation authority. - Advocating policy suggestions to the Government, - Assisting Government in framing new policies for private sector development.
Publications issued:
• FDI in Bangladesh during 2004, June 2005. • Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh during 2002, March 2003 (English). • Bangladesh Investment Handbook, November 2002 (English). • GCC Countries and Bangladesh: Investment and Trade Cooperation, May 2002 (English). • Utility Services and Environmental Clearance, January 2001 (English).
Local branches:
Divisional Office Barishal Suraiya Bhaban 87/84 Jordon Road Barishal 8200 Phone: (880 431) 54797, 54399
Divisional Office Chittagong CGO Building No.1 Agrabad Commercial Area Chittagong 4100 Fax: (880 31) 722382
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BUSINESS ADVISORY SERVICES CENTER (BASC) Training:
Office/postal address: • Entrepreneurship and management development programmes; • Institutional development; House # 75, Road # 7A • Human resources development; Dhanmondi R.A. • Production and quality; Dhaka 1209 • Financial management and agribusiness.
Phone: (880 2) 8110693-94, 8112467, 9112641 Category: Fax: (880 2) 9130072 Trade promotion organization. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.bascservice.org CHITTAGONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND Year established: 1991 INDUSTRY (CCCI)
Principal function: Office/postal address:
• To facilitate business development services; Chittagong Chamber of Commerce & Industry • To establish itself as an effective and efficient Business Chamber House, 38, Agrabad C/A Development Organization (BDO); Chittagong, Bangladesh • To provide business development services (BDS) to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in agriculture and Phone: (880)-31-713366 industrial sectors covering manufacturing, service and trading organizations; E-mail: [email protected] • To generate sustainable income and productive employment URL: www.chittagongchamber.com opportunities for poverty alleviation and food security; • To promote ethical and socially responsible business. Year established: 1959
Services/activities: Principal functions:
• Supports organization so that they can maximize their • To promote and protect the trade, commerce and productivity. Support to these organizations comes in different manufactures of Bangladesh in general, and the trade, forms: through consultancy, through research, through commerce and manufactures of Chittagong in particular; information dissemination services and other advisory • To encourage the development and progress of the Port and services. Town of Chittagong; • To watch protect the general commercial interests of Publication issued: Bangladesh or any part thereof and the interests of persons engaged in trade, commerce or industry in Bangladesh and in Recent publications include: particular in Chittagong;
• To collect and circulate statistics and other information • Investment opportunity for agro-based small enterprises in relating to trade, commerce and industry to members; greater Rangpur and Dinajpur Districts. • Investment opportunities for small enterprises in Sylhet Town. • To arbitrate in settlement of disputes arising out of commercial transactions between parties willing or agreeing • An actor Oriented Approach to Natural Resources sector to abide by the judgment and decision of the Chamber; value addition in the Jamuna Chars. • Feasibility Study on Establishment of a Heat Treatment Plant, • To establish just and equitable principles in trade, commerce Model Machineshop and Model Foundry Shop. and industry; • Market Study on Project for Homeopathy Medicine in • To form a code or code or practice to simplify and facilitate Bangladesh. transaction of business; • Animal Feed Production in Bangladesh. • Electro-Mechanical Toy Manufacturing Industry in Services/activities: Bangladesh. • Directory of Engineering Industries of Bangladesh. • To arrange the Chittagong International Trade Fair; • To conduct effective training to potential & existing For a detailed list of publications, please refer to entrepreneurs and business executives on information www.bascservice.org/publications.php. technology for human resource and women entrepreneurship development; Membership structure: • To provide free library service to its members comprising up-to-date trade directories, catalogues, trade journals, The organization receives its overall policy directions and guidance weeklies, monthly magazines from home and abroad, from the board of directors consisting of twelve eminent government publications; personalities. The overall management of BASC is entrusted upon • To provide information on market demand of commodities to the executive director who is assisted by a core team of exporters and importers and advises members on marketing professionals and support Staff. BASC's operating wings are run, possibilities at home and abroad; administered and managed as profit centers.
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• To issue certificate of origin to any registered company • To prepare, implement and evaluate projects for dealing with trading or manufacturing of local goods or entrepreneurship development and other trade related products meant for re-export; matters; • To develop business through Internet, web page, short Publications issued: link/cross link with DCCI, etc.
• For a full list of annual reports, please refer to < Services/activities: http://www.chittagongchamber.com/annual_report.php > • Provides facsimile, e-mail, Internet, Web page browsing, Category: commercial library; international tender documents, computer services, CD-ROM services; photocopy facilities, Chamber of Commerce and Industry meeting and conference facilities; • Provides computerized trade information services as well as SME help line services; DHAKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND • Offers trade intelligence services such as export, import, INDUSTRY (DCCI) investment inquiries, trade fairs/exhibitions, news, trade regulations, public notices, statutory regulatory orders Office/postal address: (SROs) and foreign exchange circulars; • Issues Certificates of Origin (CO) and Letters of 65-66 Motijheel Commercial Area Recommendation/Introduction; Dhaka 1000 • Provides advisory and consultancy services; • Provides institutional supports to small-scale enterprises Phone: (880 2) 9552562, 9554383 (SSEs). Fax: (880 2) 9560830 Publications issued: E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] • DCCI Annual Report (English/Bengali). URL: www.dhakachamber.com, www.dhakachamber.org • DCCI Monthly Review (English/Bengali). • DCCI Members Directory: 2000 (English). Year established: 1958 • Tax Guide 2007-2008. • Export quality management: an answer book for small and Principal functions: medium-sized exporters. Published jointly by DCCI and International Trade Centre (ITC). 2007. • To give suggestions for the formulation of government • Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution: How to settle policies in import, export, investment, banking, insurance, International business disputes: 2002 (Published jointly by fiscal measures, annual budget, etc. and to provide inputs for DCCI and ITC, GTZ). meetings related to World Trade Organization (WTO), • Introducing DCCI (annually). United Nations Conference on Trade and Development • DCCI Trade Information Bulletin (fortnightly). (UNCTAD), etc.; • DCCI General Circulars and Special Circulars. • To represent trade, commerce and industry on various • Economic Indicators. advisory or consultative committees at different ministries • Trade Delegation Brochure (occasional publications). and departments of the Government; • Economic Policy Papers on different business issues. • To comment on legislative measures affecting trade, commerce and industry; • Research reports. • To function as a forum for exchanging views on trade and • Seminar reports. economy among different chamber members, government agencies, DCCI members and local/foreign delegations; Membership structure: About 4,000 members classified under four categories: General Members, Associate Members, • To settle trade disputes by arbitration; Town Association Members and Trade Group Members. • To issue Certificate of Origin and authenticate documents
for promotion of exports; Membership composition: export 30 per cent, import 30 per cent, • To disseminate business information to members by sales and services 20 per cent and manufacturing 20 per cent. electronic communication, fortnightly Trade Bulletin, DCCI Monthly Review, Current Awareness Service Bulletin, SDI: Training: selective dissemination of information, newsletter, circulars, notifications, statistical data, etc.; DCCI Business Institute (DBI) provides training programmes and • To organize training courses, seminars, workshops, counseling services to its members by year-wise scheduling. symposia, meetings, delegations, fairs and participation thereof at home and abroad and to receive delegation; DCCI has some projects through which the Chamber has been • To undertake activities such as survey and research to imparting specialized training namely training for women suggest for favourable business-related policies; entrepreneurs, training on leather and leather goods, etc. • To prepare Economic Policy Papers (EPPs) for conducting policy advocacy for the benefit of the business sectors; Category: • To sign Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with overseas chambers of commerce and industries and other Chamber of commerce; industrial promotion; and trade promotion business organization for promotion of trade and investment; organization.
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EXPORT PROMOTION BUREAU (EPB) Publications issued:
Office/postal address: • Bangladesh Export Directory. • Bangladesh Export Statistics (annually). 1, Kawran Bazar • EPB Annual Report. Dhaka 1215 • Monthly Export Statistics. Phone: (880 2) 8151496, 9128377, 8112427, 8113247, • Handbook for Exporters (manual). 8143247, 8143248 • Manuals of NETP programme. Fax: (880 2) 9119531 • Handicrafts from Bangladesh (brochure). • Trade Information (quarterly). E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.epb.gov.bd Local branches:
Year established: 1972 Chamber House, Agrabad C/A Chittagong Principal functions: Phone: (88 031) 720907
Fax: (88 031) 710540 Product development: E-mail: [email protected] • To provide technical support to local manufacturers/exporters;
• To provide training on product development and adaptation; Chamber Mansion, 5 No. KDA Commercial Area • To provide advisory support in quality control, packaging, Khulna supply improvement, post-harvest handling, etc. Phone: (88 041) 720449
Fax: (88 041) 732172 Market promotion:
• To participate and/or organize international trade fairs; Hazera Villa (3rd floor), Shaheb Bazar (Mianpara) • To organize single country exhibitions, buyer-seller meets, Rajshahi 6001 contact promotion programmes, field business missions Phone/Fax: (88 0721) 774420 abroad; • To organize product group international trade fairs. 53 Bangabandhu Avenue, Rahamatullah Muslim Institutes Narayanganj Trade information:
• To disseminate trade enquiries to local exporting companies; BSCIC Industrial Gate Holding No. 892 • To provide information on target markets including Ranir Bazar, Comilla international prices and other information; Phone: (88 081) 65019 • To print/distribute Bangladesh Export Directory, product brochures, export statistics and other publications of interest. Maa Manzil, House No-1/B, Block-C, Road-33/A Shahjalal Upashaher Export policy: Sylhet • To formulate dynamic policy and programmes for the active Phone: (88 0821) 716144 promotion of exports and to assist in policy formulation; Fax: (88 0821) 715210 • To coordinate export development efforts programme and export promotion efforts of the public and private sectors; Training: • To develop linkages with chambers and trade associations; • To monitor export performance on a monthly basis. Funding from international organizations such as WTO, UNCTAD, ITC, ESCAP and EU, regional seminar/workshop. Coordination and cooperation: • To coordinate with Bangladesh embassies abroad for attaining Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: the export target; • To cooperate with foreign trade promotion organizations; IT sector, agro-process and light engineering products/services. • To maintain working relationship with international/regional organizations such as WTO, UNCTAD, ITC, WIPO, ESCAP, Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: OIC, World Bank, ADB and IDB and other trade promotion organization. • Foreign Private Investment (Promotion and Protection) Act, 1980 secures all foreign investment in Bangladesh. Textile products: • OPIC’s (Overseas Private Investment Corporation, United • To issue GSP Certificates and Certificates of Origin; States of America) insurance and finance programmes • To issue textile visa and licence. applicable. • Security and safeguards available under Multilateral Training: Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of which Bangladesh • Implements National Export Training Programmes of EPB; is a member. • Organizes seminars/workshops on export-related subjects; • Arbitration facility of the International Centre for the • Orientation programmes for trade officials posted abroad. Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID) available.
Services/activities: Category:
• Issues GSP, GSTP, SAPTA and Asia-Pacific Trade Trade facilitation body; trade fair and exhibition authority; and Agreement (APTA) certificates of origin for export abroad. trade promotion organization.
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FEDERATION OF BANGLADESH CHAMBERS OF • Prints and circulates project profiles on new industrial projects COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (FBCCI) formulated by development finance institutes and the Board of Investment; Office/postal address: • Collects information through field studies and market surveys on priority sectors of the country and prepares study reports for 60, Motijheel Commercial Area the FBCCI member bodies and the relevant government Dhaka 1000 ministries; • Arranges occasional seminars on economic and commercial P.O. Box: 2079, Dhaka issues.
Phone: (880 2) 9560598, 9560102-3 Publications issued: Fax: (880 2) 7176030, 9560588 • Annual Report (English). E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • FBCCI Journal (English). URL: www.fbcci-bd.org • Yearly Recommendations of FBCCI Standing Committees (English). Year established: 1973 • Souvenirs of different important events (English/Bengali).
Principal functions: Membership structure: 268 members, comprising 196 Trade and Industrial Associations and 72 Chambers of Commerce and • To promote the interests of its federating units; Industry. • To bring about a better cohesion, understanding and harmony at the national level among the trade organizations; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • To aid and stimulate the development of trade, commerce, industry, agriculture and transport; Non-profit promotional organization. Does not make investment • To protect, encourage and safeguard the cause of the private itself, but works for promoting private sector investment. sector through consultation and interaction with the Government, Ministerial Consultative Committees and other Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: related bodies or agencies; • To assist in the organization of chambers of commerce and Relevant for BOI and other concerned governmental industry and associations of trade and industry in different organizations. centres of Bangladesh; • To initiate and adopt appropriate measures for the protection Category: of trade and persons engaged therein, especially members of the FBCCI; Chamber of commerce; industrial promotion; and trade promotion • To maintain relations and communicate with trade and organization. industrial associations and other mercantile and public bodies abroad; • To liaise as a member of the International Chamber of Commerce, Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Commodity Exchange and Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Services/activities:
• Provides trade information services to members of FBCCI, foreign chambers, Bangladesh missions abroad and foreign missions in Bangladesh and related national and international organizations; • Collects, maintains, analyses and disseminates statistical and other information on matters related to trade, commerce and industry of national and international importance and compiles a databank; • Conducts research on policies and programmes relating to the development of trade, commerce and industry in the country; • Plans to develop an information network, with international collaborators such as the ICC; • Plans to develop a computerized database on members of the FBCCI in order to monitor their progress and performance; • Coordinates and disseminates matters referred by the trade representatives of the different embassies in order to assist local industrialists and traders; • Collects information and publications from the Trade Representatives and circulates them among all chambers and associations in the country;
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FOREIGN INVESTORS’ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND AND INDUSTRY (FICCI) INDUSTRY, DHAKA
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Prime View (03-303) Chamber Building 7, Gulshan Avenue 122-124 Motijheel Commercial Area Gulshan-1 Dhaka 1000 Dhaka 1000 Phone: (880 2) 9565208-10, 7161028-30 Phone: (880 2) 9892913, 9893049 Fax: (880 2) 9565212 Fax: (880 2) 9893058 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.mccibd.org URL: www.ficci.org.bd Year established: 1904 Year established: 1971 Principal function: Principal functions: • To deal with international trade and tariff, trade practices, • To promote and protect the interests of its members; taxation, commercial arbitration, training and human • To render such assistance, advice to the government of resources development, etc. Bangladesh and its related agencies/authorities towards promotion of commerce, trade and industry of the country vis- Services/activities: à-vis the interest of foreign investors in general and those of the FICCI members in particular; • Provides advisory services to the member organizations on • To support or oppose, legislative or other measures of the the aforementioned areas; Government affecting trade, commerce and industry of the • Prepares updates on national macroeconomic trends; country in general and the FICCI member in particular; • Is represented on the various policy-level bodies of the • To help establish just and equitable principles in the domain of Government; trade, commerce and industry of the country; • Acts as Secretary to the Bangladesh Employers’ Federation, • To liaise with other trade organizations, associations and the only organization in the country representing the concerned Government agencies/authorities for exchange of employers. information /views/suggestions to serve the interests of the FICCI members in particular. Publications issued:
Services/activities: • Annual Report of the Chamber (English). • Economic Indicators of Bangladesh (annually, English). • As detailed under Principal functions. • Summary of Taxation Rules (annually, English). • The Chamber News (monthly, English). Publication issued: • The Tax News (monthly, English).
• Annual Report. Local branch: • Monthly Bulletin. • Bangladesh Country Profile. 137 Bangabandhu Avenue Narayanganj Membership structure: Membership structure: 277 members, representing the large The Chamber comprises of 141 members companies (as of 31 July enterprises in trading, manufacturing, banks, insurance companies 2005) representing a wide range of different industries, trading and public sector corporations. houses, service companies, banks and financial institutions. Products/commodity responsible for: Companies/business engaged in manufacturing/trading or rendering services within the territory of Bangladesh and having minimum 50 Manufacturing sectors such as jute, textiles, tea, chemicals and per cent foreign share holding in their equity are eligible for pharmaceuticals, garments, food products, and construction, and ordinary membership. Those having less than 50 per cent but not service sectors such as banks and insurance, hotels. below 20 per cent foreign share holding are eligible for associate membership. Associate membership is also open to any person Training: being a foreign national representing the business interests of any foreign company/institution in Bangladesh. The Chamber has been giving an increased focus on training and human resources development in recent periods. It conducts Category: regular training programmes on different disciplines of management functions. The courses are conducted by both local Chamber of commerce; and trade association. and foreign resource persons and the English language is used as the medium.
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Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Agro-based industries, artificial flower-making, computer software and IT, electronics, frozen foods, jute goods, jewellery and diamond-cutting, leather, oil and gas, electricity, telecommunications, textiles, tourism, entertainment, hospitals and clinics, hotels and guest houses, etc.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
The Government’s policy framework for foreign investment is based on Foreign Private Investment (Promotion and Protection) Act, 1980, which provides for non-discriminatory treatment between foreign and local investments; protection of foreign investment from expropriation by the State; and ensured repatriation of proceeds from sale of shares and profit. Excepting a list of four reserve industries, foreign investments are encouraged in all sectors. To assist private investment, the Government, through the Investment Board Act, 1989, set up the Board of Investment.
Category:
Chamber of commerce; industrial promotion and trade promotion organization.
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BHUTAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND FOOD CORPORATION OF BHUTAN INDUSTRY (BCCI) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: P.O. Box 80 Daebum Lam Phuentsholing Thimphu Phone: (975 5) 52241, 252429, 252560, 252859, 252375 P.O. Box: 147, Thimphu Fax: (975 5) 252289, 252342, 251742
Phone: (975 2) 323140, 322742 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (975 2) 323936 Year established: 1974 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.bcci.com.bt Principal functions:
Year established: 1980 Social functions: • To provide essential food items and to secure food reserves Principal functions: for Bhutan through the use of effective and efficient technical and managerial approaches; • To facilitate and promote private sector development and to • To maintain and service the national and SAARC food receive and disseminating information; security reserves at all strategic locations across the country; • To provide a forum for discussion and exchanging views • To look after the logistics of the World Food Programmes relevant to private sector development; (WFP); • To liaise between the private sector and the Government; • To provide effective and efficient agriculture marketing • To receive and submit views, suggestions and services to Bhutanese farmers by strategically aligning itself recommendations to the Government on policy matters. to the needs of the farmers; • To engage in effective marketing, distribution and Services/activities: sale/export of locally produced agriculture produce; • To set up temporary sheds to conduct auctions or arrange • Identifies market sourcing; exports as per the demand of local farmers; • Disseminates information and prepares project reports; • To purchase maize and to promote its sale in the eastern • Provides business support and advisory services. region; • To transfer payments to Bhutanese farmers on behalf of the Local branches: auction yard buyers.
Twenty one branches spread out all over the country. All business Commercial functions: and trade associations are its registered members. • To increase product lines and area coverage to meet the demands of consumers; Membership structure: • To pursue commercially attractive business ventures; • To engage in effective and efficient procurement and There are over 200 individual and corporate registered members. distribution of essential food items throughout the country In addition, there are over 9,000 mandatory members. and to engage as efficient and effective distributors of consumer goods in the local market; Products/commodity responsible for: • To consolidate market services and ensure timely delivery of goods; Export of Bhutanese products and import of consumer goods. • To maintain fair prices and ensure the quality of consumer goods as a responsible marketing and distribution agency and Training: to control the sale of products beyond maximum retail price (MRP). For Bhutanese nationals only. Services/activities: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Maintains national food security reserve stocks at strategic Agriculture; hydropower; tourism; wood-based industries; locations as per the Government order; infrastructure development; IT industries, etc. • Provides storage facilities at the terminal regulated markets; • Caters to the safe storage of national food security reserve Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: stocks/SAARC reserve stocks and WFP aid with necessary pest control treatment on a need basis; Almost all the requisite Acts are in place. • Distributes WFP commodities at various project sites;
• Distributes essential food commodities during any national Category: emergency;
• Facilitates free and fair trade of locally produced agricultural Chamber of commerce; trade association; trade facilitation body; produces through auction yards located at Phuentsholing, trade fair and exhibition authority; trade promotion organization; S/Jongkhar, Gelephu, Sarpang and Samtse; and training/research institute.
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• Transfers payments to Bhutanese farmers on behalf of the ROYAL MONETARY AUTHORITY OF BHUTAN auction yard buyers; (RMA) • Establishes seasonal temporary auctions and export operations during the crop season as per the directives of the Office/postal address: Government and public demand; Post box no. 154 • Provides market information to the growers; Thimphu • Provides timely delivery of goods; Bhutan • Provides financial support to the farmers’ association. Phone: (975-2)-323111 Local branches: Contact Form: Thimphu http://www.rma.org.bt/EXTERNALWEB/contact_us.jsp P.O. Boxb188 URL: www.rma.org.bt Phone: (975 2) 322877, 333209 Fax: (975 2) 323957 Year established: 1982
Gelephug Principal functions: P.O. Box 166 Phone: (975 6) 351048, 251077 • To regulate the availability of money and its international Fax: (975 6) 251093 exchange; to promote monetary stability; • To supervise and regulate banks and other financial Samdrup Jongkhar institutions; P.O. Box 137 • To promote credit and exchange conditions, and a sound Phone (975 7) 251073, 251122 financial structure conducive to the balanced growth of the Fax: (975 7) 251123 economy;
• To advise the Government on any matter relating to its Products/commodity responsible for: functions, powers, and duties;
Essential food items and manufactured consumer products. • To Act as “lender of last resort” to banks in the case of short- term liquidity shortages. It also involves the provision of Category: central clearance facilities for interbank transactions;
Trading company in agricultural-related products. Services/activities:
• To issues notes and coins for the purpose of directly influencing the amount of currency in circulation outside banks, thereby providing the economy with sufficient, but if possible, non-inflationary liquidity; • To accept deposits as prudential reserves for banks (e.g., Minimum Reserves), the willingness to Discount commercial and Government paper; • To plan and arrange the printing of banknotes and the minting of coins, distributing banknotes and coins to the banks, providing facilities for the general public to exchange soiled and mutilated notes, and destroying soiled and mutilated banknotes; • To maintain accounts on behalf of and executes daily transactions with commercial banks and the government; • To provides depository services with international financial institutions, and carries out transactions with overseas financial institutions; • To for the formulate, revise and implement regulations concerning foreign exchange dealings; • To frame prudential regulations to be observed by the banks and other financial institutions, and monitors compliance through periodical reports required to be submitted by them, as well as through on-site inspections;
Publications issued:
• For a full list of papers and reports, please refer to < http://www.rma.org.bt/EXTERNALWEB/Publication.jsp?C ODE=RMA >
Membership structure:
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The Bank has eleven divisions: issues, banking, foreign exchange and reserve management, financial institutions supervision, Products/commodity responsible for: research and statistics, personnel and finance division, internal audit, information technology, human resource development, Horticultural and agro-based products; handicraft products; mineral hospitality and protocol and library divisions. products; timber products; processed food products; handmade paper products; traditional medicines; and essential oils. Titles of laws and regulations: Training: Prudential Regulations 2002 Licensing Regulation for Establishment of Commercial Banks in • ITC - Trade point seminars; Bhutan • In-country training/workshop on trade promotion activities; Foreign Exchange Regulations 1997 • ITC - WTO/cost benefit workshop. RMA Act 1982 Regulation for Establishment of an Insurance Business in Bhutan Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: BY-Laws of Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan Financial Institution Act 1992 Based on the FDI policy (2002) and FDI Rules and Regulations Bankruptcy Act of the Kingdom of Bhutan 1999 2005 Movable and Immovable Property Act of the Kingdom of Bhutan 1999 Category:
Category: Export marketing board; ministry of trade; trade facilitation body; trade fair and exhibition authority; and trade promotion Central Bank organization.
TSCHONG-RIG KNOWLEDGE CENTRE TRADE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Office/postal address: Office/postal address: c/o Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) Department of Trade Doybum Lam Ministry of Trade and Industry Thimphu Thimphu P.O. Box: 147 P.O. Box: 141, Thimphu Phone: (97 52) 322742, 324254 Phone: (975 2) 321337, 322407, 325588 Fax: (97 52) 323936 Fax: (975 2) 321338 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.tshongrig.org URL: www.trade.gov.bt Principal function: Year established: 1998 • To provide a “one-stop” information resource for the private Principal functions: sector of Bhutan.
• To act as focal point for trade development in Bhutan; Services/activities: • To support and interact with related organizations; • To enhance export promotion activities. • Learning Events: seminars, symposiums, focus group Discussions, workshops; Services/activities: • Skill-based training; • 24 hours of high-speed internet connectivity (256 kbps); • Collects and disseminates foreign market information; • Professional training and assistance in using "Tshong-Rig" • Establishes links with international organizations; and other audio-visual self-learning tools; • Identifies market opportunities; • Facilitates networking and sharing of best practices amongst • Coordinates and conducts market research; SMEs; • Provides marketing assistance to exporters; • Provides onsite guidance and support personnel; • Organizes trade-related workshops; • Library services; • Assists exporters in problem solving; • Office support services: photocopy, spiral binding, fax, • Provides technical assistance; phone, etc.
• Organizes and promotes trade fairs and missions. Training:
Publications issued: Through knowledge centre and audio-visual self-learning tools,
training in the following areas is provided: • Exporters Directory (biannually, English). • Accounting and finance;
• Business planning; Membership structure: 60 members. • Marketing and sales;
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• Operations; • Legal and insurance; • Technology.
Category:
Training/research institution, organization with training functions.
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BRUNEI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD BRUNEI INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (BEDB) AUTHORITY (BINA)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Block 2K, Bangunan Kerajaan Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources Jln Ong Sum Ping Km 8, Jalan Gadong Bandar Seri Begawan BA1311, Negara Negara BE1118
Phone: (673) 2230111 Phone: (673 2) 444100, 444200 Fax: (673) 2230063 Fax: (673 2) 423300
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.bedb.com.bn URL: www.bina.gov.bn
Year established: 2001 Year established: 1996
Principal functions: Principal functions:
• To function as a first-stop agency to attract, retain and add • To develop and manage industrial sites and complexes to value to both local and foreign investments; encourage the formation of new industry and cooperatives; • To further diversify Brunei Darussalam’s economy and • To process the application of industrial activities to be create employment opportunities for its people; allocated at the industrial sites and complexes; • To coordinate with ministries and agencies to maximize the • To register new cooperatives; benefits generated by local and foreign direct investment • To provide support services for the development of through strengthening policy, legal, institutional framework manufacturing and cooperative activities. and human resources development for investment and improving investment promotion capabilities; Services/activities: • To continue to undertake measures to identify and address main policy impediments to create a pro-active business • Licensing for industrial and cooperatives; environment which is conducive for investment; • Industrial and cooperative development. • To keep abreast with the global developments and explore new business opportunities with growth potential for Brunei Publication issued: Darussalam to capitalize on.
• Information on infrastructure and facilities. Services/activities:
Local branches: • Stimulates growth, expansion and development of Brunei
Darussalam: c/o Blok 2 A6 • Implements Government policies and preparing investment Pekan Belait Industrial Compleks promotion plans, incentives and marketing strategies to Jalan Setia Diraja, Kuala Belait, KA3131, Negara attract foreign and local investments; Phone: (67 3) 3335052 • Assists and facilitates industrial development as a whole
including supporting the development of SMEs; Temburong Office • Prepares, promotes and develops industrial sites, and also Cawangan Daerah Temburong strategic and competitive facilities for prioritized industries. PA 1351, Temburong, Negara
Phone: (67 3) 5221321 Publications issued:
Tutong Office • Promotional material. c/o A6 Block 2 Tutong Industrial Complex
TA 2541, Tutong, Negara Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Phone: (67 3) 4261490
• Advanced technology industries and skill-intensive services Products/commodity responsible for: which enjoy good export market prospects;
• The Pulau Muara Besar (PMB) Port; • Gas-related industries; • Sungai Liang Industrial Park (SPARK). • Manufacturing of chemicals, chemical products and plastic
products; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • Manufacturing of paper and paper products, printing and • Brunei Economic Development Board Act (revised 2003). publishing; • Manufacturing of textiles, apparel and leather industries; Category: • Manufacturing/assembling/servicing of electronics and electrical goods; Industrial promotion; and investment promotion organization. • Manufacturing/processing of fabricated metal products, machinery and equipment;
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• Manufacturing/processing of food and beverages including Services/activities: packaging warehouse/cold storage; • Manufacturing/processing of non-metallic and mineral The Division has four units to implement the above objectives: products; • Resource Centre: in charge of ascertaining that capacity- • Manufacturing/processing of wood and wood product. building programmes and services strengthen the business and management capabilities of small and medium business Training: owners as well as their ability to produce competitive and marketable products; All aspects of management and business development for • Industry and Trade Promotion Unit: responsible for creating cooperatives. development strategies that will lead to the successful penetration of locally produced goods and services into the Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: domestic and international markets; • National Standards and Accreditation Centre: has the • Manufacture of food products, creameries and beverages; responsibility of ensuring that local products have the • Manufacture of silica products; appropriate standards and quality control recognition that • Manufacture of clay products; contributes to their acceptance and competitiveness in the domestic and international markets; • Manufacture of non-metal products; • Regulatory and Facilitation Services Unit: responsible for • Manufacture of apparel products; providing trade-related regulatory and facilitation services
• Manufacture of textile mill products; that can assist in fast-tracking the establishment, growth and • Manufacture of leather products. expansion of local businesses in the primary resources and industry sectors. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Publications issued: • Industrial Coordination Order 2001. • Cooperatives Act 1984. • Setting up of a Company, a practical guide, April 2000 (English). Category: • Brunei Darussalam Investment Guide, 2001 (English). • The Directory of Brunei Darussalam Products, Ministry of Government agency. Industry and Primary Resources, 2003.
• Investment Opportunities in 2004.
PROMOTION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL Membership structure: DEVELOPMENT DIVISION The Promotion and Entrepreneurial Development Division is Office/postal address: under the Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources.
Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources Products/commodity responsible for: Km 33, Jalan Tutong Kampong Sinaut Tutong TB, Negara 1741 All products/services under primary resources, and those enterprises under the category of small and medium-sized Phone: (673 2) 380026, 382822 ext. 2315 enterprises Fax: (673 2) 382838 Training: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.industry.gov.bn, Training courses pertinent to the development of entrepreneurs in navision-data.pusatsumber.gov.bn/index.html the small and medium enterprises category.
Year established: 2003 Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Principal functions: Primary resources, high-tech industries, manufacturing and processing and service industry. The mission of the Division is to create self-reliant and competitive entrepreneurs and facilitate the development of high- Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: quality marketable products that can contribute to the nation’s goal of economic diversification. • Industrial Coordination Order 2001. • Economic Development Board (Amendment) Order 2001. The Division has set two main objectives: • Investment Incentive Order 2001. • To identify potential entrepreneurs and support their development to become enterprising and socially responsible Category: business owners and managers of enterprises engaged in the primary resources and industry sectors; Industrial promotion; Ministry of Trade; standard, testing and • To identify locally produced goods and services in the inspection body; trade fair and exhibition authority; trade primary resources and industry sectors that have commercial promotion organization; and training/research institute. potential and support their development as a competitive and marketable product in the local and international markets.
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SEMAUN HOLDINGS SDN BHD • Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, 1958, and the Convention on the Office/postal address: Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States, International Centre for Unit 10, Block B Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Warisan Mata-Mata Complex • Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) with Kampong Mata-Mata United Kingdom and Indonesia. Gadong BE1718 • Bilateral Agreement on Investment Promotion with Oman Bandar Seri Begawan and Germany, and with the Republic of Korea and China in November 2000. Phone: (67 3) 2456064/5 • Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Fax: (67 3) 2456070 Organization (WIPO) in May 2000. • Companies Act (Chapter 39). E-mail: [email protected] • Income Tax (Chapter 35). URL: www.semaun.gov.bn • Investment Incentive Order 2001. • Industrial Coordination Order 2001. Year established: 8 December 1994 Category: Principal functions: Investment promotion authority. • An investment and trading arm of the Government of Brunei Darussalam in enhancing economic diversification TRADE DEPARTMENT programmes; • To spearhead industrial and commercial development through Office/postal address: direct investment in key industrial sectors; • To accelerate industrial and commercial development through Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade st creating new industries and introducing new technology; 1 Floor, International Convention Centre • To generate business opportunities for active participation of Jalan Pulaie, Berakas local entrepreneurs. BB 3910
Services/activities: Phone: (673) 2383389 Fax: (673) 2384099 • Creates and expands existing industrial commercial activities; • Provides joint-venture partnership with foreign investors and E-mail: [email protected] suitable (emerging) local and foreign companies; URL: www.mfa.gov.bn
• Creates industrial and commercial strategic alliances with Year established: 2005 leading international companies;
• Promotes direct investment in high technology, value added Principal functions: industrial and commercial ventures;
• Promotes investment into research and development leading • To explore and identify market opportunities for Brunei to commercialization; Darussalam; • Considers overseas investment in activities that will reinforce • To coordinate and facilitate bilateral, regional and the position of local companies; international economic cooperation; • Provides strategic partnership to foreign and local investors in • To formulate short-term and long-term trade policies; strategic sectors in the economy. • To provide a national focal point for trade and investment
information; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • To monitor various regional and international trade or economic issues; • Development and management of industrial areas: development of infrastructure and facilities in industrial sites • To promote an outward looking and conducive environment and/or land owned by the company; for trade and investment.
• Enterprises and commercial activities: resource-based industries, both upstream and downstream activities and Services/activities:
manufacturing industry; • Liaises with interrelated Government agencies and • Involvement in the services sector: not related to the banking departments; and financial industries; • Issues certificate of origins. • Investment promotion: operate and act as agent for
investment promotion, industrial development and marketing of products in the local and foreign markets. Offices abroad:
Brunei Darussalam Trade and Tourism Office in Taipei Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: th Floor, No. 80 6 Jianguo North Road, Section 1 • ASEAN Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Taiwan Province of China Investments, 1987.
• The Framework Agreement on the ASEAN Investment Area, 1998. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
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Fabrication of machinery and equipment; pharmaceuticals; furniture; glass; chemicals; fertilizers; “Halal” processed foods; leisure and recreation; education and training; medical services; transportation and logistics; business services; financial services; hospitality and tourism.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
Investment Incentives Order, 2001.
Category:
Trade facilitation body.
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CAMBODIAN FEDERATION OF EMPLOYERS AND COUNCIL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS (CAMFEBA) CAMBODIA (CDC)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
119 Street 144, Sankat Phsa Kandal II, Khan Daun Penh Government Palace, Sisowath Quay, Wat Phnom Phnom Penh Phnom Penh
Phone: (855) 23222186 Phone: (855 23) 981154 Fax: (855) 23222186 Fax: (855 23) 428426, 427 597
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.camfeba.com URL: www.cambodiainvestment.gov.kh
Principal functions: Year established: 1994
• To coordinate the private sector under one unified umbrella; Principal functions: • To promote good industrial relations to ensure a harmonious business environment; • To act as a one-stop service organization; • To provide advice, build capacity and disseminate • To be responsible for the rehabilitation, development and information. oversight of investment activities; • To be responsible for the evaluation and decision-making on Services/activities: rehabilitation, development and investment project activities; • To be responsible for approving investment activities; • Advisory Services: • To grant exemption from customs duties and taxes; - Adivses on matters related to collective bargaining, strikes, • To be responsible for investment promotion. layoffs and termination of contracts, - Assists and represents employers during the arbitration Services/activities: process through consultation and legal advice; • Information Dissemination: • Provides investment information and application procedure; - Provides early notification and information on changes to • Evaluates and processes investment application; labour and business law, arbitration rulings and analysis, • Facilitates visa and work permit; and market information and the business environment; • Facilitates company registration; - Maintains a documentation centre which provides texts and • Grants customs duties and taxes exemption; translations of laws and regulations, Government • Facilitates downstream administrative procedure; announcements and updates, and general regional and • Pre- and post-monitoring of investment activities. international business information;
• Local and International Training Courses Publications issued: - Holds seminars and forums;
- Organizes networking events and social gathering. • An investment guide to Cambodia (English, Chinese and Provides extensive representation of employers on all the • Japanese). main national and international bodies. • Prime investment information in Cambodia (Province and
city) (English, Chinese, Khmer and Japanese). Publication issued: • Compact Disc (CD) for promotion.
• Legal updates. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Newsletter.
• Development of agriculture and agro-industry; Membership structure: CAMFEBA currently has 61 • Development of transport and telecommunication; ordinary members, 4 associate members and 8 association members (as of 14 Sep 2007). Membership is made up of businesses that join • Development of energy and electricity; CAMFEBA directly, business associations whose own membership • Labour intensive industries and export oriented processing then benefit from being part of CAMFEBA and associate members and manufacturing; from outside the private sector such as research institutes, • Tourism-related industries. consultants, and alike. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Training: • Law on Foreign Investment in the Kingdom of Cambodia, Each year, CAMFEBA assesses the training needs of its members 1994. and organizes a range of seminars and training courses to address • Law on Investment of the Kingdom of Cambodia, 1994. subject areas identified as priority training requirements. Areas • Law on the Amendment to the Law on Investment of the covered include industrial relations, human resource management, Kingdom of Cambodia, 2003. leadership and supervision, and occupational health and safety. Category: Category: Investment promotion organization. Employers’ organization.
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EXPORT PROMOTION DEPARTMENT (EPD) GARMENT MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION IN CAMBODIA Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Ministry of Commerce 57-59, Road 136, Phsar Kandal II, Daun Penh 175 Jawaharlal Nehru (St. 215) Phnom Penh Phnom Penh
Phone: (855) 23216948 Phone: (855 23) 301181/331183 Fax: (855) 23 211 745 Fax: (855 23) 369398
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.epd.gov.kh URL: www.gmac-cambodia.org
Year established: 1997 Year established: 1996
Principal functions: Principal functions:
• To promote and extend the export capacity of materials and • To represent the Cambodian textile and garment industry in services, and coordinate with producers for export; both national and international forums; • To propose to relevant ministries all measures for promoting • To liaise with the other stakeholders and all interested parties and facilitating exportation of local products; at the international and local levels. • To guide and encourage local producers to participate in national and international trade; Services/activities: • To manage exhibitions and fairs; • To participate in the development process of financial affairs • Informs and advises members on government impediment and guarantees for export; and trades-related developments. • To assist the exporters in search of export market and • Assists members to resolve industrial issues. cooperate with them to promote the export; • To prepare documents related to business expansion and to Products/commodity responsible for: publicize relevant information. All kinds of garment products and textiles. Services/activities: Training: • As detailed under Principal functions. Conducts a garment factory supervisor course administered by Category: Cambodian trainers.
Trade promotion organization, and Ministry of Commerce. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Garments and textiles related.
Category:
Trade association.
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MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND FINANCE (MEF) Phone: (855 23) 427358 Fax: (855 23) 426396 Office/postal address: 92, Street Daun Penh, E-mail: [email protected] Sangkat Wat Phnom URL: www.moc.gov.kh Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Phen, Cambodia. Year established: 1979 Phone: (855) 23 428385 Principal functions: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.mef.gov.kh • To administer and regulate both the conduct of international and domestic trade; • To foster the integration of the Cambodian economy into the Year established: 2000 region and international economies; • To establish and develop sound legal commercial Principal functions: framework; • To promote the rapid growth of Cambodian exports. • To participate in the organization, implementation, and monitoring of the performance of economic and financial Services/activities: policies of the Government; • To administer and coordinate the structural reform of the The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) is structured into nine economic and financial institutions; functional departments/divisions and a State-owned enterprise. A • To participate in the formulation of policy and management short description of each is given as follows: of investments; • Intellectual Property Division (IPD) is mandated with the task of registering and granting certificates of trademarks and • To prepare and implement the policy of the national revenue budget; service marks to domestic and foreign applicants and resolving all disputes arising therefrom; • To analyze, monitor and predict economic situations in the • Foreign Trade Division is responsible for (1) setting foreign short, medium and long-term; trade policies and strategies, (2) conducting market research • To formulate economic/financial measures for regulating for domestic product demand and also issuing import and improving the economic administration; licenses, (3) negotiating and drafting bilateral trade • To formulate and enact regulations for macro-economic and agreements and bilateral cooperation between the Royal financial management; Government and foreign countries, and acting as the contact • To prepare and administer the national budget; point for Cambodian commercial counselors working abroad, • To promote good governance on the administrative aspect of and (4) conducting and publishing market research and economy and public finance. studies on price and demand on goods in the international market; • Internal Trade Division is acting as an important catalyst to Services/activities: stimulate the economic development of Cambodia. This division is responsible for facilitating the process of local • To undertake in Public Financial Management Reform trade and services development; Programme (PFMRP); • Export Promotion Division plays a central role in the export • To undertake in Medium Term Expenditure (MTEF); promotion of Cambodian products in the framework of the transformation of Cambodia’s economy into a market- • To participate in National Poverty Reduction Strategy oriented economy; (NPRS). • ASEAN and International Organizations Division is
composed of four offices (ASEAN Office, WTO Office,
Coordination and International Organizations Office, and Publication: Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Office) and two enquiry
points (WTO Legal Compliance Enquiry Point and Services For a full list of papers and reports, please refer to Enquiry Point);
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to bind contracts, to borrow and lend money after the • PPCC Newsletter. approbation of the Ministry of Economy and Finance • Chamber Handbook. (MEF), and engage in commercial activities in the field of • Tourist. domestic and foreign trade. Its main activities are related to trade in agricultural products, especially rice. Membership structure:
Publications issued: Membership of PPCC is open for all business organizations that are operating in Phnom Penh and which accept the statutes of the • Trade Research Newsletter, 2003 (monthly, English and chamber. Membership is classified into three categories: elected Khmer). members, advisory members and ordinary members. • Official Gazette for Trademark Registration (quarterly, English). Category:
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Chamber of commerce.
Agriculture; food processing; export-oriented production; textile and garments; construction materials and tourism. SIEM REAP CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (SRCC)
Category: Office/postal address: Ministry of Trade. First floor (Chongsang High School) Loktaneuy Street, Salakomreuk Commune PHNOM PENH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (PPCC) Siem Reap District/Province
Office/postal address: Phone: (855 63) 966168 H/P: (855 12) 838342 No 7D7, Confederation de la Russie (110) Fax: (855 63) 966169 Sangkat Tek Laok1, Khan Toulkok Phnom Penh E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Phone: (855 23) 880795 URL: www.angkorwatsrcc.org.kh Fax: (855 23) 881757 Year established: 26 December 2004 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.ppcc.org.kh Principal functions:
Year established: 1995 • To protect the right and interests of its members; • To support the business community by assisting in the Principal functions: establishing of new ventures, giving legal and fiscal advice, providing information on external markets and partnership • To establish relationships with economic sources inside and opportunities, and by arbitrating commercial disputes; outside Cambodia; • To advise the Government and local authorities in the area of • To improve enterprise efficiency; economic and commercial legislation and regulation; • To increase business opportunities in Cambodia in order to • To provide training to business people. attract investors and to promote investment in Cambodia; • To play a role as a mediator in resolving business disputes; Services/activities: • To ensure the autonomous management of the chamber by conducting membership elections and facilitating new • Establishes relationships regionally and overseas; membership applications; • Improves enterprise efficiency for the interests of the • To continue supporting and promoting the growth of SMEs agriculture, industry and handicraft, commerce, and services in Cambodia; sectors; • Increases the dissemination of business opportunities in • To create vocational training centres relating to specific Cambodia in order to attract investors as well as to promote business fields; investment in Siem Reap province; • To promote, mediate and support all concepts for • Plays a role as a mediator in resolving business disputes; strengthening and improving the capacity of staff of the • Ensures the autonomous management of the Chamber by PPCC’s General Secretariat. conducting membership elections and facilitating new
membership applications;
• Continues supporting and promoting the growth of small and Services/activities: medium-sized enterprises in Siem Reap province;
• Creates vocational training centres relating to business field As detailed under Principal functions. and other sectors;
• Promotes and mediates and supports all concepts for Publications issued: strengthening and improving the capacity of staff of the
SRCC’s secretariat office. • Business Directory (annually, English).
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Membership structure: President, Vice-President, Members of sectors.
Three categories of members: i) elected members: 15 persons, must pay monthly membership fees; ii) advisor members: not more than elected members; oOrdinary members: no restrictions, no membership fee.
Training:
• Local Training and Outside Country.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
• Agriculture; • Industry and handicraft, • Commerce; • Services sector.
Category:
Chamber of Commerce.
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ALL CHINA FEDERATION OF INDUSTRY AND CHINA COUNCIL FOR THE PROMOTION OF COMMERCE/ALL-CHINA GENERAL CHAMBER OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE (CCPIT) INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE (ACFIC) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: 1 Fuxingmenwai Street AV Beiheyan 93 Beijing 100860, China Beijing 100006 Phone: (86 10) 88075716 Phone: (86 10) 65136677-2312,2313 Fax: (86 10) 68030747 Fax: (86 10) 65131769 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ccpit.org URL: www.chinachamber.org.cn (English), www.acfic.org.cn (Chinese) Year established: 1952 [since 1988, the separate name: China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC) is simultaneously Year established: 1953 used]
Principal functions: Principal functions:
• To participate in the political consultation regarding national • To operate and promote foreign trade; affairs and major decisions and practice political participation • To use foreign investment; and discussion as well as democratic supervision; • To introduce advanced foreign technologies; • To guide members to participate actively in the national • To conduct activities of Sino-foreign economic and economic construction and promote the stepwise perfection of technological cooperation in various forms; the socialist market economy system, so as to accelerate the • To promote the development of economic and trade relations process of comprehensive social progress; between China and other countries and regions around the • To promote and carry out guidelines/ policies of the Party and world; Government and to strengthen ideological and political work; • To promote the mutual understanding and friendship between • To enhance the cultural construction of enterprises, and to China and peoples and economic and trade circles of all guide its members to be the erectors in the endeavor of nations around the world, in line with law and government socialism with Chinese characteristics; policies of China. • To represent and protect legal rights and interests of members; • To guide its members and to provide them with services of Services/activities: information and technology, management, law, accounting, auditing, financing, training, etc.; • Conducts investigation and research work; • To offer professional training of industry and commerce and • Provides information and consultancy services concerning to help its members improve operational management, better trade, economic and technological cooperation; financial management, and elevate the productive technology • Introduces potential cooperative partners; and product quality; • Promotes foreign trade and attracts and utilizes foreign funds; • To organize its members to hold and participate in exhibitions • Introduces advanced foreign technology and helps revamp and trade fairs of all kinds both at home and abroad; existing enterprises; • To organize its members for business trips abroad and to help • Handles liaison work with foreign economic and trade circles, them develop national and international markets; hosts foreign economic and trade delegations and • To enhance connections and friendship between persons and professionals, and organizes and sends Chinese economic, organizations of industry and commerce of Hong Kong, trade and technology delegations abroad; China; Macao, China and Taiwan Province of China. • Strengthens ties with foreign chambers of commerce, economic and trade associations and other organizations; Services/activities: • Participates in international economic and trade organizations or the activities sponsored by them; • As detailed under Principal functions. • Handles liaison work with the Beijing Offices of overseas industrial and commercial organizations; Publication issued: • Sends permanent representatives or establishes commercial representative offices in foreign countries if needed; • China Business Times. • Organizes and participates in international conferences; • China Industry and Commerce Magazine. • Assists in organizing exhibitions abroad, or participates in international fairs, and coordinates the activities of Chinese Training: departments, or localities, which wish to hold exhibitions in China or abroad, or attend international fairs and administers ACFIC has set up more than 200 various educational institutions, the China International Exhibition Centre; and conducts at regular intervals training courses concerning • Arranges and hosts foreign economic, trade and technical industry and commerce at home and abroad. exhibitions in China, sponsors multinational exhibitions and international fairs in China; Category: • Organizes and holds technical exchanges between China and other countries and acts as national focal point for information Chamber of commerce, trade association. exchange relating to trade and economy;
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• Collects, distributes, displays and exhibits literature and new CHINESE ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE product samples, as well as various overseas publications on AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION (CAITEC) science and technology; • Handles legal affairs pertaining to foreign commerce and Office/postal address: trade, as well as maritime matters; • Issues and legalizes documents, including Certificates of No. 28 Dong Hou Xiang Origin, Certificates of Force Majeure, documents on foreign An Ding Men Wai trade and shipping certificates; Beijing 100710 • Acts as agent for patent applications and trademark registrations, provides consultancy services for industrial Phone: (86 10) 64245742 properties, and helps settle disputes and other issues regarding Fax: (86 10) 64212175 technological exchanges or trade; • Compiles and publishes periodicals and other publications E-mail: [email protected] reporting on China's economic and trade relations as well as URL: www.caitec.org.cn China's import needs or new export commodities; • Cooperates with overseas advertising and publishing Year established: 1948 organizations in implementing mutual exchanges. Principal functions: Publications issued: • To advise government agencies and policymakers by • China Trade Review (daily, Chinese). submitting analytical reports on world development issues • China's Exports (4-6 / year, Chinese/English). and China’s international trade and economic relations and • China's Foreign Trade (monthly, Chinese/English). making recommendations on economic and trade policies • The Directory of CCPIT Membership Enterprises with a view to improving China’s economic and trade (Chinese/English). performance and realizing sustainable development over the • Information on Overseas Trade and Economy (weekly, medium and long terms; Chinese). • To keep the business community informed of economic and • Products and Technology Abroad (bi-monthly, Chinese). trade information and business opportunities. • Survey of China's Economic Development (annual, Chinese/English). Services/activities: • Trade Promotion Newsletter (semi-monthly, English). • Conducts academic and applied research on world economy, Local branches: international trade, international economic cooperation, currencies and finance, commodity market, foreign direct Subcouncils in Anhui, Beijing, Changchun, Chengdu, Chongqing, investment, international organizations, multilateral trading Dalian, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guangzhou, system and development issues; Guizhou, Hainan, Harbin, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, • Conducts collaborative research with other agencies Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nanjing, including international organizations and domestic Ningbo, Ningxia, Qingdao, Shangdong, Shanghai, Shanxi, institutions; Shenyang, Shenzhen, Sichuan, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xi'an, Xiamen and • Collects, analyses and disseminates economic and trade data; Xinjiang. • Conducts market investigation for domestic and foreign companies and institutions, on contract basis; Offices abroad: • Edits and publishes books and periodicals relating to foreign trade and economic cooperation; Australia; Belgium; Canada; France; Germany; Gulf Area; Italy; • Translates books and documents on trade and economy; Japan; Mexico; Republic of Korea; Russian Federation; Singapore; • Sponsors/organizes academic exchange activities including Hong Kong, China; Macao, China; United Kingdom; United States seminars, conferences, workshops, discussion meetings and of America. lectures; • Conducts enterprise credit investigation and organizing Category: trainings on credit management; • Provides expertise on receivables collection and Trade promotion organization. management, etc.
Publications issued:
CAITEC is one of the biggest publishing bases in China in trade and commerce issues. China Commerce and Trade Press, CAITEC’s publishing house, edits and publishes a large number of books and periodicals on foreign trade and economy each year.
Professional Periodicals:
• China Commerce Year Book (annually). • Intertrade (monthly). • International Economic Cooperation (monthly). • Business Week/China (monthly).
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• Foreign Investment in China (monthly). Kompass Company • Research on Foreign Trade (three issues a month). 28, Donghou Xiang • Prices of Commodities on International Market. Andingmen Wai Beijing 100710 Publications on Information and Consultation: Phone: (86 10) 64248801 Fax: (86 10) 64229352 • Kompass China Industrial Directory (two volumes, renewed E-mail: [email protected] annually). • Kompass China Industrial Directory CD (renewed semi- Membership structure: 300 plus members. annually). • Kompass International Business Data Base (CD and Products/commodity responsible for: directory, a collection of information on 1.8 million companies in 70 countries, renewed annually). Research on import/export of energy, textile, agricultural products, machinery and electronic products, and high-tech • Foreign-invested Enterprises in China (eight volumes, a technology products, etc. collection of information on 145,000 foreign-invested
enterprises). Training: • The Major Importer-Exporters and Government Foreign
Trade Business Institutions in China (data base and book, Master’s degree in international trade; renewed annually). • • Master’s degree in finance; • A Collection of Legal Literature on Foreign Investment in China (book and floppy disk, renewed annually). • Business credit management training; • A Guide to International Business Credit Risk Management. • Computer skill training; • Credit Risk Control and Receivables Collection (CD). • Overseas training service.
Local branches: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Beijing International Trade Advertising Company • Areas: central and western region of China. 28 Donghou Xiang • Industries: electronic information, software, aviation and Andingmen Wai space technology, opto-mechatronics, biomedicine and Beijing 100710 medical apparatus and instruments, new materials, new Fax: (86 10) 64222661 energy and high-efficiency energy saving, environmental E-mail: [email protected] protection, transportation, nuclear utilization technology and modern agriculture, etc. Beijing Intertrade Business Promotion Co. Ltd. 28, Donghou Xiang Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Andingmen Wai Beijing 100710 • Provisions on the Establishment of Investment Companies by Phone: (86 10) 86451067 Foreign Investors (2004). Fax: (86 10) 64211322 • Provisions on the Administration of Foreign-funded E-mail: [email protected] Advertising Enterprises (2004). • Regulations on Foreign-invested Sourcing Centres for Merchants Alliance International Ltd. Exports (2003). 28, Donghou Xiang • Measures for the Administration of Foreign Insurance Andingmen Wai Institutions’ Representative offices in China (2004). Beijing 100710 • Supplementary Provisions on the Interim Measures for the Phone: (86 10) 64268551, 64235259 Establishment of Chinese–Foreign Joint Venture Foreign Fax: (86 10) 64217789 Trade Companies (2003). • Supplementary Provisions on the Measures for the Leading Development and Trade Co. Administration of Foreign-funded International Freight Rm. 805, Jiahui Centre Agency Enterprises (2003). Building 6. Jiqingli • Supplementary Provisions of the Provisions on the Chaoyang Dist., Beijing 100020 Administration of Foreign-funded Construction Enterprises Phone: (86 10) 65529404 (2003). Fax: (86 10) 65529399 • Supplementary Provisions of the Provisions on the Administration of Foreign-funded Construction and Huaxin International Economic and Trade Co. Ltd. Engineering Design Enterprises (2003). Phone: (86 10) 65211431 • Supplementary Provisions to the Provisions on the Administration of Foreign-funded Municipal Planning Beijing Smart Economic and Trade Development Co. Enterprises (2003). 28, Donghou Xiang Andingmen Wai Category: Beijing 100710 Phone: (86 10) 64248941 Trade promotion organization; training/research institute; and consultant institution.
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CITIC GROUP* 410 Park Avenue, 18/7 New York, NY 10022, United States of America Office/postal address: Phone: (1 212) 9450273 Fax: (1 212) 9457749 Capital Mansion 6 Xianyuan Nanlu There are also CITIC-wholly owned subsidiaries in China; Hong Chaoyang Dist. Kong, China; Macao, China; and overseas. Beijing 100004 Category: Phone: (86 10) 64660088, 64661710 Fax: (86 10) 64662078, 64661186 Investment promotion authorities.
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.citic.com SHANGHAI SMALL ENTERPRISES TRADE DEVELOPMENT SERVICE CENTER Year established: 1979 Office/postal address: Principal functions: International Cooperation Division • To bring in foreign capital for domestic construction; Room 502 • To introduce advanced technologies and managerial expertise; No. 108, Da Mu Qiao Road • To develop domestic and foreign economic and technological cooperation; Phone: (86 21) 64220814 • To engage in domestic and international financial and banking Fax: (86 21) 64220827 business; • To invest at home and abroad; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • To undertake domestic and foreign trade. URL: www.tdsc.org, www.eecd.cn
Services/activities: Year established: 1999
• Organizes outbound and inbound investment and various Principal functions: forms of economic cooperation; • Undertakes new technology development and promotion, • To promote the development of Shanghai small enterprises; venture capital investment; • To serve SMEs in the fields of finance, training, consulting, • Undertakes international and domestic financing and banking information, internal and external communication, etc.; business, guarantee service for foreign and domestic clients, • To furnish market research and analysis about burgeoning establishment and management of solely- or jointly-owned marketplaces. banks and finance companies inside and outside China; • Floats various kinds of securities at home and abroad on Services/activities:
CITIC's own or on commission; • Aims to serve as bridge connecting both Government and • Handles leasing business inside and outside China; enterprises as well as enterprises with potential business • Provides insurance for foreign investors in China, partners; international insurance or reinsurance; • Holds seminars and match-making events for local and • Undertakes international and domestic trade; foreign companies; • Undertakes international contracting, subcontracting and • Provides training, offering foreign language and management labour service; courses; • Handles real estate business and tourist service; • Attracts and receives overseas procurement delegations and • Provides trust and consulting service, other services as an organizes trade missions abroad. agent for domestic and foreign clients; • Handles any other undertaking authorized by the Board of Publications issued: Directors of CITIC. • Shanghai Small Enterprises Communicator (monthly). Publication issued: • Shanghai Small Enterprises Biz-info Newsletter (every 10 days). • Annual Report. • Elite Enterprises Cooperation Directory (EECD) (online, Chinese and English). Offices abroad: Training: 3rd Floor, The LANDIC Third Akasaka Building 2-3-2 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan • Short MBA courses; Phone: (81 3) 35842635-6 • International trade seminar; Fax: (81 3) 35056235 • Business English training. E-mail: [email protected] Category:
Trade promotion organization.
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THE PEOPLE’S BANK OF CHINA (PBC) PBC needs to report to the State Council its decisions concerning the annual money supply, interest rates, exchange rates and other Office/postal address: important issues specified by the State Council for approval before they are put into effect. PBC is also obliged to submit work No.32 Chengfang Street report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Xi Cheng District Congress on the conduct of monetary policy and the performance Beijing 100800, China of the financial industry.
Phone: (86 010) 66194114 Category:
E-mail: [email protected] Central bank. URL: www.pbc.gov.cn
Year established: 1949
Principal functions:
• To draft and enforce relevant laws, rules and regulations that are related to fulfilling its functions; • To formulate and implement monetary policy in accordance with law; • To issue the yuan renminbi and administer its circulation; • To regulate financial markets, including the inter-bank lending market, the inter-bank bond market, foreign exchange market and gold market; • To prevent and mitigate systemic financial risks to safeguard financial stability; • To maintain the yuan renminbi exchange rate at adaptive and equilibrium level; • To hold and manage the State foreign exchange and gold reserves; • To manage the State treasury as fiscal agent; • To make payment and settlement rules in collaboration with relevant departments and ensuring normal operation of the payment and settlement systems; • To provide guidance to anti-money laundering work in the financial sector and monitoring money-laundering-related suspicious fund movement; • To develop statistics system for the financial industry and responsible for the consolidation of financial statistics as well as the conduct of economic analysis and forecast; • To administer credit reporting industry in China and promoting the building up of credit information system; • To participate in international financial activities at the capacity of the central bank; • To engage in financial business operations in line with relevant rules; • To perform other functions prescribed by the State Council.
Services/activities:
As detailed under Principal functions.
Membership structure:
The top management of PBC is composed of the governor and a certain number of deputy governors. The governor of the PBC is appointed into or removed from office by the President of China. The candidate for the governor of the is nominated by the Premier of the State Council and approved by the National People's Congress. When the National People's Congress is in adjournment, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress sanctions the candidacy for the governor of PBC. The deputy governors of PBC are appointed into or removed from office by the Premier of the State Council.
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COOK ISLANDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC. COOK ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT BOARD Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Ground floor Small Business Enterprises Centre Building Private Mail Bag Rarotonga Avarua Rarotonga P.O. Box: 242, Rarotonga, Cook Islands Phone: (682) 24296 Phone: (682) 20925 Fax: (682) 24298 Fax: (682) 20969 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.cookislands-invest.com URL: www.cookislandschamber.org Year established: 1996 Year established: 1952 (formerly: Rarotonga Chamber of Commerce) Principal functions:
Principal functions: • To process, regulate and monitor foreign investment; • To promote trade; • To promote business and professional activities; • To assist with the growth of new and existing businesses. • To offer protection to business practices; • To seek trade advancements to markets; Services/activities: • To contribute positively to legislation passed by the Government; • Promotes, fosters and assists in the establishment of • To promote women in business; investment; • To foster general welfare within the commercial sector. • Encourages and advises the private sector in order to make the best sustainable use of resources consistent with national Services/activities: development and investment policies; • Promotes, coordinates and facilitates trade to, from and within • Maintains a trade and export library; the Cooks Islands; • Disseminates membership lists worldwide, showing business • Regulates, monitors and controls the direction, extent and names, principals, products/services, telephone, e-mail, fax scope of foreign investment; and P.O. Box numbers; • Encourages and facilitates the participation of Cook Islanders • Provides office facilities, including conference room, in investment and in the ownership, management and control photocopying, telephone, e-mail and fax transmissions/ of investment business; receptions to members; • Provides and facilitates training in business-related skills and • Conducts weekly Executive Committee meetings and monthly provides advisory services to encourage and assist Cook general meetings; Islanders in business development; • Encourages members to attend overseas seminars, workshops, • Provides funding options to assist with marketing. etc., by liaison with overseas aid and other agencies; • Publishes a monthly supplement in the Cook Islands News Publications issued: Media; • Produces a weekly Business Review Programme in • Cook Islands Investment Code (periodic, English). association with the Bank of Cook Islands and Cook Islands • Cook Islands Business Cost Summary (annually, English). Television; • Investment Project Profiles (weekly, English). • Provides assistance with international trade shows; • Assists in securing funding for projects; Offices abroad: • Works in partnership with the Small Business Enterprise Centre with business development advice for SMEs; Cook Islands Consulate-General 1st floor, 127 Symonds Street Publications issued: P.O. Box 37-391 Auckland, New Zealand • Monthly Newsletter. Phone: (64 9) 3661100 • Membership lists. Fax: (64 9) 3091876 • Market Research. E-mail: [email protected] • Business Directory. • Trade Directory. Cook Islands High Commission 56 Mulgrave Street Membership structure: 200 members. P.O. Box 12-242, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand Category: Phone: (64 4) 4725126 Fax: (64 4) 4725121 Chamber of commerce. E-mail: [email protected]
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Cook Islands Honorary Consul 8/8 Lauderdale Avenue Fairlight NSW 2094, Australia Phone: (61 2) 99076567 Fax: (61 2) 99496664
Cook Islands Honorary Consul Los Angeles 1000 San Clemente Way Camarillo, CA 93010, United States of America Phone: (1 805) 3883751 Fax: (1 805) 3832084 E-mail: [email protected]
Honorary Consul c/o 144 Ke Ala Ola Road Kamehameha Schools Honolulu, Hawaii 96817, United States of America Phone: (1 808) 8428999 Fax: (1 808) 8423520 E-mail: [email protected]
Honorary Consul-General Bydgoy Alle 64 0265 Oslo 2, Norway Phone: (47 2) 430910 or 446721 Fax: (47 2) 444611 E-mail: [email protected]
Membership structure:
Government funded with board of directors and a secretariat.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• Development Investment Board Act 1995-96. • Development Investment Board Regulations 1995-96. • Investment Code 2003.
Category:
Industrial promotion and business development.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC KOREA TRADE AND ECONOMY INSTITUTE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA (KOTEI)*
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Jungsong-dong Sungri Street Central District Jungsong Dong Pyongyang Central District Pyongyang P.O. Box: 98 P.O. Box: 504, Pyongyang Phone: (850 2) 3815926 Fax: (850 2) 3815827 Phone: (850 2) 3815926 Fax: (850 2) 3815827 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1 March 2000 Year established: 1967 Principal functions: Principal functions: • Trade and investment promotion; • Trade information service; • To conduct research on the world economy, international • Trade exhibition; trade trends and international market movements; • Arbitration and training. • To provide world economy and trade information to the State economy organizations and domestic trade bodies. Services/activities: Services/activities: • Trade information service; • Arbitration; • Collects, analyses and disseminates information on the world economy trends, international financial and commodity • Export and import promotion; market movement and major import/export prices through • Matchmaking. Intranet, which connects companies throughout the country;
• Conducts the introduction of domestic and overseas Publications issued: buyers/sellers, introducing of foreign traders/investors to local
people, propaganda of imports/exports, opening trade fairs and • Market Information (daily, Korean). other trade promotion activities; • Understanding of INCOTERMS 2000 (Korean). • Runs training courses in cooperation with • Foreign Investment Related Laws and Regulations (Chinese/ international/internal organizations. English/Korean). Publications issued: Offices abroad: • International Market Bulletin (daily). PCC Representative in Beijing • Economy and Trade News. Phone: (86 10) 65324308, 65325518 Fax: (86 10) 65321145 Membership structure: One president, one vice-president, 100 researchers and staff members. Membership structure: 25 members (3 banks and 22 companies). Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
Training: • The law on foreign investment. • The law on equity joint venture. • Monthly workshop on trade practice; • The law on contractual joint venture regulations for the • Ad hoc training with ICC, other international organizations. implementation of the law on foreign exchange control. • The law on foreign-invested business and foreign individual Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: tax. • Regulations for the implementation of the law on foreign- Energy industry; agriculture; light industry; trade; food industry; invested business and foreign individual tax. processing industry; mining industry. • The customs law. • The law on the protection of the environment. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • The insurance law. • The law on external economic arbitration. • 14 laws on foreign investment. • The notary public law on the registration of foreign-invested enterprises. Category: • Labour regulations for foreign-invested enterprises.
Chamber of commerce; export marketing board; industrial Category: promotion; investment promotion authority; trade fair and exhibition authority; and trade promotion organization. Training/research institute.
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CAPITAL MARKETS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: (CMDA) • Unit Trust Act (1978). Office/postal address: • CMDA Act (1996) and its accompanying Regulations and Rules (1997). Level 5, FNPF Place • Financial Transaction Reporting Act (2004). 343-359 Victoria Parade Suva Category:
P.O. Box: PO Box 2441, Government Buildings Government development and regulatory authority.
Phone: (679) 3304944 Fax: (679) 3312 021 FIJI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Email: [email protected] Office/postal address: URL: www.cmda.com.fj 178 Lakeba Street Year established: 1996 Samabula Suva Principal functions: P.O. Box: 1242, Suva • Regulation; • Development. Phone: (679) 3210618, 3385788 Fax: (679) 3370150, 3304190 Services/activities: E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] (Secretary) • Facilitates the supply of good marketable debt and equity securities; Services/activities: • Undertakes appropriate educational and public awareness campaigns to broaden the public ownership of debt and • Provides assistance in establishing contacts with traders; equity securities; • Circulates trade offers/trade opportunities. • Develops appropriate institutional infrastructure and human resource capabilities required of an active capital market; Membership structure: 11 district chambers, 8 affiliate • Licenses market participants as specified within the CMDA members, 5 corporate members. Act and Regulations; • Protects investors by ensuring the maintenance of fair and Training honest markets through the adequate supervision of market participants and enforcing the regulations where appropriate; • Rural enterprise developmental projects and business start- • Promotes enhanced disclosure requirements; ups; • Collects statistics to monitor and analyse the prevailing • Represents the private sector in negotiations with conditions within the capital markets, within the context of Government and statutory authorities; the whole financial system; • Shareholders in the exporters club on duty suspension • Formulates policy and advises the Government on capital schemes; markets development and regulation; • Partnership in the Fiji Forum of Non-state Actors association • Ensures that the CMDA has appropriately qualified staff and (An NGO body of civil society/private sector organizations); other resources to enable it to fulfil its objectives in a timely • Partnership with the Government in trade facilitation. and cost effective manner, whilst maintaining a high quality standard. Category:
Publications issued: Chamber of commerce, and industrial promotion.
• CMDA Quarterly Market Update (newsletter). • Regulatory Matters (e-newsletter). • Various investing booklets and brochures.
Training:
The CMDA offers workshops, seminars and presentations aimed at developing or enhancing the knowledge and skills of intermediaries, company executives, investors and other key players.
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FIJI DEVELOPMENT BANK (FDB) FIJI ISLANDS TRADE AND INVESTMENT BUREAU Office/postal address: (FTIB)
Fiji Development Bank Office/postal address: 360 Victoria Parade 6th floor, Civic Tower P.O.Box: 104 Victoria Parade Government Building Phone: (679) 331 4866 Suva Fax: (679) 331 4886 P.O. Box: 2303, Government Buildings, Suva E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.fdb.com.fj Phone: (679) 3315988 Fax: (679) 3301783 Year established: 1967 E-mail: [email protected] Principal functions: URL: www.ftib.org.fj
• To Provide finance, financial and advisory services to assist Year established: 1980 in the economic development of Fiji, particularly in the development of agriculture, commerce and industry; Principal function: • To act as financial instrument in Fiji’s development projects/plans and special assistance programmes when the • To promote, stimulate and facilitate foreign trade, need arises; investment, and economic development in Fiji. • To undertake the role developing the various economic sectors in Fiji; Services/activities:
Services/activities: • Organizes seminars; • Organizes trade missions to potential markets; • To provide loan to the agricultural sector to small-scale • Coordinates Fiji's participation at overseas trade fairs; farmers through Government-sponsored rural development • Organizes trade exhibitions; projects; • Promotes Government's Export Promotion Incentive • To provide a soft loan scheme for indigenous Fijians, also Scheme; known as the Commercial Loans to Fijians Scheme (CLFS); • Publishes booklets on trade and investment opportunities and • To provide Bill Discounting loan services to Fijian incentive schemes; nationals; • Identifies and prepares profiles of projects in key development sectors; • To provide Export Finance facility to all producer exporters • Provides advice and guidance on investment policies; exporting to any destination, except producers of traditional exports. • Identifies local and overseas partners for joint ventures; • Provides information to investors about capital costs, wages, • To provide loans to various business sectors in Fiji, labour regulations and land costs. primarily those keen on establishing contacts with foreign
investors for export market opportunities and partnerships. Publications issued:
Local Branches:
• An Investors Guide to Fiji (regular). Current branches are located in Ba, Labasa, Lautoka, Nadi, • Fiji Exporters’ Directory (online database). Nausori, Rakiraki, Savusavu, Seaqaqa, and Sigatoka. Full • Fiji Product Directory (annually). address details are available online < • FTIB Annual Report (annually). http://www.fdb.com.fj/index.cfm?go=fdb.services&Department= E5483BDC-9AD7-12F0- Local branch: B9A2CCADCECB4CC9&ServiceID=E5717B6B-D59D-2758- st 7F136859A9C81469 > 1 Floor, Popular Building, Suite 5 P.O. Box 5105 Publications issued: Lautoka, Fiji Phone: (679) 6660133 • Annual Reports Fax: (679) 6667186 < E-mail: [email protected] http://www.fdb.com.fj/index.cfm?go=fdb.resources&cmd=forum view&uid=reports > Offices abroad:
Category: Level 7, 91 Phillip Street Parramatta Bank for financing development projects in Fiji. NSW 2050, Australia Phone: (61 2) 98931813 Fax: (61 2) 98931814
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E-mail: [email protected] • To cooperate with any organization of commerce and industry, 32nd floor, Suite 3212 local international or otherwise whose main objects are similar 333 Keelung Road to those of this chamber or become a member or associate Section 1, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China thereof; Phone: (886 2) 27579596 • To assist charities by subscribing to any local or other Fax: (886 2) 27579597 charities, and to grant donations for any public purpose; E-mail: [email protected] Services/activities: 5777 West Century Blvd., Suite 205 Los Angeles, CA 90045, United States of America • As detailed under Principal functions. Phone: (1 310) 6452136 Fax: (1 310) 6450851 Category: E-mail: [email protected] Chamber of commerce. Membership structure: 32 employees and 10 board members. TRAINING AND PRODUCTIVITY AUTHORITY OF Training: FIJI (TPAF)
• Provides training programme for staff; Office/postal address: • Provides training attachments for trade officers from the Pacific region. Training House Lot 1, Beaumont Road Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Narere Nasinu Tourism; electronics; agro-based industries; fisheries; footwear; leather processing; mining; information technology; clothing and P.O. Box: 6890, Valelevu, Nasinu textile. Phone: (679) 3392000 Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Fax: (679) 3340184
• Foreign Investment Act 1999. E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.tpaf.ac.fj Category: Year established: 26 May 2003 (formerly Fiji National Industrial promotion; investment promotion authority; trade Training Council (FNTC), since 1973). facilitation body; and trade promotion organization. Principal functions:
SUVA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY The functions of TPAF are to be conducted through its three Councils, namely, the National Training and Productivity Council P.O. Box: 2475, Government Building (NTPC), National Quality Awards Council (NQAC) and National Standards and Accreditation Council (NSAC): Phone: (679) 3314044 • To provide quality training, consultancy services and to issue Fax: (679) 3302188 certificates; • To promote and facilitate productivity and training; E-mail: [email protected] • To manage skills development and standards. URL: www.suvachamber.org Services/activities: Principal function: • Provides, arranges, advises and disseminates information on • To promote and protect commerce and industry throughout training; the district of Suva in particular and in Fiji generally; • Provides consultancy services; • To promote and to protect the mutual interest of all its • Provides framework and system for excellence and national members, to promote, encourage and provide for joint awards; consultation between members or groups of members, and to • Promotes and facilitates productivity; promote amicable and cordial relations between one group of • Provides skill development and certification schemes; members and another group of members and between • Establishes and manages the National Qualifications employers and employees; Framework; • To act as a consultative and an advisory body; • Provides a range of incentives to encourage training; • To collect statistical or other data and information; • Develops appropriate facilities and staffing for delivery of • To promote the free enterprise and the development of services. entrepreneurial skills by disseminating information and by publishing or circulating newsletters, papers, circulars and Publications issued: other publications, and to keep members informed on existing laws and practices, the activities of Government and • TPAF Newsletter (monthly, English). Government committees;
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Local branches:
Nabua Centre Jerusalem Road, Nabua P.O. Box 15676, Suva Phone: (679) 3384777 Fax: (679) 3370446
Suva Centre 11 Cumming Street, Suva Phone: (679) 3306377 Fax: (679) 3306340
Namaka Centre Queens Road, Namaka Private Mail Bag Nadi Airport, Nadi Phone: (679) 6725730 Fax: (679) 6725722
Lautoka Centre Naceva Street, Waiyavi Private Mail Bag Lautoka Phone: (679) 6667000 Fax: (679) 6640436
Training:
• Construction; • Information technology; • Electrical and electronics engineering; • Hospitality and tourism; • Aviation, awards, travel and ticketing; • Manufacturing of textile, clothing and footwear; • Marine and port; • Mechanical engineering; • Productivity and quality.
Category:
Training institute.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, SERVICES EXTERNAL TRADE SERVICE AND TRADE OF FRENCH POLYNESIA Office/postal address: Office/postal address: 53 Nansouty Street, Teissier Building, first floor 41, Rrue du Docteur Cassiau Papeete 98713 Papeete, Tahiti P.O.Box 20727, 98713 Papeete, Tahiti P.O. Box: 118, Papeete, Tahiti Phone: (689) 506464 Phone: (689) 472700 Fax: (689) 436420 Fax: (689) 540701 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ccism.pf (French only) URL: www.tahiti-export.pf
Year established: 1880 Year established: 1986
Principal functions: Principal functions:
• To represent the interest of the business community; • To conceive and implement regulations regarding trade • To develop and promote Polynesian exports. between French Polynesia and the rest of the world; • To study and research ways and means to equilibrate French Services/activities: Polynesia’s trade balance; • To prepare and negotiate conclusion of international trade • Centre for companies dealing with formalities: provides accords and to implement their execution. assistance to future license holders, helps with formalities needed for setting up enterprises, etc.; Services/activities: • Documentation, customs formalities department and legal advices department: provides international documentation, • Provides international trade information services; temporary admission forms, customs formalities, legal • Provides financial and technical services to develop business advice, etc.; opportunities; • Business development and promotion department: publishes • Organizes all actions related to exportation development (trade economic and statistical surveys, provides technical shows, fairs, etc.). assistance, etc.; • Centre for Foreign Trade: maintains commerce and overseas Publication issued: relations, provides export assistance, advises for foreign investment projects, etc.; • Exporter’s guide. Guide détaillé de l’exportateur (French). • Centre for vocational training CEFOR: assists businesses • Tahiti Export Actions. with their needs of training, trains unemployed people and
helps them to integrate working life; Products/commodity responsible for: • Fishing post-facilities (Papeete fishing port): administers the
fish auctions market and the cold storage rooms. All Tahitian products: pearls, mother-of-pearls, monoï, tamanu,
noni, vanilla, fishes, flowers, beverage, etc. Local branches:
Training: Offices in Bora Bora, Huahine, Moorea, Maupiti, Nuku Hi,
Raiatea and Tipaerui et Taravao. Offers a large variety of training courses regarding all exportation
procedures and techniques and also market studies per products, Membership structure: Over 17,000 members. every Tuesday from 10.00 am to 12.00 am, including:
Training: How to conduct an export diagnostic study?; • • General training in languages, computer literacy, • Export formalities and regulations; management training, etc. • Communication tools; • Specialized training in fishery, tourism, jewellery, food • International business contracts; hygiene, handicraft, pharmacy, transport, safety, florists, and • China’s beverage market; more. • United States jewelry market; • European Union’s cosmetics market; Category: • etc.
Chamber of commerce and training/research institution. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
All areas and industries.
Category:
Export marketing board; and training/research institution.
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TAHITI INVEST - INVESTMENT PROMOTION AUTHORITY OF FRENCH POLYNESIA
Office/postal address:
82, General de Gaulle Street Papeete, Tahiti
P.O. Box: 504 - 98713
Phone: (689) 54 32 54 Fax: (689) 54 32 55
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.tahiti-invest.com
Principal functions:
• To promote and develop international investments in French Polynesia.
Services/activities:
• Offers free of charge operational assistance to projects in tune with the Government's policy of sustainable economic development; • Informs on economic potentials and investment grants; • Facilitates meetings with professionals and local authorities; • Guides customers all along the decision-making process.
Publications issued:
• Tahiti and her islands, an investor’s ideal, 2005. • Investor’s Guide, 2005.
Category:
Investment promotion agency.
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GEORGIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND 30 David Agmashenebeli Street INDUSTRY 4400 Poti Phone: (995 293) 21515 Office/postal address: Fax: (995 293) 21515
Berdznis str. 29 1 Janashia Street Tbilisi 2100 Zugdidi Phone: (995 215) 51950 Phone: (995 32) 720710 Fax: (995 215) 50040 Fax: (995 32) 723190 3 Chavchavadze Street E-mail: [email protected] 3500 Ozurgeti URL: www.gcci.ge Phone: (995 296) 65862 Fax: (995 32) 001527, 001072 Principal functions: 21 Merab Kostava Street • To represent Georgian business community locally and 2200 Telavi worldwide; Phone: (995 250) 33884 • To protect the interests of its members both in Georgia and Fax: (995 250) 76057 abroad; • To facilitate the establishment of market economy Membership structure: 8,000 members. principles; Category: • To promote Georgian exports, help Georgian businesses to
expand to new markets and strengthen their positions on the Chamber of commerce. existing ones as well as to attract foreign investment.
Services/activities: GEORGIAN NATIONAL INVESTMENT AGENCY • Provides information and consultation service; (GNIA) • Arranges foreign and local production exhibitions and presentations inside the country and abroad; Office/postal address:
• Draws up business plans for small and medium businesses, 12 Chanturia str. develops investment proposals, marketing researches; 0108 Tbilisi • E-identification of production;
• Tests and provides expertise of local and imported goods; Phone: (995 32) 985463 • Verifies force major circumstances of certificate of origin Fax: (995 32) 982755 and other documents; • Trains and improves professional skills of the staff for the E-mail: [email protected] business sector; URL: www.investingeorgia.org • Conducts arbitration services and court; • Translates and interprets. Year established: 2002
Publications issued: Principal function:
• Business Bulletin, 1999-2000 (monthly, Georgian). • To promote and facilitate foreign direct investment in • Business Magazine “EXPERT”, 1997-1999 (annually, Georgia. Georgian/English). • How to start business – an illustrated guide-book (annually, Services/activities: Englsih). • International Scientific-Practical Monthly Magazine • Offers comprehensive and current information on economic “Sakartvelos Ekonomika” (monthly, Georgian/English). conditions, business/investment-related laws and regulations, • Micro-Macro Economics, 2001 (Georgian/English/Russian). trade regimes; • Newsletter (Georgian/English). • Offers competent, efficient assistance and advice for deciding on specific locations for investments within the Local branches: country; • Organizes meetings, conferences, forums and workshops; 124 Rustaveli Avenue • Arranges appointments for potential investors to meet local 4600 Kutaisi entrepreneurs; Phone: (995 231) 45992, 71400 • Facilitates communication with Government agencies. Fax: (995 231) 714 00 E-mail: [email protected] Membership structure:
6 Kostava Street GNIA is the only Georgian Government agency responsible for 6000 Batumi investment promotion, GNIA is designed to act as a “one-stop- Phone: (995 88) 22272841/3 shop” for comprehensive information about investment Fax: (995 88) 22272842 opportunities in Georgia.
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Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
• Agriculture; • Energy; • Financial sector; • Infrastructure; • Real estate; • Telecom; • Tourism; • Transportation.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• Amendments to the Law on Investment Promotion. • Law on Accounting and Bank Accounts. • Law on Activity of a Commercial Bank. • Law on Advertising. • Law on Control Of Entrepreneurial Activity. • Law on Enterprise Activity Licensing and Basis of Permission Issues. • Law on Entrepreneurs. • Law on Grants. • Law on Investment Promotion and Guarantees of Investment Related Activities. • Law on Leasing Activity Support • Law on Monopoly Activity & Competition. • Law on Non-Bank Deposit Instances-Credit Unions. • Law on Private Arbitration. • Law on State Property Privatisation. • Law on the National Bank of Georgia. • Law on the National Investment Agency of Georgia. • Laws on Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents. • Tax Laws and Tax Code of Georgia. • Trade and Financial Regulation Laws.
Category:
Investment authority, investment promotion organization.
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BUREAU OF STATISTICS AND PLANS GUAM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
P.O. Box 2950 173 Aspinall Avenue, Suite 101 Hagatna, GU 96932 Ada Plaza Center
Phone: (671) 4724201,2,3 Phone: (671)4726311/8001 Fax: (671) 4771812 Fax: (671)4726202
E-Mail: [email protected] URL: www.guamchamber.com.gu URL: www.bspguam.com Principal functions: Year established: 1975 • To advance the general welfare of its members by promoting In 2002, Guam Public Law 26-76 transferred the duties and the economic, social and environmental well-being of the operations of the former Guam Department of Commerce’s territory of Guam; Economic Research Centre to the Bureau of Planning and • To develop, encourage, promote and protect the commercial, changed the Bureau’s name to the Bureau of Statistics and Plans. professional, financial and general business interest of the territory of Guam; Principal functions: • To extend and promote the trade and commerce, and foster, develop and protect the industry of the territory; • To serve as a catalyst for planned and balanced economic, • To promote laws and regulations desirable for the benefit of social, environmental and physical growth; business in general; • To advise the Governor during the formation of policies and • To provide a forum for the reflection of sentiments of on the interrelationships among laws, plans, policies and business regarding matters affecting its interests programmes; • To encourage private/public partnerships in the formation Services/activities: and implementation of plans, policies and programmes; • To ensure the availability of information generated by the • As detailed under Principal functions. Government of Guam of policy and plan development; • To provide technical support to other Government of Guam Publications issued: entities in order that they can meet their missions; • To ensure the availability of timely and accurate statistical • The President’s Report (monthly newsletter). indices that are required to make sound decisions to improve • Directory of Members. A business guide to over 300 Guam’s economic viability. chamber members listed alphabetically and by type of business. Includes addresses, contact person, phone and fax Services/activities: number. • Business Relocation Packet. Information about Guam's • Facilitates the delivery of economic, social and physical business climate including demographics, employment, cost data; of living and economic projections, licensing and more. • Maintains and updates a library and a bibliographic database • Job Search Packet. Includes chamber membership directory, file of Guam planning and statistical documents; list of employment agencies, information on housing, cost of • Is involved in the collection, compilation, analysis and living, schools and child care. dissemination of socio-economic information such as the • Relocation Packet. Includes: Guam fact sheet, and consumer price index and data on external trade. information on housing, cost of living, schools entertainment and more. Publications issued: • Tourist Information Packet. Includes: Guam Visitor’s Guide; island map; information on water sports, tours and • Atan I Islan Guam (annually). transportation, accommodations and a calendar of events. • Guam Statistical Yearbook (annually). • Guam Consumer Price Index (quarterly). Category: • Guam Economic Review Quarterly Report (quarterly). • Guam’s Export data (annually). Chamber of commerce. • Guam’s Import Data (quarterly). • Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, June 2001. • Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, April 2003. • Guam Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. Annual Report, June 2005.
Category:
Government agency.
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GUAM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENT OF GUAM PORTAL- OFFICIAL COMMERCE AUTHORITY (GEDCA) PORTAL FOR ISLAND OF GUAM
Office/postal address: E-mail: [email protected] Guam International Trade Centre Building URL: www.guam.gov Suite 511, 590 South Marine Drive Tamuning, 96911 Year established: 2006
Phone: (671) 6474332 Principal functions: Fax: (671) 6494146 • To act as the Guam Government’s single point service URL: www.investguam.com centre;
• To improve government efficiency bringing its services Year established: 1965 directly to the people;
Principal functions: • To transform government operations and improving culture of service through e-government initiative; • To be the catalyst for economic development, seeking the aid of private capital without competing with it; Services/activities: • To plan, initiate, organize, control and direct an integrated programme to attract, promote, encourage and develop • To provide travel/tourism and other related information to desirable commerce, agriculture, industry and tourism. visitors; • To provide information on resident services; Services/activities: • To provide information on business activities and relocation; • To provide Guam Government directory; • Assists, coordinates and monitors financial advisory • To provide Guam Emergency Guide; services, capital financing, debt management and capital • To provide government and other news. markets;
• Provides financial assistance by aiding private enterprise Category: without unfairly competing with it;
• Leases Government of Guam land to promote investments in Government portal. entrepreneurial capital and thereby increases opportunity for employment in manufacturing, industrial, commercial, recreational, retail and service enterprises; • Promotes economic development through capital investment.
Publications issued:
• Guam USA, The Ultimate Destination. • GEDCA’s Developing Guam (quarterly report). • GEDCA’S Financial Assistance Program. • GEDCA’s Qualifying Certificate Program.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Captive insurance; tourism; fisheries; aquaculture; agriculture; transhipment; telecommunications; healthcare; manufacturing; aviation training; arbitration; regional certification and film production.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• The Guam Foreign Investment Equity Act passed by the United States Congress, included Guam in the United States Tax Treaty rates with Guam withholding tax rates reduced to treaty defined rates. Restrictions in prohibit application of the Act to beneficiaries of a Guam Qualifying Certificate. • Title 12 of the Guam Code Annotated, Chapter 58 (GEDCA’s Qualifying Certificate program) provides incentives for investments from both foreign and domestic sources.
Category:
Investment promotion authority
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CHINESE GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HONG KONG COALITION OF SERVICE INDUSTRIES (HKCSI) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: 4th Floor, Secretariat Department 24-25 Connaught Road 22nd Floor United Centre, Central 95 Queensway
Phone: (852) 25256385 Phone: (852) 25299229 Fax: (852) 28452610 Fax: (852) 25279843
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.cgcc.org.hk URL: www.hkcsi.org.hk
Year established: 1900 Year established: 1990
Principal functions: Principal function:
• To promote trade and industry and enhance the prosperity of • To promote the continuing development and competitiveness Hong Kong, China; of Hong Kong, China’s service industries. • To protect the rights and interests of the business and industrial community in Hong Kong, China; Services/activities: • To participate in public affairs and reflect the views of the business and industrial community; • Promotes the development of a "service friendly environment" • To develop international and regional communication with a in Hong Kong, China; view to promoting economic cooperation. • Provides a focal point for liaison with Government; • Establishes and maintains cooperation between members of Services/activities: Hong Kong, China’s service industries for the purpose of achieving common goals; • Organizes/sponsors conferences, seminars, exhibitions and • Represents the interests of service industries in Hong Kong, delegations; China and formulates policies and make submissions on behalf • Issues Certificates of Origin recognized worldwide; of members of the Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries; • Issues Certificates of Origin according to Hong Kong Closer • Promotes fair, effective and comprehensive international and Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA); multilateral rules for trade in services; • Provides Electronic Trading Access Services including trade • Contributes to the opening of the services sector of the declarations; mainland; • Handles trade enquiries; • Establishes and develops links with counterpart organizations • Handles enquiries on registration information of Hong elsewhere. Kong, China limited company; • Provides business information on the Chamber’s website; Publications issued: • Provides trade enquiries services and maintains a comprehensive range of economic reference materials in the • Servicing Economy Newsletter (3-4 issues per year, English). Chamber’s library; • Service Sector in Hong Kong - Statistical Card (annually, • Publishes monthly the Chamber’s Bulletin; English). • Handles trade disputes; • Reports on various topics. • Provides insertion services of promotion materials. Membership structure: Publications issued: Members of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in the • Annual Report (English/Chinese). service industries; and service sector trade associations. • Business Info (monthly, English/Chinese). • Chamber's Bulletin (monthly, Chinese). Category: • Chinese General Chamber of Commerce Members' Business Directory, available on Internet website. Services promotion organization.
Membership structure: Over 6,000 members.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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HONG KONG EXPORT CREDIT INSURANCE HONG KONG EXPORTERS' ASSOCIATION CORPORATION (ECIC) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Rm. 825 Star House 2/F., Tower 1 South Seas Centre 3 Salisbury Road 75 Mody Road, Tsimshatsui East, Kowloon Tsimshatsui Kowloon Phone: (852) 2732 9988 Fax: (852) 2722 6277 Phone: (852) 27309851 Fax: (852) 27301869 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.hkecic.com Year established: 1955
Year established: 1966 Principal function:
Principal function: • To promote the export and re-export business in Hong Kong, China. • To encourage and support export trade through the provision of insurance protection for Hong Kong, China exporters Services/activities: against non-payment risks arising from buyers’ inability or refusal to pay or political and economic events. • Undertakes library services; • Conducts regular seminars, meetings, luncheons, exhibitions. Services/activities: Publications issued: • Provides a wide range of insurance facilities to Hong Kong, China exporters of goods and services who trade with overseas buyers and clients on credit terms, usually for • Exporters' Bulletin (quarterly). credit periods of up to 180 days; • The Hong Kong Exporters' Association Members’ Directory • Services cover not only exports and re-exports from Hong (annual booklet and CD-ROM). Kong, China but also offshore shipments transported directly • Annual Report. by suppliers to buyers without passing through Hong Kong, China. The indemnity provided is normally 90 per cent of Membership structure: One honorary member, 614 full the loss incurred; members and 30 associate members as of 1 August 2007. • Covers the following risks: - buyer risks (insolvency and bankruptcy, payment Category: default, contract repudiation); - country risks (blockage or delay in foreign exchange Trade association. remittance, cancellation of import licence, import ban, payment moratorium, and war, revolution, riot and natural disaster).
Publications issued:
• Annual Report. • Compass (quarterly).
Category:
Trade and investment financing organization, credit guarantee and insurance organizations.
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HONG KONG FRANCHISE ASSOCIATION (HKFA) THE HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (HKGCC) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: c/o Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce 22nd Floor, United Centre 22/F United Centre 95 Queensway 95 Queensway
Phone: (852) 25299229 Phone: (852) 2529 9229 Fax: (852) 25279843 Fax: (852) 2527 9843
E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] URL: www.franchise.org.hk URL: www.chamber.org.hk
Year established: 1992 Year established: 1861
Principal functions: Principal function:
• To monitor and promote the development of franchising • To promote, represent and safeguard the interests of the activities in Hong Kong, China; Hong Kong business community. • To act as a focal point for liaison with the Government on matters concerning franchising and its applications; Services/activities: • To promote franchising and to strengthen standards of practice. • Networking - Opportunities for fellowship with influential business leaders and government officials from both locally Services/activities: and abroad. To help identify business opportunities and exchange ideas; As detailed under Principal functions. • Chamber website - Contains an up-to-date database listing information on more than 10,000 potential buyers and sellers Publications issued: and attracting frequent users from more than 140 countries. It also contains business news, economic analyses and • Franchise Training Kit (English/Chinese, also available on government tenders; CD-ROM). • Website design and hosting - Member company profiles are • Essential Questions on Franchising in Hong Kong (English). listed on the Chamber website; • Business opportunities - Trade inquiries are published daily. Membership structure: Franchising companies in Hong Overseas delegation and visitors meet with Chamber members Kong, China. to discuss business opportunities; • Hotline - Dedicated business information inquiry service with Category: business matching services for members; • Representation - The Chamber is represented on over 30 key Franchise association. government advisory bodies and the Legislative Council; • Trade documentation - Six offices around Hong Kong, China offering quality and prompt services. The Chamber is the only official authority in Hong Kong, China to issue the internationally recognized Admission Temporaire/Temporary Admission (ATA) carnets; • Business services - Provide meeting venues, translation and mailings to members at special rates; • Member benefits programme - Formed partnership with members to offer discounts and special privileges to fellow members.
Publication issued:
• Bulletin (monthly business magazine).
Membership structure:
Corporate members who are Hong Kong, China registered companies.
Category:
Trade and industrial promotion organization.
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HONG KONG PRODUCTIVITY COUNCIL (HKPC) Offices abroad:
Office/postal address: Productivity (Dongguan) Consulting Co., Ltd Unit 1510, Winnerway Hotel HKPC Building 1 Winnerway Road, Nancheng District, Dongguan 78 Tat Chee Avenue Guangdong 523087, China Yau Yat Chuen, Kowloon Phone: (86769) 22021910 Fax: (86769) 22021911 P.O. Box: 99027 TST E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.dg.hkpcprd.com Phone: (852) 27885678 Fax: (852) 27885900 Productivity (Guangzhou) Consulting Co., Ltd Unit 1006A, 10th Floor Citic Plaza E-mail: [email protected] 233 Tianhe Bei Road URL: www.hkpc.org Guangzhou 510613, China Phone: (8620) 38770230 Year established: 1967 Fax: (8620) 38770231 E-mail: [email protected] Principal functions: URL: www.gz.hkpcprd.com
• To promote productivity excellence through the provision of Productivity (Shenzhen) Consulting Co., Ltd rd integrated support across the value chain of Hong Kong, Unit 312, 3 Floor C-1 Building China firms; Hi-tech Industrial Park • To achieve a more effective utilization of resources; Shenzhen 518057, China • To enhance the value added content of products and Phone: (86755) 26712988 services; Fax: (86755) 26712281 • To increase international competitiveness. E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.sz.hkpcprd.com Services/activities: Guangzhou Representative Office th Provides a wide range of consultancy, professional training, Unit 1006A, 10 Floor manufacturing support programmes, publications, exhibitions, Citic Plaza, 233 Tianhe Bei Road conferences and study missions in the core service areas of Guangzhou 510613, China manufacturing technologies, management systems, information Phone: (8620) 38770220 technologies and environmental technologies. Fax: (8620) 38770221 E-mail: [email protected] Publications issued: Membership structure: 23 Council Members appointed by the • Annual Report (annually, English). Chief Executive of Hong Kong, China.
• Directory of Industrial Suppliers (annually). Training: • Directory of Industries (annually).
• Directory of Linkage Industry (annually). Manufacturing technologies, management systems, information • Directory of Plastics Industry (annually). technologies and environmental technologies. • Green Lighting: Towards Smart Energy Management. • Green Manufacturing Express. Category: • Green Productivity - 25 Years and Beyond. • Legal Protection for IP and Innovation of SMEs in PRD. Industrial promotion and productivity centre; and • One Factory, One Year, One Environmental Project. training/research institute. • Quality Seawater Assurance Scheme (QSAS). • Specialized technical bulletins: - Electronics Bulleting (bimonthly). - Metals Bulletin (bimonthly). - Plastic Bulletin (bimonthly). - Textiles and Clothing Bulletin (bimonthly). - Toys Bulletin (bimonthly). - Logistics Bulleting (quarterly). - Automotive Parts and Components Bulletin (quarterly).
Local branch:
Productivity Training Institute (PTI) 1st Floor HKPC Building 78 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Phone: (852) 27885678 Fax: (852) 27885900
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HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL Publications issued: (HKTDC) • HK Enterprise (monthly). Office/postal address: • HK Toys (biannually). • HK Electronics (bimonthly). 38th Floor, Office Tower • HK Watches and Clocks (quarterly). Convention Plaza • HK Leather Goods and Bags (quarterly). 1 Harbour Road • HK Gifts, Premium and Stationery (quarterly). Wanchai • HK Electronic Components and Parts (quarterly). • HK Household (biannually). Phone: (852) 1830668; from China: 8008205188 (toll free) or • HK Jewellery Collection (biannually). (86 2) 163226688 • HK Apparel (biannually). Fax: (852) 2824 0249 • HK Fabrics and Accessories (biannually).
• HK Optical (annually). E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.tdctrade.com • HK Packaging (biannually). • HK Footwear (biannually). Year established: 1966 Offices abroad: Principal functions: China and Taiwan, Province of China: Beijing, Chengdu, Dalian, The Trade Development Council (TDC) is the statutory Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Kunming, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenzhen, organization for promoting Hong Kong, China’s external trade in Wuhan, Taipei and Xian; goods and services: • To create and facilitate opportunities in international trade Asia: Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Seoul, for Hong Kong, China-based companies, most of which are Singapore, Tokyo and Mumbai; SMEs, and to strengthen Hong Kong, China as the global trade platform of Asia with an ever-increasing critical mass Australia: Sydney; of “players”; Europe: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Budapest, Frankfurt, London, • To help Hong Kong, China manufacturers, traders and Milan, Moscow, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw and Prague; service providers succeed through marketing opportunities,
trade contacts, market knowledge and competitive skills; Latin America: Mexico City, Santiago and São Paulo; • To promote Hong Kong, China’s trade in goods and
services; Middle East and Africa: Dubai and Johannesburg; • To match overseas companies with Hong Kong, China service providers, manufacturers and traders in various North America: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. business sectors; • To provide information on 100,000 Hong Kong, China Category: product suppliers and service providers. Trade promotion organization. Services/activities:
• Participates in major overseas trade fairs, product exhibitions in overseas markets, and consumer promotions with leading international retailers; • Provides business matching service which helps companies from around the world find the right supplier, buyer or agent; • Maintains TDC’s databank of 380,000 international traders and 140,000 mainland firms; • Publishes and disseminates a series of Hong Kong, China product magazines with a global circulation providing easy sourcing for overseas importers and buyers; • Organizes 21 international trade fairs in Hong Kong, China attracting 500,000 international buyers per annum; • Organizes high-level missions, both inward and outward, to strengthen Hong Kong, China’s economic ties with key trading partners; • Reinforces its promotional thrust through a multipronged international public relations effort - maintaining contacts with business leaders, economic policymakers and media around the world, keeping them informed of latest business developments in Hong Kong, China; • Organizes and participates in business seminars and conferences at the international, regional and local levels.
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INVEST HONG KONG 115 East 54th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10022, United States of America Office/postal address: Phone: (1 212) 7523320 Fax: (1 212) 7523395 15th Floor One Pacific Place E-mail: [email protected] Queensway 130 Montgomery Street Phone: (852) 31071000 San Francisco, CA 94104, United States of America Fax: (852) 31079007 Phone: (1 415) 8359300 Fax: (1 415) 3922963 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: hketosf@ hketosf.gov.hk URL: www.InvestHK.gov.hk Level 2, Hong Kong House Year established: 2000 80 Druitt Street Sydney NSW 2000, Australia Principal function: Phone: (61 2) 92833222 Fax: (61 2) 92833818 Invest Hong Kong is an investment promotion agency established E-mail: [email protected] to spearhead Hong Kong, China’s efforts to attract inward investment. Invest Hong Kong offers solution-oriented investment 30-1 Sanban-Cho, Chiyoda-ku promotion and support services in a straightforward one-stop shop. Tokyo 102-0075, Japan Phone: (81 3) 35568961 Services/activities: Fax: (81 3) 35568960 E-mail: [email protected] • Provides solution-oriented investment promotion, facilitation and aftercare services for foreign companies to 174 St. George Street establish or expand operations in the dynamic Hong Kong, Toronto, Ontario M5R 2M7, Canada China economy; Phone: (1 416) 9245544 • Provides ancillary services to foreign companies that have Fax: (1 416) 9243599 arrived in Hong Kong, China such as obtaining work visas, E-mail: [email protected] trademark registrations, business incorporation, and other administrative, legal and financial matters; Category: • Provides consultation, regulatory advice and logistics support guidance by sector-specific experts in financial Investment promotion agency. services, information technology, electronics, biotechnology, telecommunications, tourism and entertainment, and transportation.
Publications issued:
• Invest HK – It all adds up (English/Chinese/Japanese/ Korean). • Invest in Hong Kong for success in Mainland China – The CEPA benefits (English/Chinese). • Investment Update (quarterly newsletter, English/Chinese). • The Greater Pearl River Delta (English).
Offices abroad:
Rue d’Arlon 118 1040 Brussels, Belgium Phone: (32 2) 7750088 Fax: (32 2) 7700980 E-mail: [email protected]
Flat 7101, Citic Plaza 233 Tian He North Road Guangzhou 510613, China Phone: (86 20) 38911220 Fax: (86 20) 38911221 E-mail: [email protected]
6 Grafton Street London W1S 4EQ, United Kingdom Phone: (44 207) 4999821 Fax: (44 207) 4090647 E-mail: [email protected]
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TRADE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT EUROPE
Office/postal address: Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Rue d'Arlon 118 Government of Hong Kong, China 1040 Brussels, Belgium Trade and Industry Department Tower Phone: (32 2) 7750088 700 Nathan Road, Kowloon Fax: (32 2) 7700980 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (852) 23985333 URL: www.hongkong-eu.org Fax: (852) 27892491 Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office E-mail: [email protected] 5 Allee David-Morse URL: www.tid.gov.hk 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland Phone: (41 22) 7301300 Year established: 2000 (following the reorganization of the Fax: (41 22) 7301304, 7301305 Trade Department and Industry Department in July 2000). E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.info.gov.hk/cib/chtml/geneva.html Principal functions: Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office • To secure and preserve maximum access and fair treatment 6 Grafton Street for exports from Hong Kong, China to international markets; London W1S 4EQ, United Kingdom of Great Britain and • To provide certification and licensing services in order to Northern Ireland facilitate trade and supplement controls imposed for reasons Phone: (44 20) 74999821 other than trade; Fax: (44 20) 74931964, 74955033 • To support and facilitate the development of Hong Kong, E-mail: [email protected] China’s SMEs and industries. URL: www.hketolondon.gov.hk
Services/activities: NORTH AMERICA
• Handles the commercial relations of Hong Kong, China; Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office • Provides various licensing facilities and certification 1520, 18th Street, N.W. services, including by electronic means, for different Washington DC 20036, United States of America commodities such as textiles and clothing, strategic Phone: (1 202) 3318947 commodities, rough diamonds and reserved commodities; Fax: (1 202) 3318958 E-mail: [email protected] • Provides trade information to the business community URL: www.hketowashington.gov.hk through various channels, including issue of circulars,
pamphlets, publications and via the department’s web portal; Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office • Develops policy initiatives and implement programmes to 115 East 54th Street enhance the competitiveness of SMEs and their long term New York, NY 10022, United States of America development; Phone: (1 212) 7523320 • Provides information and advisory services for SMEs Fax: (1 212) 7523395 through its Support and Consultation Centre for SMEs E-mail: [email protected] (SUCCESS). URL: www.hketony.gov.hk For more details of Trade and Industry Department services, please refer to www.tid.gov.hk. Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office 130 Montgomery Street Publications issued: San Francisco, CA 94104, United States of America Phone: (1 415) 8359300 • Textiles publications. Fax: (1 415) 4210646, 3972276 • Publications on non-textiles (including transhipment cargo E-mail: [email protected] exemption scheme), manifests and United Nations sanctions, URL: www.hketosf.gov.hk etc.. • Registration and certification publications. Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office • SMEs publications. 174 St. George Street • Industrial support publications. Toronto, Ontario M5R 2M7, Canada For full list of publications, please refer to www.tid.gov.hk Phone: (416) 9245544 Fax: (416) 9243542, 9243599 Offices abroad: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.hketo.ca Remark: The offices abroad include trade and economic offices outside Hong Kong, China,
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ASIA-PACIFIC Products/commodity responsible for:
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office The Trade and Industry Department is responsible for the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Building licensing facilities and certification services for commodities such 30-1 Sanban-Cho, Chiyoda-ku as textiles and clothing, strategic commodities, rough diamonds Tokyo 102 – 0075, Japan and reserved commodities. Phone: (81 3) 35568980 Fax: (81 3) 35568968 Category: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.hketotyo.or.jp Intergovernmental organization; industrial promotion organization; trade facilitation body; trade promotion organization Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office and department of trade, industry and commerce. 34-01, Suntec Tower 2 9 Temasek Boulevard Singapore 038989 Phone: (65) 63381771 Fax: (65) 63392112 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.hketo.org.sg
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Level 1, Hong Kong House 80 Druitt Street Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia Phone: (61 2) 92833222 Fax: (61 2) 92833818 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.hketosydney.org.au
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Flat 7101, Citic Plaza, 233 Tian He North Road Guangzhou, China Phone: (86 20) 38911220 Fax: (86 20) 38911221 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.gdeto.gov.hk
Office of the Government of Hong Kong, China in Beijing No.71, Di'anmen Xidajie, Xicheng District Beijing 100009, China Phone: (86 10) 66572880 Fax: (86 10) 66572821 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.bjo.gov.hk
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Shanghai 21/F, The Headquarters Building 168 Xizang Road (M), Huangpu District, Shanghai 200001, China Phone: (86 21) 61221233 Fax: (86 21) 61221468 URL: www.sheto.gov.hk E-mail: [email protected]
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Chengdu 38/F., Tower 1 Plaza Central 8 Shun Cheng Daijie Chengdu 610016,China Phone: (86 21) 86768301 Fax: (86 21) 86768300 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.cdeto.gov.hk
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AGRICULTURAL AND PROCESSED FOOD • Manual for production of orchids. PRODUCTS EXPORT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY • Manual for production of gladolius. (APEDA) • Report on Guar gum. • Report on honey. Office/postal address: • Report on Indian ethnic snack food market study. • A study on status and prospects of frozen food industry (Vols. I 3rd Floor, NCUI Building and II). 3, Siri Institutional Area • Newsletter (quarterly). Opp. Asaid Village August Kranti Marg Local branches: New Delhi 110 016 12/1/1, Palace Cross Road Phone: (91 11) 26513204, 26514572, 26534186 Bangalore 560 020 Fax: (91 11) 26526187 Phone: (91 80) 3343425 Fax: (91 80) 3364560 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.apeda.com Mayukh Bhawan Year established: 1986 Bidhan Nagar Calcutta 700 091 Principal function: Phone: (91 33) 3376363 Fax: (91 33) 3378680 • To promote agricultural commodities and processed foods; E-mail: [email protected] • To promote their exports. c/o Assam Industrial Development Corporation Services/activities: 3rd Floor, Jain Complex Opp. Dispur Old Post Office • Identifies new markets; G.S. Road, Dispur • Provides better support systems to exporters and Guwahati 781 005 manufacturers; Phone: (91 361) 599010 • Introduces new products to the international markets; Fax: (91 361) 452600 • Undertakes development programmes: development of E-mail: [email protected] databases on products, markets and services; publicity and information dissemination; invites official and business 8th Floor, Chandra Vihar Building delegations from abroad; organization of product promotion Mukkaramjahi Road and trade missions abroad; participation in international trade Hyderabad 500 001 fairs in India and abroad; organization of buyer-seller meets Phone: (91 40) 4745940 and other business interactions; dissemination of information; Fax: (91 40) 4745947 provides library services; distribution of Annual APEDA E-mail: [email protected]
Awards; provides advisory and supporting services to trade th and industry; problem solving; 4 Floor, Banking Complex Building • Provides financial assistance to exporters, growers, trade Unit No. 3-4, Sector 19 A, Vashi associations, governmental agencies, etc., for activities related New Bombay 400 705 to export promotion and market development through supply Phone: (91 22) 7658949, 7882094 (D) of samples to potential importers, brand publicity, etc.; Fax: (91 22) 7882273 strengthening of market intelligence and databases through E-mail: [email protected] studies, surveys, etc.; quality upgrading; development of infrastructure facilities; research and development; packaging; Membership structure: 17,000 members. staffing development; and development of meat processing facilities. Products/commodity responsible for:
Publications issued: Fruits, vegetables and their products; meat and meat products; poultry and poultry products; dairy products; confectionery, biscuits • Export Statistics of Agro and Processed Food Products, 1990- and bakery products; honey, joggery and sugar products; cocoa 2000. products; alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages; cereal products; groundnuts, peanuts and walnuts; pickles, papads and chutneys; • Guidelines for the exports of fresh fruits to the EU Market. guar gum; horticulture and floriculture products; herbal and • Quality assurance manual for export of mangoes. medicinal plants; rice (non-basmati). • Quality assurance manual for export of kinnow. • Quality assurance manual for export of nagpur mandarian. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Pre harvest manual for export of nagpur mandarian. • Pre harvest manual for cultivation of kinnow for exports. AEZ (Agricultural Export Zone)/Agriculture and food processing • Manual for production under protected environment – sector. carnation. • Manual for production of Anthrium Andreanuis. Category: • Manual for production of Perennial Statice. • Manual for production of Eustoma Russaellianum. Trade promotion organization.
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APPAREL EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL (AEPC) Northern Regional Offices:
Office/postal address: Apparel Export Promotion Council 58,Sahyog Building, 4th Floor Apparel House, Institutional Area Sector-44 409 Nehru Place Gurgaon 122003, Haryana New Delhi 110019 Phone: (91 11) 26442616 Phone: (91 11) 26183351, 26169393-4 Fax: (91 11) 26188584, 26188300 Apparel Training and Design Centre 0141 SP-191, Malviya Industrial Area Near Kailgiri Circle E-mail: [email protected] Jaipur 302 017 URL: www.aepcindia.com Phone: (91 141) 2750706, 2750064, 2404082 Fax: (91 141) 2750982 Year established: 1978 Apparel Training and Design Centre Principal function: 0161 B-XX-2597/570 Noble Enclave 1st Floor • To promote Indian garment exports. Bhaiwala Chowk, Ferozpur Road, Ludhiana Phone: (91 161) 2407850 Services/activities: Fax: (91 161) 2404082 E-mail: [email protected] • Quota distribution, monitoring; • Marketing and publicity in foreign markets; Western Regional Office: • Sends trade delegations to survey export potential; Apparel Export Promotion Council • General facilitation to exporters by way of assistance in th understanding rules and procedures (for example duty 022, 12 Floor, Bajaj Bhavan, Nariman Point drawback delays), import related helps; Mumbai 110021 Phone: (91 22) 2040174 • Conducts fashion forecast seminars; Fax: (91 22) 2043178 • Provides training for garment manufacturing in Apparel E-mail: [email protected] Training and Design Centre (ATDC);
• Operates a trade information centre; Southern Regional Offices: • Provides technical advice and market briefs; • Publishes promotional material and other information; Apparel Training and Design Centre • Organizes buyer-seller meets and participates in international 116 B (old No. 70A) Vellalar Street fairs/exhibitions; Mugappair West Chennai 600037 • Gives annual export awards to outstanding exporter of ready- Phone: (91 44) 26254216 made garments. Fax: (91 44) 26243543
Publications issued: Apparel Training and Design Centre 0421 No. 1, 3rd Street Indra Nagar (off Avinashi Road) • Apparel Fortnightly. Tirupur 641603 • Exporters' Directory. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • Guidelines on Registration and Membership. • Handbook of Export Statistics. Apparel Export Promotion Council • PP/NQ Allotment Book. 080 A.E.P.C. No. 10 • Quota Policy Book. Raheja Chambers 12, Museum Road • Buying Agents Directory. Bangalore 560001 • Reports on various activities, technical and statistical Fax: (91 80) 55860172 publications. E- mail: [email protected]
Local branches: Eastern Regional Office:
Registered Office: Apparel Training and Design Centre Code No: 033 Plot No. 3B, LA Block Apparel Export Promotion Council Sec-III, Salt Lake City 223 Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-I. Kolkata 700098 New Delhi 110020 Fax: (91 33) 23359821 Phone: (91 11) 26814251,26372721 E-mail: [email protected] Membership structure: Approximately 30,000 members.
Category:
Trade promotion organization.
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BASIC CHEMICALS, PHARMACEUTICALS AND 507, 5th Floor, Aditya Enclave COSMETICS EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL Ameer Pet (CHEMEXCIL)* Hyderabad 500 038 Phone: (91 40) 26622311 Office/postal address: Fax: (91 40) 26622411
th 4th Floor, Jhansi Castle 9 Floor, Kankaria Estate 7, Cooperage Road 6, Little Russell Street Mumbai 400 039 Kolkata 700 071 Phone: (91 33) 22805791 Phone: (91 22) 22021288, 22021330 Fax: (91 33) 22475562
Fax: (91 22) 22026684 th 424, 4 Floor, Ansal Chamber - II E-mail: [email protected] 6, Bikaji Cama Place URL: www.chemexcil.gov.in New Delhi 110 066 Phone: (91 11) 26160937 Year established: 1963 Fax: (91 11) 26169891
Principal functions: Products/commodity responsible for:
• To promote and develop exports; Drugs, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals; dyes, intermediates, coaltar chemicals and alcohol dyes; basic inorganic and organic • To undertake liaison activities; chemicals and agro chemicals; cosmetics and toiletries; essential • To provide market information. oils, detergents, soaps, perfume, agarbattis, medicinal plants, castor
oils, etc. Services/activities:
Membership structure: 6,178 members. • Compiles export data, trade plan, commodity profiles, etc.; • Conducts panel meetings; Membership consists of large and small-scale manufacturers and • Undertakes market surveys; large and small merchant exporters of drugs and pharmaceuticals, • Sponsors individual and group delegations abroad; dyes, chemicals, cosmetics and toiletries and agarbattis. • Provides guidance to exporters regarding licensing, customs, banking, etc.; Category: • Organizes seminars, workshops, etc., for exporters; • Disseminates overseas enquiries, tenders; Export promotion council. • Undertakes investigation of quality/delivery complaints, arbitration, etc.; • Participates in trade fairs and exhibitions; • Publishes bulletins, reports, directories; • Liaises with various organizations.
Publications issued:
• CHEMEXCIL Sales Bulletin. • Directories. • Market Survey Reports. • Exhibition Reports. • Promotional literature on products under Council's purview. • Reports of study-cum-sales teams.
Local branches:
901, Karma Near Mahalaxmi Cross Road Paldi, Ahmedabad 380 007 Phone: (91 79) 6640224 Fax: (91 79) 6630061
No. 18/4,, 1st Floor - C, N.S. Bhavan 4th Cross, 4th Main Road Gandhinagar Bangalore 560 009 Phone: (91 80) 2269037 Fax: (91 80) 2260446
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BENGAL NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOMBAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND AND INDUSTRY (BNCCI) INDUSTRY
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
BNCC House 3rd Floor, Mackinnon Mackenzie Building 23, Sir R. N. Mukherjee Road 4, Shoorji Vallabhdas Marg, Kolkata 700 001, West Bengal Ballard Estate Mumbai 400 001 Phone: (91 33) 2482951/2/3 Fax: (91 33) 2487058 Phone: (91 22) 22614681-84 Fax: (91 22) 22621213 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.bncci.com E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Year established: 1887 URL: www.bombaychamber.com
Principal functions: Year established: 1836
• To issue certificates of origin; Principal functions: • To keep members posted regularly with important notifications by the different departments of State and Central Government • To conduct investment promotion; and other authorities; • To promote interests of trade and industry; • To provide a library with large number of books and • To establish business contacts. publications; • To provide information and advice in labour matters; Services/activities: • To provide special advisory services to interested members in many areas, such as recruitment/selection of personnel, Trade services: memorandum of settlement, drawing up notices, etc.; • Trade information and library services; • International Trade Division to promote trade, investment, Services/activities: technology transfer; • Certification of export documentation and visa • Promotes industry, trade and commerce, particularly in the recommendations; eastern region of India as well as in West Bengal; • Declares weather working days and charter party holidays for • Promotes entrepreneurship, integrated development of rural Mumbai ports. areas, protection of environment and improvement of the socio-economic condition of the people; Advisory services: • Organizes trade fairs, promotion of international trade and • Labour advisory services; business, and business delegations abroad. • Safety, health and environment protection advisory services;
• Arbitration services; Publications issued: • Executive training and development programmes;
• Energy conservation services. • BNCCI Newsletter (quarterly).
• Committee Roster (annually). Publications issued: • Annual Report (annually). • Guidebook on Industrial India Trade Fair (annually). • Bombay Chamber Review (monthly, English). • Membership Directory in floppy (annually). • Labour Digest - Labour Law and Industrial Relations • Trade Bulletin (monthly). (monthly, English). • Tender Circular (monthly). • Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Bulletin (quarterly, English). Membership structure: 500 industries/firms, about 35 • AnalytiQue Economics (quarterly, English). industrial trade associations. Membership structure: Almost 1,800 members. Training: Represents large and medium-sized companies from the • Entrepreneurship development training; manufacturing and service sectors, leading banks and financial • Training on trade promotion; institutions and multinationals having their corporate headquarters • Training courses on business promotion and management. in Mumbai, including Foreign Consulates/Trade Commissions in Mumbai. Membership of Bombay Chamber accounts for around Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: one third of India’s GDP in the manufacturing and service sectors.
Whole of West Bengal in general and rural areas in particular. Products/commodity responsible for:
Category: Electrical, electronics, telecom, computer, software and hardware, textiles and garments, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, agri and Chamber of commerce. food processing, automobiles, power and energy, shipping and
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transportation, basic products, consumer goods, building and • Handles sale of national standards, standards of other construction, consultancy services, banking and financial countries and international standards; services. • Grants certificate against various Management Systems such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OSHAS, HACCP, etc. Training: Publications issued: The Bombay Chamber’s Executive Training Development Programmes caters to the knowledge upgrading of its constituent • Buyer's Guide (list of manufacturers holding licenses under members and their employees. BIS Certification Marking Scheme) (available online on BIS website). Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Catalogue of Indian Standards (also available on BIS website). For products and services represented by the chamber’s • Indian Standards. membership. • Manakdoot (quarterly, Hindi).
• Standards India (monthly). Category: • Standards Monthly Additions.
Chamber of commerce; trade facilitation body; and trade • Handbooks of standards on various subjects (including special publications). promotion organization. • Miscellaneous publications such as brochures, pamphlets posters, etc. BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS (BIS) Local branches:
Office/postal address: National Institute of Training for Standardization, Quality and
Management (NITSQM) Manak Bhavan A-20, 21, Institutional Area 9, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg Sector - 62, Noida 201 307 (UP) New Delhi 110 002 Phone: (91 120) 2402201-7
Fax: (91 120) 2402202-3 Phone: (91 11) 23233375
Fax: (91 11) 23230131, 23239399, 23239382, 23239402 Regional offices in Chandigarh, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai.
E-mail: [email protected] Branch offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, URL: www.bis.org.in Coimbatore, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur,
Kanpur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Parwanoo, Patna, Pune, Rajkot, Year established: 1987 (formerly Indian Standards Thiruvananathapuram, Vishakhapatnam. Institution).
Category: Principal functions:
Standard, testing and inspection body. • To formulate and publish national standards;
• To grant certification marks licensees to manufacturers; • To grant license for Management Systems such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OSHAS, HACCP; • To test and evaluate the quality of products for the formulation of standards and operation of Certification Marking Scheme; • To provide training in the areas of standardization, management systems, statistical quality control and certification marking.
Services/activities:
• Publishes national standards; • Grants licenses under BIS Certification Marking and Hallmarking Scheme; • Provides training facilities in standardization, management systems, statistical quality control, certification marking and labouratory testing; • Undertakes consultancy services in company standardization and Statistical Quality Control (SQC); • Undertakes promotion and publicity of standardization activities; • Provides technical information on standards, regulations, etc.;
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CASHEW EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL OF CENTRAL SILK BOARD INDIA Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Ministry of Textiles Chittoor Road CSB Complex, Hosur Road Ernakulam South BTM Layout, Madivala Kochi 682 016 Bangalore 560 068 Kerala Phone: (91 80) 26688831, 26680190 P.O.Box: 1709 Fax: (91 80) 26681511
Phone: (91 484) 2376459, 2376080, 2370129 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (91 484) 2377973 URL: www.indiansilk.kar.nic.in
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Year established: 1948 URL: www.cashewindia.org Principal function: Year established: 1955 • To promote the development of the silk industry. Principal function: Services/activities: • To promote the export of cashew kernels, cashew nut shell liquid and allied products from India. • Advises the Government of India on development of the silk industry; Services/activities: • Assists various provinces of the Indian Union in development planning for sericulture through jointly funded schemes, or • Conducts trade promotion activities. centrally sponsored schemes; • Undertakes, assists and encourages scientific, technological Publications issued: and economic research in the silk sector and production of basic and commercial silkworm seed for supplementary • Cashew Bulletin (monthly, English). assistance to various provinces; • Indian Cashew Journal (quarterly, English). • Initiates measures for the standardization and quality control of • Directory of Indian Cashew Exporters (English). silk and silk products; • A Survey of CNSL Patents (English). • Rationalizes the marketing and stabilization of prices of silk • Indian Cashew Grades Folder (English). cocoons and silk products; • Cashew - The Millennium Nut - Cashew Recipes (English). • Voluntary inspection of silk goods meant for exports, and • Cashew Statistics (English). certification for quality and content.
Membership structure: 141 members (varying from year to Publications issued: year). Periodicals: Products/commodity responsible for: • Indian Silk (monthly, English). • Indian Journal of Sericulture (English). Cashew kernels, cashew nut shell liquid and allied products. • SERIDOC (English).
Category: Books: • Handbook Of Sericulture Technologies. Trade promotion organization. • Seri Business Manual – A User’s Guide. • Sericulture & Silk Industry Statistics – 2003 (with CD-ROM version). • Directory Of Exporters And Manufacturers Of Silk Goods In India. • Disinfection In Sericulture: A Ready Reckoner. • Handbook Of Practical Sericulture. • Handbook Of Muga Culture. • Ericulture In India. • Tips To Successful Silkworm Cocoon Crops. • CSR&TI (Mysore) Bulletins On Improved Practices Of Sericulture.
CDs/video cassettes: • Sericulture in India. • Package for Prosperity. • A Stitch in Time. • Bivoltine for Higher yield; more income. • Reeling for Quality Silk.
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• Capsule films on Post Cocoon Technology. Mahesh mati • Strong Ties; Loose Threads: Women in Silk. P.O. & Dist • Prevention is better than cure. Malda 732 101. • Sericulture deserves credit. • Mulberry cultivation and Farm Management. 18 Satyanagar • Silkworm rearing Technology. Bhubaneswar 751 007 • The Story of Tasar. Phone: (91 674) 505153 • Eri silk in the North East. • Golden Muga: The Cultural Heritage of Assam. 63 A 12th Avenue • Life Story of a Moth: The Silkworm. Ashok Nagar • Mulberry cultivation and maintenance of garden. Chennai 83 • Nutrient management for healthy growth of mulberry garden. Phone: (91 44) 4892044, 4894189 • Sericulture extension. Fax: (91 44) 4892044 • Sericulture training. • Hygiene and chawki rearing. Vikas Deep Building • Late age silkworm rearing and quality cocoon production. 5th Floor 22 Station Road Others: Lucknow 226 019.(U.P) • Translations of various project reports, popular publications, Phone: (91 522) 635123 manual reprints. Majra Local branches: Dehradun 248171 Phone: (91 135) 3261239 Regional Offices: Certification Centres: MEGHDOOT 95-B Marine Drive, Ph.:203468 CSB Complex Mumbai 400 002 B.T.M. Layout Madivala Phone: (91 22) 2811826, 2815532 Hosur Road Fax: (91 22) 2812842 Bangalore 560 068, Karnataka Phone: (91 80) 26688831 342-347 (2nd floor) A-Wing Fax: (91 80) 26681511 August Kranti Bhavan E-mail: [email protected] Bhikaji Cama Place New Dehli 110 066 32, Radha Rani Sinha Road, Phone: (91 11) 26108316 Bhagalpur 812001; Bihar Fax: (91 11) 26176177 Plot No.13 House No.16-B (Extension) Vivekananda Nagar Colony Gandhi Nagar Maldahiya Jammu 180 007 Varanasi 221002, Uttar Pradesh Phone: (91 191) 2433677 Fax: (91 191) 2542917 Main Research Institutes:
MEGHDOOT 95-B Srirampura Manandavadi Road Marine Drive Mysore 570 008, Karnataka Mumbai 400 002 Phone: (91 821) 2362406, 2362585 Phone: (91 22) 2811826, 2815532 Fax: (91 821) 2362845 Fax: (91 22) 2812842 URL: www.csrtimys.res.in
Regional Development Offices: Berhampore 742 101, West Bengal Phone: (91 3482) 253962-4 Road No 72 Prasashan Nagar Fax: (91 3482) 251046 Adjacent Hills E-mail: [email protected] Jubilee Hills URL: www.csrtiber.res.in Hyderabad 500 033 Grams: SILK BOARD Post Bag # 88, GPO Phone: (91 40) 3541293 Srinagar 190 001, Jammu and Kashmir Phone: (91 1933) 222839, 223176 D.S. Mansion II Floor Fax: (91 1933) 223215 Near State Zoo E-Mail: csrtippr@sancharnet. Central Silk Board P.O. Dispur P.O. Ladoigarh Charali, Guwahati 781 005 Jorhat 785 700, Assam Phone: (91 361) 203468, 200168 Phone: (91 3763) 385513, 395528 Fax: (91 361) 200 168
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Carmelram Post, Kodathi CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PRODUCTS EXPORT Bangalore 560 035, Karnataka PROMOTION COUNCIL (CAPEXIL) Phone: (91 80) 28439598 Fax: (91 80) 28439596 Office/postal address: E-mail: [email protected] "Vanijya Bhavan" Post Box No. 44, Thally Road International Trade Facilitation Centre, 3rd Floor Hosur 635 019, Tamilnadu 1/1 Wood Street Phone: (91 4344) 221148, 221149, 222013 Kolkata 700 016 Fax: (91 4344) 220520 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (91 33) 22890524/0525 URL: www.silkgermplasm.com Fax: (91 33) 22891724
Carmelram Post, Kodathi E-mail: [email protected] Bangalore 560 035, Karnataka URL: www.capexil.com Phone: (91 80) 28439598 B2B Portal: www.capexiltrade.com Fax: (91 80) 28439597 E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1958 (formerly: Chemicals and Allied Products Export Promotion Council). Piska Nagri Ranchi 835 303, Jharkand Principal function: Phone: (91 651) 2775815, 2775630 Fax: (91 651) 2775629 • To facilitate export by way of promotion, organizing trade E-mail: [email protected] shows, embracing the latest technology to help exporters, matching the needs of buyers and sellers. B.T. M. Layout, Madiwala Bangalore 560 068, Karnataka Services/activities: Phone: (91 80) 26688831 Fax: (91 80) 26680435 • Services to overseas importers: E-mail: [email protected] - Locates a reliable supplier of made-in-India products; - Organizes buyer-seller meets; CSB Complex B.T. M. Layout Madivala - Provides up-to-date information on supply sourcing; Bangalore 560 068, Karnataka - Publishes trade directory, brochure on individual Phone: (91 80) 26688831 products; Fax: (91 80) 26680387 - Caters information through website www.capexil.com; E-mail: [email protected] - B2B Portal www.capexiltrade.com - online directory of Indian exporters with their products and services; highly Training: effective platform to generate business opportunities.
Provides training on sericulture to local and international students • Service to exporters: in its research institutes in the following three categories: - Assists in identifying potential markets; • Structured courses: courses of long-term duration ranging - Assists in overcoming export constraints and from 3 to 24 months; operational bottlenecks; • Capsule courses: courses of short-term duration ranging from - Provides publicity and marketing backup; 3 to 45 days; - Organizes overseas trade delegations and participation • Ad hoc courses: short duration courses conducted upon in trade fairs and buyer-seller meets; request from different agencies. - Organizes training, seminars on export; - Caters information through web site www.capexil.com; Products/commodity responsible for: - B2B Portal www.capexiltrade.com - online directory of Indian exporters with their products and services; highly Silk and silk products. effective business platform to generate business opportunities; Category: - Education through programme: Certificate Course in International Marketing. Commodity board. Publications issued:
• CAPEXIL Trade News (monthly, English). • A Statistical Profile (yearly, English). • Trade Directory (biannually, English).
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Local branches: COCONUT DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Eastern Region: Office/postal address: Tobacco House 1-2, Old Court House Corner Kera Bhavan Kolkata 700 001 Kochi 682 011 Phone: (91 33) 22207620 Kerala State Fax: (91 33) 22435945 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (91 484) 2376265, 2377267, 2376553 Fax: (91 484) 2377902 Northern Region: Flat No. 4 C E-mail: [email protected] or, [email protected] 4th Floor, Vandana Building URL: www.coconutboard.nic.in 11 Tolstoy Marg New Delhi 110 001 Year established: 1981 Phone: (91 11) 23356703 Fax: (91 11) 23314486 Principal functions: E-mail: [email protected] • To adopt measures for the development of the coconut Southern Region: industry; Rasheed Mansion • To recommend measures for improving the marketing of 408 (Old No. 622), Anna Salai coconut and its products; Chennai 600 006 • To advice those engaged in coconut cultivation and industry; Phone: (91 44) 28292310 • To provide financial and other assistance for expansion of Fax: (91 44) 28295386 area under coconut; E-mail: [email protected] • To encourage the adoption of modern technologies for processing of coconut and its products; Western Region: • To recommend measures for regulating imports and exports Commerce Centre of coconut and its products; Block No. D-17, Tardeo Road • To fix grades, specifications and standards for coconut and Mumbai 400 034 its products; Phone: (91 22) 24943410 Fax: (91-22) 24937665 • To finance suitable schemes to increase the production of E-mail: [email protected] coconut and to improve the quality and yield of coconut; • To assist, encourage, promote and finance agricultural, Membership structure: 3,542 members, as of 4 July 2003. technological, industrial or economic research on coconut and its products; Products/commodity responsible for: • To collect statistics on coconut and its products and publish them; Rubber manufactured products (including automobile tyres and • To undertake publicity activities and publish books and tubes); paints, enamels, varnishes, pigments and paint raw periodicals on coconut and its products. materials; glass and glassware; ceramics and allied products; wood products; refractory bricks; cement, clinkers and asbestos Services/activities: cement products; paper, paper boards and paper conversion items including stationery; ossein and gelatine; crushed bones, bone • Increases production of quality planting materials; grist, animal glue, horn and hoof meal; safety matches, • Creates future production potential by bringing more area pyrotechnical articles, dyeing and tanning extracts; graphite under coconut; electrodes, detonators and explosives; granite, marble, stones; • Improves the productivity of existing coconut holdings; mineral and ores; books, publications and job printing. • Product diversification and by-product utilization; • Promotes coconut and coconut base products. Training: Publications issued: Course offered in English: Certificate Course in International Marketing • Bharatiya Nariyal Patrika (quarterly, Hindi). • Bharatiya Thengu Patrika (quarterly, Kannada). Category: • Indian Thennai Idhazh (quarterly, Tamil). • Indian Coconut Journal (monthly). Trade facilitation body; and trade promotion organization. • Indian Nalikera Journal (monthly, Malayalam). • Other ad hoc publications on various aspects of coconut culture and industry.
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Local branches: Kondagaon - 494 226 Bastar District, Chattisgarh Regional Offices: Phone: (07786) 242443 Fax: (07786) 242443 Hulimavu, Bannerghatta Road E-mail: [email protected] (Beside Horticulture Farm, Govt. of Karnataka) Bangalore South Taluk, Bangalore - 560 076, Karnataka Pura Village, Loksara P.O. Phone: (080) 26593750 Mandya District, Karnataka - 571 403 Fax: (080) 26594768 Phone: (08232) 234059 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
M-2/40, S.K. Puri, Patna 800 001, Bihar Neriamangalam, Kerala Phone: (0612) 2221367 Pin-686 693 Fax: (0612) 2221608 Phone: (0485) 2554240 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
AF-6/2204, 7th Street, 11th Main Road Market Development cum Information Centre Anna Nagar, Chennai - 600 040, Tamil Nadu 120, Hargobind Enclave Phone: (044) 26286640 New Delhi – 110 092 Fax: (044) 26286732 Phone: (011) 22377805 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (011) 22377806 E-mail: [email protected] State Centres: N-1/297 Nayapally IRC Village P.O. Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Bhubaneswar - 751 015, Orissa VIP Road, Junglighat P.O. Phone: (0674) 2550439 Port Blair - 744 103, South Andaman Fax: (0674) 2550439 Phone: (03192) 233918 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] At Pitapally, Post Kumarbasta A-23 (269), IIIrd Street, 1st Line District Khurda - 752 055, Orissa Indian Airlines Colony, Begumpet Phone: (0674) 2330053 Secundrabad - 500 003 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (040) 27902978 Fax: (040) 27902978 Belbari, Champaknagar P.O. E-mail: [email protected] West Tripura Phone: (0381) 262413 Vegivada (Village) P.O. Kerchowmohani, Ramnagar P.O. House No. 688, Tadikalapudi (Via) Agartala - 799 002, Tripura W. Godavari (Dist.) Phone: (0381) 2222205 Andhra Pradesh - 534 452 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (08812) 228401 E-mail: [email protected] BJ-108 - Sector - II, Salt Lake Kolkata - 700 091 Keenpuram, South Vazhakkulam Phone: (033) 23599674 Aluva, Ernakulam Dist. Pin. 683 105 Fax: (033) 23599674 Phone: (0484) 2679680 E-mail: [email protected]
Housefed Complex (6th Floor), Beltola Road, Last Gate, Dispur Membership structure: 23 board members. Guwahati - 781 006, Assam Phone: (0361) 2220632 Products/commodity responsible for: Fax: (0361) 2220632 E-mail: [email protected] Coconut and coconut products.
Abhayapuri, Bongaigoan Training: Assam - 783 384 Phone: (03664) 281473 Courses arranged as per requirements.
P.O. Singheswar - 852 128 Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Madhepura District, Bihar Phone: (06476) 283015 Coconut and allied industries. E-mail: [email protected] Category:
Commodity board.
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CONFEDERATION OF INDIAN INDUSTRY (CII) 6, Netaji Subhas Road Kolkata - 700 001 Office/Postal address: Phone: (91 33) 22315571, 22310574 Fax: (91 33) 22310577 The Mantosh Sondhi Centre E- mail: [email protected] 23, Institutional Area, Lodi Road New Delhi 110 003 57 offices in India in total.
Phone: (91 11) 24629994-7 Offices abroad: Fax: (91 11) 24626149, 24633168 Eight overseas offices in Australia, Austria, China, France, Japan, E-mail: [email protected] Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States of America. URL: www.ciionline.org Category: Year established: 1895 (formerly Confederation of Engineering Industry (CEI)). Industrial promotion organization.
Principal functions: COUNCIL FOR LEATHER EXPORTS • To create and sustain an environment conducive to the growth of industry in India, partnering industry and Office/postal address: Government through advisory and consultative processes; • To provide information to industry and government; 3rd Floor, CMDA Tower II • To promote cooperation with counterpart organizations. Gandhi Irwin Bridge Road Egmore, Chennai 600 008 Services/activities: Phone: (91 44) 28594367-71 • Catalyses change by working closely with Government on Fax: (91 44) 28594363-4 policy issues, enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and expanding business opportunities for industry through a E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] range of specialized services and global linkages; URL: leatherindia.org • Provides a platform for sectoral consensus building and networking by projecting a positive image of business, Year established: 1984 assisting industry identify and execute corporate citizenship programmes; Principal functions: • Provides information, advisory and consultative services to the industry and the Government; • To undertake export promotion activities relating to leather and • With 35 offices in India, 12 overseas offices and institutional leather products; partnerships with 216 counterpart organizations in 94 • To promote the development of the Indian leather industry. countries, serves as a reference point for Indian industry and the international business community. Services/activities:
Publications issued: • Collects market intelligence and conducts market studies; • Maintains constant touch with the world market, business Various publications, periodicals and directories in the areas of environment, market conditions and economic issues; defence; economics/finance; energy; environment; food and • Keeps close watch on technology, buyers’ needs, product agriculture; healthcare; international business; industry; design and fashion; information technology; infrastructure; small and medium • Formulates appropriate strategy to make the Indian products enterprises; social development; technology; and quality. globally competitive; • Disseminates vital information through magazines/ periodicals, Regional offices: newsletters, brochures and study team reports; • Assists the Indian Government in formulating policies and Corporate Offices: procedures to develop the leather industry; • Promotes foreign direct investment and joint ventures; foreign India Habitat Centre th direct investment; Core 4A, 4 Floor, Lodi Road • Promotes Indian leather products abroad through publicity New Delhi - 110 003 campaigns; Phone: (91 11) 24682230-35, 41504514-19 • Sponsors overseas trade missions; Fax: (91 11) 24682229, 24682228 • Arranges training of Indian technicians in foreign institutes;
Plot No. 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Sector 18 • Invites foreign experts to help upgrade the quality of Indian Gurgaon - 122015 products; Phone: (91 124) 4014060-67 • Assists exporters by keeping effective liaison with various Fax: (91 124) 4014080 authorities in Customs, Central Excise, RBI and banks, etc.; • Organizes exhibitions in India.
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Publications issued: • Associate Members: Those persons, Hindu Undivided Family (HUF), firms, joint stock companies, cooperative societies or • Leathers (monthly). corporations who are engaged in the manufacture, processing • Directory of Members of Council for Leather Exports, 2005. or conversion of leather for export or exporters of leather who • Facts & Figures on Export of Leather & Leather Products. are not qualified to be enrolled as ordinary members. • Manual on “Occupational Safety & Health Aspects of Leather Manufacture”. Products/commodity responsible for:
Local branches: Semi-finished and finished leather all sorts, handbags, purses, wallets, belts, watch straps, leather garments, industrial leather Western Regional Office manufactures such as gloves, leather aprons, fancy leather gloves, 11/4, World Trade Centre I sport gloves, leather footwear and non-leather footwear and their Cuffe Parade components, saddlery and harness articles, and other leather goods Mumbai 400 005 and accessories. Phone: (91 22) 22184060 Fax: (91 22) 56335503 Category: E-mail: [email protected] Commodity board; export marketing board; and trade promotion Northern Regional Office organization. Flat No. 6 G and F, Gopala Towers Rajendra Place New Delhi 110 008 DELHI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Phone: (91 11) 25718516, 25715517 Fax: (91 11) 25752760 Office/postal address: E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 49, Rani Jhansi Road Central Regional Office New Delhi 110 055 H.B.T.I Campus (Adjacent to Central Bank of India), Nawab Ganj, Kanpur-208 002. Phone: (91 11) 23616421, 23610397, 23515828, 23518994 Phone: (91 512) 2534198 Fax: (91 11) 23628847, 23622815 Fax: (91 512) 2534197 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.delhichamber.com Eastern Regional Office 1B, First Floor, Duckback House Year established: 1950 41, Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata 700 017 Principal functions: Phone: (91 33) 22835479/80 Fax: (91 33) 22877270 • To promote and protect the trade, commerce and manufacture E-mail: [email protected] of the Union Territory of Delhi and other states; • To protect the general interests of persons engaged in trade or Southern Regional Office rd industry in the Union Territory of Delhi and in the adjoining CMDA Tower II, 3 Floor, areas/states; Gandhi Irwin Bridge Road • To handle all questions relating to trade, commerce and Egmore, Chennai 600 008 manufacture; Phone: (91 44) 28594367-71 • To collect and circulate statistics and other information relating Fax: (91 44) 28594363-4 to trade, commerce and industry; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • To establish a commercial economic and statistical library and
to help developing commercial education; Agra Extension Office • To consider legislation and other governmental measures S-6, 2nd Floor, Friends Tower, affecting trade, commerce or industry; Block no. 41 –B, Sanjay Place, Agra-282 002. Phone: (91 562) 2852619 • To adjudicate controversies between members of the Chamber; Fax: (91 562) 2854053 • To arbitrate in the settlement of disputes arising out of E-mail: [email protected] commercial transactions; • To formulate codes of practice, to simplify and facilitate Membership structure: 2,300 members. transaction of business and to maintain uniformity in rules, reputations and usages of trade. There are three categories of members: • Ordinary Members: Those persons, Hindu Undivided Family Services/activities: (HUF), firms, joint stock companies, cooperative societies or corporations who have exported leather for a minimum value • Issues Certificate of Origin; of Rs.3 lakhs in the previous year as evidenced by their • Assists local members obtaining their export documents; Bankers or Chartered Accountants Certificates. • Issues recommendations to its members in obtaining visa from • Nominated Members: Individuals nominated by the various foreign embassies in India; Government on the Council or the Committees. • Handles trade enquiries received from all over the world, and circulates to its members;
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• Publishes DCC Trade Directory and disseminates to all the EXPORT CREDIT GUARANTEE CORPORATION OF members, and other agencies in India and abroad; INDIA LIMITED (ECGC) • Encourages its members to participate in exhibitions in India and abroad, and organizes trade delegations for the members; Office/postal address: • Provides secretariat and management services to smaller associations and members; 10th Floor, Express Towers • Provides financial assistance to the members and members of Nariman Point Foreign Chambers of Commerce; Mumbai 400 021 • Issues status and performance certificate to the members for securing business/contract abroad; P.O. Box: 11677, Mumbai • Arranges for assessment of loss or damage to goods in transit or at destination. Phone: (91 22) 56590500, 1800 22 4500 (Helpline) Fax: (91 22) 56590517 Publications issued: E-mail: [email protected] • DCC Trade Directory (annually, English). URL: www.ecgc.in • DCC Trade Bulletin (fortnightly, English). Year established: 1957 Membership structure: 1,320 members. Principal functions: Products/commodity responsible for: • Export credit insurance: to provide insurance covers to Engineering goods; chemical products including plastics; exporters against loss in export of goods and services, supplier handicrafts and leather goods; sport goods; cotton, woollen and silk and buyer credit facilities for medium- and long-term exports textiles including garments; gem and jewellery; agricultural and and lines of credit cover; processed food; pharmaceuticals and cosmetics; meat and meat • Export credit guarantees: to provide guarantees to banks and products; hospital equipment and other miscellaneous items; financial institutions to enable exporters to obtain better marine products; electronic and computer software; spices, tea, facilities from them; coffee and tobacco; and other commodities. • Overseas investment insurance: to provide overseas investment insurance to exporters - Indian entrepreneurs in Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: overseas ventures (equity/loans); • Bonds and guarantees: to provide cover for bid bonds, All sectors. performance bonds, advance payment/local finance bonds, retention of money; Category: • Maturity factoring: undertaking to pay the amount due for a shipment on the maturity of the credit period. Chamber of commerce. Services/activities:
As detailed under Principal functions.
Publications issued:
• ECGC newsletter (quarterly; English/Hindi). • ECGC Services (English/Hindi). • Brochures of Various Schemes (English/Hindi). • Annual Report (annually; English/Hindi).
Local branches:
Western Regional Office The Metropolitan, 7th Floor Plot No. C-26/27, "E" Block Bandra-Kurla Complex Bandra (E), Mumbai - 400 051 Phone: (91 22) 26571600/2353, 26572775-77 Fax: (91 22) 26572779/26572046
Northern Regional Office NBCC Place, South Tower 4th floor, Pragati Vihar Bishma Pitamah Marg, New Delhi - 110 003 Phone: (91 11) 24365645/53/93/95 Fax: (91 11) 51506400
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Southern Regional Office (I) EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF INDIA Spencer Towers, 7th floor 770-A, Anna Salai, Chennai - 600 002 Office/postal address: Phone: (91 44) 28491026-33 Fax: (91 44) 28514550/28515715 21st Floor, Centre One Building World Trade Centre Complex Southern Regional Office (II) Cuffe Parade Raheja Towers, 11th floor Mumbai 400 005 West Wing, 26, M G Road Bangalore - 560 001 Phone: (91 22) 22185272 Phone: (91 80) 25589775/25591729/25585375 Fax: (91 22) 22182572 Fax: (91 80) 25589779 E-mail: [email protected] Eastern Regional Office URL: www.eximbankindia.com AC Market Complex, 9th floor 1, Shakespeare Sarani Year established: 1982 Kolkata - 700 001 Phone: (91 33) 22820963-66 Principal functions: Fax: (91 33) 22820939, 22820967 • To finance, facilitate and promote India’s international trade; Membership structure: ECGC is an autonomous company • To coordinate the working of institutions engaged in with 100 per cent shareholding by the Government of India. It is financing exports and imports. headed by a Chairman and Managing Director appointed by the Government of India. Services/activities:
Products/commodity responsible for: • Extends finance to exporters of capital and manufactured goods, and extends funded and non-funded facilities; Export credit insurance. • Extends lines of credit to overseas financial institutions, foreign Governments, enabling them to finance the import of Training: goods and associated services from India; • Provides buyers’ credit to import Indian goods on deferred ECGC conducts training programmes for other export credit payment terms; agencies. • Provides financial support for the promotion of service
exports including software and IT; Category: • Extends term loans and working capital finance for projects
located within India; Export credit insurance. • Operates a programme on equity finance, loans, guarantees and advisory services to support Indian outward investment; • Provides financial support for product development and for research and development; • Promotes and supports agri-business and agri-exports; • Promotes and supports SMEs to achieve and sustain international competitiveness; • Provides guarantee support and multicurrency financing facility; • Facilitates transfer of technology, trade and investment; • Provides advisory services, including information access, knowledge building, financial counselling, commercial consulting and internationalization support; • Provides export marketing services for Indian companies; advises Indian companies on overseas investments including subsidiaries, joint ventures and acquisitions; • Provides consultancy services in areas related to countries, products, markets, capacity creation and institution strengthening.
Publications issued:
• Annual Report (English/Hindi). • Performance Highlights (annually, English/Hindi). • Corporate Brochure (periodically, English/Hindi). • Exim Bank’s Annual Lecture Series (English/ Hindi). • Tax Benefits for Indian Exporters (annually, English). • Eximius: Export Advantage (quarterly, English/Hindi). • Agri Export Advantage (bi-monthly, English/Hindi/several Indian regional languages).
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• Directory of Useful Addresses (annually, English). Ground Floor, Statesman House • Exporting Indian Healthcare, 2002/2003 (English/Hindi). 148, Barakhamba Road • Thoughts on the New Global Economy, 2001 (English). New Delhi 110 001 • Business Practices of Successful Indian Exporters, 2001. Phone: (91 11) 23326254, 23326625 • India: Joining the World Economy (English). Fax: (91 11) 23322758, 23321719 • Achieving Excellence (English). E-mail: [email protected]
• Exporting Indian Healthcare (English). 44, Shankarseth Road • Road beyond Boundaries - The Case of Select Indian Pune 411 037 Healthcare Systems (English). Phone: (91 20) 26458599 • Project Exports - Connecting Continents with Indian Fax: (91 20) 26458846 Expertise, 2004 (English). E-mail: [email protected] • Market Maker-Technology Aided Business Solutions - Food Processing (English). Offices abroad: • Indo-LAC Business (quarterly). • Indo-CIS Business (quarterly). 3rd Floor, Unit 308 • Indo-Africa Business (quarterly). ECE City Centre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky UT.12 Local branches: 1051 Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1) 3382833, 3176699 st 1 Floor, Sakar II Fax: (36 1) 3178354 Next to Ellisbridge Shopping Centre E-mail: [email protected] Ellisbridge P.O., Ahmedabad 380 006 Phone: (91 79) 26576852, 26576843 Via Disciplini, 7 Fax: (91 79) 26578271 20123 Milan, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (39 02) 58430546 Fax: (39 02) 58302124 th 4 Floor, Ramanashree Arcade E-mail: [email protected] 18, M.G. Road Bangalore 560 001 20, Collyer Quay Phone: (91 80) 25585755, 25589101-4 No. 10-02 Tung Centre Fax: (91 80) 25589107 Singapore 049319 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (65) 65326464 Fax: (65) 65352131 st 1 Floor, UTI House E-mail: [email protected] 29, Rajaji Salai Chennai 600 001 158, Ground Floor, Jan Smuts Phone: (91 44) 25224714, 25224749 9, Walters Avenue, Rosebank Fax: (91 44) 25224082 Johannesburg 2196, South Africa E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 2018, Saxonwold 2132 Johannesburg, South Africa th 4 Floor, Sanmati Plaza Phone: (27 11) 4428010, 4422053 Near Sentinel Building Fax: (27 11) 4428022 G.S Road, Guwahati 781 005 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (91 361) 2599135 Fax: (91 361) 2462925 Suite 1202, 12th Floor 1750, Pennsylvania Avenue NW nd 2 Floor, Golden Edifice Suite 1202, Washington DC 20006 6-3-639/640, Raj Bhavan Road United States of America Khairatabad, Hyderabad 500 004 Phone: (1 202) 2233238-9 Phone: (91 40) 23307816-21 Fax: (1 202) 7858487 Fax: (91 40) 23317843 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Training: th 4 floor Vanijya Bhavan (International Trade Facilitation Centre) The Bank conducts short-term, focused seminars/workshops on 1/1 Wood Street international trade and related activities. Kolkata 700016 Phone: (91 33) 22833419-20 Category: Fax: (91 33) 22891727 E-mail: [email protected] Export financing organization; investment financing organization; trade facilitation body; and trade promotion organization. th 8 Floor, Maker Chambers IV 222, Nariman Point Mumbai 400 021 Phone: (91 22) 22830761, 22823320 Fax: (91 22) 22022132 E-mail: [email protected]
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FEDERATION OF INDIAN CHAMBERS OF Local branches: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (FICCI) Local branches in Raipur, Secunderabad, Baroda, Chennai, Office/postal address: Mumbai.
Federation House Offices abroad: Tansen Marg th New Delhi 110 001 1050 17 Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036, United States of America Phone: (91 11) 23738760-70 Phone: (1 202) 7767181 Fax: (91 11) 23320714, 3721504 Fax: (1 202) 331 8703 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ficci.com 211 Piccadilly London, WIJ 9HF, United Kingdom Year established: 1927 Phone: (44 20) 79176810 E-mail: [email protected] Services/activities: U-Space Building • Promotes trade and technology cooperation between India A-1701, Guangqumenwai Street and the rest of the world; Chaoyang District • Takes up various business issues with the Government and Beijing 100022, China semi-Government authorities; Phone: (86 10) 58612342, 58612344 • Liaises and interacts with foreign Governments, Fax: (86 10) 58613409 international, multilateral organizations; E-mail: [email protected]
• Provides information on export and import;
• Provides information for technology collaboration and #07-179 Union Building investment; 171 Tras Street • Undertakes research studies; Singapore 079025 • Provides information to the public through appropriate Phone: (65) 64231078 media; Fax: (65) 64231079 • Organizes seminars and conference. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.gagrp.com Publications issued: 14, Jalan SS 18/4B, Subang Jaya • A Guide to Tourist Places in South India. 47500 Selangor, Malaysia • Business Digest. (monthly). Phone: (60 3) 56343113 • Business in the Service of Rural India. Fax: (60 3) 56384133 • Cross Border Joint Ventures in India: Pitfalls and Path to E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Success. • Crossing Higher Thresholds in Retailing. 1, Lenin Ave • Developing Markets for Long-Term Finance. Karaganda Reg. Tamirtau • FICCI Commemorative Volume. Kazakhstan 472319 • FICCI Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Phone: (7-3213) 969971-3, 969808 • FICCI-EU Biotechnology. Fax: (7-3213) 917814/007, 913601 • Growth with Employment: The Challenge Ahead. E-mail: [email protected] • India Economic Profile (annually). Via Michele Diverio,1 • India Japan Global Partnership. Piazza Cavour - 10023 • India: A Global Destination. Chieri – Turin, Italy • Indian Agriculture Unbound: Making Indian Agriculture Phone: (39 3485) 601208, 457431 Globally Competitive. E-mail: [email protected] • Indian Capital Market: Ahead of Curve. • Investment Opportunities for Eco and Rural Tourism in Membership structure: 433 Ordinary Members, 1,286 India. Associate Members and 50 Corporate Members. • Prospects of Tourism in South India. • SAARC Means Business - Opportunities for Partnership. Category: • Supply Chain & Technology in Retails. • The Emerging Role of CEOs and CFOs. Chamber of commerce. • Tourism in South India. • Unleashing India's True Potential: CEO's Vision of the Future. • Winning with Intelligent Supply Chains.
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FEDERATION OF INDIAN EXPORT Local Branches: ORGANIZATIONS (FIEO) Northern Region: Office/postal address: Kanpur Chapter "Niryat Bhawan" c/o Merchants’ Chamber of Uttar Pradesh Rao Tula Ram Marg. 14/76 Civil Lines, Kanpur 208 001 Opposit Army Hospital Research and Referral Phone: (91 923) 5401118 New Delhi 110057 Fax: (91 512) 2531306 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Phone: (91 11) 26150101-04 Fax: (91 11) 26150066, 26150077 Eastern Region:
E-mail: [email protected] Express Tower URL: fieo.org/ 6th Flr, 42A, Shakespeare Sarani (Junction of Rawdon Street and Shakespeare Sarani) Year established: 1965 Kolkata 700 071 Phone: (91 33) 22831563-65, 22831567, 22805780 Principal function: Fax: (91 33) 22805781, 22831568 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • To promote India’s exports. North East Chapter Services/activities: c/o Meghalaya Industrial Development Corporation Ltd. Kismat (Ground Floor) Upland Road, Shillong 793003 • Organizes export promotion activities such as trade fairs, Fax: (91 364) 2504810 exhibition, buyer-seller meetings, interactive meetings and E-mail: [email protected] workshops;
• Provides market development assistance; Orissa Chapter • Issues certificate of origin under the SAARC Preferential Second Floor, Ashoka Market Market Complex Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) and the Asia-Pacific Trade Station Square, Bhubaneswar 751009, Orissa Agreement (APTA) and non-preferential purposes; Phone: (91 674) 2536 674 • Takes up problems of members relating to foreign trade Fax: (91 674) 2536 675 policy, banking, income tax, customs, central excise, etc. with Mobile: (91 943) 7226712 policy makers in the Government’s various departments and E-mail: [email protected] ministries; • Publishes a monthly bulletin FIEO News to keep its members Western Region: updated with policy changes, changing market trends, upcoming export opportunities; World Trade Centre No.1 (11th Floor) • Presents the annual export awards “Niryat Shree” to its Cuffe Parade, Mumbai 400 005 members for their outstanding export performances as well as Phone: (91 22) 22185093, 22183354 the “Niryat Bandhu” award to export facilitators such as Fax: (91 22) 22183875 banks, export promotion councils and commodity boards for E-mail: [email protected] recognizing their support to the exporting community. Southern Region: Publication issued: Andhra Pradesh Chapter • FIEO News (monthly, English). "Shakar Bhavan" • A Directory of Consultancy Organisations. 5-10-174, Fateh Maidan Road, Hyderabad 500 004 • Doing Business with the Russian Federation. Phone: (91 40) 23210380 • Export Potential and Infrastructure Requirement of the Fax: (91 40) 23210381 Southern Region of India. E-mail: [email protected] • Export Potential of the North Eastern States. • India and the European Union: Some thoughts on their trade Karnataka Chapter & investment relations. 1st Floor VITC Building, • Indian Exporter's Directory. Kasturba Road, Bangalore 560 001 • Surveys on the German Market. Phone: (91 80) 22864854 • Towards SAFTA: Some Thoughts. Fax: (91 80) 22864855 E-mail: [email protected] For a complete list of publications, please refer to fieo.org/publications.html Spencer Plaza Unit No. 706, 7th Floor 769, Anna Salai, Chennai 600 002 Phone: (91 44) 28497766, 28497755 Fax: (91 44) 28496666 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
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Membership structure: Products/commodity responsible for:
FIEO represents the interest of professional government-recognized Electricals; electronics; plastics and plastic products; leather and exporting firms, consultancy firms, service exporters, banks, export leather products; paper and paper products; management training institutes, etc. micronutrients/fertilizers; food processing; information technology; textiles; rubber and rubber products; handicrafts; Training: chemicals and pharmaceuticals; plants and machines.
Offers various trainings throughout the year, at both the substantive Training: and technical level, including for instance trainings to enhance presentation and communication skills or trainings related to Export marketing and documentation (in collaboration with Indian language. Institute of Foreign Trade).
Category: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Trade associations, trade promotion organization, and Focus on agro and food processing. organization with training functions. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
FEDERATION OF INDIAN MICRO AND SMALL Please see the Economy Section at www.smenetwork.net AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (FISME) Category:
Office/postal address: Chamber of commerce; trade association; and trade promotion
organization. B-4/161, Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi 110 029
Phone: (91 11) 26187948, 26712064, 46023157, 46018592 FEDERATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM Fax: (91 11) 26109470 INDUSTRIES (FOSMI)
E-mail: [email protected] Office / postal address: URL: www.fisme.org.in 23, R.N. Mukherjee Road Year established: 1995 Kolkata 700 001
Principal functions: Phone: (91 33) 22485114 Fax: (91 33) 22104075 • To advocate micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (MSMEs) interests; E-mail: [email protected] • To conduct studies and research and to disseminate trade intelligence through www.smenetwork.net; Year established: 1959 • To provide international marketing support; • To help create enabling environment for MSMEs. Principle functions:
Services/activities: • To facilitate the promotion and development of SMEs; • To alleviate problems of existing units; • Organizes and supports trade fairs and trade delegations; • To represents FOSMI members. • Provides support in international trade/matchmaking; • Undertakes authentication of documents and issues Services/activities: Certificates of Origin. • Participates in various policy matters; Publications issued: • Trains and promotes medium, small/tiny enterprises; • Develops self-employment projects; • Annual Report. • Confers awards of excellence to successful entrepreneurs; • Business Bulletin. • Organizes seminars, lectures, discussions concerning SMEs. • Handbook on Mandatory and Voluntary Standards in the leather and Footwear Products (in Major International Publications issued: Markets). • SME Navigator (2005). • FOSMI SSI News (monthly). • Smenetwork Update (electronic). • FOSMI Members Directory. • Guides on WTO, IT, etc. • Publication of annual souvenir.
Membership structure: Over 1,200 members and 25 affiliated Membership structure: About 100,000 members. associations.
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Products/commodity responsible for: Local branches:
Services-oriented organization for the development of small-scale 37, Bungalow Road and tiny units. Kamla Nagar, Delhi 110 007 Phone: (91 11) 27662268, 27662275 Training: C-115, Savitri Path, • Post Graduate Programme in Entrepreneurship Development Bapu Nagar, (PGEM), long term (12 months); Jaipur, India. • Certificate in Small Industrial Management (CSIM), short Phone: (91 11) 2703952 term (3 months); • Management Bridge Courses, short term (one month), on Membership structure: 8,685 members, as of 1 August 2005. marketing and sales management; international marketing and export management; taxation practice and procedures; Products/commodity responsible for: information entrepreneurship; financial management; production management and inventory control; Artisanal handicrafts, furniture, gems and jewellery, ready-made • Entrepreneurship Development and Industrial Studies garments, leather products, silk products, and software. (EDIS), short term (two weeks). Training: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Diploma in export management; Engineering; chemicals; food processing; plastics; software; • Diploma in merchandising; pharmaceuticals; ready-made garments; leather; jute. • Correspondence course in export management; • Certificate in import management; Category: • Certificate in export documentation and procedures; • Programme on how to enter export trade; Chamber of commerce. • Quality management in export trade; • Export development through Internet; • Export risk management. FOREIGN TRADE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Office/postal address: SMEs in various sections with exporting potential. N-5, South Extension Part-1 New Delhi 110 049 Category:
Phone: (91 11) 24647505, 24616839 Trade facilitation body; trade promotion organization; and Fax: (91 11) 24646361 training/research institute.
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.ftdcindia.org
Year established: 1991
Principal functions:
• Export/import training and promotion organization; • Trade advisory organization and trade information centre.
Services/activities:
• Trade information dissemination; • Organizes and participates in fairs/seminars/conferences on trade promotion, marketing, e-governance in international trade and import management.
Publications issued:
• Export Development Through Internet (monthly, English). • Export Management (annually, English). • How to Enter Export Trade (annually, English).
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HANDICRAFTS AND HANDLOOMS EXPORTS Chennai Regional Office: st nd CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD. (HHEC) Ramashree Business Centre, 1 and 2 Floor 143, Greams Road Office/postal address: Chennai - 600006 Phone: (91 44) 8295609, 8294614, 8294619 Jawahar Vyapar Bhavan Annexe Fax: (91 44) 8294610 1, Tolstoy Marg E-mail: [email protected] New Delhi 110 001 Ahmedabad Branch: nd Phone: (91 11) 3701086, 23701132, 23701058 176, 2 Floor New Cloth Market Fax: (91 11) 3701051 Ahmedabad - 380002 Phone: (91 79) 2172723 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (91 79) 2174431 URL: www.hhecworld.com Offices abroad: Year established: 1958 (under the Ministry of Textiles) rd 3 Floor, Union Roppongi, 2-3-9 Roppongi Principal function: Minato Ku Tokyo 106-0032 Tokyo, Japan • To undertake exports of handicrafts, handlooms products, Phone: (81 3) 35890771 khadi and products of village industries from India as Fax: (81 3) 35890772 supplement to private voluntary effort; • To undertake special promotional measures in countries Sona of India, Apt. # 3B, The Stanton whose import potential for Indian handicrafts products, khadi 41-40, Union Street and products of village industries has not been adequately Flushing, New York, NY 11355 tapped; United States of America • To trade in and carry on business in goods of the nature which Phone: (1 718) 8889806 may seem to the company capable of being conveniently and Fax: (1 718) 8889803 profitably carried on by the company. Products/commodity responsible for: Services/activities: Handicrafts, handlooms, ready-to-wear, gold jewellery and carpets.
• Undertakes activities in the export of handicrafts, handlooms Category: goods, ready-to-wear clothes, carpets and precious jewellery.
Trade promotion organization. Local branches:
Corporate Office: Noida Complex A- 2, Sector -2 HANDLOOM EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL Udyog Marg, Noida 201301 Gautam Budha Nagar Office/postal address: Phone: (91 120) 2539155,2539156 Fax: (91 120) 2537003 34 Cathedral Garden Road E-mail: [email protected] Nungambakkam Chennai 600 034 Delhi Regional Office: Okhla Industrial Estate Phase 111 Phone: (91 44) 28278879, 28276043 New Delhi - 110020 Fax: (91 44) 28271761 Phone: (91 11) 6931237, 6323082 Fax: (91 11) 6847719 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.hepcindia.com
Mumbai Regional Office: Year established: 1965 11th floor, Nirmal Building, Nariman Point Mumbai - 400021 Principal function: Phone: (91 22) 2882098, 2020368 Fax: (91 22) 2024312 • To advise the Government, local authorities and public E-mail: [email protected] bodies on the effect of policies on industry and commerce; • To approve agents, representatives or correspondence in Kolkata Regional Office: foreign markets assigned to continuously and regularly 15N, Nellie Sengupta Sarani reporting price, market preferences and reception accorded to Lindsay Street 6th floor Indian Handloom products abroad; Calcutta - 700087 • To collect, collate and disseminate trade data and Phone: (91 33) 2461360, 2456863 commercial intelligence to exporters; Fax: (91 33) 2456864 • To conduct propaganda regularly and to make Indian E-mail: [email protected] handloom products more popular abroad though various means of publicity;
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• To facilitate the upgrading, popularization and adoption of • Directory of Buying Houses/ Buying Agents (CD-ROM). technology, quality and design improvement, standards and • Directory of Handloom Manufacturers of Andhra Pradesh. specifications, product development, diversification and • Dyeing Manual. innovations, etc.; • Handbook on Handloom Export Statistics. • To lay down standards of quality and packaging in respect of • Indian Handloom Map. Indian Handlooms for export; • Monthly newsletter Handloom Export. • To organize participation in trade fairs, exhibitions and buyer-seller meets in India and abroad; Local branches: • To provide guidance, consultancy and support to handloom exporters to promote handloom exports; 10th Floor, Padma Tower 1 • To publish useful publications such as colour catalogues, 5, Rajendra Place colour trends catalogues, importers and exporters directories, New Delhi 110 008 etc.; Phone: (91 11) 25826965 • To send trade missions abroad; Fax: (91 11) 25826966 • To undertake market studies in individual foreign countries; E-mail: [email protected] • To undertake or assist in research on schemes of technological nature designed to improve the efficiency of Membership structure: 2,000 members. the handloom sector. Products/commodity responsible for: Services/activities: Cotton handloom fabrics/made-ups. • Arranges for the participation of member exporters in important trade fairs and organizes buyer-seller meets and Category: business missions; • Provides financial grants to exporters for undertaking sale- Trade production organization. cum-study tours, participation in international fairs, publicity etc.; • Promotes Indian handloom products abroad through Internet, INDIA INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE (IITC) advertisements in commercial portals, trade magazines, conducting shows as well as through publications; Office/postal address: • Disseminates trade information, including design trends, export trends, standards and specifications, Government Murlidhar Baldev Estate, policies, circulars etc.; Off. Aarey Road, Goregaon (East), • Conducts workshops and seminars on upgrading technology Mumbai - 400 063 in pre-loom, loom and post-loom practices to improve quality and productivity, promotes modern dyeing practices, product Phone: (91 22) 66770218/19, 28711396, 28771918 innovations, diversifications and improvement, quality Fax: (91 22) 2874 3543/2876 8039 compliance, better merchandising practices, packaging methods, etc. to improve the competitiveness of Indian Email: [email protected], [email protected] handloom products; URL: www.iitcindia.com • Promotes product innovation, diversification and improvement in the selected handloom clusters under the Year established: 1956 development of exportable products and marketing scheme (DEPM); Principal function: • Provides support to develop new designs, fabric simulation, colour printouts, peg plan graph outputs, layout information • To provide assistance and support to Indian and foreign and computer aided colour matching, etc. to exporters; companies specially SMEs, to promote export-import and to • Generates and dissemination trade enquiries for facilitating establish and enhance business contacts by organizing international buyers to source handloom products from Indian various trade promotional activities in India and abroad. handloom exporters. • Liaises with the Government for strengthening infrastructure Services/activities: facilities in handloom export production centres and for undertaking efforts to improve forward and backward Exports: linkages in handloom sector; • Locates prospective marketplace for products; • Serves as a link between trade and Government to formulate • Sources out potential buyers/agents for products; appropriate policies to promote handloom export growth; • Negotiates deals with clients; • Inquires into the complaints made against exporters and takes • Advertises and propagates products in the desired market exporters’ problems up with respective embassies. region.
Publications issued: Imports: • Identifies product, market and exporter; • Indian Color Catalogue (Color Catalogue Vol. II (Revised), • Sourcing out capital goods as per requirement; Color Catalogue Vol. III, New Colors. • Sourcing of products/services. • Importers Directory (CD-ROM). • Color trends (Color trend Catalogue (2003-04)). • Source Book. • Exporters Directory (CD-ROM and print form).
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Trade/business enhancement: INDIA TRADE PROMOTION ORGANISATION (ITPO) • Provides support for contract manufacturing in India and abroad; Office/postal address: • Assists in business matchmaking, joint venture formations; • Joint advertising, group marketing, etc.; Pragati Bhawan • Assists in turnkey projects, industrial plants, business set- Pragati Maidan up. Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg New Delhi 110 001 Trade information: • Enhances export-import; Phone: (91 11) 23371540 • Develops business contacts; Fax: (91 11) 23371492, 23371493 • Trade promotion events; • Support services. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.tradeportalofindia.com, www.indiatradefair.com Local branches: Year established: 1992 (formed by a merger of the Trade Trade Promotion and Relations Development Authority with the Trade Fair Authority). 37, World Trade Centre Cuffe Parade, Principal functions: Mumbai 400 005 • To develop and promote exports, imports and upgrade 30-A, Prestige Point, 1st Floor technology through fairs in India and abroad; CTS No. 283, Shukrawar Peth • To undertake publicity through print and electronic media; Bajirao Road, Pune 411 002 • To assist Indian companies in product development; Fax: (91 20) 56012344 • To organize export development programmes, buyer-seller meets, contact promotion programmes and integrated Gajanan V. Gongane marketing programmes for specific products in specific c/o Siddhi International markets; Bhaskar Plaza, S4, Shahupuri, Kolhapur 416001 • To provide information and market intelligence; Phone: (91 231) 2663302, 2652495 • To organize visits of buyers and trade delegations to industry Fax: (91 231) 2663302 and trade establishments in India to promote contacts.
Membership structure: Services/activities:
Four membership categories: • Organizes participation in international trade fairs and • Small (SSI units) and medium entrepreneurs, buying agents, exclusive Indian trade-related exhibitions abroad; traders and agri-based small industries; • Private and public Ltd. companies, government agencies, • Organizes international and national trade fairs in India; banks and financial institutes, sugar-textile-dairy-agro • Organizes specialized programmes for trade development and industries, multinational companies and international promotion such as buyer-seller meets, contact promotion organizations; programmes, department store promotions, exchange of • Consultants, commercial agents-distributors, chambers, business delegations, etc.; associations, organizations and other any professional; • Assists technically competent units in product development • Overseas: exporters-importers, industry, buying agents, and adaptation; chambers of commerce, trade promotion organizations, • Coordinates programmes of trade delegations; associations, government agencies, companies and • Encourages and involves medium- and small-scale industrial individuals. units in export promotion efforts; • Provides trade promotion and trade fair related information; Category: • Conducts in-house and needs-based research on trade and export promotion; Trade promotion organization. • Enlists the involvement and support of state governments in the promotion of India's foreign trade; • Promotes the establishment of trade fair facilities in state capitals or other suitable locations in consultation with concerned state governments; • Operates a Business Information Centre which provides trade information services with electronic accessibility to the business community in general and ITPO members in particular; • Maintains a collection of national production and foreign trade statistics; • Provides information on national and foreign trade regulations; • Produces lists of manufacturers/exporters and importers; • Organizes Foreign Product Catalogue Shows in India; • Organizes Indian Product Catalogue Shows overseas.
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Publications issued: 1st Floor, 38, Lomonosovsky Prospect Moscow 119330, Russian Federation • Annual Report (annually, English). Phone: (70 95) 1476215, 9561390 • Data Kits on India's Trade (English). Fax: (70 95) 1471403 • Indian Export Bulletin (weekly, English). E-mail: [email protected] • Pragati India (bi-monthly, English/Spanish). URL: www.itpomos.ru
• Product Studies (English). nd • Udyog Vyapar Patrika (monthly, Hindi). 60 East, 42 Street, Suite 863 Lincoln Building • Darpan (quarterly, Hindi). New York, NY 10165, United States of America • Log On (quarterly, English). Phone: (1 212) 3705262/60
Fax: (1 212) 3705250 Local branches: E-mail: [email protected]
24-A, Imperial Court Alameda Santos, 705-10 andar, Conj. 107/108 33/1, Cunningham Road CEP. 01419-001-SP- Brazil Bangalore 560 052 Phone: (55 11) 32845925, 32848095 Phone: (9180) 2268867, 2268969 Fax: (55 11) 23668196 Fax: (9180) 2258662 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.indiatrade.org.br
International Trade Facilitation Centre Membership structure: 883 Regular Members, 1,884 5th Floor,1/1, Wood Street Associate Members (as of 14 August 2003). Kolkata 700016 Regular membership for marketing services; associate membership Phone: (91 33) 22822904, 22825820, 22828586 for trade information services. Fax: (91 33) 22828269
E-mail: [email protected] Category:
Raja Annamalai Building Trade promotion organization. 2nd Floor, 18-A
Rukhmanai Lakshmipathi Road
Egmore, Chennai 600 008
Phone: (91 44) 28554655, 28587297
Fax: (91 44) 28554740 E-mail: [email protected]
7 Cooperage Road 3rd Floor, Jhansis Castle Mumbai 400 039 Phone: (91 22) 22021788, 22021730, 22026629, 22044918, 22850878 Fax: (91 22) 22044922 E-Mail: [email protected]
World Trade Centre - I 11th Floor, Cuffe Parade Mumbai 400 005 Phone: (91 22) 22184135, 22183734, 22185263 Fax: (91 22) 22184125 E-mail: [email protected]
Offices abroad:
India House Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 26 60325 Frankfurt Main, Germany Phone: (49 69) 7434760, 553773, 15300533 Fax: (49 69) 554230 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.itpofrankfurt.com
33, Mori Building, 8th Floor 3-8-21, Toranomon, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0001, Japan Phone: (81 3) 34365060, 34365063 Fax: (81 3) 34315659 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.itpotyo.org
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INDIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDIAN COUNCIL OF ARBITRATION (ICA) INDUSTRY, COCHIN Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Room 112, Federation House Indian Chamber Building Tansen Marg Indian Chamber Road, Mattancherry New Delhi 110 001 Cochin 682002, Kerala Phone: (91 11) 23719103, 23319760, 23738760-70 P.O. Box: 236 Fax: (91 11) 23320714, 23721504
Phone: (91 484) 2227230, 2224335, 2225966 E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: (91 938) 8892410, 8892411, 8892412 URL: www.ficci.com/icanet Fax: (91 484) 2224203 Year established: 1965 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.iccicochin.com Principal functions:
Year established: 1897 • To advance the knowledge and use of arbitration as a means of amicable and quick settlement of domestic and international Principal functions: trade disputes and to promote amity, goodwill and confidence among the trade; • To promote and protect trade, commerce and industry in the • To conduct research and provide training facilities in State of Kerala in India and to develop exim trade; commercial arbitration. • To protect the general economic interests India; • To establish just and equitable principles in trade and Services/activities: commerce. • Provides arbitration facilities in domestic and international Services/activities: commercial disputes; • Provides facilities for international maritime arbitration • Issues Certificates of Origin, quality, weighment and disputes; measurement; • Undertakes conciliation services; • Attests internationally accepted commercial documents; • Provides training facilities in commercial arbitration for Indian • Disseminates information and data of concern and interest to and foreign participants; the business community; • Handles enquiries and provides advisory services; • Organizes periodical interactive meetings for the exchange of • Acts as Appointing Authority and Administering Agency views between representatives of the Government and under the United Nations Commission on International Trade business community on matters connected with the promotion Law (UNCITRAL) Arbitration Rules; of industry and trade; • Enters into arbitration cooperation agreements with central • Is actively involved in projects and programmes for the arbitral organizations in different countries; currently mutual benefit of the society. cooperation agreements with 40 arbitral institutions round the world; Local branch: • Provides administrative and secretarial services for conducting arbitration proceedings. Indian Chamber Building G.V Iyyar Road Publications issued: Willingdon Island Cochin 682 003, Kerala • Arbitration and Conciliation Law of India. Phone: (91 471) 2666901 • Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution. • Arbitration and Contract Law in South Asian Association for Membership structure: Around 450 ordinary members and Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Countries. 11 affiliated members. • Arbitration Made Easy. • Case Law on UNCITRAL Model Law on International Firms, public-private sector companies/undertakings, corporations, Commercial Arbitration. banking institutions, service providers and trade associations • Case Law on UNCITRAL Convention on Contracts for the engaged in or interested in trade, commerce and related services International Sale of Goods. functioning in India are eligible for admission as members of the • Construction Industry Arbitration. chamber. • ICA Arbitration Quarterly.
• ICA Pamphlet. Training: • Rules of Arbitration of the Council. Conducting various seminars, conferences and meetings in the • Rues of Conciliation of the Council. State of Kerala to promote and protect trade, industry and business. • Maritime Rules of Law.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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Local branches: Rajasthan Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Branch offices: Rajasthan Chamber Bhawan, MI Road Jaipur 302 003 Indian Chamber of Commerce Phone: (91 141) 2565163 4, India Exchange Place Fax: (91 141) 2561419 Kolkata 700 001 Phone: (91 33) 22203242-44 Kerala Fax: (91 33) 22213377 Kerala Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chamber Corner, Shanmugham Road Indian Merchants' Chamber Cochin 682031 IMC Buildings, IMC Marg Phone: (91 484) 2354885, 2380950 76, Veer Nariman Road Fax: (91 484) 2374253 Churchgate, Mumbai 400 020 Phone: (91 22) 22046633 North-East States Fax: (91 22) 22048508 North-East Chamber of Commerce and Industry Zoo Road Tiniali, Opp. Geeta Nagar Police Station Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry Guwahati 781024 Indian Chamber Buildings Phone: (91 361) 2417074 Esplanade Road, Opp. High Court Fax: (91 361) 2410461 Chennai 600 0018 Phone: (91 44) 25342228 Membership structure: Over 4,700 members. Fax: (91 44) 25341876 Foundation membership: organizations providing arbitration State level offices: facilities. Ordinary membership: chambers of commerce, trade associations, Andhra Pradesh export promotion councils, commodity boards, etc. Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry Associate membership: companies, firms, import-export houses and 11-6-841, Red Hills individuals. P.B. No. 14, Hyderabad 500 004 Individual membership: any individual experienced and/or Phone: (91 40) 23393428, 23393658 interested in arbitration matters. Fax: (91 40) 23395083, 23393712 Training: Gujarat Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry • Professional development programme on commercial Shri Ambica Mills Gujarat Chamber Building arbitration. Ashram Road • National and international seminars, workshops and Post Box No. 4045 arbitration meetings on different aspects of the law and Ahmedabad 380 009 practice of arbitration and allied matters. Phone: (91 79) 26582301-02, 26587992 Fax: (91 79) 2407992 The training programmes are open to businesspersons, professionals and executives mainly from India. However, Maharashtra interested persons from other countries may attend on a sponsored Maratha Chamber of Commerce and Industry basis. Post Box No. 525 Tilak Road, Pune 411 002 Category: Phone: (91 20) 24440371, 14440472 Fax: (91 20) 24447902 Council of arbitration.
Karnataka Federation of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Federation House Kempegowda Road Bangalore 560 009 Phone: (91 80) 22262157, 22262355/56 Fax: (91 80) 22251826
Orissa Utakal Chamber of Commerce and Industry 301, Vandana Apaertments, Vivekananda Marg Bhubaneswar 751 0022 Phone: (91 674) 2301211, 2344056 Fax: (91 674) 2302059
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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRADE (IIFT) Publications issued: (DEEMED UNIVERSITY) Wide range of journals, papers and reports issued, including: Office/postal address: • Focus WTO (bi-monthly, English). • Foreign Trade Review (quarterly, English). IIFT Bhawan • Technology Exports (quarterly, English). Qutab Institutional Area • Trade Environment Linkages: The Issue from Indian New Delhi 110 016 Standard. • Non-Tariff Measures on India’s Exports: An Assessment. Phone: (91 11) 26965124, 26965051, 26564409, 26966563, • China’s Accession to Bangkok Agreement. 26966360, 26966304, 26966613 Fax: (91 11) 26853956, 26859520, 26867851 For a full list of publications, please consult the website: www.iift.edu. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.iift.edu Training:
Year established: 1964 • Two-year MBA (International Business), New Delhi, Kolkata and Dar-es-Salaam; Principal functions: • Three-year MBA (International Business, part-tme), New Delhi and Kolkata; • To develop export management skills through education, • One-and-a-half year Executive Masters in International training and research; Business, New Delhi, Dubai and Post Graduate Diploma in • To carry out supply and demand studies in India and abroad International Trade at Dar-es-Salaam; for products/commodities/countries and regions of interest to • One-and-a-half year Executive Masters in International India; Business through Very Small Aperture Terminal Satellite • To carry out research on international trade focusing on Equipment and Services (VSAT) at various centres in India; World Trade Organization (WTO) issues. • Certificate Course in Export Marketing, New Delhi and Guwahati; Services/activities: • Course on International Business Languages: five months, part-time for business executives; • Undertakes research on areas that relate to the efficacy of • Short-term management development programmes of various policy measures, strategies for multilateral trade duration on different facets of international marketing negotiations, international commercial and financial management, such as import management, export procedures operations, international business opportunities, supply base and documentation, shipping orientation, management of for exports and management of foreign trade operations; international contracts, management of foreign exchange at • Conducts a full-time two-year MBA (International Business) corporate level; at Delhi, Kolkata and Dar-es-Salaam; three-year part-time • Ph. D programme. MBA (International Business) at Delhi; one-and-a-half-year Executive Masters in International Business at New Delhi Category: and Dubai; and Post Graduate Diploma in International Trade at Dar-es-Salaam; Training/research institute. • Designs and conducts specialized training programmes for export management personnel of public and private sector organizations, officers of the Government of India as well as for other developing countries and international organizations; • Designs and conducts training programmes for diplomats from India and other developing countries; • Conducts management development programmes for participation by business executives and officials of trade facilitating agencies on such subjects as international marketing operations, export procedures and documentation, supply-chain management and international trade logistics, risk management, international financing, managing projects abroad, distribution strategy for overseas markets, product development including adaptation for exports, export office administration, setting up in-house trade information units, electronic commerce, implications of WTO provisions, etc.; • Conducts part-time evening certificate course in export management and international business language; • Conducts a full-time Ph. D programme.
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INDIAN INVESTMENT CENTRE (IIC) INSTITUTE OF SMALL ENTERPRISES AND (A Government of India Organization, Ministry of Finance) DEVELOPMENT (ISED)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Jeevan Vihar ISED House Parliament Street ISED Road New Delhi 110 001 Vennala, P.O. Cochin 682 028 Phone: (91 11) 3743679, 3743702 Fax: (91 11) 3742245, 3743712 P.O. Box: 4425, Vennala, Cochin
E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (91 484) 2808171, 2809884, 2808727 URL: www.iic.nic.in Fax: (91 484) 2809884
Year established: 1960 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Principal functions: URL: www.isedonline.org
• To promote foreign direct investment in India and in Indian Year established: 29 May 1988 joint ventures abroad; • To be a nodal agency for investment in India by non-resident Principal functions: Indians and persons of Indian origin residing abroad; • To be a member of the World Association of Investment • To undertake scientific studies at an international level, on Promotion Agencies. development problems, with special emphasis on SMEs; • To identify and popularize technologies suitable for the Services/activities: development of small SMEs through various measures; • To develop and maintain an information base for the use of • Is a service organization for establishment of joint ventures, researchers, entrepreneurs, planners and policymakers; technical collaborations and third country ventures between • To organize both academic as well as action-oriented training Indian and foreign entrepreneurs; programmes; • Provides guidance and information to Indian entrepreneurs • To organize seminars, workshops and discussions; and assists them in locating suitable foreign firms for • To offer consultancy services; collaboration; • To organize and maintain a specialized research and reference • Provides authentic information on Government of India’s library; foreign investment policies, procedures, availability of • To undertake a scheme of publications in order to disseminate infrastructural facilities, incentive and investment research findings and to extend topical information; opportunities; • To promote development activities through liaison, lobbying • Advises overseas investors on setting up industrial projects by and direct intervention, if needed; providing information regarding the investment environment, • To promote an international fraternity in the area of SME government policies, facilities and incentives, taxation laws development. and regulations; also assists them in identifying locations and collaborators. Services/activities:
Publications issued: • Undertakes research on small enterprises; • Organizes training for entrepreneurship development; • List of Foreign Collaborations during 2000 (annually, • Provides consultancy services for business, institutions and English). funding agencies; • Special Facilities Available to Non-resident Indians (English). • Provides networking services in the area of small enterprise • Guidelines for Indian Joint Ventures and Wholly Owned development. Subsidiaries Abroad (English). • Foreign Direct Investment Policy and Business Opportunities Publications issued: (English). • IIC Monthly Newsletter (monthly, English). • ISED Book Series. • ISED Monograph Series. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • ISED Occasional Papers.
• ISED Research Reports. All sectors of industrial activities. • SME Network.
Category: Membership structure: 100 members.
Investment promotion authority. Category:
Training/research institute.
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JUTE MANUFACTURES DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 2nd Floor, Chenetha Bhawan (JMDC) Shop No. 4, Nampally Hyderabad 500 001 Office/postal address: Phone: (91 40) 24656733 Fax: (91 40) 24614918 3A, Park Plaza E-mail: [email protected] 71 Park Street th Kolkata 700 016 Flat Nos. 411-412, 4 Floor, "Prakash Deep" 7, Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi 110 001 Phone: (91 33) 22172107, 22263438, 22172540 Phone: (91 11) 23352652, 23310884 Fax: (91 33) 22172456 Fax: (91 11) 23353519 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.jmdcindia.com, www.jute.com Membership structure: 704 members as of 30 June 2005.
Year established: 1983 They are private/individual Indians registered with the Council under a particular scheme. Otherwise, a general or compulsory Principal function: membership system is not in vogue with the Council until now.
• The apex body of the Government of India, Ministry of Products/commodity responsible for: Textiles, the Council is primarily responsible for market promotion of jute and jute products in India and abroad. Jute and jute diversified products.
Services/activities: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Domestic Market Development: Jute and jute-related industries, market research, product • Promotes arrangements for better marketing and sale of jute; development, market promotion, design, market, technical • Organizes domestic exhibitions and sales; consultancy.
• Collaborates the apex state and central marketing agencies and Category: jointly organizes showrooms, exhibitions, etc.;
• Holds seminars, workshops and live demonstrations; Trade promotion organization. • Grants financial support to jute training institutions; • Run the promotional offices. M VISVESVARAYA INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND Export Market Development: DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (MVIRDC) • Implements the external market assistance (EMA) scheme;
• Provide trade intelligence services to manufacturers and Office/postal address: exporters;
• Participates in specialized trade shows and fairs; World Trade Centre • Sponsors market exploratory missions; 31st Floor Centre 1 Building • Organizes buyer-seller meets; World Trade Centre Complex • Commissions product-specific and market-specific studies; Cuffe Parade • Carries out publicity and promotional campaigns; Mumbai 400 005 • Releases informative literature; • Runs common textiles promotional offices at strategic cities Phone: (91 22) 66387272 abroad; Fax: (91 22) 22180823, 2218 8385 • Is an associate member of Textile Bag and Packaging Association of the United States of America. E-mail: [email protected]
Publications issued: Year Established: 1970
• Indian Jute (half-yearly statistical bulletin, English). Principal function: • Indian Jute (quarterly newsletter, English). • National Directory (occasionally, English). • To promote bilateral trade. • Product-specific brochures. Services/Activities: Local branches: • Conducts research studies/projects in the areas of 18, Cathedral Gardens Road international trade, technology and marketing; 2nd Floor, Nungambakkam, Chennai 600 034 • Organizes seminar/symposia/workshops; Phone: (91 44) 28224967 • Provides trade information, international trade library Fax: (91 44) 28224462 service, IMPEX - India’s Import and Export Statistical Data; E-mail: [email protected] • Centre-Point: Offers business centre facilities and conference rooms; • Expo Centre: Offers exhibition facilities for trade shows and international exhibitions;
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• World Trade Center Association (WTCA) On-Line: WTCA MADRAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND website provides access to bulletin board which facilitates INDUSTRY (MCCI) trading online access to trade-related databases. • WTO Study Centre; Office/postal address: • China Desk. 1st Floor, Karumuttu Centre Publications issued: 634 Anna Salai Chennai 600 035 • Current and Research and Development Briefs (monthly, English). Phone: (91 44) 24349452, 24349871 • Trade Promotion Bulletin. E-bulletin (monthly, English). Fax: (91 44) 24349164 • World Trade Research and Information Report (bi-monthly, English). E-mail: [email protected] • WTC Intercom (quarterly, English). URL: www.mascham.com
Membership structure: 400 life members and 600 associate Year established: 1836 members. Principal function: Products/commodity responsible for: • To act as the mediator between trade and industry and the Services to promote bilateral trade. Government.
Training: Services/activities:
• Post-graduate diploma in foreign trade (PGDFT); • Disseminates information; • Post-graduate diploma in forex and risk management - • Provides advisory services; (PGDFERM); • Represents members’ problems before government bodies; • Post-graduate diploma in import export management - • Holds arbitration and issues certificate of origin; distance education (PGDIEM). • Arranges seminars/meetings on topical interest for the benefit of members. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Publications issued: Exports in general. • Monthly Bulletin. Category: • Annual Report. • Directory of Members 2007. Trade facilitation body; trade promotion organization; and training/research institute. Membership structure: 375 members.
Products/commodity responsible for:
Engineering; manufacturing; textile; leather; plantations; chemicals; pharmaceuticals; cement; automobiles, etc.
Training:
Training courses organized on excise and customs, sales tax, etc. for the benefit of members only.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Automobile sector; IT sector.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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NATIONAL CENTRE FOR TRADE INFORMATION • Undertakes other services as outlined under Principal (NCTI) functions above. (Trade Point India, New Delhi) Publications issued: Office/postal address: • Trade Bulletin: Trade Point India (weekly, English). NCTI Complex • Trade Connect (online, English). Pragati Maidan • Trade Block Series: New Delhi 110 001 - SAARC and India - 2000. - Latin American Countries and India - 2002. Phone: (91 11) 23371948/50/51/53 - Indian Ocean Rim Countries - 2000. Fax: (91 11) 23371979 - Sub-Saharan Region African Countries and India - 2003. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.ncti-india.com Membership structure: Mostly SMEs; the cumulative membership including regular members, subscription and Year established: March 1995 miscellaneous services exceeded over 3,000 members.
Principal functions: Products/commodity responsible for:
• To collect, collate, process, analyze and disseminate All categories: service industry providing trade-related information on trade and commerce; information. • To keep constant communication with trade and commercial bodies throughout the world including Indian missions Training: abroad and foreign missions in India; • To establish and maintain library collection, and sell • Training programmes relevant to trade such as workshop on literature connected with trade and commerce; trade information and e-commerce, Internet technical training • To disseminate information from databases of export/import programme on Internet and other sources of business promotion; information for international trade, conducted in cooperation • To establish linkages with export promotional bodies, with International Trade Centre, UNCTAD/WTO, Geneva, regulatory bodies, trade associations, chambers, commodity involving foreign participants also; boards etc., for the collection and dissemination of • One-day seminars related to trade information and e- information; commerce. • To provide trade opportunities to the business community by providing trade leads; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • To organize training programmes and seminars. All. Services/activities: Category: • Provides list of overseas importers on CD-ROM; • Electronic Trading Opportunities (ETOs): uploading Trade information service. information about Indian trading community on Global Trade Point Network (GTPNet), downloading and disseminating enquiries to members; • Undertakes selective dissemination of information: wherein NCTI disseminates enquiries to specific interest downloaded from GTPNet to its members; • Provides trade information to government; • Creates websites for members/non-members; • Compiles trade statistics - Indian and global; • Compiles country profiles; • Undertakes consultancy assignments; • Market studies; • Various CD-ROMs as Electronic Book on Latin American Countries (LAC), CD-ROM on Indian Exporters, CD-ROM on Global Trading Opportunities, Electronic Product Catalogue for LAC Market, Overseas Importers and Indian Exporters of Textiles, Leather and Leather Products, etc; • Highlights developments affecting Indian industry, economy and trade through its electronic journal, titled Trade Connect; • Provides hyperlinks to Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) counterpart organization on its website; • Sets up Trade Information Centres in India and abroad - Coir Trade Information Centre, Kochi;
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MICRO, SMALL AND • Effective development programmes for rationalized employees MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (NIMSME) of State and central PSUs; (An Organization of the Ministry of MSME) • Exclusive programmes for international executives of various themes on regular basis; Office/postal address: • Enterprise development and government effectiveness (EDGE) programme for Sri Lankan administrative officials; Yousufguda • Sensitivity training in production planning and control; Hyderabad 500 045 • Faculty development programmes; • Programmes on cluster development; Phone: (91 40) 23608544, 23608316 • Tailor-made programmes for international clientele; Fax: (91 40) 23608547, 23608956, 23541260 • Programmes on focused themes for executives of North Eastern States. E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.nimsme.org Category:
Year established: April 2007 (previously known as National Industrial promotion; and training/research institute. Institute of Small Industry Extension Training (NISIET), since 1960.)
Principal function: PHD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (PHDCCI) • To assist in the promotion and modernization of small industries through training, research, consultancy and Office/ postal address: information services in the four related fields of small industry development, management, extension and information for PHD House development. 4/2 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg New Delhi 110 016 Services/activities: Phone: (91 11) 26863801-4, 26866814, 26857745-46 • Undertakes research projects and consultancy assignments on Fax: (91 11) 26855450, 26863135 request from state and central government as well as from
international organizations; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.phdcci.in • Has a highly specialized library consisting of 60,000 books
and reports, 500 journals, and a specialized collection of 3,600 Year established: 1905 product profiles and project reports;
• Disseminates information on all aspects of small industry Principal functions: development.
• To serve trade and industry; Publications issued: • To promote international trade, technical and economic cooperation, promotion of cooperation in areas of research • Nimsme Bulletin (monthly, English). and development; transfer of technology and foreign • SEDME Journal (quarterly, English). investment; • SME Policy (bi-monthly, English). • To participate in national and international trade fairs and • SME Technology (bi-monthly, English). exhibitions. • SSI Cluster News (quarterly, English). Services/Activities: Membership structure: 15 faculties headed by a principal director. • Provides advice and guidance on policies and procedures pertaining to exports, imports, foreign investment, foreign Products/commodity responsible for: exchange, trade regulations, customs, direct and indirect taxes; identification and dissemination of commercial All products reserved for small sector, products in the medium- information on opportunities on trade and business, both scale industry, tiny sector and micro enterprises. within India and abroad;
• Services foreign business missions visiting India by Training: coordinating their visits and organizing business meetings for
the delegates with Indian businesspersons; NIMSME has initiated several specialized and tailor-made training • Assists foreign companies in establishing joint ventures in programmes, including: India by matchmaking with Indian companies; • Management development programmes; • Sponsors business delegations abroad for trade and • Programme on area development; investment promotion; • Programme on feasibility survey and analysis; • Provides a common platform for meetings of the • Programme on industrial estates; representatives of trade, business and industry with senior • Programme for young engineers and technocrats; government officials. • Vertically integrated course on orientation through small industry development for IAS/IES officers;
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Publications issued: Training:
• 6th Summit of Chief Secretaries-Recommendations. Short-duration training programmes for entrepreneurial • Conference on Growth Synergies for Northern States – development and consultancy services for development of small Proceedings (2004). and medium enterprises. • Directory of Members. • Directory of Diplomatic Missions. Category: • Directory of Government Officials. • Master Plan for Delhi 2021. Chamber of commerce. • PHD Chamber Centenary Volume: Preserving the Spirit of 100 years... and Miles to go… • Reforms & Industrial Policy Initiatives in Northern Region PLASTICS EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL State-Panorama of Progress. • State Power Tariff Structure in Northern Region. Office/postal address: • Hon'ble Chandigarh H.C. Judgement – vs State of Haryana (CWP 6630 of 2000 Dt. 14.03.2007). Ground Floor, Crystal Tower Gundivali Road, Off Sir M.V. Road • PHD Policy Papers. Andheri (East) • State Investment Guides. Mumbai 400 069
Local branches: Phone: (91 22) 26833951-2
Fax: (91 22) 26834057, 26833953 Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh
PHD House, Sector -31A, Chandigarh E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (91 172) 2781665, 2784018 URL: www.plexconcil.org Fax: (91 172) 2548802
E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1955
Himachal Pradesh Principal function: Room No. 205, Udyog Bhawan,Shimla 170 001
Fax: (91 177) 2807855 • To promote the exports of goods made wholly or partly of E-mail: [email protected] plastics, finished or semi-finished, plastics raw materials of
India. Uttar Pradesh / Uttarakhand
1A La Place Shahnajaf Road, Hazrat Ganj, Lucknow 226 001 Services/activities: Phone: (91 522) 2221052, 2621052
Fax: (91 522) 2280871 E-mail: [email protected] • Undertakes market studies in individual foreign markets; • Sends trade missions to foreign countries; Rajasthan • Participates in international exhibitions, trade fairs; 43-B, Gopal Bari, Dak Bunglow Road, Jaipur 302 006 • Appoints representatives, agents or correspondents in foreign Phone: (91 141) 2367131 markets for collecting market data; Fax: (91 141) 2370757 • Conducts propaganda regularly and continuously through E-mail: [email protected] publications; • Collects statistics and other information; Madhya Pradesh • Issues certificates or gives certification marks relating to 22, Vaishali Nagar, Near MACT, Bhopal 462 003 standards of quality; Phone: (91 755) 2551271, 2558465 • Acts as arbitrator in trade disputes. Fax: (91 755) 4221868 E-mail: [email protected] Publications issued:
Jammu and Kashmir • Exporters Directory. C/o Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Jammu • Statistical Book. OB-31, Rail Head Complex, Jammu 180 012 • Product catalogues/general catalogues. Phone: 91-191-2472255-66 • Members’ Directory on CD-ROM.
Membership structure: Local branches:
Over 1,600 direct members consisting of manufacturing units of “ITFC”, 6th Floor large and medium enterprises, export houses and professionals. 1/1 Wood Street Indirectly, serving over 40,000 organizations. In addition to the Kolkata 700 016 direct membership, PHDCCI also serves 12 secretarial affiliates Phone: (91 33) 22834497/98 and 125 association members. Fax: (91 33) 22834289 E-mail: [email protected] Products/commodity responsible for:
All products and services as PHDCCI serves the entire trade and industry.
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3rd Floor, Rasheed Mansion • To advise the central Government with regard to 408, Anna Salai participation in any international conference or scheme Chennai 600 006 relating to rubber; Phone: (91 44) 28292620/28291530 • To submit to the central Government and such other Fax: (91 44) 28291518 authorities as may be prescribed, half-yearly reports on its E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] activities and the working of the Rubber Act; • To prepare and furnish such other reports relating to the S-337, Greater Kailash-II rubber industry as may be required by the central Lower Ground Floor Government from time to time. New Delhi 110 048 Phone: (91 11) 29218818/20 Services/activities: Fax: (91 11) 29218819 E-mail: [email protected] • Facilitates productivity enhancement and quality improvement; Membership structure: More than 2,000 members. • Identifies areas suitable for rubber, plans and undertakes activities for promotion in such areas and provides assistance Products/commodity responsible for: for sustainable rubber-based farming systems for different agro-climatic regions; Plastic items. • Promotes self help groups (rubber producers' societies (RPSs)) among small growers and implements schemes for Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: financial assistance to RPSs, cooperative societies and companies jointly promoted by RPSs and the board; Export-oriented plastic industries. • Monitors the import of natural rubber and provides
functional assistance on export of rubber; Category: • Organizes training programmes and extension activities in
the area of rubber processing for growers, RPSs, processing Trade promotion organization. companies and cooperative societies for quality upgradation,
and provides training and technical advice for product
manufacturers and training in grading of various forms of RUBBER BOARD rubber;
• Produces and distributes improved planting materials; Office/postal address: • Promotes product development and marketing as well as an
integrated approach to reduce cost of production and enhance Rubber Board - Head Office quality competitiveness; Jail Road, Keezhukunnu, Kottayam 686 002 • Provides advisory and extension services to growers; Kerala State • Provides assistance in strengthening the small-holding sector in processing and marketing, and provides assistance in P.O. Box: 1122, Kottayam ancillary income generation through the promotion and value-addition of rubber wood; Phone: (91 481) 2301231 (4 Lines) • Provides assistance in the preparation of project profiles on Fax: (91 481) 2571380 rubber products as well as project reports to set up rubber- based industries; E-mail: [email protected] • Provides market information on different forms of rubber and URL: www.rubberboard.org.in statistical data on various aspects of the rubber plantation industry; Year established: 1947 • Publishes trade as well as importers’ and exporters’ directories; Principal functions: • Provides research support for extension of rubber cultivation in non-traditional areas and researches aspects of post harvest • To promote the development of the rubber industry; technology; • To undertake, assist or encourage scientific, technological or • Provides technical and financial support to processors in economic research; quality improvement and cost reduction as well as technical • To train students in improved methods of planting, assistance to processing and trading companies for latex and cultivation, manuring and spraying; sheet collection; • To provide technical advice to rubber growers; • Tests rubber chemicals and products according to national • To improve the marketing of rubber; and international standards and implements the scheme for ISI marking of latex concentrates and block rubber in • To collect statistics from owners of estates, dealers and collaboration with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS); manufacturers; • Undertakes block planting, group planting, etc. for promotion • To secure better working conditions and the provision and of rubber among scheduled caste and scheduled tribe improvement of amenities and incentives to workers; members and plans and implements schemes for increasing • To carry out any other duties which may be vested with the production of rubber through new planting and replanting. board as per rules made under the Rubber Act;
• To advise the central Government on all matters relating to the development of the rubber industry, including import and export of rubber;
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Publications issued: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
• Business guide to Rubber Industry. Replantation and new plantation of rubber; productivity • Directory of Natural Rubber and Rubber products exporters enhancement through agro-management; infrastructure in India. development; rubber processing and quality improvement; road- • Directory of Rubber goods manufacturers in India. rubberization projects; research and development activities; export • Directory of world importers of Rubber Products. promotion and marketing support activities; rubber wood • Directory of importers of Natural Rubber. processing and marketing; human resource management, training • Identification of Hevea clones - A manual (English). and development.
• List of NR exporters in India. Category: • Natural Rubber Agro-Management and Crop Processing.
• Rubber Board Bulletin (quarterly, English). Commodity board. • Rubber growers companion (annually, English). • Rubber malar.
• Rubber panting materials: propagation and development. SHELLAC EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL • Rubber sangbad.
• Rubber statistical news (monthly, English). Office/postal address: • Rubber tapping. • Rubber Vartha. “Vanijya Bhawan” • Rubber wood: production and utilization. International Trade Facilitation Centre • Rubber (monthly, Malayalam). 1/1 Wood Street, 2nd Floor • Ruber samachar. Kolkata - 700 016 • Advisory pamphlets. • Project profiles. Phone: (91 33) 22834417 • Technical bulletins. Fax: (91 33) 22834699
Local branch: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.shellacepc.com Market Promotion Department B2B Portal: www.shellactrade.com 1st Floor, Central Laboratory Building RRII Campus Year established: 1957 Rubber Board Kottayam 686 009 Principal functions: Phone: (91 481) 3202506, 2353790,2353311 Fax: (91 481) 2353790 • To support, protect, maintain, increase and promote the E-mail: [email protected] export of shellac and other lac products; • To collect statistics and information on growing, import, Membership Structure: manufacture, trade or use of lac in various countries and propagate information; All intending exporters of natural rubber have to obtain a • To advise or represent Government, local authorities and certificate by registering with the Rubber Board, as it is the public bodies regarding different policy aspects; designated Export Promotion Council for natural rubber. • To promote exports of minor forest produce products.
Products/commodity responsible for: Services/activities:
All forms of raw natural rubber. • Issues Quality Certificates; • Sends delegations abroad, participates in international trade Training: fairs and maintains liaison with trade associations, government bodies, Indian missions abroad; • Conducts training programmes on taping, processing • Sponsors research on value added products of lac through and rain guarding; various national research institutes for higher unit value • Rubber plantation development programmes; realization and regularly organizes publicity campaigns. • Rubber processing and quality improvement programmes; Publications issued: • Rubber-based industrial development programmes; • Market and export development programmes; • Adhesive & Shellac. • General training programmes; • Industrial Uses of Lac. • Educational development programmes (for students); • Lac coated Urea. • Outstation training programmes (at RPS centres); • Manufacturers' Directory. • Visit-cum-training programmes; • Physical properties & Chemical Constant of Lac. • International training programmes. • Shellac in coating composition - Wood & Metal. • Shellac in Coating Composition for Various Surfaces. • Shellac in Printing Ink. • Shellac Varnish. • Solubility & Solution of Shellac.
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• Story of Shellac. Publications issued:
Membership structure: 72 members. • 36th Annual Report of the Association (2006-2007). • Handbook on Rice Bran Processing. Products/commodity responsible for: • Manual Methods of Test and Analysis for Food (Oils and Fats). Shellac and other lac-based products and minor forest products. • SEA Handbook 2005. • SEA Monthly News Circular. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Proceedings of National Seminars on castor seed, castor oil and its value added products. Shellac and lac-based industries. • Proceedings of National Seminars on technology up- gradation in vegetable oil industry. Category: • Proceedings of workshop on tree borne oilseeds.
• Proceedings of National Seminars on rice bran oil. Export promotion council. • Proceedings of National Seminars on cattle, poultry and aqua feed. • SEA delegation reports. SOLVENT EXTRACTORS' ASSOCIATION OF INDIA (SEA) Membership structure: 750 members that process oilcakes, (Premier Association of Vegetable Oil Industry and Trade) soybeans and other oilseeds and rice bran in their solvent extraction plants. Office/postal address: Products/commodity responsible for: th 142 Jolly Maker Chamber No.2, 14 Floor 225, Nariman Point Vegetable oil, oilmeals, oilseeds and related products. Mumbai 400 021 Training: Phone: (91 22) 22021475, 22822979 Fax: (91 22) 22021692 Organizing seminars and inviting members and others to participate. E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.seaofindia.com Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Year established: 1963 Technology upgrading in oilseed and oil processing; international trade. Principal functions: Category: • To promote and protect the trade, commerce, manufacturing and exporting, trading and other activities of the solvent Trade association. extraction industry; • To encourage and promote the use of solvent extracted oil and their byproducts in India and abroad and with that aim to publicize, propagate and advocate their uses through various publicity media including organizing seminars and conventions; • To represent and make known members’ points of view and the interests of the solvent extraction industry as a whole before governmental and quasi-governmental authorities, trade or industrial bodies, chambers of commerce, foreign trade and industrial interest and other organizations; • To establish, promote, operate, maintain, increase and encourage directly or indirect steady and stable expansion of the export of de-oiled cakes/meals and for that purpose to carry on such activities and implement such schemes by such methods as may be necessary.
Services/activities:
• Acts as a catalyst between international buyers and local exporters and is responsible for export promotion and performs various export promotion functions; • Is officially authorized by the Ministry of Commerce to issue certificates of origin (non-preferential) in respect of goods exported from India.
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SPORTS GOODS EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL Product/commodity responsible for: (SGPEC) Sports goods and toys. Office/postal address: Category: 1-E/6, Swami Ram Tirth Nagar New Delhi 110 055 Trade promotion organization.
Phone: (91 11) 23525695, 23516183 Fax: (91 11) 23632147 SMALL INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT BANK OF INDIA (SIDBI) E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.sportsgoodsindia.org Office/postal address:
Year established: 1958 SIDBI Tower 15, Ashok Marg Principal function: Lucknow - 226001
• To support and promote the export of sports goods and toys. Phone: (91) 522 228 8547-50
Services/activities: On-line contact form: http://www.sidbi.in/query.asp URL: http://www.sidbi.in • Authentication of exporters: SGEPC is a platform for the projection of the sports goods and toys industry at a national level; Year established: 1990 • Enquiries from buyers: SGEPC assists foreign buyers in sourcing their requirement from India; • India Pavilion in leading international fairs: SGEPC Principal functions: organizes Indian participation in international fairs and forms an India Pavilion where exhibitors are provided with • To empower the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises thematic stands as per their individual requirement at highly (MSME) sector with the aim of contributing to economic negotiated rates; growth, employment and regional development; • Buyer-seller meets: SGEPC organizes buyer-seller meets in • To function as a single window for meeting the financial and potential countries with the help of Indian missions and/or developmental needs of the sector; local marketing consultants. A buyer mobilization strategy is • To contribute significantly to the India’s economy in terms undertaken before the event to ensure meetings with relevant of production, employment and exports. buyers for individual participants; • Promotion of industry in overseas events: the Council promotes the industry in international markets through a Services/activities: newsletter, industry profiles, members’ directory (print and digital format), advertisements, industry posters and website; • To provide direct finance scheme to the small industries • Link between industry and Government: SGEPC provides sector to supplement the other available channels of credit; the feedback of the industry to the Government helping it to evolve the national export-import policy; • To provide bills finance schemes to manufacturers of indigenous machinery, capital equipment, components sub- • Market studies and dissemination of information: SGEPC assemblies for provision of medium and short-term provides information on market intelligence, trends, related financing; international news, through newsletters, seminars and also through the website. SGEPC undertakes specific market • To provide refinance schemes to address needs of funds for studies and disseminates them to the industry though the primary lending institutes for financing small-scale mails/newsletters; industries; • Visa support to members; • To provide international finance schemes to enable small- • Annual export awards: these provide recognition to top scale industries to raise finance to meet their export exporters and entrepreneurs. commitments; • Provides micro financial services to retailing micro finance Local branch: institutions; • Provides fixed deposit schemes to small-scale industries; 9, Shakti Nagar • Delivers promotional and developmental activities for small- Jalandhar 144 001 scale industries and for economic development of the poor. Phone: (91 181) 2403734 E-mail: [email protected] Publications issued:
Publication issued: • For a full list of papers and reports, please refer to < http://www.sidbi.in/publication.asp > • Newsletter (monthly). Category: Membership structure: Approximately 250 members.
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Development Bank Publications issued:
• Tobacco Directory. TOBACCO BOARD • Tobacco News Letter (quarterly).
Office/postal address: Local branches:
Srinivasarao Thota Liaison Offices: G.T. Road, Guntur Andhra Pradesh 522004 Megacity No. 90, Avenue No. 1 Banjara Hills P.O. Box: 322 Hyderabad 5300034, Andhra Pradesh Phone: (91 40) 23317503, 23741508,23319989 Mobile: (98 660) 12691 Phone: (91 863) 2358399, 2358068 Fax: (91 40) 23317503 Fax: (91 863) 2354232 B-11, 1st Floor, Green Park (Main) E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] New Delhi 110016 URL: www.indiantobacco.com Phone: (91 11) 26568841, 26514348 Mobile: (98 103) 13562 Year established: 1976 Fax: (91 11) 26568841
Principal functions: Aravind Apartments, Flat No.2A 9 Visweswara Puram • To regulate the production of flue cured Virginia (FCV) Chennai 600004, Tamil Nadu tobacco; Phone: (91 44) 24661766 • To assist growers in production of quality tobaccos. Regional Offices: Services/activities: 2nd Line, Bhagyanagar • Regulates the production and curing of Virginia tobacco with Ongole 523001, Andhra Pradesh regard to the demand in India and abroad; Phone: (91 8592) 233359 • Constantly monitors the Virginia tobacco market, both in India and abroad and ensures a fair and remunerative price to H.No.46-11-32, Danavaipet growers and reduce wide fluctuations in the prices of the Rajahmundry 533103, Andhra Pradesh commodity; Phone: (91 883) 2442563, 2442098
• Sustains and improves the existing international markets and H.No.C.A-5673-C, 14th Main, IInd Stage developing new markets overseas for Indian Virginia tobacco Near Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple, Vijayanagar and its products and devises marketing strategies in Mysore 570017, Karnataka consonance with demand for the commodity; Phone: (91 821) 2543357 • Establishes auction platforms for sale of Virginia tobacco by Mobile: (94 484) 95502,3,4 registered growers and functions as an auctioneer at auction
platforms; Membership structure: • Recommends to the Central Government the minimum prices to be fixed for exportable Virginia tobacco with a view to Growers, exporters, processors and manufacturers. avoiding unhealthy competition amongst the exporters; • Regulates other aspects of Virginia tobacco marketing in India Products/commodity responsible for: and export of Virginia tobacco, giving due regard to the interests of growers, manufacturers, dealers and India; Un-manufactured tobacco and tobacco products. • Propagates information useful to growers, dealers and exporters (including packers) of Virginia tobacco and Category: manufacturers of tobacco products and others concerned; • Purchases Virginia tobacco from growers when considered Commodity board. necessary or expedient for protecting the interests of growers and disposing it in India or abroad as and when considered appropriate; • Promotes tobacco grading at the level of growers and sponsors, assists, coordinates or encourages scientific, technological and economic research for promotion of tobacco industry.
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INVESTMENT COORDINATING BOARD (BKPM) Territories of Jakarta, Jogyakarta and Aceh, North Sumatra, Riau, Kepulauan Riau (Riau Islands), West Sumatra, South Sumatra, Office/postal address: Jambi, Bengkulu, Bangka-Belitung, Lampung, West Java, Banten, Central Java, East Java, Bali, West Kalimantan, Central (Badan Koordinasi Penanaman Modal - BKPM) Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, West Nusa Jalan Jend. Gatot Subroto No. 44 Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, North Sulawesi, Gorontalo, West Jakarta 12190 Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, South East Sulawesi, North Maluku, Maluku Irian Jaya Barat (West Irian Jaya) and P.O. Box: 3186, Jakarta Papua.
Phone: (62 21) 5252008, 5252649, 5254981 Offices abroad: Fax: (62 21) 5254945 Indonesian Embassies/Consulates in the following E-mail: [email protected] countries/group of countries undertake foreign investment URL: www.bkpm.go.id promotion programmes: Australia (Sydney), Canada (Toronto, Vancouver), Germany (Bonn), France (Paris), Japan (Tokyo), Year established: 1967 Netherlands (The Hague), United Kingdom (London), United States of America (Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Principal function: Washington, DC) and ASEAN countries [Brunei Darussalam (Bandar Seri Begawan), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Philippines • To assess and formulate national investment policy; (Manila), Singapore (Singapore), Thailand (Bangkok), etc.]. In • To coordinate and perform investment promotion; addition, BKPM has representative offices in Los Angeles, • To coordinate the development of investment activities Nagoya, London, Amsterdam and Taipei. among government institutions; • To carry out managerial services in planning, administration, Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: organization, personnel, financial, archive, encoding, supplies and logistics. Projects utilizing natural and human resources; export-oriented • To assist the Government in deciding upon a judicious policy projects; labour-intensive projects; projects making use of on investment, issuing necessary approvals, permits and Indonesia's comparative advantage; projects producing capital licences for both domestic and foreign investments and goods and raw materials; projects on infrastructure such as ports, controlling its implementation. generation and transmission as well as distribution of electricity for public use, telecommunications, shipping, airlines, potable Services/activities: water and public railways.
• Formulates investment policies; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • Coordinates an integrated investment plan; • Prepares and issues the priority list of investment/list of • Foreign Investment Law No. 1 of 1967 and No. 11 of 1970. sectors that are closed for investment; • Conducts effective communication and promotional activities Category: and disseminates information to potential investors and business community; Investment promotion authority. • Evaluates investment proposals on both domestic and foreign investments;
• Approves domestic investment proposals; • Issues necessary licences and permits for the implementation of the approved projects on behalf of the Ministers concerned; • Provides necessary services to facilitate the implementation of the approved investment projects; • Controls and supervises the implementation of the approved investment projects in close cooperation with Regional Investment Offices (BKPM) and Ministries concerned.
Publications issued:
• A Guide for Investors. • Investment Laws and Regulations. • Indonesian Investment News. • Indonesian Potential Business Partners. • Investment Procedures in Indonesia. • List of Sectors that Are Closed for Investment, 2000. • Project Profiles. • Regional Profiles.
Local branches:
Regional investment institutions are located in the provinces as well as in its regencies of provinces as follows: Special
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LABORATORY FOR QUALITY TESTING OF NATIONAL AGENCY FOR EXPORT DEVELOPMENT EXPORT AND IMPORT GOODS (NAFED) Directorate of Supervision and Quality Control, Directorate General for Foreign Trade, Ministry of Trade Office/postal address:
Office / postal address: Jalan Kramat Raya No. 172 Central Jakarta Jl. Raya Bogor, Km 26 Ciracas P.O. Box: 1443, Jakarta Jakarta 13740 Phone: (62 21) 31904554, 31900569, 31907664 P.O. Box: 4235, Jakarta Fax: (62 21) 31901524, 31901548, 31907664
Phone: (62 21) 87721001, 87721002, 8703881 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (62 21) 8710477 URL: www.nafed.go.id
E-Mail: [email protected] Year established: 1971 URL: www.depdag.go.id/ppmb Principal functions: Year established: 1977 • To increase the competitiveness of product and services Principal function: export; • To increase exporters’ competence to penetrate the global • To ensure that Indonesia’s products export, import products market; and domestic products meet quality and safety requirements • To expand prime quality service to business players; of clients and regulatory bodies. • To strengthen the institutions of export development; • To increase the officers’ professionalism, transparency, Services/activities: performance and accountability.
• Food microbiology testing; Services/activities: • Pesticides and organic residues: organoclorine, organophosphate, pyrethroids, carbamates testing; For overseas buyers: • Trace element and heavy metals testing; • Provides information on product availability, by sector and • Contaminants and toxins foreign objects, aflatoxin, nicotine company; and tar testing; • Provides advice and information on current government trade • Chemical spoilage indicators: histamine, free fatty acids, regulations and procedures; total volatile nitrogen testing; • Assists foreign buyers to find the Indonesian products and • Food composition: vitamins B1, B2, folic acid, proximates, exporters. additives and preservatives, alcohol, acidity, sugar, pH testing; For Indonesian sellers: • Furniture, textiles and multifarious and products, rubber, • Provides up-to-date information on trade trends and prospects, toys, fat and oils, essential oil, industrial chemical product, presented with specific data on the target markets; electrical and electronic equipment, RHoS testing; • Assists Indonesian manufacturers to find buyers for their • Technical and regulatory advice: ISO/IEC 17025 and quality products; assurance requirements and their implementation. • Provides information on overseas trade procedures, restrictions and incentives; Publications issued: • Provides specific counselling on potential prospects and assistance in preparing meetings with overseas buyers; • Leaflets (Bahasa Indonesia; English). • Assists and organizes Indonesian participation in international • Quality journal (Bahasa Indonesia). trade fairs and selling missions.
Membership structure: 23 members. Publications issued:
Products / commodity responsible for: • Export Newsletter (monthly, English). • Price Info (monthly, Indonesian). Agricultural export and import products, industrial products. • Source of Business Information (monthly, Indonesian). • Directory of Indonesian Exporters (annually, English). Category: • Statistic of Indonesian Export Balance of Trade (annually, English). Standard, testing and inspection body. • Annual Report (annually, English).
• NAFED’s Brochures (annually, English).
• Export Bulletin (monthly, Indonesian). • Market Briefs (Indonesian).
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Local branches:
Regional Export Training and Promotion Centre in Surabaya, Medan, Makassar.
Offices of industry and trade service in Banda Aceh, Medan, Pekanbaru, Telanapura, Padang, Bengkulu, Palembang, Bandar Lampung, Jakarta Utara, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Pontianak, Palangkaraya, Banjarmasin, Samarinda, Manado, Palu, Makassar, Kendari, Renon, Mataram, Kupang, Ambon, Jayapura, Ternate, Serang, Bangka, Gorontalo.
Offices abroad:
Indonesian Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) branches in Osaka, Los Angeles, Deira Dubai, Budapest, Hungary, Johannesburg, São Paulo.
Indonesian industry and trade representative offices overseas: Embassies or missions in Canberra; Vienna; Brussels; Beijing, China; Copenhagen, Cairo; Paris; Berlin; Hong Kong, China; New Delhi; Rome; Tokyo; Kuala Lumpur; The Hague; Makati City; Seoul; Moscow; Riyadh; Singapore; Madrid; Geneva; Taipei Province of China; Bangkok; London; Washington.
Products/commodity responsible for:
Non-oil and gas products.
Training:
NAFED’s training programmes are aimed at initiating new exporters, both individually and through their enterprises, focusing especially on small and medium firms and cooperatives. Training and other forms of support are conducted through domestic promotional events, specific projects and the creation of regional marketing points such as the one on Batam island.
Seminars, tutorials and one-on-one meetings are held regularly at the Indonesian Export Training Centre (IETC) in Jakarta.
Since IETC was established with assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 1990, more than 14,000 people have taken advantage of its programmes, which are more necessary then ever in an era of globalization, wider trade liberalization ad sharpening competition. By 2002, a Regional Export Training and Promotion Centre (RETPC) was established in Surabaya and regional export training and promotion centres in Medan and Makassar opened in 2003 and Banjarmasin in 2004.
Category:
Ministry of Industry and Trade; trade facilitation body; trade fair and exhibition authority; trade promotion organization; and training/research institute.
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INSTITUTE FOR TRADE STUDIES AND RESEARCH Publications issued: (ITSR) • Trade Survey (monthly, Persian). Office/postal address: • Iranian Journal of Trade Studies (IJTS) (quarterly). • The Islamic Republic of Iran: Your Partner in Trade 240, Kargare Shomali Avenue (English/Spanish/Arabic). Tehran 14178 • Business and Economic Topics: books (890 titles), working papers (430 titles) and restricted papers (190 titles). P.O. Box: 14185-671, Tehran Training: Phone: (98 21) 66422378, 66422379, 66422380 Fax: (98 21) 66933656 Training researchers and students in short-term and long-term courses in the field of economy and commerce: E-mail: [email protected] • World Trade Organization applied issues; URL: www.itsr.ir • Marketing, promotion; • Trade negotiation methods; Year established: 1980 • E-commerce; • Incoterms. Principal functions: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • To provide intellectual and scientific support for policymaking in the Ministry of Commerce; Human resources, firms and industries that export their products. • To respond to the information needs of trade and economic research; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • To collect and process trade and economic data and statistics; • The foreign investment law (2001). • To provide research, studies and information on trade topics • An executive set of rules and regulations on foreign of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member investment (2001). countries (www.Carsicm.ir); • An administrative set of rules and regulations on foreign • To conduct research and studies on domestic trade in the investment (2001). Islamic Republic of Iran; • To conduct research and studies on regional trade at the Category: level of provinces of the Islamic Republic of Iran; • To conduct marketing studies to identify new markets for Ministry of Trade; trade association; trade facilitation body; and the exports of Iranian products; training/research institute. • To conduct research and studies on the bilateral and multilateral trade of the Islamic Republic of Iran and international trade and economic organizations, including WTO issues and the accession of the Islamic Republic of Iran to this organization; • To analyse the legal aspects of internal and international trade issues in the Iranian trade system; • To conduct commercial and economic studies and research; • To conduct research on applying e-commerce and IT in the Iranian trade system; • To provide analytical reports on key trends and development in the Islamic Republic of Iran's business environment; • To conduct studies on trade and development strategies.
Services/activities:
• Provides consultancy services on trade to the private and public sectors; • Teaches modern trade through the Centre for Business Training which is affiliated to ITSR; • Disseminates trade information and data; • Publishes trade research, working papers and books; • Evaluates policy decisions made by government authorities in the field of trade and trade policy; • Organizes provincial, national and international seminars; • Organizes workshops and lectures at national/international levels according to Ministry of Commerce needs; • Cooperates with international trade organizations in organizing seminars, workshops and short-term courses; • Finances Masters and Ph. D. theses in business and economic field.
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INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND INDUSTRIAL Training: RESEARCH OF IRAN (ISIRI) Holding regional training courses for International Organization for Office/postal address: Standardization (ISO) member bodies.
West Bahar Street Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Sardar Jangal Boulevard Pounak, Tehran • ISIRI law (the laws of the amendment to the laws and regulations of the Institute of Standards and Industrial P.O. Box: 14155-6139 Research of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the following Tehran amendment) passed on 14 February 1993. • List of export and import goods under the compulsory Phone: (98 261) 2806031-8 standards of ISIRI, passed in 2005. Fax: (98 261) 2805015 Category: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.isiri.com, www.isiri.org Commodity standard institute; industrial promotion; inspection institution; standard, testing and inspection body; and Year established: 1960 training/research institute.
Principal functions: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRADE • To formulate, compile and publish national standards; RELATIONS PROMOTION (ITRP) • To conduct research on standardization, quality of goods, production processes and industrial efficiency; Office/postal address: • To undertake quality control; rd • To implement standards and certification marking; No. 7, 3 Floor, Abbasie Building • To provide training; Ferdowsi Square • To undertake metrology and testing. Tehran 15816
Services/activities: P.O. Box: 11365-3963, Tehran
• Conducts functional studies and research for setting, revising Phone: (98 21) 88830009, 88833900, 88824036, 88827440 and implementing national standards; Fax: (98 21) 88820697, 88833796 • Develops and designates national standards; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • Circulates national standards through cultural activities and URL: www.itrpnet.com, www.iraneconews.com, communicational enhancers; www.irangoldenkey.com, www.goldenkeyonline.com • Issues, extends, suspends and nullifies ISIRI application
license; Year established: 1988
• Monitors the implementation of compulsory standards (testing products to standards, dealing officially with complaints and Principal functions: other legal and judicial pursuits);
• Issues conformity certificates for the exports and imports; • To operate the Trade Information Centre of Iran, providing • Undertakes accreditation and validation services; trade and industrial services; • Monitors standard implementation as well as marking of • To undertake activities of a trade promotion organization and precious metals; an export marketing board; • Periodically and randomly tests measures, gauges and other • To undertake industrial promotion activities. modes of scaling; • Characterizes imported/domestic products with specific focus Services/activities: on public health and safety concerns and publicly announces the results. As detailed under Principal functions.
Publications issued: Publications issued:
• ISIRI Weekly Bulletin. • Iran Import and Export Directory. • ISIRI Monthly Magazine. • INFOFAX Bulletin. • National Standards on various subjects. • Trade Bulletin (Farsi). • Scientific papers and reports related to participation in • Iran Golden key Directory (available online). international meetings. • Reports of research projects. Membership structure: 14,000 members.
Local branches: Category:
ISIRI has 30 branches in provincial centres and 13 branch offices in Trade promotion organization. cities.
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IRAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRIES and agricultural production, transport and related activities are AND MINES allowed to invest in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Office/postal address: Category:
254 Taleghani Avenue Chamber of commerce. Tehran 15814
P.O. Box: 15875-4671, Tehran KISH FREE ZONE ORGANIZATION
Phone: (98 21) 88810537, 88840030 Office/postal address: Fax: (98 21) 8825111, 8810930 No. 143, First Floor E-mail: [email protected] Corner of 29th Street, Khaled Eslamboli Avenue URL: www.iccim.org Secretariat of the High Council of Free Trade-Industrial Zones E-Commerce Portal: www.iranchamber.biz Tehran 15166 13313
Year established: 1920 Phone/Fax: (98 21) 88771060, 88771062, 88771063
Principal functions: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.kish.ir
To issue CARNE-TIR; • Year established: 1993 • To establish relations among local and foreign importers and exporters. Principal function: • To centralize group activities as the biggest economic organization of the private sector and make a headway for • To utilize Kish Island’s location and potentials for the country development programmes and aims. development of the whole region; • To attract local and foreign investments for the purpose of Services/activities: earning local and foreign currencies and laying the foundations for a dynamic economy in the region; • Maintains the portal of information and e-commerce that • To create job opportunities; includes information about businesses’ activities, products, • To set up a base for the promotion of exports and re-exports; news and advertisements; • To transfer modern technology into the region and to have • Maintains the Arbitration Center of the Iran Chamber access to occupational and technical skills; (ACIC) for the purpose of settlement of the domestic and • To maintain presence in the world markets through international commercial disputes. promotion of international trade in the region.
Publications issued: Services/activities:
• Guide to Iranian Market (brochures). • Invests in development projects; • A Guide to Textile Industry and Trade (English). • Establishes tourist complexes, airports, residential areas, • Iran Commerce (quarterly, English). productive affairs, cultural activities; • Namehe Ottage Bazargani (monthly, Farsi). • Assists in export development; • Organizes trade shows, exhibitions, international seminars. Local branches: Publications issued: Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines of Abadan, Ahwaz, Arak, Ardebil, Bandar Abbas, Bandar Bushehr, Esfahan, Ghom, • Free Zones Magazine (Persian). Gorgan, Hamedan, Ilam, Kashan, Kerman, Kermanshah, • Series of directories, catalogues informative materials and Khorramabad, Khorramshahr, Mash’had, Rasht, Sanandaj, Sari, books (Persian, some in English). Semnan, Shahrekord, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Urmiyyeh, Yazd, Zahedan, Zanjan. Local branch:
Membership structure: Sanaee Street Kish Island 79417-83775 55 economic organizations, 16 joint chambers and 13 joint Phone: (98 764) 4423104 councils. Fax: (98 764) 4423595
Training: Membership structure:
Is administered by a three-member Board. The chairman is Regular courses offered for national business people. appointed by the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the
latter is the Managing Director of Kish Free Zone Organization. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Only private individuals, companies and establishments of foreign origin in the fields of development and industrial, mineral
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Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Training:
All non-pollutant industries enjoying advanced and high-tech Regular workshops on investment regulations, investment knowledge in a position to export products have establishment mechanism and investment promotion. priorities in Kish as follows: electronic and computer equipment manufacturing; oil industry support and technical/engineering Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: services; audio-visual products manufacturing; medical, dentistry, • Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA). foodstuff, pharmaceuticals and hygienic instruments manufacturing; household appliances manufacturing; textile and • Implementing Regulations of FIPPA. garment; modern packaging; metal and auto manufacturing; • Implementing Regulations of Para (L) of Article 21 of the heating and cooling industries. Buagest Law, 2004. • Implementing Regulations of Article 35 of FIPPA, 2005. Category: • Implementing Regulations concerning the Establishment of Provincial Offices for Investment Promotion and Protection, Export processing zone; and investment promotion authority. 2004. • 4th Five Year Development Plan of the Country 2004. • 20 Year Prospective Plan of the Country 2004. ORGANIZATION FOR INVESTMENT, ECONOMIC • Annual Budget Laws of the Country since 2003. AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OF IRAN (OIETAI) Category: Office/postal address: Investment promotion authority. 15th Khordad Square Davar Avenue Tehran TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER OF IRAN Co.
P.O. Box: 11365/4618 Ltd. (TICI)
Phone: (98 21) 33967075, 33967755, 39902115 Office/postal address: Fax: (98 21) 33967864 th 4 Floor, No 8, Maryam Building th E-mail: [email protected] Shafagh Street (17 Street), Ahmad Ghasir Avenue URL: www.iraninvestment.ir Argentina Square Tehran 15138 Year established: 1975 P.O. Box: 15875-1874 Principal functions: Phone: (98 21) 88724933, 88724463, 88724799, 88728014, • To attract foreign investment, loan facilities and credit lines 88725399, 88723744 from international financial institutions; Fax: (98 21) 88726518 • To promote and protect foreign investments; • To administer Government investments abroad; E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.tici.info, www.iranbusinessnews.com • To render economic and technical assistance as well as to
grant loans and credits to Governments, foreign and Year established: 1982 international institutions, and collect repayment funds;
• To acquire loans and credits from abroad, and repay funds; Principal function: • To deal with the international affairs of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance; • To offer a trade databank that links and introduces • To coordinate and/or organize bilateral economic relations of international buyers and sellers to Iranian traders. different sections of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance with other countries. Services/activities:
• Technical Information Centre of Iran is an active business Services/activities: databank that informs the country’'s exporters, importers, producers, manufacturers and other business groups of the In line with the above functions. latest trade developments in domestic as well as international markets. Publications issued: Publication issued: • Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA), 2002 (English/Persian). • Daily online Business News. • Implementing Regulations of FIPPA, 2002 (English/Persian). • Establishing a Joint Stock Company in Iran, 1996 (English). Membership structure: 10,000 members.
• Investors Guide to Iran (English). Category:
Local branches: Trade promotion organization. 30 provincial offices for investment promotion and protection, nationwide.
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TRADE PROMOTION ORGANIZATION OF IRAN • Sectoral Directories in the fields of agriculture, industry and (IRAN TPO) mine, Technical and engineering services, carpet and handicrafts; Office/postal address: • Calendar of major trade events in the country.
Shahid Chamran High Way Membership structure: 106 members. Vali-asr AveNUE Tehran, 1999613954 Products/commodity responsible for:
Phone: (98 21) 21919 Non-oil products and services. Fax: (98 21) 22664044, 22664045, 22664048, 22662510. Training: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.tpo.ir, www.iranexporters.org Undertakes training courses which cover a wide range of topics, including Year established: 2004 (previously known as Export • Export opportunities in new and emerging markets; Promotion Center of Iran (EPCI), since 1967). • Trade regimes and procedures; • Product promotion; Principal functions: • Skills in international marketing and e-commerce.
• To promote and expand the Islamic Republic of Iran's non-oil Category: exports; • To decide on participation in fairs and exhibitions of the target Trade promotion organization. markets.
Services/activities:
• Undertakes market promotion activities; • Organizes trade missions to major existing and emerging markets; • Cooperates with other trade promotion organizations, including information exchange, organizing trade promotional events, joint research and provision of facilities; • Undertakes comprehensive world market research activities and monitors the economic environment as it impacts on trade trends and studies world trade issues, business trends and management strategies; • Disseminates information on foreign markets and business opportunities to Iranian SMEs; • Responds to trade-related enquiries from foreign buyers, trade associations, chambers of commerce, foreign missions in the Republic of Iran, business visitors to the Republic of Iran as well as Iran business community; • Disseminates trade enquiries from foreign buyers to Iranian companies and related associations; • Maintains website that provides the country's largest database specializing in trade information. • Organizes seminars and workshops to nurture new exporters and updates existing exporters on trade developments and business opportunities in international markets; • Maintains a business library; • Produces trade publications for international and domestic circulation; • Issues permission for organizing domestic and international exhibitions in the Islamic Republic of Iran and for participation of Iranian companies in international trade fairs and exhibitions abroad; • Supports participation of Iranian SMEs in international events for displaying their growing diversity and sophistication of products and services.
Publications issued:
• Iran Export Directory. • Iran Trade Yellow Page. • Made in Iran Directory.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF • To improve the investment climate of Kazakhstan for the ASTANA benefit of foreign investors, local and national companies, the economic development and wealth of the country and its Office/postal address: people.
66 Auezov Street Services/activities: Astana 473000 • Develops and submits recommendations to the President and P.O. Box: 1966, General Post Office Government of Kazakhstan on key investment and economic development issues, including determination of key areas of Phone: (7 3172) 323 833 the investment policy, enhancement of the investment climate, Fax: (7 3172) 323 833 improvement of the legal and regulative framework on investments, creation of favorable investment and legal E-mail: [email protected] conditions for the diversification of the economy, development URL: www.chamber.kz/ of the industrial sector, small and medium enterprises, and further integration of the economy of Kazakhstan into global Principal function: economic processes; • Analyzes and discusses other core investment policy issues • To represent, protect and promote the interests of business. upon the instruction of the President of Kazakhstan.
Services/activities: Membership structure:
• Business development; The major criterion for admission to the council is direct investment • Legal services; into the economy of Kazakhstan by international organizations and • Export and import services; other companies represented by their candidates of a minimum • Support of small entrepreneurship; amount of US$ 100 million for investors operating in the subsoil • Certification of food and agricultural products; use sector, and US$ 25 million for investors operating in other sectors of economy. • Property evaluation;
• Transport evaluation. Representatives of international and other organizations, banks,
actively participating in developing the favorable investment Membership structure: climate and intensifying the investment processes in the economy of
Kazakhstan, may also be members of the council. Partners include the International Labour Organization (ILO);
Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Regulation of Natural Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Monopolies, Protection of Competition and Support of Small
Business; Department of State Standards of the Republic of In September 2005 the Government approved a new list of Kazakhstan; Astana Customs; and chambers of commerce and priority activity categories in terms of investment. There are 237 industry of foreign countries. of them, including agriculture, light industry, chemical and
metallurgical industries, machine building, electric power sector, Category: transport sector, construction material sector and more. Revision
of the list first made in 2003 was driven primarily by established Chamber of commerce and industry. clusters in a number of promising sectors. Transport and logistics service clusters such as transport terminal (ports, terminal, stations, jetties and berths) operation, cargo warehousing and FOREIGN INVESTORS’ COUNCIL (FIC) transshipping (centres for logistics and warehouses) have been added to the list. In order to establish a tourism cluster, hotels Office/postal address: have been added to the list.
3d floor 3, 62A Abay Avenue Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Almaty 050008 • Posts quarterly legislative updates on legal matters relating to Phone: (7 3272) 588066 foreign investment on the website. Fax: (7 3272) 506105 Category: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.fic.kz Investment promotion organization.
Year established: 1998
Principal functions:
• To promote direct dialogue between the Government of Kazakhstan and foreign investors in order to efficiently address key issues related to their investment activities in the country;
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KAZAKHSTAN INVESTMENT PROMOTION Germany: CENTER (KAZINVEST) Metzerstrasse 2 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany Office/postal address: Phone: (49 72) 21276743 Fax: (49 72) 21276743 111 Gogol St. E-mail: [email protected] 050004 Almaty Italy: Phone: (73 27) 2780127 Strada Valli de Pelati, Fax: (73 27) 2501277 61100, Pesaro, 2 Milan, Italy +39 335 7505559 (phone); E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.kazinvest.kz Spain: Year established: 1998 Tuset 20-24,4-2 08006 Barcelona, Spain Principal function: Phone: (34 934) 153846 Fax: (34 934) 153049 • To systematically identify potential investors; E-mail: [email protected] • To inform them of investment opportunities in Kazakhstan; • To provide comprehensive assistance. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
Services/activities: • Law of Kazakhstan: On Investment No. 373-II ZRK from 8 January 2003. • Provides comprehensive consulting services on investment • Code on Taxes and other Compulsory Payments to the Budget law of Kazakhstan; (The Tax Code, amended, as of 31 January 2006). • Consults n how to obtain tax and custom preferences, as well • Decree No. 436 from 8 May 2003 of the Government of as Government grants-in-kind for investors; Kazakhstan: On Certain Issues of Implementing the Law of • Obtains all necessary permits for starting a business in Kazakhstan on Investment. Kazakhstan; Category: • Provides legal support for investment projects through
completion; Investment promotion organization. • Maintains a database of investment projects;
• Works out the technical and economical basis of investment projects; • Identifies business partners and additional sources of financing; • Organizes conferences, business forums, seminars and round- table discussions.
Publication issued:
• Investor's Guide (yearly, Russian). • Invest Kazakhstan (quarterly, Russian). • SD card with information-reference materials: the atlas of investor, the regions of Kazakhstan in numbers, the collection of legislative and normative reports for investment activity in RK. • DVD disk with the video film investment opportunities of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Local Branches:
Representative in Astana Phone: (73 17) 2792476 (105) E-mail: [email protected]
Offices abroad:
Czech Republic: 4 Mesi domy 367 14200 Praha, Czech Republic Phone: (420 234) 036253, (420 603) 115455 E-mail: [email protected]
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ABAMAKORO TRADING LTD.*
Office/postal address:
P.O. Box 492 Betio Tarawa
Phone: (686) 26568 Fax: (686) 26415
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.kiritours.com/business/abamakoro/index.htm
Year established: 1982
Principal function:
• To import wholesale consumer goods to retailers and public institutions.
Services/activities:
As detailed under Principal function.
Local branches:
Abaiang, Abaiang Island
Abemama, Abemama Island
Beru, Beru Island
Butaritari, Butaritari Island
Kiritimati, Kiritimati Island
Maiana, Maiana Island
Makin, Makin Island
Nikurau, Nikurau Island
Nonouti, Nonouti Island
North Tarawa, Tarawa Island
Onotoa, Onotoa Island
Tabiteuea North, Tabiteue Island
Category:
Trading organization.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF Tokmok Branch of “Kyrgyzexpertiza” KYRGYZSTAN* 389, Lenina str., Tokmok Phone: (996) 313820224, 313824780 Office/postal address: Membership structure: 332 members. 107, Kiewskaya Street Bishkek 720001 Membership is open to companies, associations and organizations located in Kyrgyzstan (independent of their ownership), business P.O. Box: 644, Bishkek people and their associations as well as legal and natural persons, who deal with their businesses in Kyrgyzstan. Phone: (996) 312 210565 Fax: (996) 312 210575 Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
E-mail: [email protected] Mining industry; industry; agriculture; tourism and hydropower URL: www.ihk-kg.de stations.
Year established: 1959 Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
Principal function: • Investments Law from 27 March 2003. • President’s Decree “On additional measurers on formation of • To protect entrepreneurs’ interests; favorable investment environment” 15 from January 2003. • To support infrastructure conditions for the development and the protection of an enterprising endeavor in Kyrgyzstan; Category: • To create real and equal conditions for each entrepreneur to guarantee the development of their company in Kyrgyzstan Chamber of commerce. and to ensure the access to international markets.
Services/activities:
• Consults and exchanges information with overseas trading and international organizations; • Disseminates commercial information and trade opportunities; • Provides translation services; • Organizes training; • Offers advertising and publishing services.
Publication issued:
• Delovye Vesti (business magazine).
Local branches:
“Oshexpertiza” 5, Jim str., Osh Phone: (996) 322273373, 322273440 Fax: (996) 322273373, 322273440
Djalal-Abad Branch of “Kyrgyzexpertiza” 40, Toktogula str., Djalal-Abad Phone: (996) 372255790
Balykchi Branch of “Kyrgyzexpertiza” 196, 40 let Kyrgyzstana str., Balykchi Phone: (996) 394421489
Karakol Branch of “Kyrgyzexpertiza” 1, Prjevalskogo str., Karakol Phone: (996) 392221512
Naryn Branch of “Kyrgyzexpertiza” 44, Lenina str., Naryn Phone: (996) 352223984, 352250147
Talas Branch of “Kyrgyzexpertiza” 301, Frunze str., Talas Phone: (996) 342253686
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BANK OF THE LAO PDR Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
Office/postal address: • Law on the promotion and management of foreign investment in the Lao People's Democratic Republic issued by Presidential Yonnet Road Decree No. 23 of 21 April 1994 and coming into force on 20 Vientiane June 1994. • Decree of the President of the Lao People’s Democratic P.O. Box: 19, Vientiane Republic governing the management of foreign exchange and precious metals, issued by Decree No. 01 of 9 August 2002 Phone: (856 21) 213109-10 and coming into force instead of decree No. 53 of the council Fax: (856 21) 213108 ministry. • Law on Commercial Banks No.03 /NA dated 26 December E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 2006. URL: www.bol.gov.la • Law governing the Management of Foreign Exchange and Precious Metals issued by Presidential Decree Law No. Year established: 1955 01/OP dated August 9 2002.
Principal function: Category:
• To perform the task of state management within the Banks. framework of the Government, in the role of a Central Bank as an organization equivalent to a ministry. DEPARTMENT OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN Services/activities: INVESTMENT (DDFI)
• Safeguards the stability of the national monetary and Office/postal address: economic system; Luang Prabang Road • Fosters conditions conducive to orderly balanced and Vientiane 01001 sustained economic growth; • Promotes and facilitates control on the flows of money to Phone: (856 21) 222690, 222691, 217005 serve the socio-economic development plan; Fax: (856 21) 215491 • Maintains and manages the foreign reserves; • Issues bank notes and withdraws notes from circulation or E-mail: [email protected] redeems such notes; URL: www.invest.laopdr.org
• Approves the application for establishing, auditing and Principal functions: supervising commercial banks and other financial institutions. • To administer the foreign investment system and to review Publication issued: investment applications; • To offer a "one-stop" service to foreign investors, providing • Annual Report. information and assistance during the investment process. • Macroeconomic Overview. Services/activities: Local branches: • Is the first stop for information on investment and promotes Bank of Lao PDR’s Southern Branch Lao People’s Democratic Republic as investment destination; Pakse District • Screens investment proposals; Champasack Province • Offers investment incentives; Phone: (856 31) 214125 • Facilitates foreign investment. Fax: (856 31) 214120 E-mail: [email protected] Publications issued:
Bank of Lao PDR’s Northern Branch • The Promising Investment Destination (brochure). Oudomxay District • Online Newsletter. Oudomxay Province Phone: (856 81) 211492 Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Fax: (856 81) 211494 E-mail: [email protected] • The Law on the Promotion of Foreign Investment (22 October 2004). Training: • The Law on Domestic Investment (1995).
• The Business Law (1994). Twice for internal training, conducted in English, 45 times for • The Customs Law (1994). outsiders. • The Tax Law (1995). Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Category: Lending for the agricultural sector, such as rice planted, cattle, cultivation, coffee planted and growing trees planted. Investment authority.
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LAO NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND Category: INDUSTRY (LNCCI) Chamber of commerce and trade association. Office/postal address:
Phonphanao Village NATIONAL SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED Kaysone Phomvihane Avenue ENTERPRISE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT Saysettha District OFFICE (SMEPDO) Vientiane Capital Office/postal address: P.O. Box: 4596, Vientiane Nong Bon Road Phone: (856 21) 453 312-4, 452 579 Ban Phay, Saysetha, Vientiane Fax: (856 21) 452 580, 720456 Phone: (856 21) 414064 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (856 21) 263590 URL: www.lncci.laotel.com Email: [email protected] Year established: 1989 URL: www.smepdo.org/
Principal functions: Year established: 2004
• To be a social organization of business people; Principal functions: • To serve as connection between the State and enterprise units; • To promote sustainable growth of SMEs aiming at expanding • To represent employers and other associations, joint commercial goods production, trading and service business ventures, and other private enterprise established under the activities; laws of Lao People’s Democratic Republic. • To contribute to employment creation and the raising of living standards of people; Services/activities: • To lay the foundations for gradual industrialization and modernization and contribute to sustainable growth of the As detailed under Principal functions. national economy.
Local branches: Services/activities:
Bokeo Branch: • Organizes exhibitions and workshops; 002 B. Huayxaikeo, M Huayxai • Maintains searchable online databases of business Phone: (856 84) 312036 development service providers, donor agencies, and Mobile: (856 16) 027955, (856 19) 602160 projects/technical assistance; Fax: (856 84) 312036 • Provides advice and informational material on how to start a Champassak Branch: business and how to do business; B. Thaluang, Nhouttithammathoun Road • Coordinates relevant line ministries and parties to improve Phone: (856 31) 251499 existing regulations through reviewing regulations and implementation methods that are hindering establishment and Khammouane Branch: expansion of businesses; KM 2. Crossroacs Road 13 South • Provides and disseminates information on regulations relevant Phone: (856 51) 212037 to SMEs to ensure that sufficient and updated information is Mobile: (856 20) 515435 available; Fax: (856 51) 212395 • Studies and develops regulations to facilitate the establishment of business organizations and issues regulations that facilitate Luangprabang Branch: and encourage the establishment of business groups, Ouprarat Road associations, cooperatives and clubs, and provide assistance to P.O. Box: 365 build capacity of these organizations. Phone: (856 71) 212379, 212198 Mobile: (856 20) 570331 Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Fax: (856 71) 212728 E-mail: [email protected] • Enterprise Law, November 2005.
Savannakhet Branch: Category: Khangluang Street Phone: (856 41) 212046 Trade association, industrial promotion organization and trade Mobile: (856 20) 540293 promotion organizations. Fax: (856 41) 213688
Membership structure: 1,057 members, 15 associations and 10 groups.
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MACAO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MACAO TRADE AND INVESTMENT PROMOTION INSTITUTE (IPIM) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Rua de Xangai 175 Ed. ACM. 5 1st – 4th Floors, World Trade Centre Building 918, Av. da Amizade Phone: (853) 576833 Fax: (853) 594513 Phone: (853) 710300 Hot line 24 hours: (853) 881212 Email: [email protected] Fax: (853) 590309 URL: www.acm.org.mo E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1912 URL: www.ipim.gov.mo
Principal functions: Year established: 1994
• To support the principle of "one country, two systems"; Principal functions: • To be persistently devoted to the country and Macao, China; • To unite different entities and individuals in the industrial • To introduce potential investors to the local investment and commercial sectors in Macao, China; environment and opportunities; also to provide "One-Stop • To server them and safeguard their legitimate rights and Service": information enquiries, project assessment, company interests; registration assistance provided by IPIM's notary, guidance on • To promote the commercial links with other countries and administrative procedures concerned with licence applications, regions; To strive for the social stability and economic project follow-up and assistance in the implementation of prosperity of the Macao, China. projects; • To provide trade, economic, statistical, general information Services/activities: and market analysis to assist clients in exploring the market and the development of their business; • Issues Certificates of Origin; • To organize and co-organize exhibitions and other promotional • Handles applications for business visa to the United States events locally, to participate in such events held outside and Canada; Macao, China and to sponsor the participation of local • Organizes seminars on Macau, China industry and enterprises in such events, as a way to create trade commerce; opportunities; • Distributes invitation cards for the Chinese export • To organize local economic delegations to search for business commodities fair; opportunities, welcome visits by delegations to Macao, China • Handles trade inquiries; in order to create channels for exchange and cooperation; • Runs and provides necessary facilities in the chamber’s • To be responsible for the issuing of licences, technical library. assistance and supervision for non-financial offshore institutions; to promote local offshore development with Publications issued: various activities;
• To evaluate applications for local residency by investors, • Information Bulletin. company managers and professionals; • Directory. • To edit and publish trade and economic magazines, to promote
Macao, China's business environment. Local branches:
There are three subsidiary departments in the chamber. They are Services/activities: the Reading Room (library), the Seong Fan Evening Middle As detailed under Principal functions. School (Escola Seong Fan) and the Qingzhou Primary School
(Escola Ilha Verde). Publications issued:
Membership structure: 1345 members. • Investing in Macao (English/Chinese). Category: • Macao Image (biannually, English/Chinese). • Newsletter (every two months, English/Chinese). Chamber of commerce.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
General services; professional services; and offshore services.
Category:
Government agency.
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MACAO IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS ASSOCIATION*
Office/postal address:
3rd Floor, Centro Comercial Central Av. do Infante D. Henrique No. 60-62
Phone: (853) 553187 Fax: (853) 512174
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.macauexport.com
Year established: 1965
Principal function:
• To promote, develop and protect the interests of Macao, China’s export and import trading.
Services/activities:
• To protect and secure legal rights for members.
Publication issued:
• Monthly newsletter in Chinese.
Membership structure: Around 250 members.
Category:
Chamber of commerce; industrial promotion; trade association; and trade promotion organization.
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EXPORTERS CLUB FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AUTHORITY (FAMA) Office/postal address: (Lembaga Pemasaran Pertanian Persekutuan)
607, Block A, Glomac Business Centre Office/postal address: Jalan SS 6/3 47301 Petaling Jaya Bangunan FAMA Point Lot 17304, Jalan Persiaran 1 Phone: (60 3) 78800413 Bandar Baru Selayang Fax: (60 3) 78802817 68100 Batu Caves Selangor E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]\ URL: www.exportersclub.org Phone: (60 3) 61262020 Fax: (60 3) 61383650, 61385200 Year established: 2002 E-mail: [email protected] Principal function: URL: www.famaxchange.org
• To assist, advise and train Malaysian exporters. Year established: 1965
Services/activities: Principal functions:
• Provides trainings and education; • To coordinate the marketing of agricultural activities between • Provides export advisory services; private sectors and agencies/government departments; • Undertakes export promotion; • To improve the marketing system and to expand as well as to • Organizes conferences and seminars. develop new markets for Malaysian agricultural products; • To cooperate with the private sector and government Publications issued: departments/agencies to establish effective and efficient agricultural marketing; • Malaysia Trade. • To develop and enhance efficient management in the • Going International. agriculture industry particularly in the marketing or agriculture output processed; Membership structure: 900+ members • To participate directly in the agriculture industry especially in marketing or agriculture output processed. Training: Services/activities: Conducts various training programmes on international trade and logistics. • Undertakes marketing research involving supply, demand and price monitoring, market potential studies, marketing costs and Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: margin studies and consumption surveys;
• Undertakes analysis and dissemination of market information; All industries. • Carries out adaptation and commercial trials of improved
marketing practices; Category: • Develops and implements grades and standards; Training/research institutions, organizations with training • Engages in agricultural marketing to improve product quality functions. and marketing practices, for producers and intermediaries; • Encourages increased farmers' involvement in marketing; • Undertakes market promotion, domestic and foreign, for fresh and processed products; • Promotes agro-processing, including product identification and development, project feasibility studies and investment advisory services; • Undertakes horticulture sectoral planning, policy analysis and programme/budget planning; • Engages in commercial marketing of consumer products through various FAMA retail (FR) outlets.
Local branches:
Pejabat FAMA Negeri Perlis No. 22, 24 and 26, Tingkat Atas Jalan Simpang Tiga, Taman Sena Indah Persiaran Jubli Emas 01000 Kangar, Perlis Phone: (60 4) 9765615, 9761513 Fax: (60 4) 976 0564
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Pejabat FAMA Negeri Kedah Pejabat FAMA Negeri Kelantan Lot 1276, Kawasan Perusahaan Mergong Jalan Dato’ Lundang, Jalan Perak 15200 Kota Bharu, Kelantan 05150 Alor Setar, Kedah Phone: (60 9) 7482431, 7482577 Phone: (60 4) 7319344, 7319103 Fax: (60 9) 7443030 Fax: (60 4) 7335154 Pejabat FAMA Negeri Sabah Pejabat FAMA Negeri Pulau Pinang Tingkat 12 Wisma Bandaraya 2442, Tingkat Perusahaan Jalan Padang Kawasan Perusahaan Prai 88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah 13600 Prai, Pulau Pinang Phone: (60 88) 225741-2 Phone: (60 4) 3907886, 3907222 Fax: (60 88) 223526 Fax: (60 4) 3908107 Pejabat FAMA Negeri Sarawak Pejabat FAMA Negeri Perak Lot 1003-1005, Seksyen 65 Tingkat 9, Bangunan KWSP KTLD Jalan Jawa Jalan Hospital Kampung Pinang Jawa 30450 Ipoh, Perak P.O. Box 1929 Phone: (60 5) 2546322, 2546684 93738 Kuching, Sarawak Fax: (60 5) 2416545 Phone: (60 82) 422578, 414744 Fax: (60 82) 244551 Pejabat FAMA Negeri Selangor No. 12-01 Tingkat 12 Products/commodity responsible for: Plaza Masalam Jalan Tengku Ampuan Zabedah Marketing of agricultural products/commodity (fruits, vegetables, 40100 Shah Alam, Selangor livestock, fisheries, flowers, etc.). Phone: (60 3) 55118114-6 Fax: (60 3) 55118124 Training:
Pejabat FAMA Negeri Melaka Regular courses are only offered to staff and public, conducted in Lot 73, Kawasan Perindustrian Air Keroh Bahasa Malaysia (national language). Jalan Usaha 12 75450 Air Keroh, Melaka Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Phone: (60 6) 2319650, 2312760 Fax: (60 6) 2317172 Contract farming; small and medium industries projects.
Pejabat FAMA Negeri Johor Category: Km 8, Jalan Tun Abd. Razak Susur 6, Peti Surat 25 Statutory body. 80700 Johor Bahru, Johor Phone: (60 7) 2341185-6 Fax: (80 7) 2370832
Pejabat FAMA Negri Sembilan Tingkat 5, Bangunan Yayasan Negeri Jalan Yam Tuan 70000 Seremban, Negri Sembilan Phone: (60 6) 7635797, 7638959 Fax: (60 6) 7637466
Pejabat FAMA Negeri Terengganu Tingkat U3, Menara Permint Jalan Sultan Ismail 20200 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu Phone: (60 9) 6224144, 6224191 Fax: (60 9) 6221606
Pejabat FAMA Negeri Pahang Km 9, Jalan Gambang 25150 Kuantan, Pahang Phone: (60 9) 5366110, 5366113 Fax: (60 9) 5366106
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FEDERATION OF MALAYSIAN MANUFACTURERS • Manages and promotes the EAN.UCC system of article (FMM) numbering and bar coding; • Assists members to apply for an exclusively designed Office/postal address: insurance scheme on public and product liability plus product recall to all countries offered by a major insurance firm; Wisma FMM, • Operates a network of branches to attend to members’ needs on local issues. No. 3, Persiaran Dagang, PJU 9
Bandar Sri Damansara Publications issued: 52200 Kuala Lumpur • Circulars on government policies, customs orders, training P.O. Box: 28, Jinjang, 52000 Kuala Lumpur programmes, etc. (weekly). • FMM Directory (annually). Phone: (60 3) 62761211 • FMM Industry Directories. Fax: (60 3) 62741266, 62747288 • Malaysian Manufacturers' Digest (quarterly). • Berita FMM (bimonthly). E-mail: [email protected] • FMM Trade Bulletin (bimonthly). URL: www.fmm.org.my • GS1 Newsletter (quarterly). • SMI Handbook. Year established: 1968
Principal functions: Local branches:
• To work in concert with the Government to create and Eastern Branch (Pahang, Kelantan, Terengganu) sustain a dynamic business environment; B-8014, 2nd Floor, Sri Kuantan Square • To assist Malaysian industries to increase productivity and Jalan Teluk Sisek, 25000 Kuantan business efficiency; Pahang Darul Makmur • To mobilize efforts to modernize and improve the range and Phone: (60 9) 5156857/58 quality of supporting industries; Fax: (60 9) 5156855 • To stimulate entrepreneurship and creativity in the E-mail: [email protected] Malaysian business community. Johor Branch Services/activities: Nos. 1 and 3, Jalan Kencana Mas 1/1
Tebrau Business Park • Maintains online value added information through the Kawasan Perindustrian Tebrau III website on government policies and regulations, trade opportunities and other up-to-date economic and business 81100 Johor Bahru information; Johor Darul Takzim • Represents the industry’s problems and concerns to the Phone: (60 7) 3577613 Government, as well as consultative representation in major Fax: (60 7) 3577617-8 public sector organizations on issues such as industrial E-mail: [email protected] development, technology, trade promotion, quality controls and standards; Malacca Branch • Provides members with up-to-date information on D3-4 Plaza Jayamuda government policies, incentives, legislation and procedure; Jalan Pelanduk Putih (Off Jalan Ong Kim Wee), • Offers guidance and advice on matters pertaining to trade 75300 Melaka and industry such as customs regulations, fiscal and Phone: (60 6) 2831639 monetary incentives, economic perspectives, investment Fax: (60 6) 2838090 incentives, labour laws, environmental issues, safety at E-mail: [email protected] work; • Informs members of trade and business contacts through Negeri Sembilan Branch trade enquiries and incoming and outgoing missions; Nos 5 and 6, 1st Floor, Jalan S2/D38 • Produces the annual directory of members which is City Centre, 70300 Seremban 2 recognized as the authoritative handbook on manufacturing Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus companies in Malaysia and overseas; Phone: (60 6) 6031616/626/627 • Provides management and administrative services for a Fax: (60 6) 6031628 number of industry groups to promote their respective E-mail: [email protected] industries; • Assists members to participate in Association of Southeast Northern Branch (Penang, Kedah and Perlis) Asian Nations (ASEAN) industrial and trade cooperation 2767, Mukim Satu, Lebuh Tenggiri 2 activities; Bandar Seberang Jaya • Issues and endorses Certificates of Origin; 13700 Prai, Penang • Maintains a business information centre for references on Phone: (60 4) 3992057, 3994091, 3997805 foreign trade, economic reports and other useful commercial Fax: (60 4) 3994863 and business news and statistics; E-mail: [email protected] • Produces several recurrent and other publications; • Organizes trade fairs and exhibitions in the country, trade missions overseas and participates in trade exhibitions in foreign countries;
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Perak Branch MALAYSIAN AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT PARTS No 1, Lorong Raja Di Hilir, Off Jalan Raja Di Hilir MANUFACTURERS (MACPMA) 30350 Ipoh, Perak Darul Ridzuan Phone: (60 5) 5488660 (Hunting Line), 5488550, 5488770 Office/postal address: Fax: (60 5 5488221, 5488331 E-mail: [email protected] Wisma FMM No. 3, Persiaran Dagang Selangor Branch PJU 9, Bandar Sri Damansara No. 34, Jalan U1/36, Hicom Glenmarie, Industrial Park, 40150 52200 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan Phone: (603)-6276 1211 P.O. Box 7510 40718 Selangor Darul Ehsan E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (60 3) 55692950, 55694171, 55694471 URL: http://www.macpma.org.my Fax: (60 3) 55694346, 55692576 E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1963
Sabah Representative Office Principal functions: th Room No. 1014-1016, 10 Floor • To maintain the development of an automotive The Gaya Centre, Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens component parts industry in Malaysia; 88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah To promote and support government policies which Phone: (60 88) 230620 • ensure the interest of component parts manufacturers; Fax: (60 88) 240620 E-mail: [email protected] • To establish and promote liaison between automotive assemblers and manufacturer and the component parts Sarawak Representative Office manufacturers Level 5 (South), Wisma STA • Collect, collate, analyse and disseminate information 26, Jalan Datuk Abang Abdul Rahim pertaining to the automotive industry 93450 Kuching, Sarawak Phone: 082 – 332784/7 Services/activities: Fax: 082-332785 • Participation in constant discussions and consultations E-mail: [email protected] with the government on the formulation and administration of the local content policy Membership structure: 2,292 members. • Legislation Holding regular dialogues with government bodies and Membership is drawn from all categories of manufacturers, and other private organisations on matters pertaining to associations. Also, affiliate membership is open to companies in vehicle safety, emissions, and transport regulations. service industries, for example banks, accounting firms, transport • Exports companies. Publicising the Malaysian automotive parts industry for promoting exports and organising trade missions. Products/commodity responsible for: • Regional Development
Participating in meetings and discussions of the ASEAN Manufactured products. Automotive Federation (AAF) at the regional level on
the promotion of the automotive industry in ASEAN, Training: and advising government delegates at such meetings on
matters relating to the Malaysian automotive industry. The Federation organizes conferences and seminars from time to time to enable members to obtain a clear understanding of • Customs and Tariffs government policies and procedures, trade and investment Provide advisory services to members on matters opportunities, and provides a forum for a frank interchange of pertaining to customs and tariffs. ideas between the public and private sectors. • Liaison with other Associations Provide dialogues on a regular basis with other As part of FMM’s effort to assist in the creation of an adequate associations in the industry, namely MMVAA supply of industrial skills and management capabilities for the (Malaysia Motor Vehicle Assemblers' Association), industry, a training centre known as the FMM Entrepreneur Skills MMTA (Malaysia Motor Traders' Association) and and Development Centre (FMM ESDC) was established in MASAAM (Motorcycle and Scooter Assemblers' October 1991. This centre was upgraded to the FMM Institute of Association of Malaysia). Dialogues are also held with Manufacturing (FMM IM) and was officially incorporated on 12 MACPMA'S counterparts overseas eg the Japanese January 1999. As the training arm of the Federation of Malaysian Automotive Parts Industry Association (JAPIA), Manufacturers, FMM IM provides a comprehensive range of Association of Component Manufacturers Association training programmes and advanced learning opportunities with of India (ACMA), etc. educational excellence in manufacturing practices and • Trade Missions technology. Trade missions are also organised for MACPMA members to meet their counterparts in other countries Category: and also to potential markets. • Trade and Business Contact Chamber of commerce; trade association; and training/research Trade and business enquiries received by MACPMA institute. from in-coming and out-going missions, private and
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public organisations in the country and overseas are 2nd Floor, No. 95, Jalan Damai disseminated to members. Taman Setia off Jalan Stulang Darat • Dissemination of Information 80300 Johor Bahru MACPMA publishes the "MACPMA News" on a Johor Darul Takzim monthly basis. The newsletter provides updates on the Phone: (607) 2231191 automotive industry in Malaysia and other parts of the Fax: (607) 2240370 world. The newletter is circulated to not only members E-mail: [email protected] but also govemment departments and is being subscribed by foreign organisations abroad. Membership structure: • Special Market Reports Special reports on the status of the automotive and MECIB is a member of the International Union of Credit and component parts industry of other countries and their Investment Insurers (Berne Union), and a partner in Coface’s market potential are compiled by MACPMA for Credit Alliance and Info Alliance Group. circulation to members and other organisations. Category:
Category: Export credit insurance.
Automotive Industry
MALAYSIA EXPORT CREDIT INSURANCE BERHAD (MECIB)
Office/postal address:
Level 12 Darul Takaful Jalan Sultan Ismail 50734 Kuala Lumpur
P.O. Box: 11048, Kuala Lumpur
Phone: (60 3) 26910677 Fax: (60 3) 26910353
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.mecib.com.my
Year established: 1977
Principal function:
• To provide insurance for exporters of locally manufactured products.
Services/activities:
• Conducts seminar/road shows for the policyholders and Malaysian exporters.
Publications issued:
• Annual Financial and Directors' Report (vernacular/English). • Activities/facilities leaflets (vernacular/English).
Local branches:
Regional Office North (RON) 2nd Floor, No. 53, Jalan Selat Taman Selat 12000 Butterworth, Pulau Pinang Phone: (60 4) 3321862 Fax: (60 4) 3322172 E-mail: [email protected]
Regional Office South (ROS)
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MALAYSIA EXTERNAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT education, healthcare, information and communications CORPORATION (MATRADE) technology. • Manages the Malaysia Export Exhibition Centre, a Office/postal address: permanent display centre located in Kuala Lumpur, where Malaysian companies can showcase their products to foreign Menara MATRADE buyers and incoming trade delegations; Jalan Khidmat Usaha • Manages Malaysia’s first overseas trade exhibition centre in Off Jalan Duta West Asia: Malaysia Trade Centre, Dubai; 50480 Kuala Lumpur • Responds to trade related enquiries from foreign buyers, trade associations, chambers of commerce, foreign missions Phone: (60 3) 62077077, 1-800-887280 (toll-free) in Malaysia as well as business visitors to Malaysia; Fax: (60 3) 62037037/7033 • Organizes inward buying missions; • Receives visits of foreign trade delegations; E-mail: [email protected] • Disseminates trade enquiries from foreign companies URL: www.matrade.gov.my wishing to source for Malaysian products and services; • Posts international tender notifications on website; Year established: 1 March 1993 • Organizes seminars and workshops to nurture new exporters and update existing exporters on trade developments and Principal functions: business opportunities in international markets; • Is involved in evaluating candidates for Export Excellence • To promote, assist and develop Malaysia’s external trade Awards. with particular emphasis on the export of manufactured and semi-manufactured products and services; Publications issued: • To formulate and implement export marketing strategies and trade promotion activities to promote Malaysia’s exports; • Malaysia Heavy Vehicles & Machinery Directory - 2nd • To undertake commercial intelligence and market research Edition (and CD-Rom). and create a comprehensive database of information for the • Food & Beverage Directory - 3rd Edition (and CD-Rom). improvement and development of Malaysia’s trade; • Malaysia Exporters of Halal Products Directory (and CD- • To enhance and protect Malaysia’s international trade Rom). interest abroad; • Malaysia Information & Communications Technology • To promote, facilitate and assist in the service area related to Products & Services Directory (and CD-Rom). trade. • Building Materials Directory - 2nd Edition (and CD-Rom). • Malaysia Branding for the World (and CD-Rom). Services/activities: • Malaysia Exports (and CD-Rom).
• Trade Mart (twice a month). • Maintains and updates a database of Malaysian exporters • TRADE LEADS (e-publication). comprising manufacturers, traders and services providers; • Upcoming Events (monthly). • Maintains MATRADE Business Library that provides a
wide range of business and trade information; For further publications, please consult www.matrade.gov.my. • Maintains MATRADE online, a computerized database
which comprises “Stats Online” and “Biz Info”; Local branches: • Produces publications for international and domestic circulation; Sabah Branch • Disseminates information on overseas markets and business Lot C5.2A, Tingkat 5, Blok C opportunities to Malaysian companies; Bangunan KWSP, Jalan Karamunsing • Organizes and manages Malaysia’s participation in 88100 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah international trade fairs overseas; Phone: (60 88) 240881, 242881 • Organizes, together with the Ministry of International Trade Fax: (60 88) 243 881 and Industry and the Malaysian Industrial Development E-mail: [email protected] Authority, a number of trade and investment missions to major existing and emerging markets; Sarawak Branch • Organizes specialized marketing missions overseas to Tingkat 10, Menara Grand explore and identify trade opportunities for selected products Lot 42, Section 46, Ban Hock Road and services; 93100 Kuching, Sarawak • Organizes Malaysian products exhibitions to showcase Phone: (60 82) 246780, 248780 “Made-in-Malaysia” products and services; Fax: (60 82) 256780 • Organizes, in collaboration with major departmental stores, E-mail: [email protected] “Made-in-Malaysia” in-store promotion to introduce Malaysian products directly to consumers overseas; Offices abroad: • Sets up information booths in selected trade fairs to disseminate information on Malaysian products and services Australia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Egypt; France; Germany; as well as to display product catalogues of Malaysian Hong Kong, China; Hungary; India; Indonesia; Italy; Japan; companies; Kenya; Mexico; Netherlands; Philippines; Republic of Korea; • Promotes, in collaboration with relevant government Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; South Africa; agencies, professional bodies and associations, the export of Taiwan Province of China; Thailand; United Arab Emirates; major services sectors such as construction and engineering, United Kingdom; United States of America and Viet Nam.
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Membership structure: 12,789 members (as of September Services/activities: 2007). As detailed under Principal functions. Products/commodity responsible for: Publications issued: Promotion of exports of products and services. • Malaysia: Investment in the Manufacturing Sector - Policies, Category: Incentives and Facilities (English/Japanese/French/German/Italian/Mandarin/Taiwan Trade promotion organization. Province of China Mandarin/ Korean). • Guidebook on Key Services Supporting the Manufacturing Sector (English). MALAYSIAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT • The Costs of Doing Business in Malaysia (English/Bahasa AUTHORITY (MIDA) Malaysia/Japanese/French/German/Italian/Mandarin/Taiwan Province of China Mandarin). Office/postal address: • Business Opportunities in Malaysia's Electronics Industry (English). Block 4, Plaza Sentral • Business Opportunities in Malaysia's Medical Device Jalan Stesen Sentral 5 Industry (English). Kuala Lumpur Sentral • Profit from Malaysia's Petrochemical Industry (English). 50470 Kuala Lumpur • Photonics: Opportunities for Growth in Malaysia (English). • Electronics Manufacturing Services: Malaysia's EMS Phone: 60 (3) 2267 3633 Advantage (English). Fax: 60 (3) 2274 7970 • Make Malaysia Your Biotechnology Hub (English). • Food Industry in Malaysia (English). E-mail: [email protected] • Malaysia's Machinery and Equipment Industry (English). URL: www.mida.gov.my • Map of Malaysia (English).
• MIDA Annual Report, 2003 (English/Bahasa Malaysia). Year established: 1967 • Why Malaysia (English).
Principal functions: • MIDA Corporate Leaflet (English/Japanese/French/German/ Italian/Mandarin/Taiwan Province of China Mandarin). The Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) is the Government's principal agency for the promotion and coordination Local branches: industrial development. It is the first point of contact for investors who intend to set up projects in manufacturing and its related Room 15.03, Level 15 support services sectors in Malaysia. Overseas investors can Wisma LKN contact MIDA for assistance in planning their fact-finding trip to 49, Jalan Wong Ah Fook Malaysia. 80000 Johor Bahru Johor Darul Ta'zim Functions of MIDA: Phone: 60 (7) 224 2550/ 5500 • To promote foreign and local investments in the Fax: 60 (7) 224 2360 E-mail: [email protected] manufacturing and services sectors; • To undertake planning for industrial development in 5th Floor, Menara Yayasan Islam Terengganu Malaysia; Jalan Sultan Omar • To recommend policies and strategies on industrial promotion 20300 Kuala Terengganu and development to the Minister of International Trade and Terengganu Darul Iman Industry; Phone: 60 (9) 622 7200 • To evaluate applications for manufacturing licences and Fax: 60 (9) 623 2260 expatriate posts; tax incentives for manufacturing activities, E-mail: [email protected] tourism, R&D, training institutions and software development; and duty exemption on raw materials, 8th Floor, Wisma PKNK components and machinery; Jalan Sultan Badlishah • To assist companies in the implementation and operation of 05000 Alor Setar their projects, and to offer assistance through direct Kedah Darul Aman consultation and cooperation with the relevant authorities at Phone: 60 (4) 731 3978 both the federal and state levels; Fax: 60 (4) 731 2439 • To facilitate the exchange of information and coordination E-mail: [email protected]
among institutions engaged in or connected with industrial th development; Suite 3, 11 Floor • To further enhance MIDA's role of assisting investors, senior Kompleks Teruntum representatives from key agencies are stationed at MIDA P.O. Box 178 headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to advise investors on 25720 Kuantan government policies and procedures. These representatives Pahang Darul Makmur include officials from the Immigration Department, Royal Phone: 60 (9) 513 7334 Customs Malaysia, Department of Environment and Tenaga Fax: 60 (9) 513 7333 Nasional Berhad. E-mail: [email protected]
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5th Floor, Bangunan PKINK 3rd Floor, Takahashi Building Jalan Tengku Maharani Puteri 5-9-3, Nishi-tenma 15000 Kota Bharu Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0047, Japan Kelantan Darul Naim Phone: 81 (6) 6313 3121 / 313 3221 Phone: 60 (9) 748 3151 Fax: 81 (6) 6313 3321 Fax: 60 (9) 744 7294 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Embassy of Malaysia 2nd Floor, Wisma Wan Mohamed 4-1 Hannam-dong Jalan Panglima Bukit Gantang Wahab Yongsan-gu, Seoul 140-210, Republic of Korea P.O. Box 210, 30720 Ipoh Phone: (82 2) 798 0115 Perak Darul Ridzuan Fax: (82 2) 792 2427 Phone: 60 (5) 253 9300 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 60 (5) 255 2661 E-mail: [email protected] Malaysian Friendship and Trade Centre 8th Floor, San Ho Plastics Building 102 3rd Floor, Menara MITC Tun Hua North Road Kompleks MITC Taipei, 105 Taiwan Province of China Jalan Konvensyen Phone: (88 62) 2713 2626 75450 Ayer Keroh Fax: (88 62) 2514 7581 Melaka E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 60 (6) 232 2876/78 Fax: 60 (6) 232 2875 Consulate General of Malaysia E-mail: [email protected] Units 807-809, Level 8, Shanghai Kerry Centre Jalan Lapan Belas, Off Jalan Tun Razak, P.O.Box 11915 No. 1515, Nanjing Road (West) 88821 Kota Kinabalu Shanghai, 200040, China Sabah Phone: (86 21) 6289 4547 / 5298 6335 Phone: 60 (88) 211 411 Fax: (86 21) 6279 4009 Fax: 60 (88) 211 412 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 42 Avenue Kleber 4.03 Tingkat 4, Menara PSCI 75116 Paris, France 39, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah Phone: (33 1) 4727 3689 / 4727 6696 10050 Pulau Pinang Fax: (33 (1) 4755 6375 Pulau Pinang E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 60 (4) 228 0575 Fax: 60 (4) 228 0327 6th Floor, Rolex Haus E-mail: [email protected] Dompropst-Ketzer-Str. 1-9 50667 Cologne, Germany Room 404, 4th Floor Phone: (49 221) 124 008 / 9 Bangunan Bank Negara Fax: (49 221) 136 198 No. 147, Jalan Satok E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 716 93714 Kuching Consulate of Malaysia Sarawak 4th Floor Phone: 60 (82) 254 251 / 237 484 Via Vittor Pisani 31 Fax: 60 (82) 252 375 20124 Milan, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (39 02) 6698 4614 / 6698 4647 Fax: (39 (02) 6698 4749 Offices abroad: E-mail: [email protected]
Level 3, MAS Building Embassy of Malaysia 16 Spring Street Karlavagen 37 Sydney P.O. Box 26053 NSW 2000, Australia S-10041 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: (61 2) 9251 1933 Phone: 46 (8) 791 7690 / 7942 Fax: (61 2) 9251 4333 Fax: 46 (8) 791 8761 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
4th Floor, Aoyama 246 Building 17, Curzon Street 5-6-26, Minami-Aoyama London W1J 5HR, United Kingdom Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062, Japan Phone: 44 (20) 7493 0616 Phone: (81 3) 3409 3680 / 3409 3681 Fax: 44 (20) 7493 8804 Fax: (81 3) 3409 3460 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.midajapan.or.jp
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Consulate General of Malaysia • Sales Tax Act, 1967. Malaysian Industrial Development Authority • Excise Act, 1976. 550, South Hope Street, Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA 90071, United States of America Category: Phone: 1 (213) 955 9183 / 9877 Fax: 1 (213) 955 9878 Investment promotion agency. E-mail: [email protected]
John Hancock Centre, Suite 1515 875, North Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611, United States of America Phone: 1 (312) 787 4532 Fax: 1 (312) 787 4769 E-mail: [email protected]
Consulate General of Malaysia 313 East, 43rd Street New York, NY 10017, United States of America Phone: 1 (212) 687 2491 Fax: 1 (212) 490 8450 E-mail: [email protected]
226 Airport Parkway, Suite 480 San Jose, CA 95110, United States of America Phone: 1 (408) 392 0617/8 Fax: 1 (408) 392 0619 E-mail: [email protected]
2 Oliver Street, Suite 1107 Boston, MA 02109, United States of America Phone: 1 (617) 338 1128 / 338 1129 Fax: 1 (617) 338 6667 E-mail: [email protected]
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
• High technology, capital intensive and knowledge driven industries in areas such as: - Biotechnology; - Advanced electronics; - Optics and photonics; - Wireless technology; - Display technology (TFT, LCD, plasma and parts).
• Manufacture of intermediate goods in industries such as: - Machinery and equipment; - Components and parts; - Moulds and dies.
• Resourced-based sector, particularly in the following sectors: - Food; - Value added products from oil palm biomass (particle board, MDF board and animal feed).
• Activities and products in the promoted list (Publication - Malaysia: Investment in the Manufacturing Sector – Policies, Incentives and Facilities).
Titles of laws and regulations related with investment:
• Industrial Coordination Act (ICA), 1975. • Promotion of Investment Act (PIA), 1986. • Income Tax Act, 1967. • Customs Act, 1967. • Free Zones Act, 1990.
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MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF MALAYSIAN PALM OIL COUNCIL (MPOC) COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (MICCI) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: 2nd Floor, Wisma Sawit C-8-8, 8th Floor, Block C Lot 6, SS6, Jalan Perbandaran Plaza Mont Kiara 47301 Kelana Jaya No. 2, Jalan Kiara Selangor Darul Ehsan 50480 Kuala Lumpur Phone: (60 3) 78064097 P.O. Box. 12921, 50792 Kuala Lumpur Fax: (60 3) 78062272
Phone: (60 3) 62017708 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (60 3) 62017705-6 URL: www.mpoc.org.my
E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1990 URL: www.micci.com Principal functions: Year established: 1837 • To improve understanding of palm oil, its applications and its Principal functions: benefits; • To undertake promotional activities and to remove obstacles • To promote investment and protect free enterprise and the and create opportunities; interest of the international investment community; • To enhance the marketability and image of Malaysian palm oil • To enhance trade, commerce, industry and investment. in the world.
Services/activities: Services/activities:
• Liaises with government ministries and departments; • Promotes a positive image of Malaysian palm oil; • Provides an information and consultation service; • Packages and disseminates plausible technical information to • Issues Certificate of Origin and ATA Carnets. influence the market; • Generates comprehensive market information; Publications issued: • Collates, analyses and disseminates market information to the local industry. • MICCI Members' Directory. • Investor's Guide. Publications issued: • MICCI Bulletin. • Annual Report. • 16 Health Facts on Palm Oil. • Fact Sheets on Palm Oil. Local branches: • Fats in Human Nutrition. • Malaysian Palm Oil - A Success Story. MICCI Penang Branch • Malaysian Palm Oil: The Story of a Major Edible Vegetable Phone: (60 4) 2270589 Oil. Fax: (60 4) 2270124 • Malaysian Palm Oil Directory. • Palm Oil and Palm Kernel Oil Applications. MICCI Perak Branch • The Use of Palm Oil in Frying. Phone: (60 5) 2532233 Fax: (60 5) 2533206 Offices abroad:
MICCI Johor Branch 62-63, Motijheel Commercial Area Phone: (60 7) 2224448 7th Floor, Amin Court Building Fax: (60 7) 2248088 Dhaka, Bangladesh Phone: (880 2) 9571216 MICCI Sabah Branch Fax: (880 2) 9551836 Phone: (60 88) 248332 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (60 88) 268332 31 Avenue Emile Vandervelde MICCI MNS Branch 1200 Brussels, Belgium Phone: (60 6) 2816998 Phone: (32 2) 7748860 Fax: (60 6) 2844368 Fax: (32 2) 7794371 E-mail: [email protected] Membership structure: 1,050 members.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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Rua Estella, 515-Bloco H - Conj. 192 MALAYSIAN PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY BOARD (MPIB) Vila Mariana 0401-002-São Paulo Brazil Office/postal address: Phone: (55 11) 55722699 Fax: (55 11) 50846131 Wisma Nanas E-mail: [email protected] No. 5, Jalan Padi Mahsuri Bandar Baru UDA Shanghai Westgate Mall Co. Ltd. 81200 Johor Bahru Room 1610B, No. 10, Nanjing Road (W) Shanghai 200041, China Phone: (60 7) 2361211 Phone: (86 21) 62182085-6 Fax: (60 7) 2365694 Fax: (86 21) 62181125 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.mpib.gov.my No. 54, Michel Bakhoum Street Dokki-Giza, Cairo, Egypt Year established: 1957 Phone: (20 2) 7618190 Fax: (20 2) 7618190 Principal functions: E-mail: [email protected] • To provide financial assistance for research; C-10, Gulmohar Park • To negotiate agreement on prices and grades of pineapple; New Delhi 110 049, India • To regulate production and marketing; Phone: (91 11) 26520500 • To administer a cess fund and make recommendations Fax: (91 11) 26535315 regarding the rate of cess; E-mail: [email protected] • To administer quality control programmes; • To collect statistics of the industry; 11- 3rd Floor, Leeds Centre • To handle any other matters affecting the industry. Main Boulevard Gulberg III Lahore, Pakistan Services/activities:
Phone: (92 42) 5716600-1 • Undertakes registration of exporters; Fax: (92 42) 5716602 • Undertakes registration of canneries, transporter and vendor; E-mail: [email protected] • Endorses canned/fresh pineapple export’s permit; • Promotes the programmes of marketing development 21515 Hawthorne Boulevard, Suite 690 infrastructure to support the growth of the industry; Torrance, CA 90503, United States of America • Promotes the quality control programmes, which include the Phone: (1 310) 9443910 production of fresh pineapple, canned pineapple and pineapple Fax: (1 310) 9443544 base products to ensure that the quality of the products is E-mail: [email protected] within the specification and “Codex Alimentarius” Standard. URL: www.malaysianpalmusa.com Publication issued: P.O. Box 1591, M.E.C.C. 4301, South Africa Phone: (27 31) 5666171-2 • The Malaysian Pineapple Directory. Fax: (27 31) 5666170 E-mail: [email protected] Products/commodity responsible for:
Products/commodity responsible for: Processing of canned pineapple products; processing of related products such as cottage industries, pharmaceuticals and Palm oil. cosmetics; domestic market; export market; and research and development. Category: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Market promotion for palm oil. Canneries; plantations; cottage industries; and research and development.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• Pineapple Industry (Export Marketing) Regulation, 1957; • Pineapple Industry (Cess on Export) Regulation, 1959; • Pineapple Industry (Fruit Control) Regulation, 1957; • Pineapple Industry (Cannery Control) Regulation, 1959.
Category:
Commodity board.
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MALAYSIAN RUBBER BOARD (MRB) Local branches:
Office/postal address: Lot PT. 117753 Jalan Sultan Azian Shah Utara Lembaga Getah Malaysia 31400 Ipoh, Perak DR Bangunan Getah Asli (Menara) Phone: (60 5) 5485048 Tingkat 17 and 18, Bangunan Getah Asli 148 Jalan Ampang No. 23F, Jalan Zaaba 50450 Kuala Lumpur 70100 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan DK Phone: (60 6) 7655801 P.O. Box: 10150, 50908 Kuala Lumpur No. 58A, Jalab Buloh Kasap Phone: (60 3) 92062000 85000 Segamat, Johor DT Fax: (60 3) 21613139 Phone: (60 7) 9311512
E-mail: [email protected] No. 4, Jalan IM 6/1, Bandar Indera Mahkota URL: www.lgm.gov.my 25200 Kuantan, Pahang DM Phone: (60 9) 5721210 Year established: 1998 (as a result of the merger of the Malaysian Rubber Research and Development Board (MRRDB), Lot 3322, Blok 14, Jalan Sultan Tengah Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRIM) and Malaysian Petra Jaya Rubber Exchange and Licensing Board (MRELB)). 93050 Kuching, Sarawak Phone: (60 82) 447977 Principal function: No. 127, Taman Peringatan Petagas • To assist in the development and modernization of the P.O. Box 14890 Malaysian rubber industry in all aspects from cultivation of 88859 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah the rubber tree, the extraction and processing of its raw rubber, Phone: (60 88) 212139 the manufacture of rubber products and the marketing of rubber and rubber products. Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRIM) 260, Jalan Ampang Services/activities: P.O. Box 10150 50908 Kuala Lumpur • To implement policies and developmental programmes to Phone: (60 3) 42567033 ensure the viability of the rubber industry in Malaysia; • To promote and implement research and development RRIM Research Station activities in the production, use and consumption of rubber; RRIM Research Station Sungai Buloh • To plan, coordinate and monitor all rubber research and 47000 Sg. Buloh, Selangor DE development activities; Phone: (60 3) 61561121 • To regulate the rubber industry, in particular in relation to dealings in rubber, packing, grading, shipping and export of RRIM Research Station Kota Tinggi rubber; Batu 3 ½, Jalan Mawai 81900 Kota Tinggi, Johor DT • To control and monitor the quality of rubber, rubber planting Phone: (60 7) 8831277 materials and rubber products;
• To develop, transfer, exploit and promote research findings; Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre • To provide technical, advisory and consultancy services to the Brickendonbury, Hertford SG13 8NL rubber industry; United Kingdom • To administer and manage the fund; Phone: (44 1992) 584966 • To regulate the Malaysian rubber market and manage the Malaysian rubber exchange; Membership structure: 225 members (as of 1994). • To formulate and implement an international marketing strategy for the rubber industry of Malaysia; • Ordinary members: producers, manufacturers' buying agents, • To liaise and cooperate with rubber agencies within or outside estates' selling agents, brokers, dealers (total 208 as of 1994); Malaysia to further enhance the rubber industry of Malaysia; • Associate members: overseas members (total 17 as of 1994). • To plan and implement human resources training in line with the needs of the rubber industry; Products/commodity responsible for: • To be the resource and information centre for the rubber industry. Natural rubber.
Publications issued: Category:
• Annual Report. Commodity board. • Journal of Rubber Research. • Malaysian Rubber Digest. • Malaysian Rubber Review. • Monographs.
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NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND NATIONAL TOBACCO BOARD (NTB) INDUSTRY OF MALAYSIA (NCCIM) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: Ibu Pejabat 6A, 6th Floor, Menara BGI Lembaga Tembakau Negara Plaza Berjaya, 12 Jalan Imbi Peti Surat 198 55100 Kuala Lumpur 15720 Kota Bharu Kelantan Phone: (60 3) 21419600 Fax: (60 3) 21413775 Phone: (60 9) 7652933 Fax: (60 9) 7642248 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.nccim.org.my E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ltn.gov.my Year established: 1962 Year established: 1973 Principal functions: Principal functions: • To represent the numerous interests of the Malaysian business community domestically and internationally; • To restructure the production system in order to increase the • To promote Malaysian exports and investments abroad; efficiency, productivity and viability of the tobacco industry; • to help create a conducive climate in Malaysia for foreign • To provide proper and adequate infrastructure and support investors. services (such as extension, enforcement and marketing) for • To hold consultative status in dealing with the Government the production of quality tobacco and the orderly growth of the effecting economic, trade, investment, human resources and tobacco industry; infrastructure development. • To promote the development of the upstream and downstream activities of the tobacco sector; Services/activities: • To uplift the socio-economic status of the farmers; • To promote the development of crop integration as an • Organizes seminars, workshops, symposia, conferences, additional source of income to tobacco farmers in achieving exhibitions and trade missions abroad; the objectives of the Tobacco Industry Restructuring Plan. • Participates in annual dialogues with the Ministry of International Trade, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Services/activities: Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Human Resources, Customs Department, Prime Minister's • Provides comprehensive extension services, farm Department, Port Klang, Authority Standards and Industrial mechanization and transfer of technology (from seed Research Institute of Malaysia. preparation to marketing activities of cured leaves); • Provides appropriate research and development (R&D) Publication issued: support; • Provides adequate funding and proper financial management; • Suara NCCIM (quarterly, English). • Promotes other food crops to be integrated with tobacco as an additional income for the farmers and maximizing Membership structure: production resources; • Stabilizes the industry through a quota system; NCCIM is an umbrella organization grouping five principal • Issues licences to curers, grower curers, cigarette Malaysian private sector organizations concerned with commerce manufacturers and also registers tobacco farmers; and industry. The five NCCIM principal members are: • Provides enforcement services to ensure that all rules and • Malay Chamber of Commerce Malaysia (MCCM); regulations of NTB Acts are adhered to; • The Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry • Produces and distributes quality tobacco seeds; of Malaysia (ACCCIM); • Undertakes enforcement activities to ascertain that all the • Malaysian Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce and rules and regulations and techniques are obeyed by all Industry of Malaysia (MAICCI); sectors, monitors and takes necessary actions in preventing • Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry tobacco smuggling activities; (MICCI); • Provides effective human resources development and • Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM). availability of trained and skilled personnel; • Coordinates between manufacturers, curers and growers. Category: Publications issued: Chamber of commerce. • Annual Report (Malay). • Annual Statistics (Malay/English). • Quarterly Bulletin (Malay).
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Local branches: Publications issued:
Throughout Malaysia. • Pepper Market Bulletin (quarterly). • Pepper Industry Bulletin (ad hoc). Products/commodity responsible for: • Sarawak Pepper Flavours the World (international cookbook). Tobacco. Local branches: Training: BDC Industrial Area Courses on tobacco management for curers, farmers and staff. P.O. Box 279, 96107 Sarikei, Sarawak Courses on integrated crop and livestock management fur curers, Phone: (60 84) 654161 farmers and staff. Fax: (60 84) 653510
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Lot 1152 and 1154, SEDC Industrial Estate Jalan Teng Kung Sui Food crops/livestock to be integrated with tobacco. P.O. Box 476, 96007 Sibu, Sarawak Phone: (60 84) 211059 Category: Fax: (60 82) 212033
Commodity board. Sub Lot 2, Lot 160 Undup Land District, Km 189 Jalan Sri Aman/ Serian PEPPER MARKETING BOARD 95007 Bandar Sri Aman, Sarawak Phone: (60 83) 322139 Office/postal address: Fax: (60 82) 324069
Lembaga Lada Malaysia Batu 9, Jalan Kelupu Lot 1115, Jalan Utama P.O. Box 74, 96507 Bintangor, Sarawak Tanah Putih Phone: (60 84) 691618 93916, Kuching Fax: (60 84) 691544 Sarawak, Malaysia Lot 659, Jalan Industri P.O. Box: 1653 P.O. Box 87, 94707 Serian, Sarawak Phone: (60 82) 874234 Phone: (60 82) 331811 Fax: (60 82) 874234 Fax: (60 82) 336877, 342690 Lot 3510, Kemena Light Industrial Area E-mail: [email protected] No. 3, Jalan Nyigu, 97000 Bintulu, Sarawak URL: www.mpb.gov.my Phone: (60 86) 336900 Fax: (60 86) 311651 Year established: 1972 Lot 1208, Midgulf Building Principal function: Jalan Permaisuri P.O. Box 1245, 98008 Miri, Sarawak • To be responsible for the statutory grading of all Sarawak Phone: (60 85) 420705 pepper for export, licensing of pepper dealers and exporters, Fax: (60 85) 420745 market promotion, farmers’ development, trading and the development and promotion of pepper storage, processing Km 8, Jalan Tun Razak, Susur Enam and sterilization facilities. 80200 Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Takzim Phone: (60 7) 2352071 Services/activities: Fax: (60 7) 2369872
• Undertakes market regulation through the licensing of Products/commodity responsible for: dealers and exporters; • Provides market extension through dialogues and visits to Pepper and pepper products. farming communities; • Conducts domestic and overseas market promotion; Category: • Provides market information service; • Undertakes statutory grading of pepper for export; Commodity board; commodity standard institute; export marketing board; standard, testing, and inspection body; and • Trades in pepper and pepper products; government agency. • Undertakes product development on specialty pepper and
new uses of pepper;
• Provides laboratory and industrial services including processing, steam treatment, storage and physical forward market.
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THE PALM OIL REFINERS ASSOCIATION OF PORAM and export promotion: MALAYSIA (PORAM) PORAM assists members in establishing business contacts and promoting their exports, through a wide range of export Office/postal address promotion activities such as: • Receiving trade delegations, receiving trade enquiries and 801C/802A, Block B channeling them to members; Executive Suites • Organizing trade missions and arranging for members' Kelana Business Centre participation in government-sponsored missions; 97 Jalan SS7/2 • Making recommendations/proposals to Government aimed at 47301 Kelana Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan increasing exports of processed palm oil products.
Phone: (60 3) 74920006 PORAM and related organizations: Fax: (60 3) 74920128 Since its inception, the Association has played significant roles in enhancing the position of the palm oil refining industry in this E-mail: [email protected] country as well as abroad. PORAM works closely with the URL: www.poram.org.my Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA), the Malayan Edible Oil Manufacturers' Association (MEOMA), the Malaysian Year established: 1975 Oleochemical Manufacturers Group (MOMG) and The Palm Oil Millers' Association (POMA). Principal functions: PORAM is a member of the National Institute of Oilseed Products • To collectively support and enhance the status and interest (NIOP) and the Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations of the palm oil refining industry; Ltd (FOSFA International). Together with FOSFA International, • To promote the processing, refining and fractionation of PORAM has jointly issued a contract for Palm Oil Products in palm oil and the manufacture of all products and by- Bulk (CIF) or more widely known as the FOSFA 81 Contract. products therefrom; • To project an international image of sophistication and PORAM is also a founder member of the ASEAN Vegetable Oils reliability; Club (AVOC) and is currently serving AVOC as its Secretariat. • To establish an identity with the public at large as an organization with an important role to play in Malaysia's Membership structure: 16 members, 57 associate members economic development and as an organization responsibly and supplementary members (subsidiary of full members). acting in the interest of the community; • To be both responsive to the Malaysian Government's The House of PORAM comprises the Chairman of the overall socio-economic policies and responsible in this role. Association and a ruling Management Board. Members of the Management Board lead the other principal committees which are Services/activities: responsible for specific areas of activity.
PORAM and the Government: These committees are: Through PORAM, palm oil refiners in Malaysia can act 1. Commercial and Technical Committee; collectively and in unison to better ensure that the Government 2. Price Settlement Committee; understands and recognizes the needs and problems of the 3. Arbitration Rules Execution Committee; industry at all times. PORAM is represented in the relevant 4. Associate Members Committee. government bodies, among which are: • Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB); Products/commodity responsible for:
• Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council (MPOPC). Palm oil products.
Services to members: Category: • Provides a continuous flow of valuable information to
members, including market reports, summaries of reports on Trade association. trade missions and research reports;
• Keeps members informed of new or amended government regulations affecting members; • Handles government contacts and the interpretation to members of the legislative and administrative actions of government regulations; • Provides guidance to members on problems arising from government regulations and procedures; • Provides facilities for members to meet and resolve common problems; • Provides facilities for arbitration under the auspices of the Association; • Publishes newsletters, guidebooks, brochures and other documents desirable for the promotion and enhancement of the palm oil refining industry; • Organizes seminars, workshops and training courses for members;
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MALDIVES ASSOCIATION OF TOURISM INDUSTRY vessels with registered beds in the Ministry of Tourism; travel (MATI) agents; airlines’ national carriers; shipping companies; transport operators; convention organizers; public undertakings; travel Office/postal address: writers; tourist service industries and other organizations or individuals directly involved in the tourism or travel industry of the 3rd Floor, Gadhamoo Building Maldives. Active Members have the right to vote. Boduthakurufaanu Magu The Associate Membership of MATI comprises of: tour operators; P.O. Box: 2056 entities, association, societies and corporations; and local chapters of international tourism organizations, with an interest in the aims Phone: (960) 321701, 326640 and objectives of MATI. Associate Members do not have the right Fax: (960) 326641 to vote.
E-mail: [email protected] Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: URL: www.mati.com.mv/wb/ Tourism promotion: Asia/Pacific and Europe. Year established: 1982 Category: Principal functions: Industrial promotion organization. • To enhance economic and tourism development; • To seek membership of all important tourism-related bodies; • To improve organizational capability in serving the members; MALDIVES INDUSTRIAL FISHERIES • To make the Association become nationally and COMPANYLIMITED internationally recognized; • To actively participate in policy formulation and national Office/postal address: development planning activities; • To enhance MATI's role as liaison between the industry and Block No. 389 government; Hilaalee Magu • To provide members with relevant information to improve Maafannu, Malé 20-04 their performance. Phone: (960) 3323932 Services/activities: Fax: (960) 3323955
Organizational development: E-mail: [email protected] • Provides training; URL: www.mifco.com.mv • Conducts studies and research on tourism-related issues; • Maintains a library and computerized database on tourism; Year established: 1 November 1993
• Enhances in-house expertise on relevant areas; Principal functions: • Disseminates information via newsletters, bulletins and
magazines. • To produce and promote niche-branded, internationally
accredited and 100 per cent Maldivian-origin manufactured Sectoral development: products to European and Asian destinations; • Attempts to obtain development finance; • To establish branch offices, agencies and subsidiary companies • Undertakes activities to promote tourism; for the purpose of overseas trading. • Attempts to improve the operation of air travel; • Increases management capabilities; Services/activities: • Makes bidding procedures for resort islands more favourable; • Recommends new laws and regulations and suggests • Manages a fleet of vessels to allow for and to assist in its day amendments to existing laws and regulations; to day operations. • Promotes environmentally sound solid waste disposal methods; Category: • Creates awareness of reef resources management; • Encourages utilization of ozone friendly appliances; Industrial promotion organization. • Promotes excursion, diving, marine sports, game fishing, souvenirs, arts and culture, entertainment.
Membership structure:
MATI’s membership consists of four classes of members: active members, associate members, members of honour and any other class of member as determined to be accepted by the executive board of MATI.
Active membership is open to organizations and individuals operating and/or managing tourist resorts hotels, guesthouses and
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MALDIVES TOURISM PROMOTION BOARD MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE Office/postal address: Office/postal address: 3rd Floor H. Aage, 12 Boduthakurufaanu Magu Ghaazee Building Malé Ameeru Ahmed Magu Malé 20-05 Phone: (960) 323228 Fax: (960) 323229 Phone: (960) 323668, 3315593 Fax: (960) 323840 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.visitmaldives.com E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.trademin.gov.mv Year established: 1998 Year established: 1982 Principal functions: Principal functions: • To strengthen and enhance the exclusive image of the destination in the source markets; • To formulate and implement regulations governing imports • To position the Maldives as a ‘premium’ destination and exports; worldwide; • To issue import and export licences; • To achieve the growth targets set for the destination in the • To issue licences for sale of imported goods; marketing plan for each year; • To issue licences for foreign parties who wish to conduct • To diversify the source markets as well as the market trading activities in the country; segments to the destination; • To inspect and maintain quality control for dried and salted • To undertake market research to monitor the world fish exported from Maldives; economic conditions and travel trends in order to identify • To maintain calibration standards; market opportunities; • To undertake registration of trade marks, shipping marks and • To monitor and support the private sector in their operations logos; to maintain viable bed occupancy levels and to iron out • To formulate industrial development policy; seasonal fluctuations in visitor arrivals. • To promote, regulate and facilitate private sector investment; • To issue licences for fishery activities in the EEZ; Services/activities: • To undertake registration of local and foreign investment;
• To organize the national industrial exhibition.
• Promotes the Maldives using various forms of media and other promotional media. Services/activities:
Publications issued: As detailed under Principal functions.
• Resort and Hotel Guides. Publication`: • Promotional leaflets. • Statistic reports. • Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS) for the Maldives. • Market reports. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Offices abroad: The Companies Act of the Republic of Maldives. Law No: 10/96. Maldives Government Tourist Information Office Aschaffenburger Str. Category: 96g, 63500 Seligenstadt, Germany Phone: (49 6182) 9934 857 Ministry of Trade. Fax: (49 6182) 9934 858 E-mail: [email protected]
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Tourism and fisheries.
Category:
National tourism board; and tourism promotion board.
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MARSHALL ISLANDS
MARSHALL ISLANDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TRADE AND INVESTMENT SERVICES DIVISION
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Majuro, MH 96960 Ministry of Resources and Development Majuro, MH 96960 P.O. Box: 1226 P.O. Box: 1727, Majuro Phone: (69 2) 6252525 Phone: (692) 6253206/4020 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (692) 6257471 URL: www.majurochamber.net E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Year established: 1986 URL: www.investinrmi.com
Principal function: Year established: 1988 (re-established in 2000).
• To develop, encourage, promote and protect the commercial, Principal functions: professional, financial and general business interest of the Marshall Islands; • To facilitate and promote foreign and domestic investment in • To promote the civic interest and the general welfare of the the Marshall Islands; community of the Marshall Islands; • To increase awareness domestically and internationally of • To extend and promote the trade and commerce and to the Marshall Islands investment climate, on how to conduct develop and protect the industry of the Marshall Islands; business in the country and on potential investment • To encourage the development of the transportation and opportunities; communication facilities and the various natural and human • To assist in the development and improvement of resources of the Marshall Islands; Marshallese products for exports into foreign markets; • To procure and support laws and regulations desirable for the • To support and promote the development of small business benefit of business in general; in the Marshall Islands, both product-oriented businesses, • To provide a forum for the reflection of sentiments of the through support for entrepreneurship, particularly among the business community regarding matters affecting its interest; move vulnerable and economically disadvantaged • To promote and preserve the practice by businesspeople and Marshallese Communities. their employees of sound traditional business ethics. Services/activities: Publication issued: Small Business Support Unit: • Intertrade. • Acts as point of information and resources for business and • Trade View (monthly, English). market opportunity assessment; • WTCB Directory. • Organizes and conducts small business management workshops and seminars aimed at skills training, in Membership structure: collabouration with other agencies involved in business development; The Majuro Chamber of Commerce is made up of around 50 local • Assists in developing business plans, proposals, strategic businesses, which employ approximately 2,000 Marshallese workplans; employees with a reported 15,000 dependents. The Chamber is a • Supports businesses in securing business capital, small non-political and non-aligned non-governmental organization and business loans, etc.; associated with most of the Marshall Island's NGO’s. • Sets policies, guidelines and standards for the establishment of microenterprise financing services, in cooperation with Category: communities, NGOs and the private sector; • Identifies and assists in the removal of legal and regulatory Chamber of commerce. barriers to the economic participation of disadvantaged people; • Advises the Government on business policies conducive to private sector growth; • Conducts regular surveys among the local business community to determine needs, and respond accordingly; • Establishes and maintains contacts with other small business support agencies outside the Marshall Islands; • Develops cooperative partnerships with the Chamber of Commerce and other local businesses not represented in the Chamber; • Coordinates and cooperates with the local Governments, Ministry of Internal Affairs, academic institutions and other relevant bodies on local business development; • Encourages, supports and undertakes, where necessary, environmental reviews of business projects, in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Authority and relevant
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local governments, to ensure no undue harm is caused to the Publications issued: natural environment. • National Investment Policy Statement. Trade Promotion Unit: • General Guide for Foreign Investors. • Encourages and assists the promotion of Marshallese produce and products, either in its own right or in Offices abroad: cooperation with any organization involved in exporting; • Conducts and/or facilitates product and market research; Ambassador to Fiji • Facilitates and participates in trade fairs/missions, both 41 Borron Road regional and international, in order to promote ongoing P.O. Box 2088 product development, awareness and support; Suva, Fiji • Establishes and maintains a database of export products, Phone: (679) 387899 including all trade statistics; Fax: (679) 387115 • Identifies new trade opportunities; E-mail: [email protected] • Conducts ongoing product profiles; Ambassador to the Republic of China • Provides assistance to exporters in the area of customs and th quarantine requirements in overseas markets; 4 Floor, No. 9-1, Lane 62 • Facilitates the obtaining of funds for the purposes of trade Tienmou West Road development and promotion, including discussion and Shihlin Taipei negotiation with aid donors; Taiwan Province of China Phone: (886) 2-2873-4884 • Undertakes research into any aspect of domestic trade, Fax: (886) 2-2873-4904 commerce and industry, including the conducting of E-mail: [email protected] surveys, gathering statistics and publishing reports from time
to time; Ambassador to Japan • Coordinates with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rm. #101, Meiji Park Heights formulating advice for the Government on trade policy; 9-9 Minamimoto-Machi
• Creates and maintains a library of trade-related resources for Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan use by the general public; Phone: (81 3) 53791701-2 • Coordinates and cooperates with the local governments, Fax: (81 3) 53791810 Ministry of Internal Affairs, Environmental Protection E-mail: [email protected] Agency, academic institutions and other relevant bodies on trade-related activities. Ambassador to the United States of America 2433 Massachusetts Ave., NW Investment Promotion Unit: Washington, DC 20008, United States of America • Establishes an effective and efficient “one-stop shop” for Phone: (1 202) 2345414 foreign and domestic investment; Fax: (1 202) 2323236 • Coordinates and facilitates investment and trade promotion E-mail: [email protected] with overseas representatives; • Develops and maintains a Foreign Investment Guide; Consul General to the United States of America • Coordinates with other agencies involved in investment Suite#103, 1888 Lusitania Street promotional activities; Honolulu, HI 96813, United States of America • Develops and maintains a national database and tracking Phone: (1 808) 5457767 system for foreign investment (Registry of Foreign Fax: (1 808) 5457211 Investment); E-mail: [email protected] • Develops and maintains a national Reserve List for foreign investment; Permanent Mission to the United Nations • Facilitates current investors and visitors in an efficient and 18th Floor, 800 2nd Avenue timely manner; New York, NY 10017, United States of America • Develops a list of private sector projects, land and partners Phone: (1 212) 9833040 available for foreign investment (industry and sector Fax: (1 212) 9833202 profiles); E-mail: [email protected] • Researches and promotes new investment opportunities; • Establishes a database of potential investors, for use by the Membership structure: general public; • Facilitates the further development of an enabling The Division currently has two employees in its small business investment environment through close cooperation with the support unit, and two in the trade promotion and investment Attorney General’s Office on investment policies and promotion units. They are under the supervision of the Secretary legislation; and Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Resources and • Coordinates with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Development. formulating advice for the Government on investment policy and legislation; Products/commodity responsible for:
• Coordinates with the Marshall Islands Development All exportable products. Authority on the Government’s privatization efforts of SOEs.
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Training:
Small business development, product development, quality standards.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Fisheries, tourism, agro-forestry.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• Foreign Investment Advisory Board Act, 1989. • Foreign Investment Act, 2000.
Category:
Trade promotion organization; and investment promotion authority.
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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS Pohnpei Foreign Investment Board P.O. Box 539 Office/postal address: Kolonia, Pohnpei FSM 96941 Phone: (691) 3206689 P.O. Box PS-12 Fax: (691) 3205296 Palikir Pohnpei 96941 Office of Economic Affairs Pohnpei State Government Phone: (691) 3202646, 3205133 P.O. Box AD Fax: (691) 3205854 Kolonia, Pohnpei FSM 96941 Phone: (691) 3202712, 3202820 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (691) 3205167 URL: www.fsminvest.fm E-mail: [email protected]
Year established: 1996 (successor of the Department of Department of Resources and Development Resources and Development, 1979). Yap State Government P.O. Box 336 Principal functions: Colonia, Yap FM 96943 Phone: (691) 3502182 • To coordinate and facilitate commerce, industry, trade, Fax: (691) 3502571 tourism, investment and banking matters at the national E-mail: [email protected] government level; • To provide/facilitate technical assistance to the states. Offices abroad:
Services/activities: Embassy of the Federated States of Micronesia 1725 N Street, NW • Coordinates trade information to the state governments and Washington, DC, 20036 chambers of commerce in the states; United States of America • Provides and facilitates technical assistance in industry and Phone: (1 202) 2234383 tourism development; Fax: (1 202) 2234391 • Promotes investment, tourism and trade opportunities. E-mail: [email protected]
Embassy of the Federated States of Micronesia Publications issued: nd 2 Floor, Reinanzaka Building 1-14-2, Akasaka 1-Chome • FSM Statistical Yearbook (periodical, English). Minato-ku, Tokyo 107, Japan • FSM International Visitor Arrivals; 2002 (periodical, Phone: (81 3) 35855456 English). Fax: (81 3) 35855348 • The FSM Planning Framework, 2000 (triennially, English). E-mail: [email protected] • FSM Consumer Price Index (annually, English). • FSM 2000 Population and Housing Census Report Embassy of the Federated States of Micronesia (triennially, English). P.O. Box 15493 • FSM Investment Guide (English). Suva, Fiji • Promotional brochures (English/Japanese). Phone: (679) 304180 Fax: (679) 304081 Local branches: E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Commerce and Industry Office of the Federated States of Micronesia Consulate-General Chuuk State Government 3049 Ualena Street, Suite 908 P.O. Box 280 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 Weno, Chuuk FSM 96942 United States of America Phone: (691) 3302552, 3302761 Phone: (1 808) 8364775 Fax: (691) 3302233 Fax: (1 808) 8366896 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Commerce and Industry Office of the Federated States of Micronesia Consulate-General Kosrae State Government P.O. Box 10630 P.O. Box 600 Tamuning, Guam 96931 Tofol, Kosrae FM 96944 Phone: (1 671) 6469154-6 Phone: (691) 3703044, 3703170 Fax: (1 671) 6466320 Fax: (691) 3702066 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
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Products/commodity responsible for:
The Department, through the Trade and Investment Unit, promotes the development and export of agricultural and fisheries products and handicrafts, tourism and business development through foreign direct investment.
Training:
The Department coordinates and facilitates training for personnel from both the private and public sectors.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Agriculture, fisheries and tourism.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• FSM Foreign Investment Act of 1997, PL. No. 10-49. • FSM Foreign Investment Regulations, 1998. • Chuuk State Foreign Investment Act of 1998, CSL No. 4-99- 03. • Chuuk State Foreign Investment Regulations. • Kosrae State Foreign Investment Act of 1998, S.L. No. 6-163. • Kosrae State Foreign Investment Regulations. • Pohnpei Foreign Investor Permit Act of 1986, as amended, S.L. No. 4L-98-99. • Pohnpei States’s Foreign Investment Regulations, 1999. • Yap State Foreign Investment Act, 2002, Y.S.L. No. 5-72. • Yap State Foreign Investment Regulations.
Category:
Investment promotion authority; Ministry of Trade; trade facilitation body; trade fair and exhibition authority; and trade promotion organization.
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FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND FOREIGN TRADE Investment, Project and Business Development Division: AGENCY (FIFTA) • Provides entrepreneurs with business start-up related information including on business legal environment, Office/postal address: banking and financing issues, main business costs, site development, licensing regulations; Government Building 11 • Assists entrepreneurs in developing investment project plans, Sambuu Street, 11 better managing financial and human resources and finding Ulaanbaatar 211238 out more about product market; • Supports entrepreneurs in promoting their products, finding Phone: (976 11) 326040, 310599 suitable partners for investment projects and bringing their Fax: (976 11) 324076 requirements to the policymaking level. • Assists national export companies in increasing their ability E-mail: [email protected] to export to overseas markets by providing in-depth research URL: www.investmongolia.com and market information; • Organizes overseas trade exhibitions of national export Year established: 1996 products; • Maintains close relations with international trade promotion Principal functions: organizations; • Makes a branding and marketing strategy; • To promote and facilitate foreign direct investment and • Manages international market and importers database. foreign trade in the country; • To promote industrial development and export growth; Information and Planning Team of Administration Division: • To promote Mongolia as a destination for new investment • Maintains investment database structured by sectors and and business. countries; • Makes analysis on investment trend and process investment Services/activities: statistics; • Provides information on investment statistics to Investment Promotion and Cooperation Division: governmental or non-governmental organizations, companies • Carries out investment promotion activities in order to and investors upon request; facilitate the adequate image of Mongolian investment and • Updates FIFTA website with the latest information on business environment, including organization of conferences investment, business and trade environment of Mongolia; and workshops on investment opportunities in Mongolia and • Does FIFTA Strategic Planning; bilateral business meetings, hosting business and trade • Makes FIFTA quarter and annual reports. missions; • Provides investment matchmaking services to both foreign Publications issued: and Mongolian investors seeking investment and business cooperation; to introduce investment projects to foreign • Business and Investment Guide for Mongolia. investors; • Investment Policy Statement. • Maintains close relations with various government and non- • Sector Profiles (Compiled comprehensive information on government institutions of Mongolia, as well as foreign mining, oil, infrastructure, agro-industry, ICT, tourism). embassies and international organizations; • Investment Seeking Project Profiles (compiled investment • Prepares various promotional publications and materials on seeking project profiles in mining, oil, infrastructure, agro- the investment and business climate of Mongolia; industry, ICT, tourism sector). • Handles information database on investment and business • Mongolian Investment Directory - Business Pages (compiled climates of countries and regions, as well as on activities of information on major companies and corporations operating IPAs and international organizations. in Mongolia).
• Business and Investment-related Laws and Regulations (over Investment Registration and Facilitation Division which provides 50 laws and regulations translated into English and investors with the following three staged services: compiled). • Its pre-registration service focuses on providing investors • “MONGOLIA” brochure. with first-hand information, advice and guidance on making investment and doing business in Mongolia, including • FIFTA Brochure. professional assistance in compiling registration documents; • FDI Review. • Its registration service is directed to issue a certificate of • FIFTA Weekly News. incorporation with foreign investment or representative • Multimedia CD-ROM (containes economic, business and office based on investor’s application; investment environment of Mongolia, particularly, • Its post-registration service concentrates on assistances to investment guide, investment opportunities, laws and investors in facilitating initial stages of the investment regulations, priority sectors’ information and video process and running the business, including supporting presentation). import of capital and equipment, issuing official letter to a responsible authority for investor’s residency permission and Offices abroad: multiple entry visa to Mongolia, and assisting with guidance on problems faced by investors at relevant authorities level. FIFTA does not have offices abroad, but has several FIFTA representatives in China, Czech Republic, Germany; Taiwan Province of China, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
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Products/commodity responsible for: Local branches:
Foreign direct investment; and export items. Arkhangai Rbac Phone/fax: (976 133) 221215 Training: Baganuur Rbac Occasionally conduct various investment, business and trade Phone: (976 31) 20422 promotion seminars and courses. Fax: (976 121) 1239
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Darkhan-Uul Rbac Phone/fax: (976 137) 224610 The existing Foreign Investment Law of Mongolia imposes high potential for foreign investment in all sectors of the Dornod Rbac economy except in the production of narcotics, guns and Phone: (976 158) 211802 explosives, pornography and running a casino. Khovd Rbac
Phone: (976 143) 22210 Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Fax: (976 143) 21212
• Law on Foreign Investment, 1990 and subsequently revised Orkhon Rbac in 1993, 1998 and 2002. Phone/fax: (976 135) 222627
Category: Selenge Rbac
Phone/fax: (976 136) 223639 Investment and trade promotion authority. E-mail: [email protected]
Sukhbaatar Rbac MONGOLIAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Phone: (976 151) 2674 (MBDA)* Fax: (976 151) 21209
Office/postal address: Khubsgul Rbac Phone: (976 138) 221021 MBDA Fax: (976 138) 221037 Prime Minister Amar’s Street Ulaanbaatar 13 Products/commodity responsible for:
P.O. Box: P.O.-20A, Box-39, Ulaanbaatar Consultancy and business services.
Phone: (976 11) 311150 Training: Fax: (976 11) 311092 • Business English courses (basic, intermediate and advanced); E-mail: [email protected] • Managers’ training programme (EU);
• MBA outreach programme in cooperation with Maastricht Year established: 1994 School of Management.
Principal functions: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
• To coordinate and bridge between the private sector and • Small and medium enterprises. government organizations; • Sectors: food, agriculture, wool and cashmere processing, • To provide advice, consultancy, information and training to leather processing private enterprises, foreign companies and international
agencies. Category:
Services/activities: Industrial promotion; and training/research institute.
• Delivers business consultancy on management, marketing and financing; • Conducts marketing research; • Prepares business plan, SWOT analysis; • Identifies foreign partners for Mongolian companies, establishes contacts; • Negotiates with banks, assists in the loan applications; • Provides business information; • Organizes business meetings and training workshops.
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MONGOLIAN NATIONAL CHAMBER OF • Foreign and domestic survey of agricultural products (twice COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (MNCCI) a year, Mongolian). • Green paper of Trade and Industry 2007. Office/postal address: • Inspiring Mongolia newsletter (twice a year). • Issues of development economy (quarterly, Mongolian). J. Sambuu Street 11 • Market surveys. Ulaanbaatar 211238 • Metal, Mineral and Raw Material (twice a year, Mongolian). • MONPRO e-bulletin (monthly). Phone: (976 11) 312501, 327176, 323974 • Quick scan report on energy efficiency. Fax: (976 11) 324620, 312501 • “White Book” on foreign trade (annually, Mongolian).
E-mail: [email protected], Local branches: [email protected], [email protected] Arkhangai Province; Bayankhongor Province; Bayan-Ulgii URL: www.mongolchamber.mn Province; Darkhan city; Dornod Province; Dundgobi Province; Erdenet city; Govi-Altai Province; Huvsgul Province; Khenti Year established: 2 July 1960 Province; Khovd Province; Ovorkhangai Province; Selenge Province; Tuv Province; Uvs Province and Zavkhan. Principal functions: Offices abroad: • To render overall business services to its members and non- members; Davaasuren GALTBAATAR • To develop dialogue/partnership with the Government and No. 2, Xiu Shui Beijie its institutions on creating a sound business environment; Jian Guo Men Wai, • To arbitrate foreign trade disputes; 100600 Beijing, China • To certify foreign trade documentation; Phone: (86 10) 85591433 • To register patents and trademarks; Fax: (86 10) 85751433 • To organize domestic and international exhibitions and fairs. Mobile: (86 13) 466781500 E-mail: [email protected] Services/activities: Tseeuren BINDERIYA • Renders overall business services to its members and non- Dietzgenstrasse 31 members; 13156, Berlin, Germany • Operates public-private sector counseling committees; Phone: (49 30) 53663740 • Operates bilateral economic cooperation committees; Fax: (49 30) 38100554 • Develops dialogue and partnership with the Government and Mobile: (49 17) 6201100338 its institutions on creating a sound business environment; E-mail: [email protected] • Arbitrates foreign trade disputes; • Inspects export and import goods on a neutral basis; Ulambayar ULZIINYAM 6th Floor, Yokohama, World Porters • Certifies foreign trade documentation; 2-1 Shinko 2 Chome, Naka-ku • Registers patents and trademarks; Yokohama 231-0001, Japan • Promotes export and SMEs; Phone: 045 2222061 • Organizes domestic and international exhibitions and fairs; Fax: 045-2222062 • Sends and hosts business missions; • Exchanges business and investment information; Choiljilsuren ERDENBCHIMEG • Promotes public relations with the media and member Blk.668, Hougang Ave8, # 03-713 companies; 530668 Singapore • Conducts training, seminars and conferences. Phone: 6597373298 Fax: 6563879589 Publications issued: E-mail: [email protected]
• Arbitration in Mongolia, 2006. Munkhuu ENKHBAATAR • Bureaucracy index 2006. 52 Chemin des Coudriers • Business and development bulletin (monthly). 1209 Geneva, Switzerland • Business and investment guide. Phone: (41 22) 7888172 • Business education series (overall 67 series). E-mail: [email protected] • Business guide for foreign investors and traders 2006 ( CD- ROM). Agvaantseden BAT-ULZII • Business Times Newspaper (weekly, Mongolian). Espce Louise 18 • Cleaner production pre-assessment reports. 1050 Bruxels, Belgium Phone: (32 25) 125537 • Consumer confidence index 2002 (English). Fax: (32 23) 740989 • Corruption in Business 2002. E-mail: [email protected] • Economic overview of Mongolia (annually, English/Mongolian). • Energy efficiency and cleaner production assessment guide.
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Damba ENKHTUYA Products/commodity responsible for: c. buty 7, Landova 1014/15 16300 Praha-Repy Prague, Czech Republic Trade and industry promotion service. Mobile: (420) 602174371 Fax: (420) 235312506 Training: E-mail: [email protected] • Courses on management, marketing, finance and economy Luvsandash ERDENESUVD for domestic Mongolian businesspersons; Miklosvolgyi Zsoltne • Training of director’s assistant; Ond vezer u, 4. III.11 • Training of professional secretary. 2800 Tatabanya, Hungary Phone (36 34) 789491 Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Fax: (36 34) 789491 E-mail: [email protected] Agro and food industry sector, bio-eco production, infrastructure sector, tourism sector, information and communication technology Representative in Turkey sector and other sectors. Phone: (90 21) 253165-78 Fax: (90 21) 22917595 Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Mobile: (90 53) 56753631 E-mail: [email protected] • Foreign Investment Law, 1993 (amendments in 1998 and 2002). Zagdaa ALTANKHUYAG • Foreign Trade Arbitration Law, 2003. Bulivar StroiPhoneei 45 • The Law of Chamber of Commerce, 1995. Memerovo 650056, Russian Federation Phone: (38 42) 736724 Category: Fax: (38 42) 734231 E-mail: [email protected] Chamber of commerce; industrial promotion; inspection institution; trade facilitation body; trade fair and exhibition Banzragch MANALSUREN authority; training/research institute; and business, export and Ul. Lapina 17-1 investment promotion agency. Irkutsk 664003, Russian Federation Phone: (39 52) 243667 Fax: (39 52) 335066
Ravdan BAYASGALAN Kejabe Street Norfolk Toers Nairobi, Kenya Phone: (25 42) 522640 Fax: (25 42) 623965 E-mail: [email protected]
Tsedensodnom TSOGTSAIKHAN Artioma str. 77 04050 Kiev 50, Ukraine Phone: (38 044) 5314310 Fax: (38 044) 2447225 Mobile: (38 050) 3107944 E-mail: [email protected]
Nowon-gu Opian office No. 1312 Sangge-dong 1258, Seoul, Republic of Korea Phone: (82 31) 9012690 Mobile: (82 10) 48799959 E-mail: [email protected]
Mashlai BATJARGAL Ul. Konstancinska 5 ml 19 02-942 Warszawa, Poland Phone: (48 22) 8425169 Fax: (48 22) 6317758 E-mail: [email protected]
Membership structure: Over 1500 members including private and public companies.
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DIRECTORATE OF INVESTMENT AND COMPANY DIRECTORATE OF TRADE ADMINISTRATION* (Ministry of Commerce)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
653/691, Merchant Street Building No. 3 Pabedan Township Nay Pyi Taw Yangon Phone: (95 67) 408234, 408244 Phone: (95 1) 372855, 372052, 377053, 377104 Fax: (95 67) 408243 Fax: (95 1) 254660 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1984 Year established: 1993 Principal functions: Principal functions: • To collect, process and disseminate trade information; • To coordinate foreign and local promotion to invest in • To establish contacts with foreign buyers; Myanmar; • To provide technical assistance to State economic and private • To appraise the investment proposal and submit to the enterprises. Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) and higher authorities; Services/activities: • To monitor and report the performance of the permitted enterprises to MIC; • Disseminates current information on trade development; • To register and administer limited companies, joint ventures, • Organizes seminars and workshops; partnerships and business associations; • Replies to queries received by telephone, correspondence and • To coordinate with international and regional organizations personal visits; regarding trade and investment affairs. • Circulates a fortnightly trade information newsletter.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Publication issued:
Agriculture sector; agro-supportive industries, export-oriented • Trade News (monthly, Myanmar/English). industries; petrochemical industries; natural resource-based • Commerce Journal (weekly, Myanmar). industries; and labour-intensive export-oriented industries. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Agro-based industries. • Union of Myanmar Foreign Investment Law, 1988. • Procedures relating to the Union of Myanmar Foreign Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Investment Law, 1988. • Myanmar Citizens Investment Law, 1994. • Union of Myanmar Foreign Investment Law, 1988. • Procedures Relating to Myanmar Citizens Investment Law, • State-owned Economic Enterprises Law, 1989. 1994. • Myanmar Companies Act, 1914. Category:
Category: Ministry of Trade; trade facilitation body, trade fair and exhibition authority; and trade promotion organization. Investment promotion authority.
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UNION OF MYANMAR FEDERATION OF CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (UMFCCI)
Office/postal address:
No.29, Min Ye Kyawswa Road Lanmadaw Township, Yangon
Phone: (95 1) 214344, 214345, 214346, 214347, 214348, 214349 Fax: (95 1) 214484
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.umfcci.com.mm
Year established: 1 April 1999 (formerly: Chamber of Commerce and Industry, since 1919).
Principal functions:
• To participate in the implementation of the four economic objectives of the State; • To participate in efforts for national economic development; • To safeguard the interest of private business sector; • To cooperate with the State in economic and social activities; • To lead and cooperate with the business associations; • To act as a bridge between the State and the private sector; • To support for more competitiveness of SMEs and SMIs; • To lead the Myanmar business community into the globalized economy.
Services/activities:
• Undertakes activities to promote trade, industry and investment.
Publication issued:
• Business (monthly, Myanmar/English).
Local Branches:
• Divisional chambers in Yangon, Mandalay, Sagaing, Magway, Bago East, Bago West, Ayeyarwady and Tanintharyi; • State chambers in Kayin State, Mon State, Rakhine State, Northern Shan State, Southern Shan State, Kachin State, Kayah State and Chin State.
Membership structure: 11,527 members (April 2003).
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Investment is encouraged for promotion and expansion of exports; exploitation of natural resources which require heavy investment; and acquisition of high technology.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• The Union of Myanmar Foreign Investment Law, 1988.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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DEPARTMENT OF ISLAND DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRY*
Office/postal address:
Government Offices Aiwo District
Phone: (674) 4443191 Fax: (674) 4443791
Year established: 1968
Principal function:
To administer: • Telecommunications; • Lands and surveying; • Phosphate industry; • Trade and investment promotion; • Media and news production centre; • Fisheries and marine resources authority; • Agriculture and forestry development; • Government printery; • Environment; • Development projects; • Culture and tourism.
Publication issued:
Nauru Bulletin (weekly, English).
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Transport, communications, real estate, trade, culture and tourism, fisheries, science and small-scale industries.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
Foreign Trust, Estates and Wills Act, 1972. Nauru Corporation Act, 1972.
Categories:
Industrial promotion; investment promotion authority; Ministry of Trade; national productivity centre; state trading organization; trade association; and trade promotion organization.
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BHAKTAPUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND FEDERATION OF NEPALESE CHAMBERS OF INDUSTRY (BCCI)* COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (FNCCI)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Bhaktapur Industrial District Pachali Shahid Shukra FNCCI Milan Marg Byasi 15 Teku, Kathmandu
P.O. Box: 01, Bhaktapur P.O. Box: 269, Kathmandu
Phone: (977 1) 6611348, 6614851 Phone: (977 1) 262061, 262218, 244758, 266889 Fax: (977 1) 6612607 Fax: (977 1) 261022, 262007
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.bccinepal.org URL: www.fncci.org
Year established: 1966 Year established: 1965
Principal function: Principal functions:
• To promote economic, trade and industrial development. • To promote business and industry while protecting the rights and interests of business and industrial communities; Services/activities: • To act as a catalyst for business and industrial development; • To advise Government in formulation and execution of • Business advocacy; business and industry policies, acts and programmes; • Business development services; • To foster cooperation with national/foreign organizations; • Provides and disseminates business information; • To provide up-to-date information services; • Organizes trade fairs, trade fair participation; • To create awareness and support for quality, environment, • Trade delegations; industrial relations, corporate governance, social • Export promotion; responsibility, HIV/AIDS, child labour, etc. • Business Membership Organization (BMO) Promotion Centre; Services/activities: • Product Display Centre; • Handicraft Village. • Represents private sector in national/international forums; • Prepares recommendations for promoting exports and Publications issued: investment; • Promotes joint ventures by organizing foreign investment • Newsletter (monthly, Nepali). promotion meetings; • Business Directory (biennial, English). • Promotes participation in national/international trade fairs and exhibitions; Membership structure: 536 members. • Promotes better industrial relations; • Provides expertise, information and research services; Products/commodity responsible for: • Strengthens local chambers and associations; • Promotes entrepreneurship; Service for members and non-members businesses of the country • Provides "One-Stop Service” to its members; and abroad. • Conducts trainings and workshops on chamber management, information exchange, documentation, industrial relations, Training: productivity, agro-entrepreneurship, quality management, environment, etc. Export promotion; Chamber management; Business management; Taxation/accountancy; ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004. Publications issued:
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Directory of Members (biannual, English). • FNCCI Newsletter (monthly, Nepali). Tourism; handicraft development; and modernization of • Journal of Industry and Trade. agriculture. • Nepal and the World - A Statistical Profile (annually). • News and News (monthly, English). Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Membership structure: 531 members (90 District and/or • Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act, 1992. Municipality level chambers; 64 commodity and/or sectoral associations; 367 leading public and private sector undertakings; 10 Category: bi-national chambers).
Chamber of commerce. Training:
Organizes training/workshops/seminars on a regular basis.
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Category: Kantipath Kathmandu Chamber of commerce. P.O. Box: 198, Kathmandu
Phone: (977 1) 4230947 FEDERATION OF WOMAN ENTREPRENEURS Fax: (977 1) 4229998 ASSOCIATIONS OF NEPAL (FWEAN) E-mail: [email protected] Office/postal address: URL: www.nepalchamber.org
Anam Nagar Junction Year established: 1952 (non-profit organization promotion Ramshah Path industrial and commercial development). Kathmandu Nepal Philippines 2330 Principal functions:
Phone: (977-1) 2003080 • To foster positive relationships between the trading community and industrialists; E-mail: [email protected] • To develop links with all commercial, industrial and other URL: www.fwean.org.np similar associations abroad; • To organize trade fairs; Year established: 2002 • To issue certificate of origin; • To establish or encourage establishment of academic technical management, and to organize, workshops, training, Principal functions: seminar and research programme; • Arbitration.
• To strengthen the practical and technical skills of women Services/activities: entrepreneurs through the application of basic training on information and communication technologies; As detailed under Principal functions. • To engage in capacity building of partner organizations to provide business development services to women Publications issued: entrepreneurs; • To serve the purpose of a long-distance and continuing • A Guide on Import and Export Procedures and education for women in the SME sector entrepreneurs; Documentation. • To create conditions conducive for business partnerships, • Chamber News (monthly, English). trade collaboration and technology cooperation to meet the • Chamber Patrika. challenge of global competition in the New Economy. • NCC Trade Directory Millennium 2000 (English). • Trade Secrets: The Export Answer Book for Small and Services/activities: Medium-sized Enterprises, 2001.
Local branch: • Provides Information and Communication Technology (ICT) training courses for women entrepreneurs; NCC Airport Office • Provides virtual product exhibition to project’s beneficiaries Sinamangal, Kathmandu through the WINNER website in promoting their products Phone: (977 1) 4499830 and services; Fax: (977 1) 4499831 • Provides support to project beneficiaries through business matching activities such as linking businesses with potential Membership structure: 1,600 registered members and customers; 12,000 enrolled members (life member, ordinary member, affiliated member, honorary member).
Publications issued: Training:
• Business management, salsesmanship, export-import • For a full list of papers and reports, please refer to < procedure and documentation; http://www.winner-tips.org/article/frontpage/1> • Training on organic product, herbal picking and processing.
Category: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Non-profit organization assisting in capacity building for women Medium- and large-scale industries such as hydropower, tourism, entrepreneurs. agro-processing industries, telecommunication and IT.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: NEPAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE • Foreign investment and one window policy, Industrial Office/postal address: enterprises Act, 1992 (amended). • Enterprises Act, 1992. Research Section • Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Trade Policy, Chamber Bhawan 1992 (amended).
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• Nepal Company Act, 1964 (amended). Local branches: • Trade Policy, 1992. • Immigration rules, 1994, etc. Eastern Regional Office Mahendra Chowk Category: Biratnagar, Koshi Zone Phone: (977 21) 24634, 25304 Chamber of commerce. Western Regional Office Prithvi Chok, Pokhara NEPAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Gandaki Zone CORPORATION (NIDC) Phone: (977 61) 20518, 20083
Office/postal address: Mid-Western Regional Office Surkhet Road, Nepalgunj P.O. Box 10 Bheri Zone Durbar Marga Phone: (977 81) 520203 Kathmandu Fax: (977 81) 521430
Phone: (977 1) 4228322 Far-Western Regional Office Fax: (977 1) 4227428 Chatakpur, Dhanagadhi Seti Zone E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (997 91) 21203, 21603 URL: www.nidc.org.np Category: Year established: 1959 Industrial promotion organization. Principal function:
• To provide technical and financial assistance to small, medium and large industrial enterprises in the private sector.
Services/activities:
• Provides loan facilities for the establishment, operation, modernization, diversification, expansion and improvement in productivity of enterprises; • Engages in the establishment of industries and purchases their shares and debentures or underwrites these; • Acts as a guarantor in favour of debtor industry for loans from local and foreign banks/financial institutions; • Makes available loans to the industries on the basis of co- financing with banks or other financial institutions jointly or separately; • Extends loans against hypothecation of movable or immovable property of raw materials or semi-finished goods of the industries; • Extends loans to industries against title deed of the property, bills of exchange, promissory notes, shares and debentures of a limited company or bonds issued by the Government as additional security; • Purchases and sells shares, debentures or bonds of the industrial enterprises incorporated as a public limited company through an institution recognized for security exchange in accordance with existing laws of Nepal; • Engages in studies, research, surveys, analyses in connection with the establishment and operation of industries; • Mobilizes necessary capital and provides banking facilities, subject to the provisions of the existing Commercial Bank Act, for industrial promotion.
Publications issued:
• Annual Report (English). • NIDC Bulletin (irregular, English). • Doing Business in Nepal.
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NEPAL RASTRA BANK Dhangarhi Branch Dhangarhi Office/postal address: Phone: (977 91) 21623 Fax: (977 91) 21322 Central Office Baluwatar Janakpur Branch Kathmandu Janakpur Phone: (977 41) 20362, 20182 Phone: (977 1) 419804/5/7 Fax: (977 41) 20302 Fax: (977 1) 414553, 410159 Kathmandu Banking Office E-mail: [email protected] Thapathali, Kathmandu URL: www.nrb.org.np Phone: (977 1) 248900 to 4 Fax: (977 1) 227378 Year established: 1956 Nepalgunj Branch Principal function: Nepalgunj Phone: (977 81) 20110, 20683 • To enhance economic development through the issuance of Fax: (977 81) 20226 currency notes, maintenance of stability in the exchange rate of the Nepalese currency and mobilization of capital. Pokhara Branch Pokhara Services/activities: Phone: (977 61) 20115, 20194 Fax: (977 61) 21561 • Issues currency notes and coins; • Acts as the controller of foreign exchange; Siddharthanagar Branch • Determines monetary and credit policies and supervises Siddharthanagar compliance thereof; Phone: (977 71) 20344, 20295 • Undertakes the Government's public debt management; Fax: (977 71) 20189
• Acts as banker as well as economic adviser to the Category: Government;
• Discharges other functions such as providing financial Banks. assistance to concerned institutions in the form of agricultural
and industrial loans, collecting price statistics, providing
training to personnel involved in banking and finance,
undertaking research in relevant areas, investing in shares and debentures of different financial institutions in order to strengthen their financial position, etc.
Publications issued:
• Annual Report. • Commercial Banking Statistics. • Economic Report. • Main Economic Indicators (monthly). • Macroeconomic Indicators of Nepal (yearly). • Quarterly Economic Bulletin. • A Policy Research Report on Optimal Number Determination or Regulatory Reform (July 2007). • A Glimpse of Nepal's Macroeconomic Situation (2006) • Other occasional research and survey publications.
Local branches:
Biratnagar Branch Biratnagar Phone: (977 21) 22590, 22052, 26522 Fax: (977 21) 26519
Birgunj Branch Birgunj Phone: (977 51) 22598, 22053, 21991 Fax: (977 051) 21902
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RASTRIYA BANIJYA BANK* Biratnagar Branch Biratnagar, Koshi Zone Central Office Phone: 22431, 22451, 26582 Singhdarbar Plaza Fax: 30207 Ramshah Path Kathmandu Birgunj Branch Birganj, Narayani Zone Phone: (977 1) 4252595 Phone: 22780, 22590 Fax: (977 1) 4252931 Fax: 22080
E-mail: [email protected] Main Branch Office, Kathmandu URL: www.rbb.com.np Bishal Bazaar Kathmandu, Bagmati Zone Phone: 223794, 220138, 222437 Year established: January 1966 Fax: 228337
Principal functions: Nepalgunj Branch Nepalgunj, Bheri Zone • To accept deposits; Phone: 20161, 20309 • To grant loans and advances; Fax: 21513 • To invest in government securities, treasury bills, debentures, shares, etc.; Pokhara Branch • To establish letter of credit; Pokhara, Kaski, Gandaki Zone • To perform government transactions in those areas where Phone: 20084, 21100 there is the absence of Nepal Rastra Bank (central bank); Fax: 20084
• To undertake other services including issuing and purchasing Rani Branch travellers’ cheques, buying and selling foreign currencies, Mills Area Rani remitting funds; Biratnagar, Koshi Zone • To provide banking services in rural areas and provide credit Phone: 22432, 24561 to small business enterprises under the Priority Sector Credit Fax: 26685 Programme.
Offices abroad: Services/activities:
Agencies have been established with major banks throughout the • Provides banking services; money market in the world. • Provides technical guidance and financial assistance under the following programmes: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: - Intensive banking programme, - Banking with the poor, Agriculture, tourism, etc. - Production credit for rural women, - Microcredit project for women, Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: - Biogas programme, non-polluted electric vehicle. Foreign Investment Act. Publications issued: Category: • RBB Newsletter (monthly, English/Nepali). • Balance Sheet (annual, English/Nepali). Financing organization. • Statistical Bulletin (quarterly, English). • Upahar (journal, English/Nepali).
Local branches:
There are 164 branches located in various parts of the country as well as 24 exchange centres and 8 supervision offices.
Bhadrapur Branch Bhadrapur, Mechi Zone Phone: 20193, 21109 Fax: 20061
Bhairahawa Branch Bhairahawa, Lumbini Zone Phone: 20136, 20321 Fax: 22302
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TRADE AND EXPORT PROMOTION CENTRE • Conducts quality improvement of traditional as well as new exportable products; Office/postal address: • Organizes, coordinates and arranges the participation in national as well as international trade fair/exhibitions, P.O. Box 825 including single country trade fairs and product development events, etc.; Phone: (977 1) 5525348, 5525362,5525348 • Maintains the trade data bank through field surveys, study Fax: (977 1) 5525464 tours and acquisition of trade-related information through various sources and disseminates information; E-mail: [email protected] • Uses a partnership approach in working with the private and URL: www.tepc.gov.np, public sectors in promoting and developing trade and exports www.himalayantradepointkathmandu.com of Nepal; • Organizes and arranges export and trade-related workshops, Year established: 2006 seminars and training programmes; • Publishes overseas trade statistics, bulletin, company and Principal functions: product profiles, brochures and annual reports, etc.; • Organizes and arranges activities like buyer-seller meetings • To advise the Government of Nepal in formulating the and product development pilot schemes; policies needed for developing and expanding trade and • Operates trade point programme. export of the country; • To promote the national economy by developing and Publications issued: expanding trade; • To organize trade fairs and exhibitions at national and • A Glimpse of Nepal’s Foreign Trade, 2006. international level for the promotion of trade; • Export Directory of Nepal, 2006. • To expand national and international markets for agro and • Nepal Export Trade Directory, 2006. non-agro products produced in rural areas and thereby assist • Nepal Overseas Trade Statistics (annually, latest 2005/2006). in poverty alleviation through the development of the rural • Nepal Trade and Transit Agreements (irregularly). economy; • Nepal Trade Bulletin (quarterly). • To organize programmes by coordinating the bodies • Profile of Nepalese Gold and Silver Jewellery, 2005. concerned with a view to increasing the production of exportable products, • Profile of Nepalese Hand Knitted Woolen Carpets, 2005. • To identify markets for exportable products and thereby to • Profile of Nepalese Handicraft Products, 2005. provide support for trade diversification; • Profile of Nepalese Leather Goods, 2005. • To establish institutions for export promotion and trade • Profile of Nepalese Pashmina Products, 2005. diversification and to provide necessary support to the • Profile of Nepalese Ready-made Garments, 2005. established institutions; • Profile of Nepalese Semi-Precious Stones of Nepal, 2005. • To exchange technical cooperation on import, export and • Vyapar Prabardhan Samachar Sewa (monthly, Nepali). trade management amongst foreign countries and • List of Exportable and Potential Products of Nepal. international organizations/institutions for upgrading the • Survey studies and reports. quality of exportable products; • Trade and Export Promotion Centre (TEPC) brochure. • To design appropriate programmes so as to attract investment for export-oriented and import-substitution Local branch: projects at national and international level; • To collect trade-related information and knowledge-based Eastern Regional Office matter and to perform tasks relating thereto as an Biratnagar, P.O. Box 14 information-pool; Phone: (977 1) 21522054 • To identify the problems arisen in foreign trade and provide Fax: (977 1) 21526350 the Government of Nepal with advice for the solution E-mail: [email protected] thereof; • To provide support for market testing of exportable goods; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • To organize buyers-sellers meet at national and international level and conduct various types of seminars, workshops and All industries except defence-related industries, cigarettes and bidi, trainings; and alcohol (excluding 100 per cent export- oriented).
• To simplify quality control, insurance, transportation, among others of exportable goods and services and to provide Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: support for promotion and enhancement of other services related to the export business. • Arbitration Act, 2038 (1981). • Bonus Act, 2039 (1980). Services/activities: • Company Act, 2053 (1997). • Contract Act, 2056 (2000). • Advises the Government of Nepal on trade-related matters • Customs Act, 2019 (1962). and formulates trade policies to promote and expand trade • Development Bank Act, 2052 (1995). and exports of the country; • Environment Protection Act, 2053 (1997). • Identifies new exportable products and undertakes market • Environment Protection Regulation, 2054. exploration; • Essential Services Act, 2014 (1958). • Excise Act, 2058 (2001).
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• Export Import Control Act, 2034 (1978). • Financial Act, 2059 (2002). • Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 2019 (1962). • Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act, 2049 (1992). • Income Tax Act 2058 (2002). • Income Tax Rules, 2059 (2002). • Industrial Enterprise Act, 2049 (1992). • Industrial Policy, 1992. • Labour Act, 2048 (1992). • Labour Rules, 2050 (1994). • Mountaineering Rules, 2036 (1980). • Patent, Design and Trade Mark Act, 2022 (1965). • Tourism Act, 2035 (1978). • Travel and Trekking Agency Rules, 2037 (1981). • Value Added Tax Act, 2052 (1996). • Value Added Tax Rules, 2053 (1997).
Category:
Trade promotion organization.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF Immeuble Auguste Henriot NEW CALEDONIA RT1 P.O. Box 434 Kone 98860 Office/postal address: Phone: (68 7) 472043, 413126 Fax: (68 7) 473378 15, Rue de Verdun E-mail: [email protected] 98849 Noumea Cedex Immeuble administratif P.O. Box: M3 Rue Baudoux Koumac Phone: (68 7) 243100 Phone: (68 7) 423615 Fax: (68 7) 243131 Fax: (68 7) 423615 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.cci-nc.com PO Box 23 Poindimie 98822 Year established: 1879 Phone: (68 7) 427474 Fax: (68 7) 427458 Principal function: E-mail: [email protected]
• To inform, advise and guide the management of industrial and Membership structure: 8456 Members, of which 3269 commercial enterprises; represent the commercial sector, 3649 the service sector and 1538 • To represent companies by giving advice to the Government the industrial sector (in 2004). in the areas of laws, decrees and regulations on commerce, industry, services, tariffs and tax collection; Products/commodity responsible for: • To train members; International airport of Nouméa-La Tontouta and the airports of • To manage infrastructure: the chamber runs the international Magenta and the Pins Islands. airport of Nouméa-La Tontouta and the airports of Magenta
and the Pins Islands. Training:
Services/activities: Members are trained according to their needs, the areas of focus are:
Provides services in the following areas: • Continuing vocational training (FPC); • Commerce; • Apprentice training centre (CFA); • Commercial monitoring; • School of management and commerce (EGC). • Industry;
• Services and tourism; Category: • Foreign trade; • Company coordination; Chamber of Commerce. • Documentation; • Communication.
Publication issued:
• Aéroport international de Nouméa-la Tontouta. Rapport d’activité 2004. • CCInfo (bi-monthly, French). • Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Rapport d’activité 2004. • Investor’s Guide to New Caledonia. • La chambre de commerce et d’industrie. Le réseau au service des entreprises calédoniennes (French/English). • Various guides on doing business, on regulations, etc. (French).
Local Branches:
Rue Duvergier P.O. Box 88 Bourail 98870 Phone: (68 7) 441190, 441744 fax: (68 7) 441480 E-mail: [email protected]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, AND FISHERIES (DAFF) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT*
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
P.O. Box 74 P.O. Box 42 Alofi Alofi
Phone: (683) 4032 Phone: (683) 4200, 4224 to 25 Fax: (683) 4010, 4079 Fax: (683) 4232
E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1984 (formerly: two separate government departments). Year established: 1956 Principal function: Services/activities: • To undertake planning and development for the Government. • Liaises with market growers regarding the possible export of produce and methods of production; Services/activities: • Undertakes quality control and quality assurance services for fresh produce exports; • Acts as housing authority; • Provides technical advice to the food-processing industries • Handles external affairs; concerning process control and quality aspects. • Undertakes trade and marketing; • Undertakes planning and projects; Publication issued: • Advises on transport policy; • Undertakes business development and loans; • DAFF Newsletter (bi-monthly, English/Niuean). • Handles tourism development.
Products/commodity responsible for: Publications issued:
• All processed food and some fresh produce (taros, • Agriculture Newsletter (quarterly, English/Niuean). coconut and yams). • Consumer Price Index (CPI) (quarterly, English). • Tohi Tala Niue (TFN) (weekly, English/Niuean). Category: • Tourism Newsletter (monthly, English).
Commodity board. Offices abroad:
Niue Consular Office P.O. Box 68 541, Newton Auckland, New Zealand Phone: (64 9) 774081, 389720 Fax: (64 9) 389720
2nd Floor, Samoa House 283, Karangahape Road Auckland, New Zealand
Products/commodity responsible for:
Handicrafts, honey, fresh vegetables and fruit, root crops.
Category:
Trade promotion organization.
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COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY SAIPAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (CDA) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: CK, Saipan MP 96950 Saipan MP 96950 P.O. Box: 500806 P.O. Box: 502149 Phone: (16 70) 2337150 Phone: (670) 2346245 Fax: (16 70) 2337151 Fax: (670) 2347144 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] URL: www.saipanchamber.com URL: www.cda.gov.mp Year established: 1959 Year established: 1985 Principal function: Principal functions: • To develop, encourage, promote, and protect the commercial, • To provide economic loan funds to private and public professional, financial and general business interests in Saipan; sectors for economic development; • To promote the civic interests and the general health and • To provide aid for the financing of capital improvement welfare of the community of Saipan; projects undertaken by the Commonwealth and its • To promote trade and commerce and to foster, develop, and autonomous agencies; protect the industries of Saipan; • To serve as the Northern Marianas development bank. • To encourage the development of transportation, communications, and the infrastructure of Saipan; Services/activities: • To encourage the development of human resources of Saipan; • To initiate, promote, and support laws and regulations which • Acts as the financial advisor to all Government agencies and will benefit business in general; concurs on all public debts of the Commonwealth; • To provide a forum for the expression of sentiments of the • Aims to increase the capital market-funding base for business community regarding matters affecting its interest; Government and public capital improvement through bond • To promote and preserve the practice of sound business ethics; floatation; • To develop and promote working relationships between the • Pursues financing sources to expand its base for direct loans Saipan Chamber of Commerce and its sister chambers in the and technical assistance to the Government for its current Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the and future programs; Micronesian region as well as internationally. • Restructures debts and provides loan guarantees through private lending institutions to provide funding for new and Services/activities: on-going development projects; • Supports marine, agricultural and commercial activities • Provides collective representation and a respected "voice for through its loan programs; business" with the CNMI Government via the chamber’s • Offers technical assistance to existing businesses, thereby Government relations programmes; ensuring that clients are equipped with information and • Provides access to the chamber’s member information network skills to cope with dramatic economic shifts; via fax, newsletter, etc., as well as the resources of the Asia- • Continues to assess means of improving business and Pacific Council of American Chambers and the United States investment activities for the islands. Chamber of Commerce, under the Saipan Chamber’s
membership in these organizations; Publications issued: • Provides significantly reduced “chamber member” pricing at
seminars and workshops; • Economic Indicators Series (quarterly). • Provides prominent listing in the chamber’s directory and • Annual report. internet webpage free of charge; • Setting Up Business in the CNMI: A Guide for Investors. • Assists with military visits through the armed forces Local branches: committee and coordinates discount packages by chamber member companies as well as assist with logistics for military Tinian Office in the King’s Plaza, San Jose Village and Rota arrivals; Office in BP Building, Songsong Village. Membership structure: Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • Regular (business) membership: any person, proprietor, Public Law 12-32: Investment Incentive Act of 2000. business, firm, corporation, partnership, joint stock company, association, trust or estate possessing lawful authority to do Category: business in Saipan; • Associate membership: for persons who are not actively Bank. engaged in commerce as management personnel or principles of a company, but who have an interest in the well being of the
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community and the chamber’s purposes. An associate member may vote and may hold office at the board level; • Non-profit membership: organizations that are chartered by the CNMI Government as non-profit organizations; organizational members are entitled to one vote and may hold office; • Government Membership: ex-officio Government members: Government departments/divisions by nature of their focus and impact on business matters, are designated as ex-officio members of the chamber. They may designate representatives to chamber committees but are non-voting members, are not required to pay membership dues and are not eligible to hold office at the board level. Government members are non-voting members, are eligible to chair committees, but may not hold office at the board level; • Honorary membership: distinction in public office or affairs may confer eligibility for honorary membership. Honorary members shall have all the privileges of members, except the right to vote, or hold office, and shall be exempt from payment of dues.
Publications issued:
• Stimulating Investment in the CNMI. A summary of the proceedings of the Marianas Roundtable Economic Conference 2005. • Chamber of Commerce Newsletter (monthly).
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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ALL PAKISTAN COMMERCIAL EXPORTERS • Appoints delegations to present the case of the members of ASSOCIATION the Association before the authorities concerned; (of rough and unpolished precious and semi-precious stones) • Raises funds to meet the expenses of the Association and sells, mortgages, disposes of or otherwise deals with all or Office/postal address: any part of the property of the Association; • Subscribes, pays or donates money, out of the funds of or 1, 2nd Floor, Al-Jalil Market collected by the Association for charitable, benevolent, Namak Mandi humanitarian or social purposes and raises and maintains Peshawar funds with a view to providing help to dependents of persons in employment of the Association; Phone: (92 91) 2213396 • Buys or acquires, takes on lease or by way of transfer any Fax: (92 91) 2213520 property, moveable or immoveable, for the purpose of the Mobile: (92 333) 9295040 Association; • Files, prosecutes, defends or concurs, joins in prosecuting or E-mail: [email protected] defending any action, suit, application appeals for or URL: pakgemshow.com conducive to the objectives of the Association; • Subscribes to, and sources affiliation with, the Federation of Year established: 1988 Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry and procures from and such information as may be likely to forward the Principal functions: objectives of the Association; • Complies with all the requirements of the Trade • To aid and stimulate the production and development of Organizations Ordinance, 1961 (XLV of 1961) as amended rough and unpolished precious and semi-precious stones from time to time and directive issued thereunder; marketing and export of stones and to promote business in • Carries out all such other lawful functions as may be which Pakistan Commercial Exporters Association of rough incidental or conducive. and unpolished and semi-precious stones is engaged; • To promote the correct understanding and unanimity among Local branches: its members in particular and the businesspersons and industrialists in Pakistan in general on all subjects involving 208 Gems Jewellery Trade their common goods, and to safeguard their interests; Bleanken Street Office Zebunisa • To frame rules and regulations governing the export trade in Saddar Karachi rough and unpolished precious and semi-precious stones and Phone: (92 21) 5671985 make alterations therein from time to time; Fax: (92 21) 5687014 • To make representations to the local and provincial E-mail: [email protected] authorities on any matter concerned with trade, commerce and industry of its members; No. 4, AandB, Block F, Super Market, F-6 • To elect or nominate members to represent the Association Islamabad on any local or public body. Phone: (92 51) 2820453 Fax: (92 51) 2820727 Services/activities: E-mail: [email protected]
• Diffuses among its members information on all matters Camp Office affecting trade and commerce, and collects, prints, Khawaz Khella, Swat, NWFP publishes, issues and circulates papers, periodicals, books, Phone: (92 936) 744184 circulars, statistics and such other publications as may seem Fax: (92 936) 7454556 conducive to any of these objects; E-mail: [email protected] • Circulates, fosters and stimulates the spirit of mutual self- help on the principal of cooperation and coordination among Membership structure: 400 members. the members of the Association; • Diffuses among the members information affecting their Products/commodity responsible for: trade, commerce and industry, and collects, prints, publishes, issues and circulates papers, periodicals, books statistics and Precious and semi-precious stones. such other publication as may be deemed to conducive to the objects of the Association; Training: • Renders technical, managerial, supervisory and advisory assistance to members; In the process of the establishment of gemstones cutting and • Frames and enforces rules and regulations with a view to Gemological Institute at Peshawar, Pakistan in collaboration with regularizing the purchase and sale of the products and to the Export Promotion Bureau, Government of Pakistan. changes therein from time to time in the interest of trade, commerce and industry and the public; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Attempts to settle or compromise or arbitrate in disputes arising between non-members or between a member and a Precious and semi-precious stones mining, cutting and polishing. non-member willing or agreeing to submit to arbitration in accordance with the arbitration rules of the Association; Category:
• Works actively for the eradication of unethical business Trade facilitation body; and training/research institute. practices from the field of trade, commerce and industry;
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BOARD OF INVESTMENT (BOI) Local branch:
Office/postal address: Board of Investment Kandawala Building Sector G-5/1 M.A. Jinnah Road Ataturk Avenue Karachi Islamabad Phone: (92 21) 9215967 Fax: (92 21) 9215078 Phone: (92-051) 9206161, 9207531 Fax: (92-051) 9215554, 9206160 Investment Facilitation Centre Peshawar Sarhad Chamber House 2nd Floor E-mail: [email protected] G.T. Road URL: www.pakboi.gov.pk Peshawar Phone: (92 91) 9212743, 9212745 Year established: 1989 Fax: (92-91) 9212751 E-mail: [email protected] Principal function: Investment Facilitation Centre Lahore • To promote, encourage and facilitate both local and foreign 136-B, New Muslim Town investment in Pakistan. Lahore Phone: (92 42) 5843602 Services/activities: Fax: (9242) 5843603 E-mail: [email protected] • Assists the Government in the formulation and review of national investment policy and laws; Offices abroad: • Identifies and promotes investment opportunities in different sectors of the economy; At present, the Board of Investment does not have offices abroad. • Acts as a national focal point of contact between the However, 31 Honorary Investment Counsellors (HICs) are potential investors and all investment-related government working for the Board of Investment in 23 countries whose agencies responsible for providing infrastructure facilities, names, addresses (telephones, fax and e-mail) are available on etc. to the investors; BOI’s website: www.pakboi.gov.pk. • Enhances Pakistan’s international competitiveness and contributes to its economic and social development; Membership structure: 27 members.
• Provides support services and assistance to the potential Products/commodity responsible for: investors to set up or expand their business in Pakistan
through One Desk Facilitation Service; Investment promotion and facilitation to boost socio-economic • Makes available all essential information, publicity material development in Pakistan. and data, etc. to the investors.
Training: Publications issued:
BOI does not conduct any courses for outside participants. Booklet (English):
• Pakistan Investment Policies, Incentives and Facilities. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Brochures (English): Priority sectors for investment in Pakistan are (1) oil and gas; (2) • Explore the Potential of Pakistan - The New Business manufacturing and industry; (3) infrastructure; (4) information Frontier. technology; (5) agriculture; (6) tourism; (7) the social sector; and • Investment Opportunities in Pakistan. (8) the services sector. • An Open Door for Investors. • A Compendium on Industrial Estates/Zones in Pakistan. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
Investors’ information guides (English): Foreign investment is fully protected by: • Agriculture Sector Profile. • Foreign Private Investment (Promotion and Protection) Act, • Power Sector Profile. 1976. • Small and Medium Enterprise Sector Profile. • Protection of Economic Reforms Act, 1992. • IT and Telecom Sector Profile. • Foreign Currency Accounts (Protection) Ordinance, 2001. • Infrastructure Sector Profile. • Board of Investment Ordinance, 2001. • Oil and Gas Sector Profile. • Tourism Sector. Category:
Industrial promotion; and investment promotion authority.
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FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN CHAMBERS OF Regional Office in Quetta: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (FPCCI) Lower Ground Floor, Zarghoon Road Chamber of Commerce and Industry Building Office/postal address: Quetta Phone: (51 812) 8211943, 2823872 Federation House Fax: (51 812) 821948 Main Clifton Karachi 75600 Zonal Office in Lahore: 50-A, Tufail Road, Lahore Cantt-54810 P.O. Box: 13875, Karachi Phone: (92 42) 6670970-71 Fax: (92 42) 6670972 Phone: (92 21) 5873691, 5873693-4 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (92 21) 5874332 Zonal Office Peshawar: nd E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Suite No. 9 and 10, 2 Floor, Azam Towers URL: www.fpcci.com.pk Jamrud Road, Peshawar Phone: (51 91) 5704291-2 Year established: 1950 Fax: (51 91) 5846259 E-mail: [email protected] Principal functions: Membership structure: 47 chambers of commerce and • To advocate the collective opinion, concern and aspiration industry, and 166 all Pakistan associations of trade and of the private sector; industry. • To offer helpful advice and solid assistance to the Government in its efforts to promote exports, encourage Products/commodity responsible for: foreign investment and stimulate economic activity; • To bridge between the private sector and the Government; Services; training; seminars, conferences, symposia and meetings; • To play an active role in presenting problems of trade, and all areas of business and industry. industry and environment and safeguarding the interests of the private sector through constant dialogue with the Category: Government. Chamber of commerce. Services/activities:
• Sponsors general and specialized business and investment NATIONAL TRADE AND TRANSPORT delegations to foreign countries; FACILITATION COMMITTEE (NTTFC) • Organizes Pakistan’s participation in international fairs and exhibitions; Office/postal address: • Maintains constant liaison with Pakistan diplomatic and commercial missions abroad; c/o Pakistan Shippers Council • Exchanges information relating to trade, industry and the B-1, Federation House, ST-28 economy with the foreign chambers and institutions; Block-5, Main Clifton • Encourages leading exporters of the country by giving them Karachi 75600 Export Trophy Awards every year; • Mediates in the resolution of commercial disputes between Phone: (92 21) 5822871, 5822872 Pakistani and foreign businesspersons. Fax: (92 21) 5821814
Publications issued: E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: nttfc.org • Annual Report of FPCCI Activities. • Compendium of G-77 CCI of Developing Countries. Year established: 2001 • FPCCI Bulletin (monthly). • Pakistan Trade Directory. Principal function:
• Souvenir of Annual Export Trophy Awards. • To facilitate international trade of Pakistan; • Brochures of bilateral relations. • To simplify the documents and procedures related to • Booklet on Regional Economic Groupings. international trade of Pakistan and harmonize these with
international practices. Local branches:
Services/activities: Liaison Office in Islamabad:
1st Floor Chamber House, G-8/1 Aiwan-e-Sanat-o-Tijarat Road • Continuously reviews the trade and transport procedures and Phone: (51 92) 2251891-3 system with a view of update their simplification and Fax: (51 92) 2251894 harmonization; E-mail: [email protected] • Coordinates efforts of concerned organizations; in the field of facilitation of international trade and transport
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• Collects and disseminates information on international trade PAKISTAN READYMADE GARMENTS and transport formalities, procedures, documentation and MANUFACTURERS AND EXPORTERS related matters; ASSOCIATION (PRGMEA) • Pursues the simplification and alignment of trade and transport documents on the basis of the Untied Nations Layout Key, Office/postal address: including documents designed for use in computer and other automated systems; 18-A, Shaheen View Building • Promotes the adoption of standard trade and transport Block - VI, P.E.C.H.S. terminology and international codes for trade and transport Shahra-e-Faisal information. Karachi 75400
Publication issued: Phone: (92 21) 4549073, 4547912 Fax: (92 21) 4539669 • Increasing Export and Distribution of Perishables Goods. • Study of Perishable Products – Mangoes. E-mail: [email protected] • Minimum Qualification Standard for Freight Forwarders. URL: www.prgmea.org • Pakistan International Freight Forwarders Association (PIFFA) Code of Conduct. Year established: 1980 • Standard Trading Conditions for Freight Forwarders. • Completion Instruction for Goods Declaration Form. Principal functions: • Report on Logistics Security in Pakistan. • Report on Mango Seminar - 13 October, 2004. • To advise, protect, safeguard and promote the rights, interests and privileges of its members; • Report on TIR Seminar - 30 November, 2004. • To remove difficulties and shortcomings in the ready-made • Trade Transaction Analysis Report. garment trade; • Freight Forwarders Report – January 2005. • To create sympathy and unity among the manufacturers and • Logistic Cost Study. exporters of ready-made garments; • To disseminate information of interest to the garment trade and to print literature conducive to the objectives of the Membership structure: Association; • To provide forms of contracts and other documents used in The Committee is chaired by the Secretary/Additional Secretary garment trade and commerce; Ministry of Commerce. • To encourage and facilitate the settlement of commercial Representatives of the following organizations are members of the disputes by arbitration or conciliation; committee: Ministry of Commerce; Ministry of Communications; • To consider, initiate and promote improvements in the Ministry of Ports and Shipping; Ministry of Finance; Ministry of commercial laws, rules and regulations for representation to Planning and Development; Ministry of Food, Agriculture and the Government; Livestock; Ministry of Industries, Production and Special • To enter into arrangements with the Government conducive Initiatives; Civil Aviation Authority; Central Board of Revenue; to the objectives of the Association; State Bank of Pakistan; Small and Medium Enterprise • To issue certificates in accordance with the requirements of Development Authority; Pakistan Shippers' Council of FPCCI; the trade to exercise the rights and objectives of the Karachi Port Trust; Port Qasim Authority; PNSC/National Ship Association; Owners; Pakistan Railways; Trade Development Authority of • To cooperate and work with other recognized associations, Pakistan; Multimodal Transport Operators; Federation of Pakistan chambers of commerce and industries; Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI); Insurance • To organize participation in trade fairs and exhibitions and to organize trade delegations to selected markets abroad; Association of Pakistan; Dry Port Operators; Pakistan International • To provide service to foreign trade delegations; Freight Forwarders Association (PIFFA); Customs Clearance • To provide advice and guidance to members on trade, Agents Associations; Goods Carriage Associations; Ships Agents industry and fiscal aspects of production and exports; Association; Pakistan Bankers Association; International Chamber • To advise the Government on textile negotiations with quota of Commerce (ICC), Pakistan; Pakistan Horticulture Development countries and other related export problems of the members and Export Board (PHDEB); Pakistan International Airlines; as well as on budgetary, trade and fiscal policies; Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT); Qasim • To represent the Association in various government and trade International Container Terminal (QICT); Pakistan International bodies. Container Terminal (PICT); Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Faisalabad Services/activities: Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and • As detailed under Principal functions. Industry; and Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Quetta. Publications issued:
Category: • PRGMEA Directory of Members (annually, English).
• PRGMEA Newsletter (monthly, Urdu/English). Trade facilitation organization. • PRGMEA Circulars (fortnightly, English).
• PRGMEA Members Directory CD (annually, English). • PRGMEA Export Excellence Awards Ceremony Brochure (annually, English).
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Local branches: RAWALPINDI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY Zonal Office (North) Prgmea House, 343-A, New Bhabrra Office/postal address: Main Ferozepur Road, Lahore Phone: (92 42) 8478909, 8388909, 5852946 39 Civil Lines Fax: (92 42) 5852946 Mayo Road E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Oawalpindi
Zonal Office (South) P.O. Box: 323 18-A Shaheen View Building, Block-VI P.E.C.H.S., Shahra-e- Faisal, Karachi 75400 Phone: (92 51) 5584397 Phone: 92 21) 4533327, 4535394, 4313087,4382601-3 Fax: (92 51) 5586849 Fax: (92 21) 4536686 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.rcci.org.pk Sub-Office Sialkot Oberoy Sports Building Year established: 1952 Near Pakistan Muslim League House Paris Road, Sialkot Principal functions: Phone: (92 432) 597128 Fax: (92 432) 592683 • To liaise the business community with the Government and E-mail: [email protected] counterparts abroad; • To collect and disseminate commercial and industrial Membership structure: 1,200 members. information; • To organize functions as ISO, TQM and SEMEDA cells; Products/commodity responsible for: • To stimulate economic and investment activities.
All sorts of woven ready-made garments, made-ups and Services/activities: accessories.
• Provides services to the business community. Training:
Publication issued: Maintains two Technical Training Institutes (PRGTTI):
18-G, Block-VI, PECHS, Karachi • News Bulletin Trade Directory. Phone: (92 21) 4526918, 4546446-7 Fax: (92 21) 4546448 Membership structure: 2,500 members. E-mail: [email protected] Training: 71-L, Gulberg-III, Lahore Phone: (92 42) 9230756, 9230757 Arranges different training courses. Fax: (92 42) 9230758 E-mail: [email protected] Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Training is being provided in the fields of special marketing in National industrial zone. apparel; quality control and assurance; merchandising; pattern cutting and grading; inventory control and material management; Category: garment machine mechanic courses for computerized pattern generation. Chamber of commerce.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Ready-made garment manufacturing and exporting units including both woven and knitted.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• The Association is registered with the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Pakistan under the Trade Associations Act in Category-A.
Category:
Trade association.
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THE SIALKOT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: INDUSTRY Manufacturing of surgical instruments, leather garments and Office/postal address: sports goods.
Shahrah-e-Awain-e-Sanat-o-Tijarat Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Sialkot • Trade Policy of Pakistan. P.O. Box: 1870 Category: Phone: (92 52) 4261881-3 Fax: (92 52) 4267919, 4268835 Chamber of commerce.
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.scci.com.pk TRADE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF PAKISTAN
Year established: 1984 Office/postal address:
Principal functions: 5th Floor, Block-A Finance and Trade Centre • To promote, aid, develop, stimulate and protect the Main Shahra-e-Faisal economic interest of Pakistan in general and of those Karachi 75400 engaged in industry, agriculture, commerce, trade, banking an insurance in particular; P.O. Box: 1293, Karachi • To consider all questions connected with trade, industries, agriculture, manufacture and commerce and to initiate Phone: (92 21) 9206487 and/or support necessary actions connected therewith; Fax: (92 21) 9206497 • To consider, support or oppose legislative or other government measures affecting the economic interest of E-mail: [email protected] businesspersons and industrialists and also to make URL: www.tdap.gov.pk representations to the Government or grievances, if any; • To adjust controversies between members of the Chamber Year established: November 2006 (previously: Export relating to the commercial, industrial, agricultural and Promotion Bureau) financial interest of the businesspersons and industrialists; • To arbitrate in settlements of disputes arising out of Principal function: commercial transactions between parties willing and agreeing to abide by the judgment and decision of the • To develop and promote exports holistically, through focus, Chamber; synergy and with the collective wisdom and counsel of its • To communicate with the Chamber of Commerce and stakeholders; Industry of public bodies within or outside Pakistan and to • To improve market access through advising the Government concert and promote measures for the projection of trade, on matters of trade diplomacy; commerce and manufacturers and the labour engaged therein • To lead and promote the ‘business’ image of Pakistan in the and to remove mutual hardships; key export markets for Pakistani products and services the • To establish a commercial and statistical library. world over.
Services/activities: Services/activities:
As detailed under Principal functions. • Assists in establishing contact with prospective buyers abroad; • Explores possibilities for export markets and identifies items Publication issued: possessing export potential; • Publishes regularly specialized publications featuring export • Commercial News Bulletin (fortnightly, English/Urdu). opportunities, foreign trade information, training courses, directory, statistics, etc.; Membership structure: More than 5,000 members • Conducts product/market surveys abroad and provides up-to- registered. date intelligence; • Organizes seminars/conferences and training programmes for Products/commodity responsible for: motivating people to export and apprises them of ways and means of going about the export business; Surgical instruments, sports goods, leather garments, sportswear, • Assists in enhancing the skills and knowledge of established musical instruments, military uniforms and badges, martial arts, exporters in marketing and promotion for exports; saddlery, cutlery and kitchenware, etc. • Provides inputs, based on its field experience, for the formulation of export policies; Training: • Issues GSP Certificates; • Organizes exhibitions at home and abroad, and assisting the Offers short-term, trade-related courses for members as well as participation of exporters in such trade displays; non-members.
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• Arranges and programmes the visits of overseas buyers and 764/41, P.O. Ayub Medical College exploratory missions delegations to Pakistan; Main Mansehra Road, Abbotabad • Assists in resolving trade disputes and operational constraints; Phone: (92 992) 380203 • Provides face-to-face counselling to resolve export problems; Fax: (92 992) 380181 • Maintains a well-organized library; E-mail: [email protected] • Assists in facilitating the standardization and simplification of procedures; Gul Kada, Saidu Sharif, Swat • Assists in overseas publicity to create brand/country/product Phone: (92 936) 9240301 awareness; Fax: (92 936) 9240302 E-mail: [email protected] • Enhances the awareness of environmental and social issues
such as child labour; 63-F, Mirpur Azad Kashmir • Helps the industry to adopt standards such as ISO 9000 and Phone: (92 92) 58610-45158 14000;
• Promotes buyer-seller contacts; Hall No.5, Commercial Building • Recommends the establishment of export-oriented industries. Pakistan Red Crescent Society Building Parsi Colony Road, Sukkar Local branches: Phone: (92 71) 9310536
st Fax: (92 71) 9310537 1 Floor, 26-D West Kashmir Plaza Publication issued: Blue Area Islamabad. Phone: (92 51) 9212174, 9204393,9207348 • Export Statistics and Trends. Fax: (92 51) 9211736, 921596, 9205996
Category: 62 Garden Block
Garden Town, Lahore Trade promotion organization. Phone: (92 42) 9230640-51
Fax: (92 42) 9230609, 9230608
E-mail: [email protected]
Plot No.24 Phase-V Hayatabad, Peshawar Phone: (92 91) 9217120-5 Fax: (92-91) 9217126 E-mail: [email protected]
Shahrah-e-Iqbal Quetta Phone: (92 81) 9201109, 9202491 Fax: (92 81) 9202053 E-mail: [email protected]
Aisha Chock Gulistan Colony No.2, Public Building Area Sheikhupura Road, Faisalabad Phone: (92 41) 9210202, 9210157 Fax: (92 41) 9210204 E-mail: [email protected]
18/A, Govt. Officer’s Residence Golony (GOR), Hyderabad Phone: (92 221) 9200172 Fax: (92 221) 9200156 E-mail: [email protected]
Paris Road, Sialkot Phone: (92 432) 9250081, 9250083 Fax: (92 432) 9250082 E-mail: [email protected]
97-A, Gulgasht Colony, Multan Cantt Phone: (92 61) 9210171-74 Fax: (92 61) 9210172 E-mail: [email protected]
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TRADING CORPORATION OF PAKISTAN LIMITED Category: (TCP) Public limited company handling international trade for and on Office/postal address: behalf of the federal Government.
4th-5th Floor, Block B, Finance and Trade Centre Sharea Faisal Karachi 74400
P.O. Box: 1244, Karachi 74200
Phone: (92 21) 9202947-9 Fax: (92 21) 9202722, 9202731, 9202592
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.tcp.gov.pk
Year established: 1967
Principal functions:
• To export selected items of public sector corporations, agencies, etc.; • To channel export through TCP to various markets under credit given by the Government to expand business in areas such as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)/Central Asian Republics (CAR)/Malaysia, African countries, etc; • To export Pakistani products to new/non-traditional markets by way of giving concessions/incentives by the Government to prospective buyers for capturing new markets; • To perform the innovative role of undertaking the export of non-traditional items to non-traditional markets on an experimental basis; • To undertake and develop the export of fresh fruits/vegetables and minerals in collabouration and on a partnership basis with the private sector; • To import essential commodities in emergent conditions as in the past; • To import S.B. oil under future PL-480/416 Programme and CC Credit, etc; • To import palm oil from Malaysia under Malaysian credit; • To import industrial raw materials and other selected bulk items; • To utilize credit facilities; • To undertake countertrade to discover new markets and to promote exports, particularly to the countries facing cash constraints; • To purchase/sell cotton, sugar and other items, etc., as per the directive of the Federal Government; • To inspect the quality and quantity of brown rice and to issue an authenticity certificate for the export of brown rice to European Union countries.
Local branch:
Trading Corporation of Pakistan (Pvt) Limited Regional Office 1st Floor, LDA Plaza Egerton Road, Lahore 54000 Phone: (92 42) 6304349, 6309148, 6316558, 6310980 Fax: (92 42) 6301011 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
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PALAU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Office/postal address:
3rd Floor Ben Franklin Building W.C.T.C. Shopping Center Koror 96940
P.O.Box 1742
Phone: (680) 4883400 Fax: (680) 4883401
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.palauchamber.org
Year established: 1992
Principal function:
• To mobilize the resources of the business community of Palau to ensure that Palau develops as a free, strong and self-reliant community.
Services/activities:
• Represents the business community in Palau Government committees and working groups such as the school-to-work programme, the committee on population and rights of child, interagency committee, tax advisory taskforce, natural disaster taskforce, as well as other ad-hoc committees created to address short-term issues.
Membership structure: As of 1 March 2006, the chamber of commerce had 79 members and 5 ex-officio members.
Any company or individual with a current national business license is eligible to become a member of the Palau chamber of commerce.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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COFFEE INDUSTRY CORPORATION LTD. (CIC) Office abroad:
Office/postal address: Corporation Representative-United Kingdom St. Lawrence, Kingsway, Hullbridge P. O. Box 137 Essex SS5 6DR, United Kingdom Goroka Phone: (44 702) 231285 Eastern Highlands Province 441 Fax: (44 702) 232373 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (675) 7321266,7322466 Fax: (675) 7321431 Products/commodity responsible for: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.coffeecorp.org.pg Coffee: green bean, roast and ground.
Year established: 1964 Training:
Principal function: • Coffee factory manager course. • National exporter training course. • To promote and support the continuing development of a • Coffee quality ratio workshop. soundly-based coffee industry in Papua New Guinea in order to maximize financial returns to all coffee producers and to Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: contribute to the Government's economic and social policy goals. Expansion of smallholder production; rehabilitation of the plantation sector; downstream processing; marketing; and quality Services/activities: improvement.
• Promotes Papua New Guinea coffee internally and overseas; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • Lobbies on behalf of the Papua New Guinea coffee industry; • Operates pulper maintenance services for growers; • Coffee Industry Act of 1991. • Provides price and marketing information; • Coffee Industry Regulations. • Maintains a database for the industry and disseminates information; Category: • Imposes quality controls through inspection; • Takes part in negotiations at the International Coffee Commodity board. Organization (ICO); • Enforces ICO requirements; • Undertakes research on coffee; DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY* • Undertakes extension services for smallholder coffee growers; Office/postal address • Administers a price stabilization scheme. Waigani 31 Publications issued: National Capital District
• Annual Report. Phone: (675) 3011800, 3256080, 3256099, 3259225, 3256047 • Coffee Discussion Papers. Fax: (675) 3252403, 3256108 • Coffee Industry Newsletter. E-mail: [email protected] • Coffee Report.
• Papua New Guinea Coffee Export Statistics. Year established: 2000 • Papua New Guinea Coffee Journal. • Technical Advisory Circular. Principal functions:
Local branch: • To ensure that Papua New Guinea attains maximum benefits from its participation in international expositions, trade fairs, Aiyura Office exhibitions and road shows; P. O. Box 470 • To undertake market research, formulate export strategies Ukarumpa, Eastern Highlands Province 444 and marketing plans including export analysis on targeted Phone: (675) 7373511, 7373518 markets; Fax: (675) 7373524 • To maintain trade control measures as well as to devise E-mail: [email protected] relevant control mechanism in order to regulate business and
commercial interest; Industry Operations Division Export Control Department • To identify potential investment projects and investment P. O. Box 3993 project profiles for discussion with potential investors during Lae, Morobe Province trade and investment mission overseas; Phone: (675) 4725044, 4724979 Fax: (675) 4724934
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• To provide necessary information to potential Papua New Papua New Guinea High commission Guinea exporters and importers on the trade regimes of P.O Box 1109 overseas markets. Honoria, Solomon Islands Phonel: (05 677) 20561 Services/activities: Fax: (05 677) 20562
• Provides trade enquiry and information services; Mita Kokusai Building 3F 13 • Provides advisory services; 4028 Mita 1 Chome • Undertakes market surveys for Papua New Guinea products; Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan • Provides information on overseas markets; Tel: (05 813 3) 4747801, 4 • Prepares an exporters register on logs; Fax: (05 813 3) 4747275 E-mail: [email protected] • Prepares an exporters directory; URL: www.homepage.1.nifty.com/png • Issues log and timber export licenses;
• Issues certificates of origin. Embassy of Papua New Guinea
Ta Yuan Diplomatic Building Publications issued: Beijing, China
Phone: (05 86 10 6) 5324312 • A Guide for Papua New Guinea Exports and Importers. Fax: (05 86 10 6) 5325483 • Commodity brochures on Papua New Guinea export products: E-mail: [email protected] coffee, cocoa, tea, forestry, and fisheries and marine resources URL: www.pngembassy.org.cn • Statistical digest. • Papua New Guinea Manufacturers Directory. Embassy of Papua New Guinea 3rd de Roxas corner Gamboa street Local branch: Makati City, Philippines Phone: (05 63 2) 811 3465 to 66 Investment Promotion Authority Fax: (05 63 2) 811 3468 International Export Promotion Division P.O Box 5053, Boroko NCD Embassy of Papua New Guinea Phone: (675) 3217311, 3084444 Panin Bank Centre (6th Floor) Fax: (675) 320 2237 Jalan Jendral Sudirman 1 E-Mail: [email protected] Yakarta 10270, Indonesia URL: www.ipa.gov.pg Phone: (05 62 21) 725225, 12181742 Fax: (05 62 21) 7201012 Offices abroad: E-mail: kdujkt@abn:net.id
Papua New Guinea High Commission Consul General 39-41 Forster Cresent Papua New Guinea Consulate Yarralumla ACT 2600 P.O Box 1947 P.O Box E 432 Jayapurea 99116, Indonesia Kingston, Australia Phone: (05 62 967) 531250, 1897 Phone: (05 61 262) 733322 Fax: (05 82 2) 7989856 Fax: (05 61 262) 733732 Email: [email protected] E-mail: kunducbr @hotkey.net.au Papua New Guinea High Commission Papua New Guinea Consulate 14 Waterloo Place 320 Adelaide Street London SWIR 4 AR, United Kingdom Level 3/Suite 12 Phone: (44 207) 9300922/6 Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia Fax: (44 207) 9300828 Phone: (05-617) 3221-7915 Email: [email protected] Fax: (05-617) 3229-6084 E-mail: [email protected] Papua New Guinea Embassy Avenue de Tervuren 430 Papua New Guinea High Commission Brussels, Belgium 279 Willis Street Phone: (05 32 2) 7790826/756/609 P.O Box 197 Fax: (05 32 3) 7727088 Wellington, New Zealand Email: [email protected] Phone: (05 64 4) 3852474/5/6 Fax: (05 646) 3852477 Papua New Guinea Embassy 1779 Massahusetts Avenue NW Papua New Guinea High Commission Suite 805 P.O Box 2447 Washington, DC 20036, United States of America Suva, Fiji Phone: (1 202) 7453680 Phone: (05 679) 301244 Fax: (1 202) 7453679 Fax: (05-679) 300-178 Email: [email protected]
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Permanent Mission of Papua New Guinea to United Nations PAPUA NEW GUINEA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Suite 405 AND INDUSTRY New York, NY 10017, United States of America Phone: (1 212) 5575001 Office/postal address: Fax: (1 212) 5575009 Email: [email protected] P.O. Box 1621 Port Moresby Papua New Guinea High Commission No. 11, Lingkungan Uthant Ampang Phone: (675) 3213057 55000 Kuala Lumpur Fax: (675) 3210566 GPO Box 13506 50812 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (603 4257) 5405/ 9260 URL: www.pngcci.org.pg Fax: (603 4257) 6203 Principal functions: Embassy of Papua New Guinea Unit#210, Doosan We’ve Pavilion Building • To provide representation for business people with which the 58 Soosoong-dong, Jongno-gu Government can consult and to promote, support or oppose Seoul, Republic of Korea legislation or other measures affecting the Papua New Phone: (05 822) 21985771 Guinea business community; Fax: (05 822) 21985779 • To promote business interests of private businesses in Papua Email: ambassador @kunduseoul.com New Guinea and to further the economic development of Papua New Guinea and to ensure the provision of services Membership structure: and utilities essential to such progress; • To collect and circulate statistics and other information WTO, APEC, ACP-EU, Pacific Islands Forum, Melanesian affecting and relating to the business houses within the Papua Spearhead Group New Guinea provinces;
• To play an important role as the representative voice of the Products/commodity responsible for: business industry in Papua New Guinea, by providing a
unified approach to the Government and other organizations. Coffee beans, arts and culture, artifacts and handicrafts, vanilla beans, tea, sawn timbers and logs, tuna, reefs fish, bechedemer, Services/activities: scrap metals, and manufactured products.
• As detailed under Principal functions. Training:
Local branches: • Textiles training for women
• Small Industries development and training Goroka Chamber of Commerce • Small Business development P.O. Box 332 Goroka, EH Province Industries where investment is encouraged: Phone: (675) 7321319 Fax: (675) 7321839 Mining, petroleum, tourism, fisheries, agriculture, forestry, E-mail: [email protected] cottage. West New Britain Chamber of Commerce & Industry Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: P.O. Box 27 Kimbe • Investment Promotion Authority Act 1992. West New Britain Province • Cottage Business Activities Act 2004 Phone: (675) 9835154 Fax: (675) 9835526 Category: Email: [email protected]
Ministry of Trade and Industry. Lae Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 265, Lae, Morobe Province Phone: (675) 4722340 Fax: (675) 4726038 E-mail: [email protected]
Madang Chamber of Commerce and Industry P.O. Box 673 Madang Phone: (675) 8522440 Fax: (675) 8522506 E-mail: [email protected]
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New Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry PORT MORESBY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND P.O. Box 424 INDUSTRY Kavieng, New Ireland Province Phone: (675) 9841133 Office/postal address: Fax: (675) 9841102 E-mail: [email protected] 6th Floor, Monian Tower Douglas Street East New Britain Chamber of Commerce & Industry Port Moresby P.O. Box 1335 Rabaul, ENB Province P.O. Box: 1764, Port Moresby Phone: (675) 9821999 Fax: (675) 9821970 Phone: (675) 3213077, 3213254 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (675) 3214203
Sepik Chamber of Commerce and Industry Email: [email protected], [email protected] P.O. Box 1229, Wewak URL: www.pomcci.org.pg East Sepik Province Phone: (675) 8562950 Principal functions: Fax: (675) 8562979 E-mail: [email protected] • To promote the business interests of private business in Port Moresby and to further the economic development of Port Western Highlands Chamber of Commerce and Industry Moresby; P.O. Box 523 • To ensure the provisions of services and utilities essential to Mt. Hagen, Western Highlands such progress; Phone: (675) 5422095 • To promote, support or oppose legislation or other measures Fax: (675) 5422095 affecting the business community; E-mail: [email protected] • To collect and circulate statistics and other information relating to the business of our members; Milne Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry • To promote and encourage the memberships of small P.O. Box 143, Alotau, Milne Bay Province businesses; Phone: (675) 6411290 • To facilitate the voluntary settlement of disputes arising Fax: (675) 6411290 between our members. E-mail: [email protected] Services/activities: Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry P.O. Box 393, Popondetta, Oro Province The Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry operates a Phone: (675) 3297197 Trade Information Services which has a library with trade Fax: (675) 3297193 directories, market studies, trade magazines, books and brochures Email: [email protected] and catalogues on products, export and import procedures, trade shows, conference seminars, and training courses. Sandaun Chamber of Commerce & Industry P.O. Box 290, Vanimo, West Sepik Province Publications issued: Phone: (675) 8571366 Fax: (675) 8571309 • Port Moresby in Brief. Email: [email protected] • E-News.
Category: Membership structure: 160 Members.
Chamber of commerce. Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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BANGKO SENTRAL NG PILIPINAS (BSP) Services/activities:
Office/postal address: • Renders advice and services to exporters and importers on banking procedures, and trade documentation; International Department • Monitors compliance of banks/exporters/importers with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas BSP export and import rules including reporting A. Mabini corner Pablo Ocampo Sr. Sts. requirements; Malate, Manila 1004 • Evaluates and acts on requests to purchase foreign exchange to service trade payments that do not squarely fall under Phone: (63 2) 536 6077 existing rules; Fax: (63 2) 536 0053 • Monitors credits granted by/outstanding credits of selected government financial institutions to small- and medium-scale E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] export enterprises; URL: www.bsp.gov.ph • Assists in conducting of studies for further simplification of export/import procedure s/documentation and export Year established: 1993 (formerly Central Bank of the financing needs of exporters; Philippines, 1949-1993) • Publishes the annual “Directory of Philippine Merchandise Exporters”; Principal functions: • Actively participates in meetings of the Export Development Council. On trade: • To review and formulate policies and rules governing Publication issued: international trade and disseminate these to the public; • To provide rediscounting of export financing granted by • Directory of Philippine Merchandise Exporters (annually, banks; English). • To compile/prepare reports on the country’s balance of payments, showing information on trade and investments, Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: among others; • To compile data on trade-related external debt and related • BSP Circular No. 1389 (Consolidated Foreign Exchange transactions; Rules and Regulations) dated 13 April 1993, as amended. • To organize and conduct/participate in meetings/dialogues with exporters to discuss the export outlook and issues Category: affecting exporters. Banking - statutory and public On foreign investments: • To review and formulate policies and rules governing BOARD OF INVESTMENTS (BOI) foreign investments (inward and outward) and disseminate these to the public; Office/postal address: • To register inward foreign investments and to monitor transactions pertaining to registered investments; Industry and Investments Building • To evaluate applications of Philippine residents to purchase 385 Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue foreign exchange for outward investments that require prior Makati City 1200 BSP approval and registration; Metro Manila 1200 • To compile data on registered investments and inflows and outflows of foreign exchange pertaining to foreign Phone: (63 2) 6976682, 8901332, 8953641 investments. Fax: (63 2) 8953521
Under existing rules, foreign investments are required to be E-mail: [email protected] registered with BSP (through the International Department) if the URL: www.boi.gov.ph foreign exchange to service the repatriation of capital and the remittances of dividends, profits and earnings thereon shall be Year established: 1967 purchased from the Philippine banking system. Foreign direct investments in equity such as shares of stocks of Philippine Principal functions: corporations are required to be registered directly with the BSP, together with investments in: (1) peso time deposits with maturity • To promote domestic and foreign investments by identifying of at least 90 days; (2) government securities; and (3) money investment opportunities, providing investor assistance, market instruments. Foreign investments in stocks listed in the encouraging regional dispersal of industries, and broadening Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) purchased thru the PSE trading the entrepreneurial base; floor may be registered directly with commercial banks, which • To build an environment conducive to the expansion of are required to report to the BSP such registration of investments existing industries and investments, and what will attract new as well as other related transactions on registered investments. capital; BSP delegated to commercial banks the registration of foreign • To enhance worldwide competitiveness of Philippine investments in PSE-listed stocks acquired through the PSE- industries. trading floor. Service/activities:
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• Information assistance to local and foreign investors; • The Philippines: Your Competitive Edge. • Timely investment advice and facilitation regarding investors’ • Primer on Built-Operate-Transfer Scheme. business transaction; • Primer on Built-Operate-Transfer (BOT) and Built Transfer • Assistance in the selection of ideal investment location; (BT) Schemes. • Joint Venture Matching Services for international local and • Primer on Foreign Investment Policies in the Philippines. foreign entrepreneurs; • Primer on Foreign Investments Act of 1991. • Investment advice and facilitation for SMEs; • Primer on Special Investors Resident Visa (SIRV). • Business linkages with the public and private sectors; • Rules and Regulations to Implement E.O. 226. • Evaluation and supervision of investment applications; • Training on Investment Promotion; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Seminar on Investment Networking for Local Executives; • Facilitation of Environmental Clearance Certificate and Listed in annual Investment Priorities Plan. advocacy for environment-related projects; • Investment briefings, inbound and outbound missions, Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: seminars and conferences for local and foreign investors; • After-sales service through the Investment Promotion • Omnibus Investments Code of 1987 (E.O. 226). Network (IPN), a system of hotlines connecting Investment • Rules and Regulations to Implement E.O. 226. Promotion Units (IPUs) across 24 related government • Foreign Investments Act of 1991. agencies; • Entrepreneurial assistance to Overseas Filipino Workers; Category: • Industry sectors planning and preparation of Industry sector profiles. Investment promotion authority.
Local branches: BUREAU OF PRODUCT STANDARDS (BPS)
BOI-Cagayan de Oro Extension Office Office/postal address: c/o DTI-Region X Corrales-Luna Streets, Cagayan de Oro City 3/F, Trade and Industry Building Phone: (63 7) 22278, 723604 361 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue Makati City 1200 BOI-Cebu Extension Office Espina Building Phone: (63 2) 7513123, 7514736 135 Juana Osmena Extension Fax: (63 2) 7514706 Capitol Site, Cebu City Phone: (63 2) 10017 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (63 2) 52660 URL: www.bps.dti.gov.ph
BOI-Davao Extension Office Year established: 20 June 1964 c/o DTI-Davao Escalona Building, 3/F Principal function: Ponciano Reyes Street, Davao City Phone: (63 7) 6841, 5250, 8984 • To develop, implement and coordinate standardization activities in the Philippines. BOI-Iloilo Extension Office Cnr. J.M. Basa and Peralta Streets, Iloilo City Services/activities: Phone: (63 2) 70060 Fax: (63 2) 70083 • Standards development; • Standards promotion and media relations; BOI-Legaspi Extension Office • Standards information services; Del Rosario Building • Enforcement of consumer assistance; Rizal Street, Legaspi City • Product testing services, and certification programme; Phone: (63 2) 3347, 23307 • WTO/TBT enquiry print and services; Fax: (63 2) 3307 • International relations;
• Special projects; Publications issued: • Registration of assessors services; • Annual Report, 2001. • Financial, administrative, human resource development, and information technology services. • BOI-Approved Projects under EO 226.
• Briefing Folios with Basic Facts on the Philippines. Publications issued: • Checklist on Doing Business in the Philippines. • Foreign Investments Act of 1991 (R.A. 7042). • BPS Information Kit (English). • Investment Priorities Plan. • List of Philippine National Standards (PNS) under • It's a Pleasure to Do Business in the Philippines (English/ Mandatory Product Certification. Japanese/Chinese/Korean). • Product Guides. • Omnibus Investments Code of 1987 (E.O. 226). • List of Companies with PS/ICC (monthly, English). • Philippines Handy Economic and Trade Indicators.
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• Catalogue of Philippine National Standards. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • BPS Directions (through e-mail). Information and communication technology; tourism; light Products/commodity responsible for: engineering; electronics; semi-conductors; food and agriculture; and food processing. All industrial products. Category: Training: Chamber of commerce; commodity board; industrial promotion; Seminars on ISO 9000 - Quality Management, ISO 14000 inspection institution; investment promotion authority; Environmental Management System and other Philippine productivity centre; shipper's council, port authority, national National Standards. shipping corporation; trade association; trade facilitation body; trade fair and exhibition authority; trade promotion organization; Category: and training/research institute.
Standard, testing, certification, and inspection body. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY (DTI)
CEBU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND Office/postal address: INDUSTRY(CCCI) 385 Industry and Investments Building Office/postal address: Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue Makati City, 1200 11th and 13th Avenue North Reclamation Area Phone: (63 2) 8956487 Cebu City 6000 Fax: (63 2) 8956487
Phone: (63 32) 2321421-24, 4120137 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (63 32) 2321422,4129461 URL: www.dti.gov.ph
E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1898 URL: cebubusinesswebportal.com, www.esprint.com/~ccci, Principal functions: Year established: 1913 • To attract and direct investments to areas leading to Principal functions: balanced agro-industrial developments; • To reinforce the country's competitive advantage in the • To promote business and investment development; world markets; • To ensure that the benefits of economic progress reach the • To enhance SME development. countryside and become every Filipino's gain.
Services/activities: Services/activities:
• Organizes fairs and exhibits; • Aims to advance the interests of its stakeholders/target • Provides training services; clients, namely investors, businesspeople, exporters, SMEs, • Disseminates information and maintains databases; and Filipino consumers; • Encourages labour and management cooperation; • Works to ease investment entry and expansion through • Establishes industry-academic linkage. incentives and programmes that make aim to make it easy to set up a business, market and ship products, and undertake Publication issued: new and larger projects. • Services for exporters and SMEs include product design, • Chamber Updates (monthly, English). market promotion and financing. • Undertakes trainings to upgrade labour’s skills and improve Local branches: incomes. • Makes consumers aware of their rights and seeks to protect 32 affiliated industry and professional associations with CCCI. consumers’ rights through, among others, strict enforcement of fair trade laws and prompt resolution of consumer Membership structure: 2,436 members [936 direct complaints. members and 1,500 indirect members (32 affiliated sectoral associations)]. Publications issued:
Training: • DTI Annual Report. • Current Awareness Bulletin (monthly). • Sales and Marketing; • HR Development; Local branches: • E-Commerce; • Global Competitiveness Training. DTI has 16 regional and 78 provincial offices nationwide.
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Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Phone: (63 46) 4131291, 4131292 E-mail: [email protected] • Foreign Investment Act (Republic Act No. 8179). • Foreign Investment List (Executive Order No. 286). DAP Sa Visayas Office (DSV) • Omnibus Investment Code (Executive Order No. 226). Room 205, LDM Building M.J. Cuenco cor. Legaspi Sts. Category: Cebu City Phone: (63 32) 2541126 Ministry of Trade. Offices abroad: DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES Since 1973, DAP has been the national productivity organization (DAP) (NPO). As NPO, DAP fulfills the country's commitment to the
Asian Productivity Organization (APO) in promoting productivity Office/postal address: in the Philippines. It spearheads the development of productivity
consciousness and promotes the principles, techniques and DAP Building practice of productivity and quality in key sectors of the economy. San Miguel Avenue
Pasig City The APO, of which the Philippines is a founding member, is an
intergovernmental agency dedicated to the promotion of P.O. Box: 12788, Ortigas Centre, Pasig City productivity improvement to accelerate economic growth of
member countries through mutual cooperation. Phone: (63 2) 6310921
Fax: (63 2) 6312123 The APO Headquarters is in Tokyo with the following address:
E-mail: [email protected] Asian Productivity Organization URL: www.dap.edu.ph Hirakawa-cho Dai-ichi Seimei Building 2F
1-2-10 Hirakawacho, Chiyoda-ku Year established: 1973 Tokyo 102-0093, Japan
Principal functions: Category:
• To build capacities and partnerships among the key sectors National productivity organization (NPO)/productivity centre. of Philippine society; • To generate innovative, value-adding and synergistic solutions to national and local concerns; INTERNATIONAL TRADE GROUP (ITG)* • To join hands with the international community in promoting sustainable human development and global Office/postal address: competitiveness. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Services/activities: 5th Floor, Industry and Investments Building 385 Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue • DAP offers training and education, technical assistance, Makati City, Metro Manila 1200 consultancy, research, advocacy and publications in the areas of governance, productivity and quality, and Phone: (63 2) 8953318, 8976682 loc. 239 management. Fax: (63 2) 8953393
Publications issued: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.dti.gov.ph, tradelinephil.dti.gov.ph • The Academy publishes books, manuals and monographs on a wide range of development topics. Featured on the website Year established: The Executive Order 133, signed in 1987, are a few of its recent publications which are available for reorganizes the International Trade Group (ITG) of DTI. sale or for free. Interested parties may e-mail However, several executive issuances were made since 1987 that [email protected]. authorizes the Secretary of DTI to conduct internal reorganization. Today, ITG is operating under a lean organizational set-up with Local branches: focused agencies catering to specific client needs. ITG has emerged as the country’s Trade Promotion Office (TPO). DAP Sa Mindanao (DSM) Rm. 202 Villa Abrille Building Principal functions: C. M. Recto Avenue Davao City 8000 • To be the primary coordinative, promotive, facilitative and Phone: (63 82) 2212677 regulatory arm of the Government for the country’s trade, E-mail: [email protected] industry and investment services; • To act as catalyst for intensified private sector activity in order DAP Conference Centre (DAPCC) to accelerate and sustain economic growth through: (a) a Barrio Sungay, comprehensive industrial growth strategy, (b) a progressive Tagaytay City 2720 and socially responsible liberalization and deregulation
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programme, and (c) policies designed for the expansion of and E-mail: [email protected] diversification of trade, both domestic and international. Bureau of International Trade Relations (BITR) The International Trade Group is involved in standards and 3rd Floor, Trade and Industry Bldg. programme development, and policy formulation on international 361 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. trade and commerce. It is also tasked to monitor the Makati City, Metro Manila developmental, regulatory and service delivery programmes of Phone: (63 2) 7510384 DTI that are pertinent to international trade and commerce. Fax: (63 2) 7513262 E-mail: [email protected] Services/activities: Foreign Trade Service Corps The ITG agencies are organized by functions, according to the Coordinating Office (FTSC) services required by exporters in their value chain: 5th Floor, New Solid Bldg. 357 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Bureau of Export Trade Promotion: Makati City, Metro Manila • Formulates and monitors programmes, plans and projects Phone: (63 2) 8979659, 8979661, 8979672 pertinent to the development, promotion and expansion of the Fax: (63 2) 8904774 foreign trade of the Philippines; E-mail: [email protected] • Formulates country and product export strategies; • Conducts research on new product development and Offices abroad: adaptation opportunities in the export markets, identifies the domestic supply base for such products; The DTI offices abroad are managed by the Foreign Trade Service • Prepares situation reports on all export production; prepares Corps, under the International Trade Group of DTI. The directory and updates country and regional market profiles; of DTI’s Overseas Trade Offices is available on the Business • Maintains an integrated information system on all aspects of Guide of the DTI website: www.dti.gov.ph/contentment. the products relevant to export marketing. Bureau of International Trade Relations: Products/commodity responsible for: • Responsible for all matters pertaining to foreign trade relations (bilateral, regional, multilateral) market access and market Construction materials; electronics; food; giftware and holiday access-related matters; décor; home furnishings; IT and IT-enabled services; marine products; motor vehicle parts and components; organic and • Formulates positions and strategies for trade negotiations, natural products; and wearables. consultations and conferences; supervises trade negotiations,
consultations and conferences. Foreign Trade Service Corps: Training:
• Assists Philippine businesspersons, producers and exporters Trade Business Management Courses: with marketing information and project development support, - Export Management Courses, and liaises with foreign government agencies; - Entrepreneurial Development Courses,
• Develops market and commercial intelligence for - E-commerce Programmes. dissemination to Philippine businesspersons, provides direct
support to DTI’s overseas promotional programmes; Testing and Inspection Courses: • Assists businesspersons handle complaints against foreign - Food (e.g. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - firms and Governments; HACCP, Current Good Manufacturing Practice - GMP), • Supports DTI’s units in import and export administration, - Garments (e.g. Quality Control for Garment Industry, monitoring of trade agreements and investments promotion; Production Management of the Garment Industry), • Is accountable for established foreign investment and export - Furniture (e.g. Production Management for the targets for their respective areas of responsibility. Furniture Industry, Quality Management for the Furniture Industry), Publications issued: - Quality and Productivity Courses (e.g. Supervisory Effectiveness for Improved Quality and Productivity, • Export/Import Manuals: Handy Guide to Export. ISO 14000 Environment Management System). • Export/Import Manuals: Handy Guide to Import. • Philippine Exporter’s Manual Vols. 1 and 2. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Philippine Export Development Plan. • Guidebook on Exports for Local Chief Executives. The Board of Investments (BOI) is a government agency under • Early Bird News (available on the DTI website). the Industry and Investment Group (IIG) of DTI, which promotes • Philippine Business Report. investments in the Philippines. Investors, who are located outside • Online Catalogue of CITEM. of economic zones, register with the BOI. On the other hand, investors who wish to locate in economic zones must apply and Local branches: register with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA). PEZA manages and operates economic zones all over the country Bureau of Export Trade Promotion (BETP) and collects application and registration fees. To facilitate the 5th-8th Floor, New Solid Bldg. processing of export documentation, One-Stop-Export- 357 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Documentation-Centres are located in economic zones. Also, to Makati City, Metro Manila facilitate the processing of Permanent Resident Status of foreign Phone: (63 2) 8953654, 8990133, 7593381 nationals and their families, offices of the Bureau of Immigration Fax: (63 2) 8904707, 8904716 and Deportation are located in economic zones.
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PHILIPPINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND The Investment Priorities Plan 2005 (IPP 2005) is a rolling INDUSTRY (PCCI) annual plan of priority industries and service areas, which are being encouraged through the grant of fiscal and non-fiscal Office/postal address: incentives. IPP 2005 contains a list of Priority Investment Areas under the following: Preferred Activities, Other Preferred 14/F Multinational Bancorp Center Activities, Mandatory Inclusions and the Autonomous Region for 6805 Ayala Avenue Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) List. All activities under these lists Makati City shall be eligible to incentives prescribed under EO No. 226 or the Omnibus Investment Code, as amended, subject to the general P.O. Box: 1000 Metro Manila policies and guidelines of the BOI. Phone: (63 2) 8433374, 8433158 The Preferred Activities covers the Medium-Term Philippine Fax: (63 2) 8434102 Development Plan (MTPDP) identified 11 investment areas: agribusiness, healthcare and wellness products and services, ICT, Email: [email protected] electronics, motor vehicle products, energy, infrastructure, URL: portal.philippinechamber.com/ tourism, shipbuilding/shipping, jewelry and fashion garments. Year established: 1978 Other Preferred Activities covers other export industries, clustering and modernization activities. Principal functions:
Mandatory Inclusions cover all areas/activities where the • To foster closer relations, understanding and cooperation inclusion in the IPP and/or the grant of incentives under E.O. 226 among the agricultural, commercial and industrial sectors of is mandated by law. the economy by unifying them into one strong and solid organization for the enhancement of economic growth and The ARMM List covers priority areas that have been development; independently determined by the Regional Board of Investments • To serve as the voice of Philippine business and be an (RBOI) of the ARMM in accordance with E.O. 458. The BOI- independent forum for the development of a consensus ARMM can administer incentives granted to activities located in among the business community on matters of national the ARMM subject to General and Specific Guidelines. concern;
• To take an active role in helping shape the course of national Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: events and make known its position on issues affecting national interest; • Export Development Act (Republic Act No. 7844). • To represent the Philippine business community in all forums • Foreign Investment Act (Republic Act No. 8179). at the local, regional, national and international levels; • Foreign Investment List (Executive Order No. 286). • To establish and maintain linkages with global organizations • Omnibus Investment Code (Executive Order No. 226). representing agriculture, commerce and industry; • Retail Trade Liberalization Act (Republic Act No. 8762). • To initiate, submit recommendations and assist in the formulation, development, implementation and evaluation of Category: plans, policies, programs, and all other activities that will promote the interest of private business; Design centre; Ministry of Trade; state trading organization; trade • To conduct, assist and encourage the compilation of data, facilitation body; trade fair and exhibition authority; trade research materials and studies for use in the development of promotion organization; and training/research institute. socio-economic plans, policies and programs and related activities; • To act as primary liaison and channel of communication between business and government on matters and issues of interest to both; • To enhance the country's role and status in the community of nations.
Services/activities:
• Represents the private sector in Government policy-making bodies; • Offers access to countrywide business through local chambers of commerce and industry; • Matches foreign business inquires with local counterparts from PCCI’s database and vice versa; • Provides services that facilitate business processes (certificates of origin, APEC business travel card; exporter’s accreditation; electronic lodgement of import entry declarations); • Participates as observer in bids and awards of various Government agencies; • Enables access to local and international training and scholarships;
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• Offers a wide range of information services. PHILIPPINE ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY (PEZA)
Publications issued: Office/postal address:
• Voice of Business (VoB). Almeda Building • Philippine Trade and Industry Directory (annually). Roxas Boulevard cornor San Luis Street Pasay City Membership structure: Over 20,000 small, medium and large corporations as well as local and industry associations. P.O. Box: 3403, Makati CPO
• Charter members: the founders or incorporators and duly Phone: (63 2) 5513454, 5513455 elected charter members; Fax: (63 2) 8916380 • Regular members: private enterprises doing business and other entrepreneurial activities in the Philippines which are E-mail: [email protected] registered with the appropriate Government agencies and URL: www.peza.gov.ph employ at least five employees; • Affiliate members: business associations or sectoral Year established: 1995 organizations duly registered under the laws of the Philippines; Principal function: • Local chamber members: local chambers of commerce and industry registered under the laws of the country and duly • To promote investments to the Philippines, particularly in accredited with the chamber in accordance with its existing PEZA economic zones; rules; • To contribute to the accelerated creation of employment and • Associate members: entities which do not fall under the other economic opportunities, particularly in the countryside; membership classifications stated above. • To spur the growth and diversification of exports, by encouraging and supporting investments in the development Training: and operation of viable, world class and environment friendly economic zones. Members are provided with first-hand opportunities to attend training programs here and abroad through PCCI's extensive links Services/activities: with various local and international Government and private institutions. The PCCI, in partnership with Jose Rizal University • Provides investment information, guidelines and assistance is also implementing the competencies enhancement programme to prospective PEZA investors and visitors; which aims to enhance the leadership and management • Undertakes promotion and marketing of PEZA Ecozones, IT competencies of its members. PCCI also regularly conducts Parks and Buildings; Chamber Management Workshops which aim to enhance the • Provides assistance in the application of investors for service and advocacy capabilities of its local chambers. registration as an Ecozone Export Enterprise, Ecozone IT
Enterprise, Ecozone Utilities Enterprise or Ecozone Facilities Category: Enterprise;
• Facilitates the prompt issuance of investors’ visa to Chamber of commerce. expatriates working for PEZA locator enterprises;
• Organizes inbound/outbound investment missions.
Publications issued:
• The Special Economic Zone Act of 1995 (Republic Act No. 7916 as amended by Republic Act No. 8748). • Rules and Regulations to Implement Republic Act No. 7916. • The PEZA Economic Zones, Your Investment Destination in Asia. • Awaiting Your Investments! Philippine Economic Zones: World-Class Environment-Friendly, Ideal Locations for World Industry Leaders. • The PEZA Network (official newsletter published quarterly in English).
Local branches:
Regular/Public PEZA Ecozones:
Baguio City Economic Zone Loakan Road, Baguio City
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Bataan Economic Zone PHILIPPINE EXPORTERS CONFEDERATION, INC. Nassco, Mariveles, Bataan (PHILEXPORT)
Cavite Economic Zone Office/postal address: Rosario, Cavite International Trade Centre Complex Mactan Economic Zone Roxas Blvd. Cor. Sen Gil Puyat Avenue Lapu-Lapu City, Mactan, Cebu Pasay City 1300
Number of operating/proclaimed special economic zones over the Phone: (63 2) 8332531-4 country: 123 (as of 9 June 2005). Fax: (63 2) 8312132, 8310231, 8313707
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.philexport.ph • IT services (software development and applications in business, e-commerce, education, media and entertainment; Year established: 1991 (a merger of the Confederation of engineering, architectural and other design services; multi- Philippine Exporters and the Philippine Exporters Foundation). media graphics, animation, printing and other services; call centres; data encoding, transcribing and related services; IT Principal functions: research and development); • Electronics; • To provide programmes and services that will promote the • Electrical machinery; growth and development of the Philippine export industry; • Transport and car parts; • To work with the Government in the development of policies • Medical, precision and optical products; that will support an export-led economic development. • Precision equipment; • Processed food; Services/activities: • Metal products; • High-value plastic products; • Trade advisory and facilitation; • Refined chemicals; • Specialized training programmes, seminars and workshops;
• Garments and textiles; • Special trade and investment promotions programme; • Information collection and dissemination; • Other manufactures. • Technical support to regional and provincial chapters and sectoral associations; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • One-stop export documentation centre (OSEDC); • Bonded warehousing operations; • Special Economic Zone Act of 1995 or Republic Act (RA) • Support for trade and investment policy analysis and 7916 as amended by RA 8748. advocacy. • Implementing Rules and Regulations of RA 7916 as Amended. Publications issued: • Omnibus Investment Code (Executive Order No. 226). • PHILEXPORT News and Features (weekly, English). Category: • Industry Update, Policy Advisories. • Early Bird News Service. Investment promotion agency. Membership structure: 3,000 members, representing 16 product sectors and company sizes in the export industry.
Exporters in the regions are reached though 18 regional chapters based in Baguio (Cordillera Administrative Region, Pangasinan, Cagayan Valley, Pampanga, Calabarzon, MIMAROPA, Bicol, Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Cebu, Leyte, Zamboanga, Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Davao, SOCSARGEN, CARAGA, ARMM (Sulu, Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Tawi-Tawi).
Products/commodity responsible for:
Members produce and export automotive parts and accessories, chemicals, electronics, food, footware, leather goods, fashion accessories, furniture, garments, gifts, toys and housewares, information products, technology and services, metals and non- metals, resource-based products and textiles. Also has service providers such as freight forwarders, brokers, trade associations, financial institutions in roster.
Category:
Trade promotion organization.
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PHILIPPINE EXPORT-IMPORT CREDIT AGENCY Services/activities: (PHILEXIM) (Trade and Investment Development Corporation of the PhilEXIM offers the following export financing programmes: Philippines) Guarantee Programmes: Office/postal address: • Preshipment Export Finance Guarantee (PEFG) Program - guarantee coverage on preshipment working capital loans 17th Floor, Citibank Tower extended by participating financial institutions (PFI) to Valero Street collateral-deficient small and medium exporters; 1200 Makati City • Postshipment Export Risk Guarantee (PERG) Program - guarantee coverage on export bill purchases arising from and export transactions under PEFG and other receivable financing extended by PFIs; 3rd and 4th Floors, Citibank Centre Alternative Schemes of PEFG and PERG: Citibank Plaza - Export Trade Finance Guarantee (ETFG) - guarantee 8741 Paseo de Roxas coverage on transaction-based loans; 1226 Makati City - Revolving Export Loan Guarantee (RELG) - guarantee coverage to revolving lines; Phone: (63 2) 8934809, 8934632 • Term Loan Guarantee Program (TLGP) - guarantee coverage Trunkline: (63 2) 8481900, 8934204 on medium- and long-term loans of up to P50 million extended Fax: (63 2) 8934480, 8934852 by PFIs to medium and large exporters, and to small exporters with PEFG and PERG accounts, for asset acquisition, E-mail: [email protected] expansion and production modernization and related URL: www.philexim.gov.ph expenditures; • General Facility Program (GFP) - guarantee coverage on Year established: 1977 domestic and foreign loans of medium and large exporters and other domestic enterprises to finance any export promotion Principal functions: activities, import substitution industries and other government priority projects; • To guarantee approved foreign loans for developmental • Omnibus Line Guarantee under the General Facility Program purposes having special regard to the needs of export-oriented (OLG-GFP) - guarantee coverage on short-term loans of up to industries, BOI-registered industries, public utilities and P300 million granted by banks to large, direct and indirect industries, the promotion of which is encouraged by exporters, with disbursement against letters of credit (L/Cs), government policy; confirmed purchase orders (CPOs) and confirmed sale • To guarantee Philippine banking and financial institutions contracts (CSCs); against loss that may be incurred in connection with the grant • Programme for Large Projects in Priority Sectors of the of loans/credit accommodations to exporters, producers of Government - guarantee coverage on loans from foreign export products or contractors with approved service contracts lending institutions to finance government projects in tourism, abroad, organized or licensed to engage in business in the ICT, agri-modernization and infrastructure and other projects Philippines; listed under the Investment Priority Plan of the National • To guarantee letters of credit/guarantee issued by Philippine Government. banks and financial institutions to secure the performance of approved service contracts abroad entered into by any entity Lending Programmes: or corporation organized or licensed to engage in business in • Short-Term Direct Lending Program - loans of up to P5 the Philippines; million to finance pre-shipment working capital requirements • To provide insurance cover, credits and appropriate services to of SMEs; facilitate the export of Philippine goods or services by any • Medium- and Long-Term Direct Lending Program - loans of entity, enterprise or corporation organized or licensed to up to P40 million to finance capital asset acquisition, engage in business in the Philippines; expansion and plant modernization and related expenditures of • To guarantee or provide insurance cover for investments of SMEs, as well as large exporters; any entity, enterprises or corporation organized or licensed to • Special Credit Facility for Export Development - short-term engage in business in the Philippines; loans of up to P1.5 million to finance the pre-shipment • To enter into contract of re-insurance with any organized working capital requirements of small exporters; export credit agency or insurance organization; • SME Unified Lending Opportunities for National Growth • To extend direct loans or other credit facilities to any person (SULONG) – in support of the National SME Development or entity for the financing of export contracts and foreign trade Plan, the government financial institutions (GFIs) transactions; collabourated to design a uniform lending programme, tailor- • To provide technical assistance preparation, financing, made to meet the funding needs of SMEs. Under the unified execution of development or expansion programmes, lending program, the participating GFIs shall apply simplified including the formulation of specific project proposals. and standardized lending procedures and guidelines, for example loan purpose, fee structures, interest rates, application forms, financial ratios and other lending parameters, for evaluating the loan application of SMEs.
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Trade Credit Insurance Programmes: PHILIPPINE SHIPPERS’ BUREAU • Export Credit Insurance - insurance coverage to exporters against non-payment by foreign buyers of export shipments on Office/postal address: credit arising from political and commercial risks; • Domestic Credit Insurance (Globalliance) - insurance 5th Floor, Trade and Industry Building coverage on receivables of a multinational’s subsidiary 361 Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue companies against non-payment of buyers in the subsidiary’s Makati City 1200 country; • @rating (Credit Rating Service) - a web-based global trade P.O. Box: 3828 Makati Central Post Office, Metro Manila debt rating service system which certifies, rates and secures B2B trades online, and assesses the transaction risks involved Phone: (63 2) 7510384, 7512512-3, 7513309 as well as the creditworthiness and payment capacity of Fax: (63 2) 7513305 buyers across the globe. E-mail: [email protected] Trade Information Exchange System (TRADEX) – an Internet- URL: www.dti.gov.ph based information system designed to enable real-time and interactive matching and exchange of information on buyers and Year established: 1973 sellers in international trade to facilitate financing and other services (tradex.philexim.gov.ph). Principal functions:
Publications issued: • To promote and protect the common interests of Philippine exporters, importers and other commercial users of water • Annual Report. transport; • Corporate Profile of PhilEXIM. • To consult/negotiate with cartelized, as well as individual • Newsletter. lines, on proposed general and specific freight charges, the • News Bulletin. provision and maintenance of adequate, reliable and • PhilEXIM Law Digest. economic shipping services, and provision of equitable • Brochures and primers of programmes. shipping contracts; • To serve as a clearing house of information on shipping Local branches: services and other matters of interest to Philippine shippers; • To bring to the attention of the Government the laws, Naga Field Unit policies, rules and regulations that hamper the development Unit B-2, 2nd Floor, DMG Building of Philippine trade and commerce, especially those which Peñafrancia Avenue, Naga City may delay or obstruct the speedy, economical and efficient Fax: (63 54) 4738588 carriage of goods, and recommend and work for appropriate legislation and adoption of remedial measures; Cebu Field Unit • To maintain and develop close relations with shippers’ Room 406 Keppel Centre, Samar Loop councils and relevant organizations in Asia and other corner Cardinal Rosales Ave., Cebu City countries for the attainment of the objectives of the Bureau; Fax: (63 32) 4738588 • To serve as the central implementing authority for the use of Philippine flag vessels in the country’s foreign trade, as Davao Field Unit prescribed by PD 1466. Unit 43, 4th Floor, Landco Building PDCP Corporate Centre Services/activities: J.P. Laurel Avenue, Davao City Fax: (63 82) 2222241 • Organizes/strengthens shippers’ associations; • Undertakes research and analysis of projected increases in Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: freight rates and various surcharges and other shipping terms and conditions; Export sector, SMEs and large accounts; and large projects in • Computes freight costs of exporters’ shipments to specific priority sectors of the Government, i.e. tourism, ICT, agri- port destinations, as well as price quotations of their exports modernization, infrastructure, energy, and mining projects. to prospective buyers; • Educates shippers in the proper and economical stuffing, Category: packing and packaging of export cargoes; • Secures adequate shipping services for the carriage of Export credit insurance; export financing organization; Philippine exports/import through the use of the Philippine investment financing organization; export-import credit agency; flag vessels, pursuant to PD 1466; and government owned and controlled corporation. • Conducts seminars/workshops on how to save shipping costs in the transport of shippers’ cargoes; • Provides systematic vessel chartering services or charter vessels for the benefit of Philippine shippers; • Accredits international and domestic sea freight forwarders.
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Offices abroad: Services/activities:
Philippine consular offices, which may have been delegated • Conducts seminars/training programmes on: authority by the Bureau to grant waivers pursuant to the Entrepreneurship development implementation of PD 1466 (Philippine Cargo Reservation Law). - How to start a business; - Entrepreneurship Development Programme: new Membership structure: 577 accredited freight forwarders (as business creation; of 1 August 2005) and 11 regional shipping association. - Entrepreneurship Development Programme: business improvement and sustainability; Products/commodity responsible for: - Franchising: how to select and buy a franchise/how to start and manage a franchise; Provides assistance to shippers. - Business plan preparation for beginners; - Strategic marketing; Training: - Finding the right market for the right product; - Basic business recording and cash flow management; Conducts seminars/workshops on how to save on shipping costs - Effective selling skills; in the transport of shippers’ cargoes. - Effective market research; - Effective customer service; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: - Setting up an effective customer payment system; - Developing an effective purchasing system; Accreditation/registration of freight forwarding companies. - Financial management for SMEs; - Business risk management; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: - Understanding trademarks, patents and copyrights; - Let your English work at work. • Executive Order No. 226 “Omnibus Investments Code of Export management 1987”. - Expanding business through export (basics of • Foreign Investment Act of 1991 - Republic Act No. 7042. exporting); - Product costing and pricing techniques; Category: - Effective negotiation skills; - Market briefings / Market opportunities seminars; Ministry of Trade; shipper’s council, port authority, national - Import procedures and documentation; shipping corporation; trade facilitation body; and trade support. - Understanding customs valuation; - How to avoid and resolve trade complaints; - International transportation and INCO terms; PHILIPPINE TRADE TRAINING CENTER (PTTC) - Chinese-Mandarin/Japanese Business Language Courses; Office/postal address: - Supply chain management/logistics management. Trade exhibition management and participation PTTC Building - Creative and technical aspects of exhibition and visual Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue corner Roxas Boulevard merchandising; 1300 Pasay City - How to participate in trade fairs. E-commerce/ICT Phone: (63 2) 834-1344 - 49 - Introduction to computers and MS Windows; Fax: (63 2) 834-1343 - Basic MS Word/MS Excel/MS Powerpoint; - Adobe Pagemaker; E-mail: [email protected] - Adobe Photoshop; URL: www.pttc.gov.ph - Dreamweaver MX; - Macromedia Flash MX; Year established: 1987 - Macromedia Fireworks. Business support and development Principal functions: - Basic business advisor’s course; - Capability build-up for MSME business advisors and PTTC is an attached agency of the Department of Trade and counsellors. Industry that serves as the Government's training arm for micro-, Qaulity and productivity small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), whether engaged - Production and operations management; in domestic or export trade. Its mandates are: - Supervisory effectiveness for improved quality and productivity; • To design and develop training curricula and corresponding - Effective leadership skills; instructional materials, and conduct training programmes for - Problem-solving and decision-making techniques; MSMEs, business support organizations, and the Government; - Management development program; • To provide post-training advisory and counselling services; - ISO 9000 quality management system; • To provide customized in-company training programmes and - ISO 9001: 2000 quality management system services; documentation; • To provide a venue for MSMEs as well as large enterprises to - ISO/IEC 17025:1999 standards for laboratory promote their products by marketing, renting out and competence; maintaining exhibition facilities, and providing events - ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory internal audit; management support. - ISO 14000 environmental management system;
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- Internal quality audit; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CENTER - Failure mode and effects analysis; OF THE PHILIPPINES (PDDCP) - Total quality management; - 5S of good housekeeping; Office/postal address: - Cleaner production; - Waste minimization; Cultural Centre Complex - Corporate culture; Filipino values in the workplace; Roxas Boulevard - Statistical process control; 1300 Pasay City - Corporate social responsibility; - Time and motion study; Phone: (63 2) 8321112-9 - Introduction to ergonomics; Fax: (63 2) 8323649 - The Kaizen philosophy; - Process optimization through design of experiments; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] - Materials management and inventory control. • Provides training courses and advisory services for the food Year established: 1973 and garment sectors. Emphasis is given to operational efficiency of MSMEs Principal functions: Quality and productivity improvement for the food sector - Current good manufacturing practices; • To promote industrial design as a tool for improving the - Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP); quality and competitiveness of Philippine products, and - HACCP documentation; services the design needs of entrepreneurial groups and - Packaging and labelling for processed food; associations from every level of industry; - Food safety; • To design, develop or improve products and packages based - Food labeling requirements; on market requirements and manufacturer's production - Innovative packaging; capability; - Food branding as a marketing tool. • To gather and disseminate data on design and market Quality and productivity improvement for the garment sector directions and developments and cultural references, and to - Production management for the garment industry; undertake applied research on materials and technologies - Quality management for the garment industry; related to product development; - Fabric sourcing; • To advance awareness and appreciation of the Industrial - Fabric and thread: selection and usage; design profession through exhibitions, seminars, dialogue, and - Fashion merchandising; publications. - Colour merchandising; - Patternmaking; Services/activities: - Clothing machinery repair and maintenance. • Rents out exhibition facilities and seminar rooms for domestic • Design of new product, product adaptation, product and international trade fairs, conventions, special events and diversification or expansion of existing product or line based other promotional activities; on market needs and available technology; • Conducts WTO capacity-building programmes and maintains • New design and redesign of packages of food and non-food a WTO Resource Centre. products based on requirements of target market; • Maintains an Internet Plaza for use by training participants • Hands-on learning and application of skills such as finishing, and the general public knotting, bleaching and dyeing techniques related to product development; Publications issued: • Seminars on product development and trends, and information on generic product and package design details and processes- Books: related to product development; • Trade Secrets: The Export Answer Book for Small and • Access to design and industry publications for individuals Medium-sized Enterprises. (March 2000, English; in interested in the study of design. cooperation with the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO). Publications issued: • Secrets of Electronic Commerce: A Guide for Exporters. (June 2001, English; in cooperation with the International • PDDCP Design Digest Update. Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO). • PDDCP Design Digest. Courseware (CD-ROM):
• eBiz Plan – A reference material for preparing a business Local branches: plan. • Exporting made e-Z – A step-by-step guide to prospective DTI Bldg., corner J.M. Basa - Peralta Streets exporters. Iloilo City
Training: Jomil Bldg., Georgetown Park Rizal Street, Cabangan As detailed under services/activities. 4500 Legaspi City, Albay
Category: Category:
Training institute; trade fair and exhibition venue; and trade Design centre. promotion organization.
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TRADE AND INDUSTRY INFORMATION CENTER • Logistics; (TIIC) • Drugs and medicines;* • Engineered products;* Office/postal address: • Information and communication technology;* • Infrastructure; Department of Trade and Industry • Mass housing projects including development and manufacture Industry and Investments Building of housing components;* 385 Sen. Gil J. at Avenue • Research and development activities, including biotechnolgy Makati City • Social service;* • Tourism-related projects endorsed by the Department of Phone: (63 2) 8953611 Tourism;* Fax: (63 2) 8956487 • Motion picture limited to films with historical and socio- cultural significance, and documentary films; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • New projects and bio-technology projects with a minimum URL: www.dti.gov.ph, www.business.gov.ph project cost of US$ 2 million and which were not
commercially undertaken in the Philippines as of 31 December Year established: 1981 2001;
• Printing facilities. Principal functions:
* with modernization projects. • To design, operate and maintain a system for the collection,
storage and retrieval of trade and industry information; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • To disseminate comprehensive and relevant information on trade, industry and investments; • The Omnibus Investment Code of 1987 (Executive Order • To coordinate and monitor the information campaigns on the No. 226). Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) services, • The Foreign Investments Act of 1991 (Republic Act No. programmes and projects; 704). • To develop communication programmes promoting Philippine • The Special Economic Zone Act (Republic Act No. 7916). trade and investment opportunities; • The Bases Conversion and Development Act of 1992. • To provide editorial and creative services in support of other • Republic Act No. 7721. DTI unit's information programmes. • The Build-Operate-Transfer Act (Republic Act No. 7718). Services/activities: • Republic Act No. 7888. • Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 (Republic Act No. 8792). • Packages and disseminates publications (print/online) and • Export Development Act (Republic Act No. 7844). periodic reports; • Foreign Investment Act (Republic Act No. 8179). • Provides assistance to DTI agencies; • Foreign Investment List (Executive Order No. 286). • Maintains database on trade and investments; • Omnibus Investment Code (Executive Order No. 226). • Provides enquiry services; • Retail Trade Liberalization Act (Republic Act No. 8762). • Provides library and reach-out services; • Safeguards Measures Act (Republic Act No. 8800). • Maintains/manages a Business Research Centre; • Transaction Value Act (Republic Act No. 8181). • Maintains a mailing list for publications and information • Motor Vehicle Development Program (MVDP) (OE # 156). dissemination. Category: Publications issued: Trade and industry development promotion organization. • Directory of DTI Officials. • DTI Annual Report. • DTI Dataline (biweekly). WOMEN INTO THE NEW NETWORK FOR • DTI Guide to Services (biennium). ENTERPRENUIALREINFORCEMENT (WINNER) • Philippine Business Report (monthly newsletter). • DTI papers (occasionally). Office/postal address:
rd Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: 3 Floor, Department of Foreign Affairs Building Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City Philippines 2330 • Export activities;
• Industrial tree plantation; Phone: (632) 834-4611 • Iron and steel projects;*
• Exploration, mining, quarrying and processing of minerals;* E-mail: [email protected] • Publication or printing of books or textbooks;* URL: www.winner-tips.org • Refining, storage, marketing and distribution of petroleum products; Year established: 2002 • Ecological Solid Waste Management Act; • Agricultural/fishery production and processing;* • Energy sources; Principal functions:
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Principal function: • To strengthen the practical and technical skills of women entrepreneurs through the application of basic training on • To provide a variety of services and facilities to members information and communication technologies; and clients, which include: access to and exchange of trade • To engage in capacity building of partner organizations to information, business opportunities and trade leads through provide business development services to women WTCA OnLine (www.wtca.org), display and exhibit entrepreneurs; facilities, meeting facilities, trade missions, international • To serve the purpose of a long-distance and continuing trade show participation, training and educational services, education for women in the SME sector entrepreneurs; lounge and dining services, and consumer and business services. • To create conditions conducive for business partnerships, trade collaboration and technology cooperation to meet the Services/activities: challenge of global competition in the New Economy.
• Reciprocity - provides members an access to the services and Services/activities: facilities being offered at all World Trade Centers worldwide; • Provides Information and Communication Technology • WTCA OnLine - provides access to World Trade Centers (ICT) training courses for women entrepreneurs; Association’s Internet website which is a premier destination • Provides virtual product exhibition to project’s beneficiaries for businesses who want to succeed in the world of through the WINNER website in promoting their products international trade; and services; • Trade information service - provides access to various • Provides support to project beneficiaries through business information on business, trade and investment opportunities, matching activities such as linking businesses with potential world markets, trade statistics, e-commerce, government customers; regulations and other business developments; • International trade library - maintains a library which houses
an extensive collection of trade journals, directories,
magazines and other publications on world markets, laws and Publications issued: regulations in different countries, tariffs and other periodicals; • For a full list of papers and reports, please refer to < • Trade missions/trade show participation - organizes http://www.winner-tips.org/article/frontpage/1> incoming/outgoing trade missions and international trade show participation in cooperation with other World Trade Category: Centers abroad; • Training and educational services - organizes training Non-profit organization assisting in capacity building for women programmes and seminars conducted by local and foreign entrepreneurs. experts, with topics covering various facets of business and trade; WORLD TRADE CENTER METRO MANILA • Lounge and dining services - provides lounge and dining services at special discounted rates to members for their Office/postal address: business meetings and private functions; • Consumer and business services such as: computer rentals, 2nd Floor WTCMM Building Internet access, facsimile and photocopying services, Gil Puyat Avenue Extension cor. Macapagal Boulevard answering service, translation services and other clerical and Pasay City 1300 secretarial services; • Meeting facilities - provides meeting room facilities for Phone: (63 2) 551 5151 members and guests; • Display and exhibit services - provides a venue for Fax: (63 2) 551 5243 showcasing products and services and the newest
technologies in the different industries. E-mail: [email protected]
URL: www.wtcmanila.com.ph Offices abroad:
Year established: 1989 World Trade Center Metro Manila is a member of the World
Trade Centers Association (WTCA). WTCA has a total of 300 member centers operating in 85 countries all over the world.
Membership Structure: 236 founding, corporate and individual members.
Category:
Trade association; trade fair and exhibition authority; and trade promotion organization.
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EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF KOREA • Outline of Relending Facility (English). • Biannual Handbook of Foreign ECAs (Korean). Office/postal address: • Biannual Handbook of Country Information (Korean). • Monthly Exim Report (Korean). 16-1, Yeouido-dong Yeoungdeungpo-gu Local branches: Seoul, 150-996 3rd Floor, Shinhan Bank Building P.O. Box: 641, Yeouido, Seoul 150-606 71-1 Sangnam-dong, Changwon 641-831 Phone: (82 55) 2876830 Phone: (82 2) 37796114 Fax: (82 55) 2876831 Fax: (82 2) 7841030 E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected] 13th Floor, Samsung Securities Trust Building URL: www.koreaexim.go.kr 190-5, Beomeo-dong Suseong-gu, Daegu 706-742 Year established: 1976 Phone: (82 53) 7541021 Fax: (82 53) 7541020 Principal functions: E-mail: [email protected]
• To facilitate the sound development of the national economy 16th Floor, Capital Tower Bldg. and enhance economic cooperation with foreign countries; 931 Dunsan 2-dong • To engage in a variety of financial business activities to Seo-gu, Daejeon 302-828 achieve its purpose; Phone: (82 42) 4899715 • To extend financial support for export and import Fax: (82 42) 4899716 transactions, overseas investment projects, development of E-mail: [email protected] natural resources overseas and trade finance, to operate the Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) and the 7th Floor, Korea First Bank Building Inter-Korea Cooperation Fund. 9-2 Geumnam-ro 3-ga Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-023 Services/activities: Phone: (82 62) 2326944 Fax: (82 62) 2326946 • Provides medium- and long-term export loans to domestic E-mail: [email protected] suppliers, including SMEs, and foreign buyers to support the export of Korean capital goods and technical services; 15th Floor, KORAM Bank Building • Provides medium- and long-term credits to domestic 1127, Guwol-dong importers for the import of raw materials and to domestic Namdong-gu, Incheon 405-220 investors for overseas ventures; Phone: (82 32) 2356114 • Provides guarantees for domestic and foreign financial Fax: (82 32) 2356121 institutions against losses incurred in financing either the E-mail: [email protected] domestic supplier or the foreign buyers; th • Provides economic development cooperation loans for 14 Floor, Hongwoo Building, 945-1 industrial development and economic stabilization in Daechi 3-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-846 developing countries; Phone: (82 2) 62486114 • Operates the Economic Development Cooperation Fund Fax: (82 2) 62486119 (EDCF) that assists developing countries in implementing E-mail: [email protected]
development projects by extending bilateral Official th Development Assistance (ODA) loans; 6 Floor, LG Bldg. • Operates Inter-Korea Cooperation Fund under the initiative 257-5, Bujeon 2-dong and policy coordination of the National Unification Board to Busanjin-gu, Busan 614-737 expand mutual exchange and cooperation with the Phone: (82 51) 8175050 Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the areas of home Fax: (82 51) 8176060 visits, cultural activities, sports, trade and economic E-mail: [email protected] cooperation; 9th Floor, Gyeonggi Small and Medium Business Centre, 906-5 • Operates Overseas Economic Research Institute to provide Iui-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-766 local firms seeking overseas investment opportunities with Phone: (82 31) 2596600~7 coordinated and comprehensive services for launching Fax: (82 31) 2596609 businesses overseas. E-mail: [email protected]
Publications issued: 5th Floor, Dongyang Investment Bank
1358-8 Dahl-dong • Annual Report (English). Nam-gu, Ulsan 680-727 • A Guide to the Export-Import Bank of Korea Phone: (82 52) 2745272~6 (English/Korean). Fax: (82 52) 2745278 • A Guide to EDCF (English/Korean). E-mail: [email protected] • The Project and Structured Finance Program (English).
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6th Floor Chungcheongbuk-do SandM Business Centre P.T. Koexim Mandiri Finance 1508-1, Gagyeong-dong Menara Mulia Tower Suite 2007 JL Heungduk-gu, Cheongju, 361-802 Jend Gatot Subroto Kav. 9-11 Phone: (82 43) 2370471 Jakarta 12930, Indonesia Fax: (82 43) 2370476 Phone: (62 21) 5257261 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (62 21) 5257260 E-mail: [email protected] 10th Floor KTCU Jeonbuk Bldg., 769-1 Seoshin-dong, Wansan-gu, Jeonju, 560-720 No. 18 West Daneshvar Street Phone: (82 63) 2716134~8 Shaekhbahaei Avenue, Vanak Square Fax: (82 63) 2716139 Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (98 21) 8065301 Fax: (98 21) 8054899 Offices abroad: E-mail: [email protected]
Av. Paulista, 1439 cj. 142, Rm. 1904, 19th Floor, Hibiya Daibiru, CEP 01311-200, C 1-2-2 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku Cesar, Sao Paulo, Brasil Tokyo 100-0011, Japan Phone: (55 11) 32833021 Phone: (813) 35808702-3 Fax: (55 11) 32870548 Fax: (813) 35808705 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Office C-716, Beijing Lufthansa Centre Paseo de la Reforma #350 Edif. 50 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District Torre del Angel piso 8, Beijing 100016, China Col. Juarez del Cuauhtemoc Mexico DF Phone: (86 10) 64653371 Mexico C.P. 06600 Fax: (86 10) 64637116 Phone: (52 55) 55118445 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (52 55) 55118472 E-mail: [email protected] Kexim Asia Ltd. Suite 2511, 25th Floor, Jardine House Korea Trade Centre, 21th Floor, Warsaw 1 Connaught Place, Central Financial Centre ul. Emilii Plater 53 Hong Kong, China 00-113, Warszawa, Poland Phone: (852) 28100182 Phone: (48 22)5206248 Fax: (852) 28104460 Fax: (48 22)5206249 E-mail: [email protected] Office Building 1704 A Rm. 1422, Hisense Tower No. 17 World Trade Centre Donghai west Rd. 12 Krasnopresnenskaya Nab. Qingdao, 266071, China 123610 Moscow, Russian Federation Phone: (86 532) 3095896 Phone: (7 095) 2582366 Fax: (86 532) 3095897 Fax: (7 095) 2582368 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
19E, PUFA Bldg., No. 588 Level 4, The Gate PO Box 74777 Pudong Road(S), Shanghai, China Dubai, United Arab Emirates Phone: (86 21) 58768575 Phone: (971 50) 2502937 Fax: (86 21) 58761782 Fax: (971 40) 2279686 E-mail: [email protected] Kexim Bank (UK) Limited 36 Ave. Hoche, 75008 Paris, France Boston House Phone: (33 1) 44218317 63-64 New Broad Street Fax: (33 1) 44218315 London EC2M 1JJ, United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (44 20) 75625500 Fax: (44 20) 75883642 Zeppelinallee 65-67, Ecke Blanchardstrasse E-mail: [email protected] 60487 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Phone: (49 69) 9778320 460 Park Avenue, 8th Floor Fax: (49 69) 9778316 New York, NY 10022 E-mail: [email protected] United States of America Phone: (1 212) 3557280 B2 Qutab Hotel Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, Fax: (1 212) 3086106 New Delhi 110016 India E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (91 11) 51688721 Fax: (91 11) 51688723 E-mail: [email protected]
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1300 L Street, N.W. Suite 825 FEDERATION OF KOREAN INDUSTRIES (FKI) Washington, DC 20005 United States of America Office/postal address: Phone: (1 202) 4088838~9 Fax: (1 202) 4087858 2nd Floor, FKI Building E-mail: [email protected] 28-1, Yoido-dong Yongdeungpo-ku 16th Floor, Project Finance Centre Seoul 150-756 National Bank for Foreign Activity of the Republic of Uzbekistan Phone: (82 2) 37710114 101 Amir Temur Str. Fax: (82 2) 37710110 Tashkent 100084, Uzbekistan Phone: (998 71) 1375944 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (998 71) 1355610 URL: www.fki.or.kr E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1961 Kexim Viet Nam Leasing Co., Ltd. 9th Floor, Diamond Plaza Building Principal functions: 34 Le Duan Street, District 1 Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam • To promote entrepreneurial spirit and the free enterprise Phone: (84 8) 8257000 system; Fax: (84 8) 8230854 • To develop a sound national economy through fully mobilizing E-mail: [email protected] entrepreneurs’ knowledge, experience and capital resources; • To play a vital role in the private sector in promoting economic Category: cooperation with foreign business communities; • To conduct research and survey work on domestic and Export financing organization. overseas economic conditions and trends; • To advise the Government and other interested parties on economic matters; • To exchange economic and trade missions with other countries; • To sponsor business conferences.
Services/activities:
• Conducts studies on various domestic and international problems which affect the Korean economy including financial and fiscal developments, taxation, business trends, technological development, industrial structure, resources, urban problems, domestic and foreign trade conditions, international economy; • Provides the Government and its agencies with the consolidated views and recommendations of the private business community on overall economic policies as well as specific areas including investment, taxation, financing, price structure, resources, foreign trade, export credit, technical cooperation and improvement of industrial structure; • Promotes international economic cooperation. Bilateral economic cooperation committees and cooperative bodies established under the umbrella of FKI have been serving as principal channels for cooperation between the business sector of the Republic of Korea and its foreign counterparts.
Publications issued:
• Annual Report, (English). • Chun Kyung Ryun (monthly, Korean). • Korean Economic Yearbook (Korean). • FKI Newsletter (monthly, English, also online).
Membership structure: 354 corporate members and 63 business associations (May 2007).
Category:
Industrial promotion organization.
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KOREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND KOREA IMPORTERS ASSOCIATION (KOIMA) INDUSTRY (KCCI) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: KOIMA Building 45 4 ga Namdaemunro 218 Hankangro 2-ka Jung-gu Yongsan-ku Seoul 100 743 Seoul 140-875
Phone: (82 2) 60503114 Phone: (82 2) 7921581 Fax: (82 2) 21023400 Fax: (82 2) 7854373
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: english.korcham.net, www.korchambiz.net URL: www.import.or.kr/index.do
Year established: 1884 Year established: 1970
Principal functions: Principal functions: • To promote economic development, international cooperation; • To promote sound development of commerce and industry. • To approve thereby register membership; • To confirm foreign-issued offers for sale (or quotations) being Services/activities: submitted by non-members required for import approval; • To recommend items adequate for import approval to the • Provides counselling and training on business management; authorities concerned which fall under import restriction; • Organizes seminars, conferences and meetings both domestic • To liaise and coordinate affairs in question with the and international; government authorities concerning the rights and interests of • Reviews Government economic policies and makes members; recommendations to improve any inadequacies in them; • To provide a trade balance with international markets as well • Undertakes economic research and surveys; as promote mutual trade development, friendly ties and • Operates a library, publishes and disseminates economic diversification of import markets; information and handles business enquiries; • To run the office of market consulting for foreign business • Sends and receives trade missions; people as one part of government import diversification policy. • Certifies trade documents; • Provides assistance and guidance to foreign investors; Services/activities: • Provides information on industrial locations; • Participates in international economic organizations including • Provides intermediary services in linking foreign firms with International Chamber of Commerce and the Confederation of local partners for trade promotion; Asian Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry. • Dispatches buying missions overseas to promote and expand international trade; Publications issued: • Makes hotel reservations at special rates on behalf of members.
• Doing Business with Korea (English). Publications issued: • Economic and Industrial Research Series (Korean). • Guide to Investment in Korea (English). • KOIMA Magazine. • KCCI Quarterly Review (English). • Monthly Bulletin. • Weekly Chamber Bulletin (Korean). • Trading Agents Directory (biennial). • Reports on conferences, seminars and workshops, etc. • Other brochures. (occasional, Korean or English/Korean combined). • Korean Business Directory (online at www.korchambiz.net). Local branch:
Office abroad: 3F, Architecture Centre 847-18, Beomchon-1 Dong 401/38 Xiondaiquiche dasha Jin-ku, Pusan Shoo Yun Iv, Chao Yong Qv Phone: (82 51) 6437142-3 Beijing Fax: (82 51) 6437144
Membership structure: 70 local chambers of commerce. Membership structure: 6804 member firms.
Training: KOIMA members handle slightly more than 83 per cent of the Republic of Korea's total import volume and represent over The Chamber's Vocational Training Centre provides a course in 54,000 overseas suppliers and manufacturers from over 100 factory automation data processing, computer and graphic design, countries. etc. Category: Category: Trade association. Chamber of commerce; and industrial promotion organization.
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KOREA INTERNATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION • Operates Korean Trade Information Centres, a clearing house (KITA) for trade-related information, publishes a wide range of periodicals and reports including statistics, handbooks, Office/postal address: directory and catalogues of export products; • Conducts research and surveys on various subjects relating to Trade Tower international trade and economy, promotes Korea's Korea World Trade Centre international competitiveness. 159-1, Samsung-dong Kangnam-gu Publications issued: Seoul 135-729 KITA publishes over 100 trade-related materials, including 23 Phone: (82 2) 5515303-6 periodicals, some of which are: Fax: (82 2) 5515181, 5515300 • Korea Export (annually). • Korea Trading Post (monthly). E-mail: [email protected] URL: global.kita.net/ Local branches:
Year established: 1946 Local branches in Chunbuk, Daegu, Daejun, Inchun, Kangwon, Kwangju, Kyungki, Kyungnam, Ulsan, Pusan. Principal functions: Offices abroad: • To represent all licensed traders in the Republic of Korea; • To provide foreign businesspersons with information, contacts Offices abroad in Beijing; Brussels; New York; Shanghai; and advice; Singapore; Tokyo and Washington D.C. • To facilitate and promote international trade; • To represent and enhance the interests of the entire Membership structure: 70,000 member companies. international business community throughout the Republic of Korea; Training: • To function as a leading trade promotion organization in expanding the Republic of Korea's foreign trade and enlarging KITA operates the International Trade Institute (ITI) whose 47 its role in the world market; specialized programmes include numerous trade specialist courses. • To maintain and operate the Korean World Trade Centre The ITI cultivates approximately 10,000 specialists every year by (KWTC) providing a "one-stop service" to both domestic and developing systematic curricula, pursuing new fields of academic overseas businesspersons; management and identifying promising recruits through advanced • To provide supporting services in overseas marketing and to database management. enhance economic cooperation through trade-related activities, information services and specialized training Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: courses. • Foreign Investment Promotion Act. Services/activities: • The Enforcement Decrees of the Foreign Investment Promotion Act. • Organizes business matchmaking programmes for trade • Regulations on Foreign Direct Investment. missions, hotel accommodation and tour arrangements; • Foreign Exchange Management Law. • Undertakes activities to promote international cooperation: provides member firms with opportunities to interact fully Categories: with the international community, maintains cooperative relationships with major international organizations; Trade association; trade promotion organization; training/research • Promotes trade facilitation through the business inquiry office institute; and owner and operator of Korea World Trade Centre with support of a computerized database, organizes and (Seoul). dispatches trade missions and market survey teams overseas, assists visiting trade delegations: provides members with information on investment and business opportunities overseas; • Offers training courses to both international and Korean businesspersons on trade-related issues including information technology; • Operates Korean Convention and Exhibition Centre (COEX): provides facilities and service for international exhibitions and permanent display of Sample Showcase and Trade Mart and foreign trade shows; • Operates Korean Trade Information Service (KOTIS), a nationwide online network of databases on economic and trade statistics, trading systems and procedures, trade and industrial trends, tariffs and non-tariff barriers, importers/exporters, buyers/suppliers overseas: provides trade and business counselling services;
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KOREA TRADE-INVESTMENT PROMOTION Publications issued: AGENCY (KOTRA) • Managing the Road to Globalization: The Korean Experience Office/postal address: (English). • Introduction to Foreign Direct Investment (English). International Trade Organization Division • A Practical Labour Guide for Foreign Investors (English). 300-9, Yomgok-dong • Overseas Market News (daily, Korean). Seocho-gu • Investment e-letters. Seoul 137-170 Local branches: P.O. Box: 101, Seocho Room 308, GongYoung B/D Phone: (82 2) 34607114 Jung Ang Ro 1-9 Fax: (82 2) 34607777 Chuncheon Kangwondo Phone: (82 33) 2564181 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (82 33) 2564182 URL: english.kotra.or.kr E-mail: [email protected]
Year established: 21 June 1962 5th Floor, Gwangju Small and Medium Business Support Centre 621-15, Dochen-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju Principal functions: Phone: (82 62) 9545500/2 Fax: (82 62) 9545505 • To promote the Republic of Korea’s foreign trade; E-mail: [email protected] • To promote inbound and outbound investment; • To explore measures to become truly globalized and a leading 12th Floor, KSBC Building, #-Mt.111-8 member of the new world economic order. Iui-Dong, Paldal-Gu Suwon City, Kyonggi-Do, 442-270 Services/activities: Phone: (82 31) 2597820/27 Fax: (82 31) 2597848/49 • Undertakes trade promotion activities: identifying new E-mail: [email protected] marketing opportunities, arranging business meetings between th domestic and overseas buyers and suppliers, organizing trade 4 Floor, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Building missions abroad; 97-6 Shinwol Dong, Changwon, Kyungsangnam-Do • Undertakes overseas market studies, product development and Phone: (82 55) 2871041/2 industrial research programmes, namely, Strategic Marketing Fax: (82 55) 2871030 Initiative (SMI); E-mail: [email protected]
• Organizes and participates in international trade fairs and nd exhibitions; 2 Floor, Daegu Exhibition • Provides "Globalization Service" to assist local SMEs in Convention Centre (Exco Daegu) export marketing; 1676, Sangyeok-2dong • Conducts research on international economic trends, Buk-Gu, Daegu 702-845 international trade developments and current trade-related Phone: (82 53) 3838444 issues; Fax: (82 53) 3838443 E-mail: [email protected] • Maintains close cooperative working ties with international
and foreign trade organizations; #504, TSSc B/D, 23-14, Jang-Dong • Undertakes investment promotion activities through Yusung-Gu, Daejeon seminars/meetings, publications, missions, exhibitions and Phone: (82 42) 8641717 ‘Investment Information Centres’ at Korea Trade Centres Fax: (82 42) 8641716 overseas; E-mail: [email protected] • Provides trade information services through a Global Network which links KOTRA’s Head Office with its Overseas Trade 3rd Floor, Office Building Office and through KOTRA-NET; Busan Exhibition and Convention Centre • Publishes and disseminates trade and product-related 1291 Woo 2-Dong, Haeundae-Ku, Busan materials; Phone: (82 51) 7407801 • Provides consultation, advisory and library services; Fax: (82 51) 7407800 • Provides marketing support services to local SMEs through E-mail: [email protected] electronic commerce and home page; • Maintains Korea Investment Service Centre (KISC), a joint 16th Floor, Koram Bank Building bureau of KOTRA, government officials and specialists in law 1127 Guwol-Dong, Namdong-Gu, Inchon and economy which enables one-stop service on Phone: (82 32) 4216456 inbound/outbound FDIs. Fax: (82 32) 4216459 E-mail: [email protected]
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5th Floor, Chonbuk Small and Training: Medium Business Support Centre 337-2 Palbok-1dong, Duckjin-ku English learning courses including conversation and writing. Chonju, Chonbuk Phone: (82 63) 2144611 Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Fax: (82 63) 2144811 E-mail: [email protected] • Foreign Investment Promotion Act. • Enforcement Decree of the Foreign. 1508-1, Gakyung-dong, Hhungduk-ku • Foreigner’s Land Acquisition Act. 361-802 Cheongju, Chungbuk • Act on Private Investment in Infrastructure. Phone: (82 43) 2364492/4 • Industrial Placement and Factory Construction Act. Fax: (82 43) 2364495 E-mail: [email protected] Category:
th 4 Floor, Tong Yang Investment Bank Co. Investment promotion authority. B/D, 1358-8, Dal-Dong, Nam-Gu Ulsan, 680-030 Phone: (82 52) 2277744 KOREAN AGENCY FOR TECHNOLOGY AND Fax: (82 52) 2277745 STANDARDS (KATS) E-mail: [email protected]
Office/postal address: Korea Trade Centre, Incheon International Office
2851 Unseo-dong, Joong-gu 96, Gyoyukwongil Incheon City, 400-340 Gwacheon-Si Phone: (82 32) 7402601/3 Gyonggi-Do 427-723 Fax: (82 32) 7402600
Phone: (82 2) 5097400 Taejon Exhibition Centre Fax: (82 2) 5076875 3-8 Toryong-dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon
Phone: (82 42) 3653000, 3001, 3002 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (82 42) 3653007, 3008 URL: www.kats.go.kr
Offices abroad: Year established: 1973 (formerly: Korean National Institute
of Technology and Quality (KNITQ), changed as of 24 May There are 99 overseas Korea Trade Centres in 73 countries located 1999). in:
Principal functions: Middle East and Africa (Amman; Baghdad; Beirut; Cairo; Casablanca; Dubai; Kuwait; Muscat; Riyadh; Tehran; Tel Aviv; • To manage a national industrial standardization system; Alger; Johannesburg; Lagos; Nairobi; Tripoli); • To operate a laboratory accreditation system; • To manage the safety control of electrical appliances and Asia and Oceania (Auckland; Bangkok; Chennai; Colombo; consumer goods; Dhaka; Hanoi; Ho Chi Minh City; Jakarta; Karachi; Kuala Lumpur; • To take responsibility for legal metrology system; Manila; Melbourne; New Delhi; Phnom Penh; Singapore; Sydney; • To provide testing/analysis/evaluation functions to industry; Yangon; Tokyo; Osaka; Nagoya; Fukuoka; Beijing; Chengdu; Dalian; Guangzhou; Qingdao; Shanghai; Taipei; Hong Kong, • To conduct R&D for standardization; China; Wuhan); • To operate a national inquiry point for industrial products.
Services/activities: Europe (Amsterdam; Athens; Berlin; Brussels; Budapest; Bucharest; Copenhagen; Dublin; Frankfurt; Hamburg; Helsinki; • Develops and manages Korean Industrial Standards (KS); Istanbul; Lisbon; London; Madrid; Milano; Munich; Oslo; Paris; • Accredits testing and calibrations laboratories; Prague; Sofia; Stockholm; Vienna; Warsaw; Zagreb; Zürich); • Operates safety certification system for electrical goods; • Conducts safety inspections for consumer goods; North America (Atlanta; Chicago; Dallas; Detroit; Los Angeles; • Operates national calibration system; Miami; New York; San Francisco; Washington; Toronto; • Designates verification bodies for legal metrology devices; Vancouver); • Acts as a member organizations sucha as International Organization for Standardization, International Laboratory Latin America (Bogotá; Buenos Aires; Caracas; Guatemala; Lima; Accreditation Cooperation, International Electrotechnical Mexico City; Montevideo; Panama; Santiago; Santo Domingo; Sao Commission, International Organization of Legal Metrology, Paulo); Pacific Area Standards Congress, Asia-Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation, and Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Russian Federation and Commonwealth of Independent States Forum; (Almaty; Kiev; Moscow; Tashkent; Vladivostok). • Functions as World Trade Organization Inquiry Point;
• Undertakes research and development of industrial technology Membership structure: 653 members (domestic 355 and for standardization; overseas 298). • Operates certification system for technologies; • Provides technical assistance to small and medium enterprises;
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• Provides technical assistance to developing countries. efficiency of infrastructure, the trends of freight rates and the Training: bottlenecks of shippers; • Facilitates the national project of making the Republic of Plans and conducts training programmes on standardization, legal Korea a North-East Asian economic and logistics hub; metrology and laboratory accredition as follows: • Provides logistics information such as market freight rates, • “TIC-CAR Project through the APEC Cooperation Centre for shipping schedules, logistics news, transportation guidance Conformity Assessment” (2000-2005); and so on via KSC’s website at www.shippersgate.net; • “Training Program Standardization and Conformity • Operates RADIS (Rate Discount Service) in order to reduce Assessment” for Experts from ASEAN Countries (2002~). shippers’ burden of freight costs; • Operates and facilitates related committees such as the Category: Logistics Working Committee.
Commodity standard institute; industrial promotion; Ministry of Publications issued: Trade; and standard, testing and inspection body. • Practical Guidelines for Export and Import Transportation (2000, Korean) – online publication. KOREAN SHIPPERS COUNCIL (KSC) • Logistic Facilitation among Korea, Japan and Far Eastern Russia (2001, Korean). Office/postal address: • Practical Guidelines for Export and Import Transportation (2001, Korean) – online publication. Trade Tower #4806 • Practical Guidelines for Export and Import Transportation World Trade Centre (2002, Korean) – online publication. 159-1 Samsung 1-dong • Cyber Korean Shippers (quarterly, Korean). Kangnam-gu Seoul 135-729 Local branches:
Phone: (82 2) 60005382-8 7th Floor, Busan Trade Centre Fax: (82 2) 60005200 87-7 Joongang-dong 4-ga Joong-gu Busan Metropolitan City E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Phone: (82 51) 9933300-5 URL: shippersgate.kita.net/ Fax: (82 51) 4634402 E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1972 7th Floor, Kukje Officetel Principal functions: 299-2 Shinchon 4-dong Dong-gu Daegu Metropolitan City • To represent the interests of the shippers of the Republic of Phone: (82 53) 7537531-3 Korea concerning transportation of cargoes and to promote Fax: (82 53) 7537530 cooperation among shippers, carriers and other organizations E-mail: [email protected] associated with shipping; • To facilitate international trade by ensuring the smooth flow 5th Floor, Trade Centre of export/import cargoes, reducing logistics expenses, 1589-1 Woosan-dong Kwangsan-gu protecting the rights of shippers, and improving cargo Kwangju Metropolitan City transportation conditions. Phone: (82 62) 9439400-3 Fax: (82 62) 9139404 Services/activities: E-mail: [email protected]
st • Conducts negotiations/consultations on freight rates and 1 Floor, Jeonbuk Small and Medium Business Support Centre charges and other matters including documentation and 337-2 Palbok-dong 1-ga Duckjin-gu cargo distribution with liner conferences, airlines, inland Jeonju Jeonbuk truckers, freight forwarders and other interested parties on Phone: (82 63) 2146991-2 behalf of all shippers in the country; Fax: (82 63) 2136993 • Provides suggestions/recommendations on shipping matters E-mail: [email protected] to the Government and other transportation-related th organizations to improve domestic cargo transportation 5 Floor, Chungbuk Small and Medium Business Support Centre conditions and reduce cargo distribution costs; 1508-1 Kagyung-dong Hungduck-gu • Maintains close relations with international shippers and Chongju Chungbuk shipping organizations; Phone: (82 43) 2361171-3 • Provides advisory services to its members including Fax: (82 43) 2361174 shipping schedules and freight rates, conducts research E-mail: [email protected] activities on ways to reduce transportation costs, and organizes seminars on shipping to enhance the knowledge Daejon Small and Medium Business Support Centre #406 and skills for shippers of the Republic of Korea; 23-14 Jang-dong Yusong-gu • Conducts research on the current situations of logistics and Daejon Metropolitan City logistics costs, the possible solutions to enhance logistic Phone: (82 42) 8644620-2 Fax: (82 42) 8644623 E-mail: [email protected]
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5th Floor, Kyungnam Trade Centre 2nd Floor, Kamiyacho, Mori Building 7-4 Yongho-dong 4-3-20 Toranomon, Minato-ku Changwon Kyungnam Tokyo, Japan Phone: (82 55) 2824115-6 Phone: (81 3) 54722641 Fax: (82 55) 2822010 Fax: (81 3) 54722640 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
11th Floor, Renaissance Tower 8192 Quinn Terrace 989-1 Jooan-dong Nam-gu Vienna, VA 22180, United States of America Incheon Metropolitan City Phone: (1 703) 8760699 Phone: (82 32) 4200011-3 Fax: (1 703) 5735179 Fax: (82 32) 4200016 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Membership structure: 3rd Floor, Kongyoung Building 9 Joongangno 1-ga Currently the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) has Chunchon Gangwon-do 86,633 members, which are also members of KSC. Trading Phone: (82 33) 2563067-8 companies join voluntarily. They pay entrance fee (about US$ Fax: (82 33) 2563069 155) and annual membership fee (about US$ 115). E-mail: [email protected] Training: 12th Floor, Gyunggi Small and Medium Business Support Centre 111-8 Iui-dong San Paldal-gu • KSC organizes many seminars and workshops such as: Suwon Gyunggi-do • A Seminar on Government’s Policy on Logistics and Phone: (82 31) 2597850-3 Transportation; Fax: (82 31) 2597854 • A Seminar on How to Reduce Logistics Costs; • A Seminar on How to Conduct Global SCM More rd 3 Floor, Ulsan Small and Medium Business Support Centre Effectively; 758-2 Yonamdong Buk-gu • A Workshop on Developing E-Logistics; Ulsan Metropolitan City • A Seminar on How to Rationalize Korean Logistics System; Phone: (82 52) 2873060-1 • International Conference on Building a Northeast Asian Fax: (82 52) 2873062 Logistics Hub in Korea. E-mail: [email protected]
Category: Offices abroad:
Shipper’s council; port authority; and national shipping Room 1201, China World Trade Centre corporation. No. 1 Jian Guo Men Wai Da Jie
Beijing 100004, China
Phone: (86 10) 65052671-3 Fax: (86 10) 66052670 E-mail: [email protected]
Room 3201, New Town Centre No. 83, Lou Shan Guan Road Shanghai, 200336, China Phone: (86 21) 62368287 Fax: (86 21) 62368292 E-mail: [email protected]
Avenue Louise 165 1050 Brussels, Belgium Phone: (32 2) 6462180 Fax: (32 2) 6467006 E-mail: [email protected]
460 Park Avenue Suite 2200 New York, NY 10022, United States of America Phone: (1 212) 4218804/06 Fax: (1 212) 2233827 E-mail: [email protected]
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KOREAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION (KSA)
Office/postal address:
Korean Technology Centre Bldg. 701-7, Yeoksam-Dong Gangnam-Gu Seoul 135-513
Phone: (82 2) 60094630-2 Fax: (82 2) 60094639
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ksa.or.kr
Year established: 1962
Principal function:
• To contribute to innovations in business management by engaging in training, education for building company-wide quality management systems, and disseminating and promoting managerial skills such as certification according to industrial standards for the Republic of Korea and international standards.
Services/activities:
• Engages in research, training, education and certification for industrial standardization and quality management; • Publishes and disseminates industrial standards for the Republic of Korea.
Publications issued:
• KS Catalogue (annually, Korean). • Quality and Originality (monthly, Korean). • Quality Management (monthly, Korean).
Local branches: 14 regional offices.
Office abroad:
Office in China Room #115, Estoril House No. 2 Jiangtai Road Chaoyang District Beijing, China 100016 Phone: (86 10) 64331897 E-mail: [email protected]
Membership structure: 4,400 firms.
Products/commodity responsible for:
Training and education; providing information for quality standards; certification according to national and industrial standards and international standards.
Training:
On- and offline regular courses in fields of QM, VE, IE, TPM, Six Sigma, ISO 9000/14000 and so on. Courses can be organized according to the requirement of customers.
Category:
Industrial promotion organization.
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NATIONAL AGENCY FOR DIRECT INVESTMENT RUSSIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND (NADI) INDUSTRY
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
21/4 Khlebny pereulok St. Ilyinka, 6 Moscow 121069 Moscow 109012
Phone: (74 95) 9563957/58 Phone: (70 95) 9290009 Fax: (74 95) 9563970 Fax: (70 95) 9290360
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.napi.ru/ URL: eng.tpprf.ru
Year established: 2001 Year established: 1991
Principal function: Principal functions:
• To promote and facilitate investment in the Russian • To represent the interests of Russian entrepreneurs in their Federation, providing a one-stop shop for business relations with authorities; development and investment services to both Russian and • To create conditions required for the establishment of socially- international firms and organizations. oriented infrastructure of entrepreneurship; • To provide assistance in the establishment of legislative Services/activities: environment and entrepreneurial infrastructure.
For city, regional and federal authorities: Services/activities: • Investment attraction strategies: practical, target-based ‘road maps’ for regional and city administrations on how best to The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation improve the attractiveness of a region for investment; provides the following kinds of services: • Investment promotion agency creation consulting; • Sector-based Investment marketing: development and • Examination of goods: Soyuzexpertiza Autonomous Non- practical implementation of a region-specific investor Commercial Organization (SOEX) targeting strategy. Address: 5/2 Ilyinka St., Moscow For Russian companies: Phone: (495) 620-5224 • Attraction of long-term and equity financing for company Fax: (495) 620-5675 development and expansion: preparation of project E-mail: [email protected] documentation for potential investors, business evaluation, URL: www.soex.ru/ deal structuring negotiation, search and attraction of potential investors, and organization of road shows and • Protection of intellectual property: Soyuzpatent Ltd. presentation of company to investors; 13 Myasnitskaya Street, Building 5, Moscow 101000, K-9, • Attraction of financing for mergers and acquisitions: City Service Post -9 preparation of project documentation for potential investors, Phone: (495) 6201661, 6202261 evaluation of synergies, deal structuring negotiation, and Fax: (495) 6209540, 9219304 attraction of capital; E-mail: [email protected] • Strategic and financial consulting: issue of securities, URL: www.sojuzpatent.com mergers acquisitions, and corporate (re)structuring; • Creation of private investment funds; • Examination and appraisal of property: • Preparation of companies for entry to public markets. Phone: (495) 9235363, 9282525, 9239686 For foreign companies: E-mail: [email protected] • Research (across the majority of the Russian Federation’s regions); • CARNET ATA; • Partner search and selection; Phone: (495) 6200152, 6200116, 6200095 • Product search; Fax: (495) 6200363 • Federal and regional governmental relations support; E-mail: [email protected] • Opportunity scan;
• Market entry strategies; • Authorization of certificates of origin for goods and other • Audit, Tax and Legal Support; documents dealing with foreign trade: Office for Legal • Intermediation (governmental and business). Contracts of the Legal Department of the chamber
Phone (495) 6200905 Membership structure: Formal alliances and affiliates: Russian
Chamber of Trade and Commerce, the Higher School of Authorization of circumstances beyond reasonable control Economics, and the Centre of Legal and Investment Programmes. • (force majeur): Office for Legal Contracts of the Legal
Department of the chamber Category: Phone (495) 6200905
Investment authority.
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• Cooperation with Territorial Chambers: Department of ST. PETERSBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND Cooperation with Territorial Chambers INDUSTRY 5/2 Ilyinka St., Moscow 103012 Phone: (495) 6200209, 6200248 Office/postal address:
• Courts of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry: 46-48 Chaikovskogo ul Association of Average Adjusters 191123 St. Petersburg 6 Ilyinka St., Moscow 109012 Phone: (495) 6200177, 6200178 Phone: (7 812) 7196644 Fax: (495) 6200153 Fax: (7 812) 2729713 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] • Court of Arbitration for Resolution of Economic Disputes URL: www.spbcci.ru/english 6 Ilyinka St., Moscow 109012 Phone: (495) 6200149 Year established: 1921 Fax: (495) 6200189 Principal function: • International Commercial Arbitration Court (ICAC) 6 Ilyinka St., Moscow 109012 • To support business. Phone: (495) 6200007, 6200141 Fax: (495) 6200153 Services/activities: E-mail: [email protected] • Organizes business and cultural programmes for • Maritime Arbitration Commission (MAC) representatives of foreign enterprises, arranges meetings and 6 Ilyinka St., Moscow 109012 negotiations for foreign and domestic firms and looks for Phone: (495) 6200177, 62001-8 Russian partners; Fax: (495) 6200153 • Organizes exhibitions, seminars and other events to promote E-mail: [email protected] trade and disseminates information on exhibitions held abroad; • Provides advisory services and consultation on trade and • Business information and consultation center investment-related issues and conducts marketing studies and 5/2 Ilyinka St., Moscow provides information on trade and investment; Phone: (495) 6200387 • Provides translation and interpreter services for conferences, Fax: (495) 6200270 symposia, seminars and business negotiations; E-mail: [email protected] • Prepares documents for the registration of foreign investment URL: www.ruschamber.org/index.php?l=2 enterprises; • Publishes bulletins, proceedings and handbook in cooperation Local Branches: with foreign firms and institutions; • Undertakes the execution of orders for direct mail service over Regional Chambers exist throughout the entire Russian Federation. Russian Federation; • Provides expertise in various trade-related issues; Offices abroad: • Determines the code of nomenclature for customs declaration;
• Executes quality controls of joint venture products. Representations are located in Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; China;
Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; India; Italy; Latvia; Publications issued: Montenegro; Turkey, United Kingdom and United States of
America. • Exhibitions in St. Petersburg (annually, English/Russian).
Category: • St. Petersburg CCI Information Bulletin (monthly, Russian).
Chamber of commerce. Membership structure: 110 companies (voluntary).
Training:
Business Education Centre which holds training seminars monthly and teaches English and training programme for foreign businesspersons and companies interested in conducting business in the northwest region of the Russian Federation.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Heavy and light industry, agriculture, information technologies.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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SAMOA ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS AND SAMOA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY EXPORTERS (SAME) INC.
P.O. Box: 3428, Apia, Samoa Office/postal address:
Phone: (685) 23377 Lotemau Centre Fax: (685) 26895 Vaea Street Apia 685 21578 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.same.org.ws P.O. Box: 2014
Year established: 1981 Phone: (685) 25345, 22770, 20926, 20992 Fax: (685) 21578 Principal functions: E-mail: [email protected] • To foster and promote exports from Samoa; URL: www.samoachamber.com • To assist the development of an efficient, profitable, competitive, and quality-based expanding manufacturing Principal functions: sector; • To promote and protect the manufacturing industry and the • To promote the best interests of private sector commerce and establishment thereof throughout Samoa; industry throughout Samoa; • To collect information on all matters of interest to the • To contribute to and, in a constructive way, influence the industrial community; formulation of national economic policies. • To represent members before governing authorities in matters pertaining to the removal or redress of grievances, Services/activities: where the interest of the Country’s manufacturing sector are threatened or prejudiced; • Collects and disseminates information about all matters of • To develop general public interest in the association by interest; diffusing and propagating information on all matters relating • Promotes social contact amongst those interested in the private to its activities; sector community; • To affiliate with, or act in alliance with, or aid and abet any • Redresses and removes grievances in connection with organisation having similar objectives to the association’s commerce and industry and settles disputes by arbitration; for the purposes of better attaining or otherwise furthering the objectives and interests of the association and/or its Membership structure: members; • To donate to, or participate in, any matter considered by Membership is open to all holders of a business licence in Samoa, members to be in the interest of the community at large; and to training organizations which are exempted from holding a • To establish and sponsor scholarships or educational grants business licence. Size is of no importance. The smallest members of and to apply the funds of the association to that effect from chamber are sole traders, and the largest members employ more time to time. than 1000 people.
Services/activities: Training:
• Represents members’ interests before Government; Access to training for members and staff in areas of key interest in • Disseminates information; business through the in-country training programme sponsored by the Governments of Australia and New Zealand. • Organizes trade fairs;
• Works to develop skills and enhance marketing. Category:
Membership structure: Over 75 members, covering a range Chamber of commerce. of businesses and industries in Samoa, from banking organizations to engineering firms, and agricultural and horticultural growers to garment manufacturers.
Category:
Trade association.
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TRADE DIVISION, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN Samoa Consulate General AFFAIRS AND TRADE P.O. Box 1313 Pago Pago, American Samoa P.O. Box: L1859, Apia Phone: (68 4) 6335919 Fax: (68 4) 6335929 Phone: (685) 21171, 20471 Fax: (685) 21504 Samoa Embassy 20 Avenue de l’Oree E-mail: [email protected] 1000 Brussels, Belgium URL: www.mfat.gov.ws Phone: (322) 6608454 Fax: (322) 6750306 Year established: 2003 E-mail: [email protected]
Principal functions: Samoa High Commission 13 Culgoa Curcuit • To effectively manage, coordinate and facilitate trade policy O’Malley ACT 2606 issues and trade promotion strategies; Canberra, Australia • To ensure Samoa’s active participation in regional and Phone: (612) 62865505 international trading arrangements. Fax: (612) 62865678 E-mail: [email protected] Services/activities: Samoa Mission to the UN nd th • Formulates, recommends and develops appropriate strategies 800 2 Avenue, 4 Floor Suite 400J in consultation with stakeholders on trade policy and New York 10017, United States of America promotion strategies; Phone: (1 212) 5996196 Fax: (1 212) 5990797 • Ensures that Samoa’s participation and obligations under E-mail: [email protected] international trading arrangements are effectively
implemented and that benefits from membership to such Samoa High Commission agreements are realized; 1A Wesley Road, Kelburn • Implements the Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement P.O. Box 1430 (PICTA) and the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Wellington, New Zealand Relations (PACER); Phone: (644) 4720953 • Facilitates and coordinates negotiations on Samoa’s Fax: (644) 4712479 accession to the WTO; E-mail: [email protected] • Facilitates and coordinates Samoa’s interests in the New Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the Pacific Products/commodity responsible for: ACP countries and the European Union, and other trading arrangements; Fish; coconut cream; nonu products; kava; taro; beer; coconut oil; • Pursues excellent market access opportunities and provides and copra meal. advice to Samoan exporters; • Provides and disseminates trade-related information through Category: an efficient system; • Conducts research and analysis of new issues and Ministry of Trade. developments on the multilateral trade agenda; • Facilitates any new trade agreements/arrangements.
Publications issued:
• American Samoa Market 2006. • Corporate Plan 2006 – 2009. • Directory of Technical and Financial Assistance to the Private Sector (biennial). • Exporters Database. • Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade News Bulleting (quarterly). • News Bulletin.
Office abroad:
Samoa Trade Commission Samoa House, 283 Karangahape Road P.O. Box 68-147, Newton Auckland, New Zealand Phone: (64 9) 3031012 Fax: (64 9) 3021168 E-mail: [email protected]
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INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISE SINGAPORE (IE Capital Singapore) To help enterprises gain access to capital, develop their financial management capabilities and to defray developmental costs of Office/postal address: expanding overseas, IE Singapore provides financial tools, grants and tax incentives to help companies explore overseas business 230 Victoria Street, #09-00 opportunities confidently. Bugis Junction Office Tower • Financial tools: enterprise fund, loan insurance scheme II, Singapore 188024 regionalization finance scheme, trade credit iInsurance programme; Phone: (65) 63376628 • Grants to help companies defray developmental costs related Fax: (65) 63375253 to external consulting, airfare and accommodation, feasibility studies, bid-related expenses, salary, marketing and URL: www.iesingapore.com promotional activities among others; • Tax Incentives: double deduction for overseas investment Year established: 1983 (formerly known as the Singapore development expenditure, double tax deduction for market Trade Development Board). development, and overseas enterprise incentive.
Principal functions: Offices abroad:
• International Enterprise Singapore is an agency under the Bangkok, Beijing, Chengdu, Chennai, Chongqing, Dalian, Doha, Ministry of Trade and Industry spearheading the Dubai, Franfurt, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong development of Singapore’s external economic wing; Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico • The mission is to promote the overseas growth of Singapore- City, Moscow, Mumbai, New Delhi, New York, Qingdao, based enterprises and international trade. With a global Santiago, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, network in over 30 locations and the “3C” framework of Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, Xi’an, Yangon. assistance – Connections, Competency, Capital – IE Singapore offers services to help enterprises export, develop Category: business capabilities, find overseas partners and enter new markets. At the same time, the International Enterprise Government statutory board. Singapore works to position Singapore as a base for foreign businesses to expand into the region in partnership with Singapore-based companies. MONETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE (MAS)
Services/activities: Office/postal address:
Competency MAS Building IE Singapore has a wide range of assistance programmes and 10 Shenton Way resources to help Singapore-based enterprises build Singapore 079117 internationalisation competencies. • Capability Development Programmes: provide enterprises P.O. Box: 52, Robinson Road with the assistance to develop business capabilities in branding, design, manpower, distribution, intellectual Phone: (65) 62255577 property and financial management; Fax: (65) 62299229 Ricoh 2700L • IE Singapore Resource Centres: carry an extensive collection of print and electronic business resources and is E-mail: [email protected] the first step to any overseas venture; URL: www.mas.gov.sg • Publications: i.e. journal - IE’s flagship, bi-monthly publication that provides regular trade and business Year established: 1970 information; • ieXport: an e-learning courseware that provides advice and Principal functions: assistance to existing and potential exporters; • Trade Statistics: available in print, CD-ROM and • To conduct monetary policy and issue currency, and to manage subscription-based online service; the official foreign reserves and the issuance of government • IE Singapore Portal (www.iesingapore.com): provides a host securities; of market and industry information and event updates. • To supervise the banking, insurance, securities and futures industries, and develop strategies in partnership with the Connections private sector to promote Singapore as an international IE Singapore’s global network offers businesses the necessary financial centre; connections to venture overseas. • To build a cohesive and integrated organization of excellence. • Online business matching services such as BuySingapore; • Events and initiatives to promote the utilization of Services/activities: Singapore’s Free Trade Agreements (FTAs); • Business missions and trade fairs to help enterprises explore • Promotes sustained, non-inflationary economic growth through overseas opportunities; monetary policy formulation and macroeconomic surveillance. • Business networking platforms such as Network China, • Manages Singapore’s exchange rate, foreign reserves and Network India and Network Indonesia. liquidity in the banking sector.
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Publications issued: Panjang. It has 37 berths, including 6 berths at its new mega- terminal at Pasir Panjang Terminal. Equipped with 15-metre • MAS Annual Report. deep berths and quay cranes with an outreach of 18 rows • Monthly Statistical Bulletin. across, the new terminal can accommodate the world's • MAS Macroeconomic Review. largest container vessels available in the world today. • Financial Stability Review. Utilizing innovative Bridge Cranes that can stack containers • Consumer Guides. nine-high, Pasir Panjang Terminal exemplifies the new generation of ports; Offices abroad: • International Business: participates in 14 port projects in 8 countries: the Port of Antwerp and Port of Zeebrugge in MAS New York Office Belgium; Muara Container Terminal in Negara, Brunei 17 State Street, 25th floor Darussalam; Dalian, Fuzhou, Fuzhou Jiangyin International New York, NY 10004, United States of America and Guangzhou Container Terminals in China; Tuticorin Phone: (1 212) 8094018 Container Terminal and Pipavav Port in India; Voltri Fax: (1 212) 8096067 Terminal Europa and Venice Container Terminal in Italy; Sines Container Terminal in Portugal; Inchon Container MAS London Office Terminal in the Republic of Korea; and Aden Container Representative Office Terminal in Yemen; 1st floor Old Change House • Portnet.com Pte Ltd.: through www.portnet.com, a wholly 128 Queen Victoria Street owned subsidiary, PSA also provides its customers with London EC4V 4BJ, United Kingdom advanced IT systems to help them increase their productivity Phone: (44 20) 73326300 and reduce costs. The backbone of the Portnet.com suite of e- Fax: (44 20) 73326309 products is the PORTNET® system, which had 7,000 subscribers and around 69 million transactions in year 2000. Category: PORTNET® is the world's first nation-wide e-commerce network that has the participation of the entire shipping and Integrated Central Bank. port community that operates through Singapore; • Logistics Services: includes the management of airport ground-handling services, the operations of two multi- PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY CORPORATION purpose terminals, cruise and passenger terminals, exhibition LTD. (PSA) services and supply chain management.
Office/postal address: Publications issued:
Corporate Communications Department • PSA Port View (monthly, English). PSA Building • Annual Report. 460 Alexandra Road Singapore 119963 Training:
Phone: (65) 62794266, 62794010 • PSA Institute is the training arm of PSA Corp. In addition to Fax: (65) 62744261, 62794213 the training of PSA employees, the Institute also provides training for personnel from the local and regional maritime E-mail: [email protected] industries. PSA Institute also provides training for URL: www.psa.com.sg participants from other ports, through a range of courses on port management, operations, engineering and ship-handling. Year established: 1964 Some of the courses offered are Port Management and Operations, Management of Container Operations and Year corporatized: 1997 Effective Management of a Multi-purpose Terminal; • Simulators are used where appropriate to provide realistic Principal functions: training scenarios for trainees, thus reducing the time required on actual equipment. It is an effective tool for • To operate port and logistics businesses around the world; corrective training and skill-upgrading. PSA Institute uses • To provide shippers an unrivalled choice of 250 shipping both Crane Simulators and Full Mission Ship handling lines with connections to 600 ports in 123 countries. This simulator for training purposes. includes daily sailings to every major port in the world. Category: Services/activities: Port authority. • Port Services: provides a comprehensive range of port- related services, including cargo-handling, warehousing and distribution. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, PSA Marine, also offers a comprehensive range of marine services including pilotage, ocean and harbour towage, international salvage and emergency response, heavy lift services, marine transportation and marine advisory. • Container Terminals: operates four container terminals in Singapore at Tanjong Pagar, Keppel, Brani and Pasir
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SINGAPORE CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Publications issued: AND INDUSTRY (SCCCI) • Annual Report (English/Chinese). Office/postal address: • Chinese Enterprise (monthly, English/Chinese). • Council Members' Directory (biennial, English/Chinese). 47 Hill Street #09-00 • The Price of Peace (Chinese). Singapore 179365 • Eternal Vigilance - The Price of Freedom (Chinese).
Phone: (65) 63378381 Membership structure: Fax: (65) 63390605 Trade association member, life corporate member, ordinary E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. corporate member, life individual member, ordinary corporate URL: www.sccci.org.sg member.
Year established: 1906 Training:
Principal functions: The Singapore Chinese Chamber Institute of Business (SCCIOB) is a non-profit training and education body registered under the • To develop and promote industry and commerce in Singapore: Registry of Societies and an affiliated member of the SCCCI. - provide useful contacts and information on local and international business trends and developments, The Institute’s history as a training and education provider can be - organize trade and investment missions to explore and traced back to 1984 when it first started as a Training Centre with create business opportunities as well as establish closer governmental aid and upgraded to its current status, the Institute of ties with trading partners, Business, in 1996. - organize seminars and exhibitions based on advances and developments in the business, technology and economic The Institute aims to be a leading training institution, providing arenas, quality, up-to-date and practical training and education to the local - publish business leads, business opportunities and and foreign communities, and to promote lifelong learning in the features on economic and business trends, Asia-Pacific region. - compile and analyze economic data and statistics on new and existing markets, The objective of the Institute is to promote the development of both - identify and embark on projects with members that will local and overseas industries through the organization of quality enhance and bring benefits to their operations, educational and training activities. A wide range of training and - attend to trade enquiries from members and the public; development programmes are offered by the Institute for all levels • To promote culture, education and community activities: of local and foreign working adults and overseas students. These - conduct staff training programmes and language and programmes are structured into three main categories: Business computer courses, Studies Programmes, Language and Culture Programmes and - organize talks, seminars and activities on cultural and Training Promotion Programmes. educational issues, - provide scholarships and awards to recognize and Category: promote academic excellence, - organize public charities and welfare works to address Chamber of commerce. the needs of the less fortunate and promote community cohesiveness; • To develop closer ties between government and private sector: - maintain regular dialogues with ministries, statutory boards and relevant government departments, - keep members abreast of economic policies and provide their feedback to the Government, - maintain constant interaction with and represent the interests of the Chinese business community in Singapore.
Services/activities:
• Organizes business conferences, seminars and workshops; • Organizes trade missions to take part in trade/industry fairs and investment talks in regional and international markets; • Helps members to increase business exposure and gain trade opportunities by listing them in a e-membership directory; • Provides business matching facilities; • Prepares customized statistical reports; • Represents members' business interests; • Is authorized to issue Certificates of Origin to any registered trader or manufacturer of local goods, or products meant for re-export.
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SINGAPORE COMMODITY EXCHANGE (SICOM) Training:
Office/postal address: Commodity futures trading course organized by the International Trade Institute of Singapore. #23-04/05, Peninsula Plaza 111 North Bridge Road Category: Singapore 179098 Commodity futures exchange. Phone: (65) 63385600 Fax: (65) 63389116 SINGAPORE MANUFACTURERS’ FEDERATION E-mail: [email protected] (SMa) URL: www.sicom.com.sg Office/postal address: Year established: 1992 (formerly RAS Commodity Exchange (1992); name changed in February 1994 to better reflect its aim to No 1, Science Centre Road become a broad-based commodity exchange). #02-02 The Enterprise Singapore 609077 Principal functions: Phone: (65) 6826 3000 • To regulate, promote and develop commodity futures trading Fax: (65) 6822 8828 in Singapore, including the establishment and dissemination of official prices for various grades and types of rubber; E-mail: [email protected] • To provide clearing facilities, endorse Certificates of Origin URL: www.smafederation.org.sg and licences for packers, shippers and manufacturers; • To provide a centralized and regulated marketplace for Year established: 1932 (formerly Singapore Confederation commodity futures trading in Singapore; of Industries (SCI), name changed in July 2003). • To maintain financial integrity of the marketplace through its membership criteria, trading rules, and audit and market Principal functions: surveillance activities; • To maintain a Clearing House to facilitate and clear all futures • To represent and promote the interests of manufacturers and contracts transacted between buyers and sellers who are manufacturing-related industries (defined as manufacturing Clearing Members; community) in Singapore; • To develop into a premier commodity exchange within the • To encourage cooperation amongst the manufacturing Asian time zone. community, as well as between the manufacturing community and the Government; Services/activities: • To promote the sales of Singapore-made goods at home and abroad; • Conducts market research, develops and launches suitable • To promote the productivity and technological upgrading of new futures contracts; the manufacturing community, especially among the SMEs. • Educates the commodity trading community and the public on the economic benefits of futures trading; Services/activities: • Endorses Certificates of Origin and processes licences for rubber dealers, packers, shippers and manufacturers of • Makes representations to government bodies at home and technically specified rubbers (TSRs) under the Rubber abroad on matters affecting the manufacturing community; Industry Act (Cap. 280); • Liaises with local associate groups such as the various • Establishes and disseminates official prices for various grades chambers of commerce, the Singapore Business Federation and types of rubber; as well as with the numerous statutory boards on matters of • Provides clearing facilities on all SICOM’s futures contracts. common interest; • Liaises with foreign economic associations and Publications issued: businesspersons; • Organizes trade missions abroad and participates in • Singapore Commodity Exchange Rules and Regulations. international trade fairs; • The Singapore Rubber Market, 2003 (English/Chinese). • Provides accreditation of quality management system certification bodies and test labouratories; Membership structure: 125 members comprising seven • Produces an annual trade directory and guide for buyers to categories: Clearing Brokers, Clearing Market Makers, Clearing promote local goods and services as well as a bimonthly Dealers, Non-clearing Trade Members, Non-clearing Associate newsletter and a quarterly publication to keep members Members, Non-clearing Brokers and Non-clearing Individual informed of developments in the manufacturing community, Members (or "Locals"). investments and Singapore trade; • Operates an economics research section and a library which Products/commodity responsible for: receives publications from all over the world; • Endorses Certificates of Origin and other export documents; RSS1, RSS3, TSR20(FOB), RSS3 index and robusta coffee futures • Acts as the national body to implement and administer the contracts. international articles number system (bar coding) in Singapore;
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• Acts as the national body to implement the e-supply chain SINGAPORE NATIONAL SHIPPERS' COUNCIL management programme in Singapore; (SNSC) • Conducts skills upgrading courses. Office/postal address: Publications issued: SCCCI Building • The Singapore Manufacturer (annually). 47 Hill Street, #07-05 • Tradelink (annually). Singapore 179365 • SMa Connect (bi-monthly). • Other directories and handbooks (ad hoc). Phone: (65) 3372441 Fax: (65) 3363851 Membership structure: 2,800 members. E-mail: [email protected] Ordinary member: any company that is directly engaged in any URL: www.snsc.org.sg type of manufacturing and manufacturing-related activity in Singapore is eligible to join as an ordinary member. Year established: 1972
General member: any company which is not directly involved in Principal functions: any manufacturing activity but provides a service to manufacturers may be admitted as a general member. General • To represent the interest of Singapore exporters, importers, members have full voting rights too. manufacturers, producers, trade associations, commodity associations and other organizations associated with trade in Any association with less than 50 per cent of its members who relation to the transport tof goods and/or commodities; are ordinary members of SCI can also join as a general member. • To secure the greatest possible cooperation between exporters, importers, manufacturers, producers, trade associations, Life member: any person or company who contributes a commodity associations and other organizations associated minimum of US$ 250,000 to SCI can join as a life member with trade; (subject to the approval of the Executive Committee). • To secure efficient, economical and adequate shipping services and transport facilities; Category: • To present a united front in negotiations and consultations with transport operators, port authorities, Governments and other Industrial promotion organization. organizations engaged in transportation services; • To arrange for and/or obtain the most suitable mode and terms of transportation; • To undertake all other things as the Council may deem fit to achieve the objectives set out herein.
Services/activities:
• Updates members on current major issues and developments in the shipping industry; • Organizes training courses, workshops, tea-cum-talks, forums, and seminars for its members and interested parties; • Acts as a resource centre which carries out research on shipping developments periodically to look into the needs of shippers; • Publishes an annual report and a bi-monthly magazine.
Publications issued:
• Annual Report. • Shippers' Times (bi-monthly).
Membership structure:
Ordinary members: comprising individual companies, firms or businesses associated with the import and export trade, and trade or commodity associations, guilds and other organizations associated with trade.
Associated members: comprising mainly freight forwarders and agents who have no voting rights.
Category:
Shipper’s council.
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SINGAPORE QUALITY INSTITUTE (SQI)
Office/postal address:
66 Tannery Lane #06-07 Sindo Building Singapore 347805
Phone: (65) 4674225 Fax: (65) 4674226
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.sqi.org.sg
Year established: 1971 (formerly Singapore Quality Reliability Associations).
Principal functions:
• To promote an appreciation of the importance of quality in Singapore; • To correlate quality activities of all members of the Institute; • To provide means for the interchange of information among individuals and organizations; • To promote training and education in the field of quality.
Services/activities:
• Conducts certification and developmental courses for the industry on quality; • Conducts evening talks; • Conducts educational visits for members; • Updates members with bi-monthly publication QC Focus; • Organizes social functions such as the presentation ceremony/annual dinner and dance.
Publications issued:
• SQI Newsletter. • Yearbook.
Membership structure: Individual and corporate members.
Training:
Organizes training courses for industrial diploma in quality, certified quality manager, certified quality engineer, certified reliability engineer, certified quality supervisor, certified quality technician, certified quality inspector, certified service quality executive, certified service quality, six sigma champion training, certified six sigma black belt, certified six sigma green belt.
Category:
Training institute.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRIES AND SOLOMON ISLANDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EMPLOYMENT* AND INDUSTRY (SICCI)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
P.O. Box G-26 P.O. Box 650 Honiara Panatina Plaza Honiara Phone: (677) 28614, 22856 Fax: (677) 25084 Phone: (677) 39542 Fax: (677) 39544 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.commerce.gov.sb E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.solomonchamber.com Principal functions: Principal function: • Investment; • Local entrepreneur; • To represent the best interests of members through • Immigration; engagement and in partnership with the Solomon Islands • Labour; Government and other stakeholders. • Trade and testing; • Industrial development; Services/activities: • Commerce; • Internal and external trade. • As detailed under Principal function.
Services/activities: Publication issued:
• Designs an economic and financial package which aims to • Newsletter (monthly, English). rehabilitate struggling businesses and encourage new investments; Membership structure: 76 financial members and 9 • Repeals and replaces the Foreign Investment Act; executive members. • Establishes infrastructure and land for various investments; • Establishes a one-stop shop to receive and decide on Category: investment proposals; • Reserves areas of investment opportunities for indigenous Chamber of commerce. Solomon Islanders; • Sets up trade consulars in selected overseas countries; • Researches into alternative sources of imports and encourages bulk purchase; • Creates an investment climate which will yield more jobs through increased foreign investment and by providing more development opportunities in rural areas; • Provides more financial assistance to local Solomon Islanders through the use of its fiscal and monetary policies; • Encourages more practical training to local business people; • Allocates available land for development purposes; • Supports and encourages trade delegations to other trading partner nations; • Establishes an industrial commission to promote fair trading and arbitrates over unfair trading between businesses and corporations.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Coffee Processing Facility; cargo vessels; Bina Habour and Noro Development; duty free zones; Wairokai Industrial seaport; Suava Bay Fisheries Centre; Ranadi and Henderson Industrial Estates; and Pineapple Juice processing facility; Selwyn Bay Industrial Seaport; and Vanikoro Industrial seaport.
Category:
Ministry of Commerce.
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BOARD OF INVESTMENT OF SRI LANKA (BOI) Country profiles: • Direct Investment by Indian Companies in Sri Lanka, 2003 Office/postal address: (English). • Direct Investment by UK companies in Sri Lanka, 2002 Level 26, West Tower (English). World Trade Centre • Direct Investments by German Companies in Sri Lanka - An Echelon Square Overview, January 2003 (English). Colombo 1 • Direct Investments by Japanese Companies in Sri Lanka, April 2003 (English, Japanese). Phone: (94 11) 2427000 • Direct Investment by US Companies in Sri Lanka, 2000 Fax: (94 11) 2447995 (English). • Direct Investment by Australian Companies in Sri Lanka, E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 2003 (English). URL: www.boi.lk Indo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement: Year established: 1978 (formerly Greater Colombo • Indo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement - Investment Economic Commission, changed to BOI in 1992). Opportunities, April 2003 (English). • Indo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement: A Sectoral Analysis, Principal functions: June 2000 (English).
• Impact of Indo-Lanka FTA on the Electronic Sector, June • To promote, approve and facilitate foreign direct investment 2000 (English). into Sri Lanka and to administer the eight Export Processing • Impact of Indo-Lanka FTA on the Agriculture Sector, July Zones at Katunayake, Biyagama, Koggala, Mirigama, 2000 (English). Wathupitiwela, Polgahawela, Mawathagama and Horana. • The Complete Duty Structure of the Potential Sectors for • To administer the industrial parks at Kandy, Seethawaka and Investment, April 2002 (English). Mirijjawila, and the Export Processing Park at Malwatta. • Indo-Lanka FTA: Potential Products for Investment in Sri
Lanka by Country of Origin, February 2001 (English). Services/activities: • Duty Rates and Values of Major Indian Imported Products, The BOI provides advice and assistance at each stage of the Sector and Country of Origin, March 2001 (English). investment process and can help in the following ways: • Selection of Potential Electronics Items for Investment in Sri Lanka by Country of Origin, May 2001 (English). • Provides information and guidance before submission of the • Some Key Issues to be Addressed, May 2001 (English). application and coordinating approvals from other agencies, • The Major Issues and Proposals - After 12 Months of Trade, if required; July 2001 (English). • Evaluates applications and provides concessions, where applicable to the project; Other: • Factor Cost, June 2003 (English). • Provides assistance during the start-up of the project: site th selection and clearance, advice on factory building and other • Investor Magazine - Newsletter, 11 Edition, April 2003. technical matters, arranges support services such as water, • Investment Opportunities (English/Sinhala/Tamil). power, waste treatment and telecommunications; • BOI “Puwath” - Sinhala Newsletter. • Makes recommendations to immigration authorities for • BOI publication on infrastructure, June 2003. issuing resident visas; • Mini CDs - Invest in Sri Lanka (English/French). • Facilitate import/export clearance and customs procedure for • BOI Corporate Video (English/French/Japanese). the import of capital goods, raw materials and the export of • Labour Standard and Employment Relations Manual. the final product; • General Guidelines for Factory Buildings. • Advises on environmental norms and facilitating • Environmental Norms. environmental approvals; • Assists, when necessary, in the maintenance of good Local branches: industrial relations and in the formation and operation of Employee Councils; BOI Office: EPZ, Katunayake • Provides post-approval services by a separate division Phone: (94 1) 2252364-5, 2252140, 2252038 within the BOI. Fax: (94 1) 2252030
Publications issued: BOI Office: BEPZ, Biyagama Phone: (94 1) 465206-9 Mini brochure: Fax: (94 1) 465227 • Make it in Sri Lanka, June 2003 (English/Japanese/Korean/ French/Chinese). BOI Office: KEGPZ, Koggala Phone: (94 9) 83323 Sectoral brochures: Fax: (94 9) 83370 • Textile & Apparel Sector - An overview, May 2002 (English). BOI Office: Kandy Industrial Park, Kandy • The IT Industry, June 2003. Phone: (94 8) 420019 Fax: (94 8) 420091
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BOI Office: Seethawaka Industrial Park, Avissawella CEYLON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE* Phone: (94 36) 31082/3 Fax: (94 36) 31083 Office/postal address:
BOI Office: Horana EPZ 50 Navam Mawatha Phone/Fax: (94 34) 69296, 69752 Colombo 02
BOI Office: Hiriyala Dedicated Economic Centre Phone: (94 1) 2452183, 2421745, 2329143 Phone/Fax: (94 37) 28656 Fax: (94 1) 2437477, 2449352
BOI Office: Malwatta Export Processing Park E-mail: [email protected] Phone/Fax: (94 33) 88826 URL: www.chamber.lk
BOI Office: Mawathagama EPZ Year established: 1839 Phone/Fax: (94 37) 98147 Principal functions: BOI Office: Mirigama EPZ Phone/Fax: (94 33) 74657 • To promote and protect the interest of the business sector in Sri Lanka and abroad; BOI Office: Polgahawela EPZ • To consider all questions connected with business in Sri Phone/Fax: (94 37) 44657 Lanka; • To circulate statistical and other information relating to trade Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: and industry, in particular with a view to promoting exports and investment; • Manufacture of non-traditional goods for export including • To liaise with governmental authorities in matters relating to deemed exports; business; • Export-oriented services; • To maintain contacts with chambers of commerce and industry • Manufacturing of industrial tools and/or machinery; in other countries. • Small-scale infrastructure projects; • Information technology (IT), IT-enabled services and IT- Services/activities: related training institutes; • Regional operation headquarters; • Maintains close contacts with overseas chambers of commerce • Any industrial, agriculture, construction or services or any and organizations such as the International Trade Centre other business activities approved by the Board; UNCTAD/WTO, ESCAP and UNIDO; • Research and development; • Maintains close links with other chambers and trade • Agriculture and/or agro-processing other than processing of associations in Sri Lanka; black tea; • Serves as the representative of the business sector in liaison • Export trading house; with the Government; • Large-scale infrastructure: • Helps the Government to ascertain the views of the private − Power generation, transmission and distribution, sector on relevant matters; − Development of highways, seaports, airports, railways • Operates 18 bilateral Business Councils with Australia; and water services, establishment of industrial estates. Benelux (Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands); Canada; Any other infrastructure. Denmark; Finland; Hong Kong, China; India; Indonesia; • Large-scale (new/existing) projects; Japan; Malaysia; Myanmar; Norway; Pakistan; Republic of • In addition to the above target sectors: Korea; Singapore; Sweden and Eastern Europe; United − Existing enterprises undertaking an expansion, Kingdom; − Non-performing or under-performing enterprises. • Represents and expresses the opinions of the business community in Sri Lanka on business matters; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • Provides an information service to its members with a view to promoting trade service associations; • Greater Colombo Economic Commission Law No. 4 of • Organizes outward investment and trade promotion missions 1978. and receives inward trade and investment promotion missions; • Greater Colombo Economic Commission (Amendment) Act • Provides a panel of expert quality surveyors who can certify No. 43 of 1980. the quality of export cargo; • Greater Colombo Economic Commission (Amendment) Act • Registers export documents; No. 21 of 1983. • Operates a Board of Arbitration with a view to a speedy • Greater Colombo Economic Commission (Amendment) Act settlement of trade disputes; No. 49 of 1992. • Operates a library; • BOI (amendment) Act No. 10 of 2002. • Conducts seminars/workshops of relevance to the business community; Category: • Issues business/trade publications and bulletins; • Provides advisory service on export marketing/promotion; Investment promotion organization • Provides secretarial services to 18 Bilateral Councils; • Operates a Foreign Trade/Information Division.
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Publications issued: NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF SRI LANKA Bulletins: • Business Opportunities Bulletin. Office/postal address: • Library Alert. • Library News. 450, D R Wijewardene Mawatha • Overseas Buyers Contacts. Colombo 10 • Periodical Highlights. • Techno Info. P.O. Box: 1375, Colombo • Trade Contacts. • Trade Reporter. Phone: (94 11) 2689600, 5 374801-3 Fax: (94 11) 2689596 Publications: • Annual Report. E-mail: [email protected] • Annual Review of Business and Trade. URL: www.nccsl.lk
• Directory of Exporters. Year established: 1948 • Enterprise (a tabloid).
• Register of Members. Principal functions: • Sri Lanka in Brief (a booklet). • To promote trade activities; Membership structure: 515 members. • To assist the Government in the formation of trade policies
and issuance of commercial documents. Encompasses virtually every sphere of economic activity in Sri Lanka - industry, import, export, agriculture, banking, hire- Services/activities: purchase, leasing, tourism, shipping, engineering, mining, consultancy services, wholesale, retail, financial services, • Provides trade information; legal, broking, construction and other services and includes • Trade fairs and delegations; every size of business ranging from the sole proprietorship to • Organizes trade-related seminars and workshops; the multinational. • Makes representations to the government bodies; • Issues commercial documents; The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce is a member of the • Advises the Government on trade-related matters. Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Sri Lanka National Council of the International Publications issued: Chamber of Commerce. • NCCSL Newsletter. Members of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce include • Directory of Members. organizations engaged in practically every type of economic • Trade Information Bulletin. activity in Sri Lanka. Membership is open to organizations of any nationality. Membership structure: 400 members.
Training: The Chamber is the focal point for member companies representing virtually the entire spectrum of industry, trade and The Chamber nominates candidates from its membership for commerce in Sri Lanka. Among them, the Chamber counts some training courses and seminars offered under various aid of the most vibrant and progressive business houses in the programmes, through the Government. country.
Category: Training:
Chamber of commerce. Short-term training course and seminars, workshops only for local members and non-member companies.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Joint ventures.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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SRI LANKA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE SRI LANKA EXPORT CREDIT INSURANCE (SLBDC) CORPORATION (SLECIC)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
32B, 5th Floor Level 4, Export Guarantee House Huejay Court 42 Nawam Mawatha Sir Mohammed Macan Markar Mawatha Colombo 2 Colombo 3 Phone: (94 74) 719410-3 Phone: (94 11) 2434952, 2437684-5 Fax: (94 74) 719400 Fax: (94 11) 2541170 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.slbdc-lk.org URL: www.slecic.lk
Year established: 1984 Year established: 1979
Principal functions: Principal functions:
• To develop, strengthen and stimulate business and industry in • To issue policies to exporters of goods and services against Sri Lanka; non-receipt or delayed receipt of payments resulting from • To provide a comprehensive package of services in the areas commercial and non-commercial risks; crucial to business and industrial development. • To issue guarantees to banks and other financial institutions to facilitate the granting of pre- and post-shipment finance; Services/activities: • To issue guarantees to persons or institutions abroad in connection with goods exported from Sri Lanka or for the • Assists in setting up new businesses as well as expanding and due performance of any services to be rendered to such diversifying existing businesses, improving business persons or institutions within or outside Sri Lanka; performance/profitability and establishing link-ups for joint • To provide financial assistance to exporters for the ventures and marketing; promotion and development of export from Sri Lanka; • Assists in selecting business opportunities, developing • To help exporters to diversify and expand exports, find new enterprises and conducting market surveys/feasibility studies; markets and sell their goods abroad on competitive terms of • Human resource and enterprise development: payment; • Surveys/studies and special assignments. • To provide guarantees to exporters against losses that may be sustained in undertaking market surveys, publicity and any Training: other promotional measures in foreign countries; • To re-finance and provide refinancing facilities to banks and Customer-based training programmes to meet human resources other financial institutions in respect of credit facilities development needs: granted by such banks and institutions for the promotion of • Training programme on productivity for executives and other exports; staff; • To undertake market studies abroad for promotion of exports • Managerial skills development programme for supervisors; from Sri Lanka and to conduct seminars and courses on • Supervisory skill development workshop for technicians and various aspects of export promotion and to collect and production workers; disseminate information relating to marketing possibilities • Skills development programme on interviewing skills for and procedures; senior and middle level managers; • To act as agent of the Government, or with the approval of • Management orientation training programmes for new the Government on its own account, to provide insurance and recruits; guarantees, undertake such responsibilities and discharge • Enhancement of management competencies (EMCO); such functions as are considered by the Government as • Human resource management programme; necessary in the national interest; • Customer service excellence programme; • To discharge such other functions as the Corporation may • Stress and time management for middle level managers; consider as necessary for the achievement of any of its • Business communication skills development programme; objects. • Training programme on attitude building; • Workshops on corporate/strategic planning. Services/activities:
Training of trainers programmes: • Issues insurance policies to exporters against non-payment Personnel attached to Government, semi-government and private by buyers abroad due to commercial and non-commercial institutions can avail themselves of these programmes conducted in (political) risks. Policies include standard, specific and small- general training methodologies and theories of adult learning. scale insurance policies. Policies also cover export of services, shipments on consignment basis and entrepot trade; Category: • Issues Guarantees to commercial banks to facilitate the granting of finance to exporters. This facilitates granting of Industrial promotion organization and organization with training working capital at pre- and post-shipment; functions. • Issues direct export performance guarantees to the International Chamber of Commerce-Sri Lanka (ICC) for
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exporters to obtain the ATA Carnet Document to participate • Export Finance: SLECIC-Export Finance caters to the post- in trade fairs and exhibitions abroad; shipment needs of medium- and small-scale exporters by • Type of Policies available: encashing their export bills and thereby improving their cash - Export Payment Insurance Policy: designed to flow. indemnify exporters against losses they may suffer due to non-payment or delayed payment due to Publications issued: commercial/non-commercial (political) risks: is operated on the whole turnover principal which means • Annual Report. the exporters should declare all their credit shipment to • SLECIC Newsline (quarterly newsletter). all their buyers; • Product Brochures. - Specific Policy: issued to cover specific buyers, specific destinations or a specific transaction; Membership structure: Secretary of the Treasury and the - Entrepot Trade Shipment Policy: designed to cover non- Central Bank of Sri Lanka. payment risks of shipments effected to a third country from a second country by exporters operating in Sri Category: Lanka; - Comprehensive Services Policy: issued to exporters of Export credit insurance; export financing organization; trade services to cover non-payment or delayed payment by facilitation body; and trade promotion organization. overseas buyers due to commercial or non-commercial risks; SRI LANKA EXPORT DEVELOPMENT BOARD • Type of Guarantees available: (SLEDB) - Export Production Credit Guarantee: issued to commercial banks against domestic letters of Office/postal address: credit/confirmed orders opened by exporters in favour of manufactures/producers/suppliers, enabling them to 42 Navam Mawatha obtain finance for the procurement of goods to be Colombo 2 supplied to exporters; - Pre-shipment Credit Guarantee: for exporters to obtain P.O. Box: 1872, Colombo pre-shipment finance on more liberal terms for purchasing raw materials, manufacture, processing of Phone: (94 1) 300723-4, 300705-11 goods and packing for export against Letters of Credit Fax: (94 1) 300715, 300724 or Confirmed Orders; - Post-Shipment Credit Guarantee: issued to commercial E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], banks to enable them to grant post-shipment finance to [email protected] exporters on more liberal terms; URL: www.srilankabusiness.com - Export Performance Guarantee: issued to commercial banks as a counter guarantee (which is non-financial in Year established: 1979 nature) to enable them to issue bid bonds, performance bonds, etc., for export of services: it also helps banks to Principal functions: issue guarantees to the director general of customs for export of garments to clear raw materials and • To promote and develop products and services for export accessories used to make finished products for export: it from Sri Lanka; helps postponement of import duty until realization of • To motivate exporters by providing assistance and removing export proceeds; disincentives for exports; - Export Performance Guarantee Covering the ATA • To induce the expansion of production of export-related Carnet System: issued to ICC facilitating issue of ATA products and services; Carnets to participate in trade fairs and exhibitions • To provide specialized support services to producers and abroad; exporters. - Whole-turnover Bank Guarantee Scheme covering cost of passage advances to Sri Lankans going abroad for Services/activities: employment. This guarantee scheme extends coverage to banks with respect to advances granted to migrant • Formulates export policies for the preparation of the National workers in respect of entire predeparture loan; Export Development Plan; - Whole-turnover Pre/Post Shipment Guarantee: issued to • Assists research and development, product adaptation, commercial banks to enable them to grant pre/post supply/supplier and market development activities for shipment finance to total exporter clientele of the bank exports from Sri Lanka; on liberal terms; • Organizes overseas market surveys and promotional The above credit guarantees cover of non-payment by the programmes, which include support for exporters’ exporter/non-fulfilment of obligations by the exporter due to participation in trade fairs, sales missions and other export this insolvency or protracted default. promotion efforts; • Provides services to exporters, simplification of trade • BiZinfo: providing financial information and credit status procedures and training to export organizations; reports on overseas companies to the banking sector is • Provides trade information and advisory services to branded as BiZinfo. SLECIC acts as a 'Reseller' of credit and exporters, overseas importers, policymakers and government status reports from a network of principals worldwide. officials;
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• Entrepreneurship development export marketing, export and Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: import procedures, quality and productivity improvement, product specific programmes for export-oriented small and • Board of Investment Law No. 4 of 1978. medium enterprises; • Conducts “Exporters’ Forum” to resolve problems of Category: exporters related to infrastructure procedures; • Develops entrepot trade; Trade promotion organization. • Programmes for supply development, product development, product adaptation and quality improvement; • E-promotion (web hosing and designing, web advertising, SRI LANKA HANDICRAFTS BOARD (LAKSALA)* web links, CD-ROM preparation); • E-communication (e-mail, Internet and videoconferencing); Office/postal address: • Itineraries of business/travel meeting. Laksala Publications issued: 60 York Street Colombo 01 • Business Lanka (quarterly, English). • Expo News (fortnightly, English/Sinhalese). P.O. Box: 538, Colombo • Sri Lanka Directory of Exporters. Phone: (94 11) 2323635 Local branches: Fax: (94 11) 2446582
Provincial Office (Central Province) E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 22B Kotugodella Veediya URL: www.laksala.lk Kandy Phone: (94 8) 2233592 Year established: 1983 Fax: (94 8) 2201147 E-mail: [email protected] Principal functions:
Provincial Office (North-Western Province) • To undertake the promotion, marketing and export of Sri 22/1, Mihindu Mawatha Lanka handicrafts; Kurunegala • To maintain shops and showrooms, both in Sri Lanka and Phone: (94 37) 2221972 abroad, for the display and sale of handicrafts and to conduct Fax: (94 37) 2224256 displays, exhibitions and sales. E-mail: [email protected] Services/activities: Provincial Office (Southern Province) 41, Devamitta Mawatha • Establishes, maintains, operates and assists in the China Gardens establishment, maintenance and operation of centres, Middle Road, Galle workshops or other institutions for the purpose of creating, or Phone: (94 9) 2223595 adapting designs to be used in the production of handicrafts Fax: (94 9) 2223595 and the marketing of goods produced at such centres or other E-mail: [email protected] institutions; • Expands the production of handicrafts and improves the Office abroad: quality of the raw material used for such production and of the finished products; Sri Lanka Trade Promotion Office India • Cooperates with scientific and technical institutions, Sri Lanka Trade Centre organizations and agencies for the improvement of crafts F 135, Phase III materials and craft production techniques; Spencer Plaza • Acts as the Certifying Authority of EEC Certificates of Origin 769, Anna Salai for handicrafts. Chennai 2, India Publications issued: Products/commodity responsible for: • Brochures, catalogues and Laksala web. All non-traditional products and services. Local branches: Training: The commercial arm consists of the Laksala sales outlets. Within • Certificate course on import and export procedures (7 days); a period of 40 years, Laksala has established 17 branches in • Course on operational aspects of international trade (10 Colombo-Fort, Bambalapitiya, Bentota, Galle, Hotel Galadari, days). Kandy, Katubedda, Katunayake (Airport), Kurunegala, Matara, Moragalla, Negambo, Nuwara-Eliya, Polgolla, Thummulla, Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Tangalle and Sigiriya.
Export-oriented projects.
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Offices abroad: SRI LANKA IMPORTERS', EXPORTERS' AND MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION (SLIEMA) Franchise Agent for the United Kingdom ARP Enterprises Office/postal address: 2 Pages Hill, Muswall Hill London N10 1QA, United Kingdom 28 Rajamalwatta Road Phone: (44 208) 3654618 Colombo 15 Fax: (44 208) 3654619 P.O. Box: 12, Colombo Franchise Agent for Australia and New Zealand Exotic Concepts Pty. Ltd. Phone: (94 1) 2696321 Shop 5/300, Beach Road Fax: (94 1) 268480, 2522524 Black Rock, Victoria 3193, Australia Fax: (61 3) 95890299 E-mail: [email protected]
Franchise Agent for Japan Year established: 1955 Gesyla Japan Co. Ltd. Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan Principal functions: Phone: (81 3) 38426871 Fax: (81 3) 38426859 • To collect enquiries and he latest information on trade, investment, new markets and opportunities and disseminate Products/commodity responsible for: essential information to its members and other interested companies; Jewellery with stones; silver jewellery; silver items; silver-plated • To process and promptly answer both import-export enquiries items; brass items; wood carvings; ebony items; wooden wall from overseas, and disburse them among interested parties; hangings; bamboo items; lacquered items; musical items; masks; • To act as a go-between to establish profitable contacts, coconut items; seashell items; handloom (Polgolla); handloom meetings with exporters, importers, investors, entrepreneurs (other); voil; mosquito nets/pillows/pillowcases/embroidered and other international business and financial institutions at pillowcases; batik wall hangings; cloth dolls; lace; flags; home and abroad; embroidered handkerchiefs; batik dresses/batik sarongs, cushion • To undertake a "Business Start-up Scheme" which aims to cover-bags (Myanmar); handloom sarongs/ready-made garments; make small businesspersons around the country aware of handloom vetti; serviettes/dusters/carpets; reedware items measures taken to support them and provide them with (Wetakey); reedware (Iluck); reedware (Nava); reedware items consultation, financial and legal services. (mats); palmyrah items; talipot items; leather items; coir items; clay items (unglazed); clay items (glazed); plaster of Paris items; Services/activities: soft toys/wintage cars; baby garments; oxidized items; artificial flowers; thread items; plywood items; tea/wax As detailed under Principal functions. item/spices/macrams; cards; embroidered table cloths, etc.; bed covers and sheets; wool carpets; copper items; bracts (Matalu); Membership structure: 200 members. B/S/C (brass, silver and copper mixed product); precious stones; semi-precious stones; paintings; granite items; silk; wooden Category: furniture; glass items; natural stones (non gems); paintings/statues. Trade association; trade facilitation body; trade fair and Training: exhibition authority; trade promotion organization; and training/research institution. Trains local youths at present for the fields of woodcarving, lace, pottery, reed weaving, textiles, carpentry and flower making.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Pottery, terra cotta and handicrafts.
Category:
State trading organization.
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SRI LANKA SHIPPERS’ COUNCIL SRI LANKA TEA BOARD
Office/postal address: Office/postal address: c/o Ceylon Chamber of Commerce 574 Galle Road 50 Nawam Mawatha Colombo 3 Colombo 2 P.O. Box: 1750 P.O. Box: 274, Colombo Phone: (94 11) 2587814, 2587773 Phone: (94 11) 2421745-7 Fax: (94 11) 589132, 2587341 Fax: (94 11) 2449352 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.pureceylontea.com URL: www.slsc.ws Year established: 1976 Year established: 1966 Principal functions: Principal functions: • To regulate the production and cultivation of tea; • To represent and carry out consultations and negotiations • To regulate the establishment and operation of tea factories; with shipping lines on behalf of shippers with regard to • To regulate the conduct of tea auctions; freight rates, availability and adequacy of shipping services, • To regulate the sale of tea and the export of tea; port efficiency, port charges, port facilities and others; • To assist and encourage scientific and technological research; • To make representations to the Government on matters and • To conduct, assist and encourage research into the economic issues affecting ship users and port users; state of the tea industry; • To carry out training programmes to educate ship users and • To facilitate securing of supplies of machinery and equipment port users on shipping procedures and other related matters. for the development of the tea industry in Sri Lanka; • To provide financial or advisory services on matters relating to Services/activities: the tea industry and to publish such statistics at its discretion; • To safeguard the interests of the workers in the tea industry; • Acts on behalf of ship users and port users by making • To collect statistics from growers, manufacturers, dealers or representations to the Government and other agencies on other persons on any matter relating to the tea industry and to matters concerning the affairs of both importers and publish such statistics at its discretion; exporters, such as negotiating competitive freight rates, • To regulate, control and direct all institutions and organizations resolving of trade disputes/complaints and making engaged in the management of tea estates and in the representations to safeguard interests of importers/exporters; production and marketing of tea; • Provides advisory services on shipping, freight, ports, • To provide the necessary liaison between the tea industry and customs formalities and other related activities of ship users the departments of Government or State Corporations; and port users; • To develop the tea industry through research and promotion in Provides expertise from within the Council to importers and • Sri Lanka and in world markets. exporters for training and development in selected areas.
Services/activities: Publication issued:
• As detailed under Principal functions. • Annual Report (English).
Publications issued: Membership structure: 16 members and 22 associate members. • Sri Lanka Tea Board Annual Report.
• Sri Lanka Tea Board Monthly Statistical Summary. Training: • Sri Lanka Tea Board Annual Statistical Bulletin. No regular training courses, but conducts short-term seminars, • Newsletter (bimonthly). training programmes to create awareness on export-related issues. • Tea Market Update (quarterly).
Category: Local branches:
Shipper’s council; port authority; and national shipping Regional Office - Bandarawela corporation. 1 Ambatenna Gardens Bandarawela Phone: (94 57) 2222812
Regional Office - Galle 20 Lower Dickson Road Galle Phone: (94 9) 2232052
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Regional Office - Gampola 140 Ambagamuwa Road, Gampola Phone: (94 81) 2352279
Regional Office – Ginigathena Norisland Ambagamuwa, Ginigathena Phone: (94 60) 2519970
Regional Office - Matara 4 Wijetunga Mawatha, Matara Phone: (94 41) 2222636
Regional Office – Mathugama Mathugama Multipurpose Corporative Society Building Mathugama Phone: (94 60) 2342438
Regional Office - Ratnapura 9 Moragabayata, Ratnapura Phone: (94 45) 2222136
Offices abroad:
Tea Promotion Unit Sri Lanka Embassy 2-1-54, Takanawa Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0074, Japan Phone: (81 3) 54489122, 34401611/6912 Fax: (81 3) 54489121 E-mail: [email protected]
Tea Promotion Unit Sri Lanka Embassy Al. Wilanowska 313A 02-665 Warsaw, Poland Phone: (48 22) 8538896/7 Fax: (48 22) 8538907 E-mail: [email protected]
Tea Promotion Unit Sri Lanka Embassy 24, Shchepkina Str., Moscow, Russian Federation Phone (74 95) 6881363, 6883511 Fax: (74 95) 6881363, 6883511 E-mail: [email protected]
Tea Promotion Unit Consulate General of Sri Lanka P.O. Box 51528 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Phone: (97 14) 3987871 Fax: (97 14) 3987872 E-mail: [email protected]
Products/commodity responsible for:
Tea in bulk, packets, bags and other tea products (all originating from the plant Camellia Sinensis).
Category:
Standard, testing, aid inspection; and trade promotion organization.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY REPUBLIC TAJIKISTAN (ICC RP)
Office/postal address:
21 Valamat-Zade Str. 734012 Dushanbe
Phone: (992 3722) 15284 Fax: (992 3722) 11480
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.tpp.tj
Year established: 1960
Principal functions:
• To further the development of the economy and its integration to the world economic system; • To form a modern structure of market relations; • To create favourable conditions for business activities and the worldwide spreading of trade, economic and scientific- technical relations with other countries.
Services/activities:
• Provides information services; • Deals with foreign economic activities; • Provides juridical services; • Provides services in protecting of objects of industrial property; • Undertakes activities on expertise of the goods, certificates of origin and evaluation activity; • Organizes fairs and exhibitions; • Provides assistance to development of enterprise activity.
Local branches:
Sugd regional chamber of commerce and industry 1 Mavlonbekova Ave. 735700 Khujand city Sugd Region Phone: (992 3422) 66728 Fax: (992 3422) 64254
Khatlon regional chamber of commerce and industry 63 A Ayni Str. 735140 Kurgan, Teppa city Khatlon region Phone: (992 3222) 23314 Fax: (992 3222) 23625
Branch of chamber of commerce and industry "Pomiroblupravleniye" 26 Lenina Str. 736100 Khorog city Phone: (992 291) 6773
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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BOARD OF TRADE OF THAILAND* • Issues Certificates of Commodity Standard and other commercial certificates; Office/postal address: • Provides trade arbitration services; • Provides ATA Carnet services. 150/2 Rajabopit Road Pranahkon, Bangkok 10200 Publications issued:
Phone: (66 2) 6221860-70 • Business Directory (English). Fax: (66 2) 6221880, 6221882, 6221991 • Economic Newsletters (biweekly, Thai). • Business Opportunities (biweekly, English). E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.thaiechamber.com Membership structure:
Year established: 1955 Ordinary members: - The Thai chamber of commerce Principal functions: - Foreign chambers of commerce in Thailand (23) - Trade associations (71) • To act as the central business organization to promote and - Public enterprises (7) protect the trading interests of the country and the Thai business community; Associate members: • To represent the business community to inform and advise the - Individual companies and partnerships (500). government sector on important policies and issues which affect trade, industry, commerce and investment; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • To promote trade and business contacts between importers/exporters of Thailand and foreign importers/ Please contact the Board of Investment. exporters; • To promote cooperation among enterprises and to act as an Category: intermediary between the Government and the private sector; • To undertake by arbitration the settlement of disputes arising Trade association. out of trade and commerce.
Services/activities:
• Informs the Government and its agencies of the views and recommendations of the private business community on economic and trade policies which affect trade, industry and commerce; • Participates in discussions of economic and trade policy formulation and plans for trade and market development; • Provides statistical data and information on domestic and foreign markets and changes in economic and trade policies and legislation; • Provides services to members by informing and channelling trade enquiries and business opportunities directly and/or through publications; • Maintains a trade reference library for use of members; • Publishes trade directories and publications for the interest of members; • Organizes meetings, seminars and training on economic, trade and technical matters for members; • Organizes trade missions abroad and encourages participation in international trade fairs and exhibitions; • Arranges business meetings for foreign trade missions; • Organizes and stimulates the organization of international trade fairs and exhibitions in the country; • Undertakes market studies, research and surveys of domestic and export markets; • Facilitates communication and the exchange of views on economic and trade issues among members, as well as among members and government departments and public bodies; • Strengthens and expands economic and trade cooperation with foreign private business organizations and regional economic organizations in trade, investment, tourism and financing and expedites exchange of trade, technical, marketing, and managerial information and experience;
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BUREAU OF TRADE MEASURES DEPARTMENT OF EXPORT PROMOTION (DEP)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Department of Foreign Trade 22/77 Rachadapisek Road 44/100 Nonthaburi 1 Road Chatuchak Nonthaburi 11000 Bangkok 10900
Phone: (66 2) 5474756 Phone: (66 2) 5115066-77, 5120093-104 Fax: (66 2) 5474736 Fax: (66 2).5121079, 5131917
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.dft.moc.go.th URL: www.depthai.go.th
Year established: 1942 Year established: 1952
Principal functions: Principal functions:
• To encourage trade activities between state agencies or • To promote Thai products in foreign markets through various between state agencies and international trade organizations activities; with an aim to boost the benefits of export; • To cooperate with public and private organizations concerned • To protect Thailand’s trade interests by pursuing and solving to develop and promote Thai exporting under the policy and problems involving trade barriers set by Thailand’s trade procedure issued by the Export Development Committee; partners; • To conduct research and plan market strategies for export • To exercise its functions to gain trade preferences and promotion; encourage the private sector to pay more attention to trade • To suggest means and procedures to solve and eliminate the preferences; • To study and follow up the trade situation so as to cope with export problems and obstacles; Thailand’s external trade problems; • To develop the knowledge, skill and quality of Thai exporters • To study and follow up the development of Thai trade in an attempt to enable them to conduct their export business partners’ trade restrictions and regulations; more successfully; • To study and follow up the foreign trade situation of Thai • To prepare trade information and provide services for Thai principal products for the benefit of Thailand’s economy manufacturers/exporters and foreign importers; including ways and means to reduce barriers to Thailand’s • To cooperate with organizations concerned to improve and export and import; develop the quality and design of Thai products to serve • To promote Thailand’s external trade for the benefit of the foreign markets; Thai economy; • To cooperate and coordinate with other institutions and • To study and analyze trade measure, trade barrier and non- organizations both domestic and overseas to develop and tariff barrier of Thai partners; promote Thai exports. • To solve trade measures imposed by trading partners on Thai exporters who have not complied with WTO Services/activities: Agreements; • To study and evaluate trade competitiveness and the effect • Conducts marketing research, product research for planning of Thailand’s trade partner measures. policymaking;
• Provides advisory services for export marketing, information Services/activities: and research, and product adaptation and development;
• Undertakes buyers services; • Operates as a representative of Thailand’s trade sector; • Conducts export training for the business community and • Coordinates between public organizations for trade public agencies; facilitation of the private sector, such as the Federation of
Thai Industries and the Thailand Chamber of Commerce. • Directs, organizes and sponsors trade displays, fairs and exhibitions; Training: • Directs, organizes and sponsors selling and buying missions; • Collects and disseminates market information through Seminar of topics on the European Union’s regulation on Food publications and issues publicity materials; Safety Law, REACH, WEEE, RoHs, EurepGAP, and Japan’s • Facilitates links between Thai exporters and overseas positive list system. importers through trade advisory and information services; • Conducts studies of problems affecting exports in order to Category: recommend possible solutions; • Operates overseas trade centres and a National Exhibition Commodity standard institute; Ministry of Trade; and standard, Centre; testing and inspection body. • Acts as focal point for technical cooperation in trade promotion; • Acts as Secretariat of the Export Development Committee and executor of the International Trade Promotion Fund.
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Publications issued: Training:
• Exporters' Review (fortnightly, Thai). The Department organizes a number of Thai and English • Statistics Files (monthly/annually, English). language training/seminar programmes annually in areas • Thailand: Practical Guide for Business Visitors. related to trade promotion including export marketing, • Thailand's Selected List of Exporters (biennial, English). product adaptation, and financing export documentation. • Product brochures, fair catalogues. Acceptance of trainees from other developing countries for programmes in the English language will be considered on Local branches: a case-by-case basis.
198/1 Thaloung Road, Tambol Watmai Category: Muang District, Chanthaburi 22000
Phone: (66 39) 325963,300009 Trade promotion organization. Fax: (66 39) 325962
E-mail: [email protected]
29/19 Singharaj Road,Si Phum DEPARTMENT OF TRADE NEGOTIATIONS (DTN)* Muang District, Chiang Mai 50200 Phone: (66 53) 216350-1, 221376 Office/postal address: Fax: (66 53) 215307 E-mail: [email protected] 44/100 Nontaburi 1 Road Bangkrasor 269/74-75 Mithaphap Road Nonthaburi 11000 Muang District, Khon Kaen 40000 Phone: (66 43) 325025-8 Fax: (66 2) 5475630-1 Fax: (66 43) 325029 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.dtn.moc.go.th, www.thaifta.com 7-15 Jootee-Uthit 1 Road, Haadyai District, Songkhla 90110 Year established: 1942 Phone: (66 74) 234349, 231744 Fax: (66 74) 234329 Principal functions: E-mail: [email protected] • To act as core coordinator in formulating and recommending 148/59 Kanjanavitee Road international economic policy measures; Tambon Bang Kung, Muang District • To provide recommendations on international trade policy; Suratthani 84000 • To formulate and recommend positions and strategies Phone: (66 77) 286108, 289916, supporting multilateral/bilateral trade negotiations and Free Fax: (66 77) 288632 Trade Area negotiations, and to participate therein; Mobile: (66 1) 5697936 • To formulate and recommend positions and strategies E-mail: [email protected] supporting negotiations under regional, subregional and other international groupings, and to participate therein; Offices abroad: • To research and analyse the impact of economic evolution both short and long term, in order to support the formulation DEP cooperates with Office of Commercial Affairs, under Office of policy and trade negotiations’ position; of the Permanent Secretary, as follows: • To develop international trade and economic information system; Africa: Ghana. • To perform other duties as stipulated by law, by the Ministry of Commerce or by assignment given by the Cabinet of Asia and Pacific: Australia; Bangladesh; Brunei Darussalam; Ministers. Cambodia; China; Hong Kong, China; India; Indonesia; Japan; Republic of Korea; Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Services/activities: Myanmar; Philippines; Singapore; Taiwan Province of China; Viet Nam. As detailed under Principal functions.
Europe: Austria; Czech Republic; Denmark; France; Germany; Publications issued: Hungary; Italy; Netherlands; Poland; Russian Federation; Spain; United Kingdom. • ASEAN Economic Community: Thailand’s Opportunities (Thai). Latin America: Brazil; Chile. • ASEAN-China Free Trade Area: Effects to Thailand (Thai). • The Future of Doha Negotiation Round: Success Factors Middle East: Islamic Republic of Iran; Israel; Saudi Arabia; (Thai). South Africa; Turkey; United Arab Emirates; • Thailand and FTA: Opportunities or Threat (Thai). • China-Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership North America: Canada; United States of America. Arrangement (CEPA) (Thai). • Singapore: Thailand’s Economic Partnership in ASEAN (Thai).
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• Bilateral Acccession Agreement: Thailand-Russia (Thai). Publications issued: • Thailand’s International Trade Negotiations (Thai) • ASEAN Competitiveness (Thai). • Annual report (Thai/English). • Brochure on EXIM Thailand’s Financial Facilities, 2006 Category: (Thai, English). • Company profile, 2006 (Thai, English). Trade negotiation organization. • EXIM E-NEWS, newsletter (monthly, Thai).
Local branches: EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THAILAND (EXIM THAILAND) Offices and branches in Bangkok and the vicinity areas:
Business Promotion Office at Department of Export Promotion Office/postal address: rd Thailand Export Mart Building, 3 Floor, Department of Export EXIM Building, Promotion 1193 Phaholyothin Road 22/77 Ratchadapisek Road Phayathai 10400 Lad Yao, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900 Phone: (66 2) 5115772-3 Phone: (66 2) 2713700, 2780047, 6172111 Fax: (66 2) 5115774 Fax: (66 2) 2713204 Bangna-Trad Km. 3 Branch E-mail: [email protected] Thosapol Land Building 3, Ground Floor URL: www.exim.go.th 947 Moo 12, Bangna-Trad Km. 3 Road Bangna, Bangna, Bangkok 10260 Year established: 1993 Phone: (66 2) 7440551-3, 7440556-7, 7440573-4 Fax: (66 2) 7440571 Principal function: Rama II Branch • To provide financial services for the promotion of Thailand’s 174/112-113 Moo 6, Soi Rama II Soi 60, Rama II Road exports, imports as well as domestic and overseas investments Samaedam, Bang Khunthian, Bangkok 10150 for national development. Phone: (66 2) 8941994 Fax: (66 2) 8941813 Services/activities: Rama IV Branch • Working capital: Green Tower, Ground Floor 3656/2 Rama IV Road Pre-shipment financing (baht, US dollar and yen) - Klongton, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110 Small exporters financing facility (SEFF) - Phone: (66 2) 3673300-6, 2401133, 2401157 Express export credit (EEC) - Fax: (66 2) 3673307-8 - Export supplier’s finance - Packing credit plus Rangsit Branch - Financing facilities for re-export 44, 46, 48 Soi Phaholyothin 87, Phaholyothin Road - Negotiation of export bills; Prachathipat, Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani 12130 • Term loans: Phone: (66 2) 5364677-82 - Term loan for business expansion Fax: (66 2) 5364683-4 - Long-term credit for export of capital goods - Merchant marine financing Sathorn Branch - Trade fair financing; Empire Tower, Ground Floor • Financing facilities for service providers for exports: 195 South Sathorn Road − Financing facilities for logistics service providers Yannawa, Sathorn, Bangkok 10120 − Financing facilities for export quality inspection Phone: (66 2) 6700300-8 laboratory; Fax: (66 2) 6700309 • Financing for overseas projects: Branches in other provinces: - Financing facilities for overseas construction contracts
- Financial facilities for overseas investment Chiang Mai Branch - Financing facilities for Thai restaurants overseas Investment Insurance; 158/5-6 Chiang Mai-Lampang Road - Paton, Muang, Chiang Mai 50300 • Export credit insurance: Phone: (66 53) 220596-7, 220541 Export credit insurance for exports under L/C - Fax: (66 53) 220585 Export credit insurance for exports under D/P, D/A and - O/A Hat Yai Branch - Buyer/bank risk assessment service (BRA); Sinbenjapol Building • Medium- and long-term export insurance; 24 Soi P. Nataphol 2, Sripuwanart Road • International trade services; Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110 • Export advisory services; Phone: (66 74) 428722-6, 221131-2 • Revolving guarantee for import duty payment. Fax: (66 74) 221133-4
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Khon Kaen Branch the organizational structure of FTI to encourage all technical 381/44-45 Mittraphap Road services and the coordination of technology transfer; Nai Muang, Muang, Khon Kaen 40000 • Provides registration of products under EAN-UCC Standard Phone: (66 43) 271535-7 Barcode and EDI in Supply Chain; Fax: (66 43) 271538 • Encourages members’ Code of Ethics and Corporate Good Governance; Laem Chabang Branch • Produces and distributes a bimonthly magazine (Industry 53/71-74 Moo 9, Sukhumvit Road Focus) and education videos; Thungsukhla, Sriracha, Chonburi 20230 • Disseminates information through the internet (www.fti.or.th); Phone: (66 38) 330121-6 • Produces FTI Directory and CD-ROM; Fax: (66 38) 330127-8 • Serves as the national secretariat of the ASEAN Chambers of Commerce and Industry or ASEAN-CCI; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Cooperates with Ministry of Foreign Affairs in issuing the
APEC business travel card; Export of all kinds of goods; overseas investments with (partial or • Serves as the secretariat of the Asia-Europe Business Forum full) Thai interest. (AEBF);
• Participates in WTO joint committee, which comprises the Category: Board of Trade of Thailand, the Thai Banker Association and
FTI to study and follow up WTO rules, regulations and Export credit agency with a diverse range of export and investment financing facilities. concerned issues.
Publications issued:
FEDERATION OF THAI INDUSTRIES (FTI) • Annual Report (Thai).
• FTI Directory (English). Office/postal address: • Industry Club Directories (English/Thai).
4th Floor, Zone C • Industry Focus (bimonthly, Thai). Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre • Provincial Chapters Directories (English/Thai). 60 New Rajadapisek Road • Other newsletters. Klongtoey Bangkok 10110 Local branches:
Phone: (66 2) 2294255 FTI Provincial Chapters: Fax: (66 2) 2294941-2 Pathum Thani Chapter URL: www.fti.or.th Boonrawd Brewery Co. Ltd. 999 Samsen Road Year established: 29 December 1987 (formerly Association of Dusit, Bangkok 10300 Thai Industries (ATI), 1967-1987). Phone: (66 2) 2411360-9, 2434731-40 Fax: (66 2) 2412539 Principal functions: 97/7 Inchannarong Road • To act as the sole representative of all industrial enterprises in Nai-Muang Thailand; Muang, Bureeram 31000 • To promote industrial development; Phone: (66 44) 617483 Fax: (66 44) 617483 • To disseminate information on technology;
• To conduct testing of products and issue Certificate of Origin 2nd Floor, Royal Commemorate Community Centre and Certificate of Quality Assurance, Certification of Yuthadamnoen Road Existence/Non-existence of producers/suppliers of raw Muang, Chachoengsao 24000 materials in Thailand for claiming of investment promotion Phone: (66 38) 814409 privileges under the Investment Promotion Act; Fax: (66 38) 814409 • To offer appropriate advice and recommendations to the Government for the overall benefits of the industrial sector; Chainat Industry Office • To ensure that the FTI members comply with the laws Moo 7, Kao Ta Pha governing industrial activities. Muang, Chainat 17000 Phone: (66 56) 416464 Services/activities: Fax: (66 56) 416465
• Provides consultancy services, workshops, training, seminars, 310/90 Nontanakorn Road educational and observation tours within the country and Muang, Chaiyaphum 36000 aboard; Phone: (66 44) 812795 • Encourages the study and upgrading of skills in various Fax: (66 44) 812795 specific industries; • Operates the Human Capacity Building Institute, Institute of 200 Thanon Thaluang, Watmai Industrial Energy and Industrial Environment Institute within Muang, Chantaburi 22000
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Phone: (66 39) 312851 87 Moo 1 Nakhien, Muang Fax: (66 39) 302986 Nakhon Si Thammarat 80000 Phone: (66 75) 312040 1st Floor, Northern Industrial Promotion Centre Building Fax: (66 75) 346121, 312040 158 Tung Hotel Road Muang, Chiang Mai 50000 55 Moo 7, Petchakasem Road Phone: (66 53) 304346-7 Klongmai, Sampran, Nakhonpathom 73110 Fax: (66 53) 246353 Phone: (66 34) 223131 Fax: (66 34) 223132 4th Floor, Macro Building 862/10 Paholyotin Road Nakorn Swan Viriyalai Technology College Tambon Robwiang, Muang, Chiang Rai 57000 Pahol Yothin Road, Nongkrod Phone: (66 53) 715399 Muang, Nakorn Swan 60240 Fax: (66 53) 742233 Phone: (66 56) 334565 Fax: (66 56) 229969 Industry Promotion Centre 5th Floor, 67 Moo 1, Sukhumvit Road, Moo 1 Samed 276/11 Phol Saen Road, Nai Muang Muang, Chonburi 20000 Muang, Nakornratchasima 30000 Phone: (66 38) 288507 Phone: (66 44) 267117-8 Fax: (66 38) 288508 Fax: (66 44) 267118
Chumphon Town Hall Faikaew, Poopeang 190 Sahakorn Road Nan 55000 Thatapao, Muang, Chumphon 86000 Phone: (66 54) 771616, 751539 Phone: (66 77) 512361 Fax: (66 54) 751359 Fax: (66 77) 512362 Government Offices Centre Lert Kasikorn Group Co. Ltd. 37 Moo 9, 1st Floor, Koakkien 68/21-3 Moo 1 Tambon Nakonchum Muang, Narathiwat 96000 Lianmuang Road, Kamphaeng Phet 62000 Phone: (66 73) 512205 Phone: (66 55) 799759 Fax: (66 73) 512205 Fax: (66 55) 722788 E-mail: [email protected]
84 Moo 4, Tambon Wangsala, Amphur Government Offices Centre Thamuang, Kanchanaburi 71130 Udorn-Nongkhai Road Phone: (66 34) 561178, 561187 Muang, Nongkhai 43000 Fax: (66 34) 661182 Phone: (66 42) 421272 Fax: (66 42) 411999 4th Floor, Kow Yoo Hah Motor Building 359/2 Mittaphab Road 9/2 Moo 5, Talingchan-Supanburi Road Muang, Khonkaen 40000 Saothonghin, Bang Yai, Nontaburi 11140 Phone: (66 43) 324886 Phone: (66 2) 9032051 Fax: (66 43) 324885 Fax: (66 2) 9032052
1/23-24 Watchara Road 355 Moo 8 Naklua Road, Bana Krabi-Yai, Muang, Krabi 81000 Muang, Pattani 94000 Phone: (66 75) 620-084 or (66 1) 4775580 Phone: (66 73) 334611 Fax: (66 75) 620-084 Fax: (66 73) 334611
2nd Floor, New Lampang Provincial Industrial Office 335 Phaholyothin Road Lampang-Denchai Road Bhantom, Muang, Payao 56000 Phrabhat, Muang, Lampang 52000 Phone: (66 54) 481266, 412877 Phone: (66 54) 265079 Fax: (66 54) 481797, 431160 Fax: (66 54) 265080 42 Moo 4, Phetchabun-Chaleanglub 2nd Floor, Northern Region Industrial Estate Muang, Phetchabun 67000 60 Moo 4 Ban-Klang, Muang, Lamphun 51000 Phone: (66 56) 748650-1 Phone: (66 53) 552271 Fax: (66 56) 748649 Fax: (66 53) 552272 87/2 Phetchakasem Road Sahafam Co., Ltd. Tonmamuang 99 Moo 8, Saraburi-Lomsuk Road Muang, Phetchaburi 76000 Huayhin, Chaibadan, Lopburi 15130 Phone: (66 32) 414128 Phone: (66 36) 643206 Fax: (66 32) 414128 Fax: (66 36) 643207
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4/91-92 Sara Lung Road 13 Soi Pichaironnarongsongkram Nai Muang, Muang, Phichit 66000 Pahol Yothin Road, Muang, Saraburi 18000 Phone: (66 56) 612450 Phone: (66 36) 212940 Fax: (66 56) 612450 Fax: (66 36) 212940
808/1-2 Pichaisongkram Road Singburi-Bangpan Road Nai Muang, Muang, Phitsanulok 65000 Muang, Singburi 16000 Phone: (66 55) 258497, 212101 Phone: (66 36) 523149 Fax: (66 55) 241718 Fax: (66 36) 523149
3rd Floor, 123 Asia Road, Khlong Suanphlu Muang, Sisaket 33000 Phra Nakhonsi Ayutthaya 13000 Phone: (66 45) 631616 Phone: (66 35) 345966 Fax: (66 45) 613497 Fax: (66 35) 345967 3rd Floor, Southern Industrial Promotion Centre 369 Moo 5 165 Karnjanavanich Road Sai Ban Namcham 1-Ban Rongkhem Road Namnoi, Hatyai, Songkla 90110 Mae Lai, Muang, Phrae 54000 Phone: (66 74) 211902-3 Phone: (66 54) 649731/741 Fax: (66 74) 211903 Fax: (66 54) 649731/741 9 Moo 4, Ruayai 2nd Floor, Phuket Provincial Industrial Office Muang, Suphanburi 72000 48/4 Dumrong Road, Talad Yai Phone: (66 35) 555210, 555267 Muang, Phuket 83000 Fax: (66 35) 545601 Phone: (66 76) 240362 Fax: (66 76) 240362 99/44-46 Moo 2 Karnchana Vidhi Road 67 Moo 3, Bang Boriboon Vat Pradu, Muang, Suratthani 84000 Muang, Prachinburi 25000 Phone: (66 77) 212520 Phone: (66 37) 200678 Fax: (66 77) 273977 Fax: (66 37) 200678 60 Jitbumroong Road 65 Sukjai Road Muang, Surin 32000 Muang, Prachubkhirikhan 77000 Phone: (66 44) 511348 Phone: (66 32) 611030, 611580 Fax: (66 44) 514348 Fax: (66 32) 602344 8/1-2 Soi Ruamraeng, Intarakiri Road 41/125 Thamuang Road Mae-sod, Tak 63110 Kao Nivhet, Muang, Ranong 85000 Phone: (66 55) 542381, 542927 Phone: (66 77) 824689 Fax: (66 55) 542927 Fax: (66 77) 824689 322/10 Moo 5, Nongsamed 33 Amphur Road, Namuang Muang, Trad 23000 Muang, Ratchaburi 70000 Phone: (66 39) 511945, 512619 Phone: (66 32) 337301/315048 Fax: (66 39) 520228 Fax: (66 32) 323346 85 Kokkan Road 140/20 Moo 1 Sukhumvit Road Tapthieng Noenphra, Muang, Rayong 21080 Muang, Trung 92000 Phone: (66 38) 808177 Phone: (66 75) 218699 Fax: (66 38) 808178 Fax: (66 75) 212841
Inter Concrete Industry Co., Ltd. 2nd Floor, Ubon Ratcha Thanee Provincial Industrial Office 143 Moo 5, Jangsanit Road Surasakdi Road Nivetch, Tawatburi, Roi-et 45170 Muang, Ubon Ratchathanee 34000 Phone: (66 34) 569010, 527123-6 Phone: (66 45) 262449 Fax: (66 45) 262449 37 Office Building Srisamut Road 83/21 Wattana Road Paknam, Samutprakarn 10270 Muang, Udorn Thani 41000 Phone: (66 2) 7028675-6 Phone: (66 42) 246498 Fax: (66 2) 7028673 Fax: (66 42) 246498
923-49 Ekachai Road, Mahachai 280/9 Baromaard Road Muang, Samuthsakorn 74000 Muang, Uttaradhit 53000 Phone: (66 34) 836740, 833606 Phone: (66 55) 440389 Fax: (66 34) 836740 Fax: (66 55) 414449
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36 Sribumrung Road FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) Sateng, Muang, Yala 95000 Phone: (66 73) 243316 or (66-1) 6781010 Office/postal address: Fax: (66 73) 243615 Ministry of Public Health New regional chapters: Tiwanond Road, Muang District Nonthaburi 11000 1st Floor, Industrial Development Centre Toonghotel, Chiang Mai 50000 Phone: (66 2) 5907001, 5907003, 5907063 Phone: (66 53) 304346-7 Fax: (66 2) 5918636 Fax: (66 53) 246353 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 44/4 Moo 11, Nawamidth URL: www.fda.moph.go.th Kannayao, Bangkok 10230 Phone: (66 2) 5100051-62 ext. 701 Year established: 1974 Fax: (66 2) 5105737 Principal function: 5/9-12 Moo 7, Bangna-Trad Road (Km.41) Bangsamak, Bangpakong • To protect consumer’s health, to ensure safety, quality and Chachoengsao 24180 efficacy of health products under responsibilities of the Thai Phone: (66 38) 538155 FDA, i.e. foods, drugs, psychotropic substances, narcotics, Fax: (66 38) 538099 medical devices, volatile substances, cosmetics and hazardous substances available in the country. This has to be 267/11 Polsann Road, Naimuang implemented in accordance with laws and international Muang, Nakhonrajasrima 30000 agreements. Phone: (66 44) 267117-8 Fax: (66 44) 267118 Services/activities:
165 Kanchanawanid Road • Grants licences for manufacturing and importation of all Namnoi, Hadyai Songkla 90110 products, including food commodities, pharmaceuticals, Phone: (66 74) 211902 narcotic and psychotropic substances, medical devices and Fax: (66 74) 211903 household hazardous substances; • Strictly regulates the above-mentioned products to ensure and Industry clubs: monitor safety quality and efficacy of both high-risk and low- risk products; Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Club, Air Conditioning and • Controls advertisement of food and drug products and provides Refrigeration Industry Club, Aluminium Industry Club, Auto Parts guidance related to the above-mentioned products for Industry Club, Automotive Industry Club, Ceramic Industry Club entrepreneurs and organizations involved; of Thailand, Chemical Industry Club, Electrical, Electronics and • Acts as an information service centre to disseminate relevant Allied Industry Club, Environmental Management Industry Club, information and publications; Food Processing Industry Club, Footwear Industry Club, Garments • Carries out post-marketing surveillance and monitoring job, Industry Club, Gems and Jewellery Industry Club, Glass including the direct sampling of the products for labouratory Manufacturers Club, Granite and Marble Industry Club, Leather analysis and testing to find out whether or not the distributed Based Industry Club, Machinery and Metal Work Industry Club, products do conform to their regulatory standards; Petrochemical Industry Club, Petroleum Refining Industry Club, • Supervises manufacturing plants to upgrade their production Pharmaceuticals Industry Club, Plastic Industry Club, Printing process to meet with the standard criteria, such as Good Industry Club, Pulp and Paper Industry Club, Roofing and Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Hazardous Analyses Accessories Industry Club, Rubber Based Industry Club, Textile Critical Criteria Point (HACCP); Industry Club, Thai Furniture Industry Club, Thai Gas Manufacturers Industry Club, Thai Panel Product Industry Club, • Monitors adverse reactions of health products in Thailand and Thailand Fellowship of Cement Manufacturer, Thailand Iron and disseminates summarized reports to network hospitals and Steel Industry Club. WHO; • Participates in various activities and cooperates with many Membership structure: 5,400 members. international organizations, such as WHO, UNDP; • Acts as the national focal point for the International Ordinary membership: any industrial enterprises in the country who Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) and Adverse Drug must comply with the Factory Act or the trade association in the Reaction Monitoring Centre of WHO (ADRM); industrial sector. • Provides public education information through various types of media such as radio, television, newspaper, posters, electronic Associate membership: those individuals and juristic persons not in machines, audio-text system; the industrial sector or other trade associations. These members are • Organizes training courses and seminars. grouped into industrial club and countrywide provincial chapters. Publications issued: Category: • FDA Journal. Industrial promotion organization. • Medical and Health Product Bulletin.
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Local branches: INDUSTRIAL ESTATE AUTHORITY OF THAILAND (IEAT)* Provincial Public Health Offices (located in all provinces throughout the country). Office/postal address:
Products/commodities responsible for: 618 Nikom Makkasan Road Rajthevee Foods; drugs; psychotropic substances; narcotics; medical Bangkok 10400 devices; volatile substances; cosmetics; and hazardous substances. Phone: (66 2) 2530561 Fax: (66 2) 2526582, 2534086 Training: E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Various training courses (both national and international) related URL: www.ieat.go.th to regulatory control of health product. Year established: 1972 (as a State Enterprise attached to the Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Ministry of Industry).
• Drug Act B.E. 2510 (1967). Principal functions: • Psychotropic Substance Act B.E. 2518 (1975). • Food Act B.E. 2522 (1979). • To provide a one-stop service for Thai and foreign industrial • Narcotic Act B.E. 2522 (1979). organizations from start to completion, including all types of • Medical Devices Act B.E. 2531 (1988). permits, information and advice on investment and how to set • The Emergency Decree on Prevention against Abuse of up, incentive and privileged, promoted zones, loan services Volatile Sustances B.E. 2535 (1990). and design of factory; • Cosmetic Act B.E. 2535 (1992). • To establish "industrial estates" which are fully equipped with • Hazardous Substance Act B.E. 2535 (1992). standardized infrastructure and public utilities; • The single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961. • To provide strategic trade and manufacturing bases that are • Commentary on the protocol amending at Geneva on 25 integrated concurrently with the social and cultural March 1972. environment. • The International Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971. Services/activities: • The International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitute 1981. • Undertakes surveying, planning, designing, construction and • The United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in maintenance of facilities and provision of services to industrial Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988. operators and persons engaged in activities beneficial to or
connected with industrial operations; Category: • Designates categories and sizes of industrial activities
permissible in an industrial estate; Standard, testing, and inspection body. • Supervises living conditions of workers in an industrial estate; • Controls the operation of industrial enterprises, and the
utilization of land in an industrial estate in accordance with
rules, regulations and laws; • Handles investment; • Issues bonds or other instruments for investment.
Publications issued:
• Annual Reports • Corporate - Supporting Industries and Factories in Industrial Estate. - Corporate Information 2001. - Information 2001. - Success Today Toward a Sustainable Future 2002. • Brochure - Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT). - Paradise of Investment Success and Happiness. - Southern Region Industrial Estate (Songkhla). - Phichit Industrial Estate Rubber City. - Rubber City. - Halal Food Processing.
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Local branches: Ban Wa Industrial Estate (Hi-Tech) 99 Moo 5, Asia-Nakhon Sawan Road, Km. 59-60 • General Industrial Zone (GIZ): this area is reserved for the Ban Wa, Bangpa-In location of industrial manufacturing for export and or Ayudhaya 13160 domestic consumption. Phone: (66 35) 250141 • Export Processing Zone (EPZ): this area is reserved for the Fax: (66 35) 244651 location of industrial manufacturing, trade and service with the minimum export of at least 40 per cent. Most of the Saharattananakorn Industrial Estate industrial estates with EPZ will have a government custom 103 Moo 4, Bangprakru house for fast clearing. Nakhon Luang, Ayudhaya 13220 • Commercial Zone: this area is reserved for commercial Phone: (66 35) 350777, 350141, 3501/44 support such as bank, post office, regular supplies and other Fax: (66 35) 244651 facilities to serve the industries in the industrial zone. Company Office: • Residential Zone: this area is reserved for the residence Phone: (66 35) 359884-7 purposes of both the employers and employees. Fax: (66 35) 359889
Zone 1 (6 central provinces surrounding Bangkok): Gateway City Industrial Estate Highway 331, Km. 10 Bangchan Industrial Estate T. Hua Saem Rong, Plangyao 60 Moo 14, Seiree Thai Road Chachoengsao 24190 Minburi, Bangkok 10510 Phone: (66 38) 575274-6 Phone: (66 2) 5170744, 5171895, 5179653, 9060399 Fax: (66 38) 575274 Fax: (66 2) 5176965 Well Grow Industrial Estate Gemopolis Industrial Estate 78 Moo 1, Bangna-Trad Road, Km. 36 47/31 Moo 4, Sukhapibal 2 Road Bangpakong, Chachoengsao 24180 Prawes, Bangkok 10260 Phone: (66 38) 570001 Phone: (66 2) 3260221-3, 3260137 Fax: (66 38) 570002 Fax: (66 2) 3260220 Company Office: Amatanakorn Industrial Estate Phone: (66 2) 7270022 700 Moo 1, Klongtamru Fax: (66 2) 7270099 Bangna-Trad Road, Km. 57 Muang, Chonburi 20000 Latkrabang Industrial Estate Phone: (66 38) 213011-2 94 Chalong Krung Road Fax: (66 38) 213013 Lamplathiew, Latkrabang, Bangkok 10520 Phone: (66 2) 3260221-3, 3260234, 3260137 Chonburi Industrial Estate (Bo-Win) Fax: (66 2) 3260220 331/8-9 Moo 6, Highway 331, Km. 91-92 Bowin, Sriracha, Chonburi 20230 Bangplee Industrial Estate Phone: (66 38) 954543-4, 954546 136/2 Moo 17, Thepharuk Road Fax: (66 38) 954545 Bangsaothong Subdistrict Company Office: Samutprakarn 10540 Phone: (66 38) 345234, 345251 Phone: (66 2) 3152200, 7050697-9 Fax: (66 38) 38345233 Fax: (66 2) 3151498 Pinthong Industrial Estate Bangpoo Industrial Estate 789 Moo 1, Nong Ko-Laem Chabang Road 649 Sukhumvit Road, Bangpoo Mai Nong-Kham, Sriracha, Chonburi 20280 Muang, Samutprakarn 10280 Phone: (66 38) 954543-4 Phone: (66 2) 3240358, 7093450-3 Fax: (66 38) 954546 Fax: (66 2) 3230730-1 Company Office: Phone: (66 38) 296334-7 Samut Sakhon Industrial Estate Fax: (66 38) 296333 39/5 Moo 2, Bangkrajao Maung, Samut Sakhon 74000 Nong Khae Industrial Estate (Saraburi) Phone: (66 34) 490066-8 Phaholyothin Road, Km. 92-93 Fax: (66 34) 490070 Nong Khae, Saraburi 18140 Phone: (66 35) 258409-10 Zone 2 (12 provinces surrounding Zone 1): Fax: (66 35) 258411 Company Office: Bangpa-In Industrial Estate Phone: (66 36) 371720-2 139 Moo 2, Udomsorayuth Road Fax: (66 36) 371721 Klong Jik, Bangpa-In, Ayudhaya 13160 Phone: (66 35) 258409-10 Fax: (66 35) 258411
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Saraburi Industrial Estate (Kaeng Khoi) Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate 72 Banthad, Kaengkhoi, Saraburi 18100 1 Road I-1, Tambol Map Ta Phut Phone: (66 35) 258409-10 Muang, Rayong 21150 Fax: (66 35) 258411 Phone: (66 38) 683930-8, 681128-9 Company Office: Fax: (66 38) 683941 Phone: (66 36) 245131-2 Fax: (66 36) 245131 Padaeng Industrial Estate 1 Padaeng Road, Padaeng Industrial Estate Ratchaburi Industrial Estate Map Ta Phut, Muang, Rayong 21150 110 Moo 9, Don Sai Phone: (66 38) 683930-8, 681128-9 Photharam, Ratchaburi 70120 Fax: (66 38) 683941 Phone: (66 32) 375718-9 Company Office: Fax: (66 32) 356938 Phone: (66 38) 683318-20 Fax: (66 38) 683361 Zone 3 (60 provinces or remainder of Thailand including Laem Chabang Industrial Estate): Thai-Singapore Industrial Estate Highway 3138, Km.29 Laem Chabang Industrial Estate Tasit, Pluakdaeng, Rayong 21150 49/19 Moo 5, Sukhumvit Road, Km. 125-128 Phone: (66 2) 2569798, 2569035-6 Thungsukhla, Sriracha, Chonburi 20230 Fax: (66 2) 2569553 Phone: (66 38) 490942-5 Fax: (66 38) 490940-1 Southern Industrial Estate (Songkhla Province) 9/6 Moo 4, Chalung Khon Kaen Industrial Estate Hadyai, Songkhla 90110 86 Friendship Highway Phone: (66 74) 472182-3 Samran Sub-District Fax: (66 74) 472182 Muang, Khon Kaen 40000 Phone: (66 43) 379436, 241834 Asia Industrial Estate Fax: (66 43) 379436 682 Moo 2, Banchang Sukhumvit Road, Km. 201 Northern Region Industrial Estate Rayong 21150 60 Moo 4, Super-Highway Road Bangkok Office: Bangklang, Muang, Lamphun 51000 Phone: (66 2) 2315800, 2315900 Phone: (66 53) 581050, 581061, 581 054, 581070-2 Fax: (66 2) 2315933 Fax: (66 53) 581060 Products/commodity responsible for: Phichit Industrial Estate 71 Moo 1, Tambon Nhonglum • Establishment of industrial estates; Amphur Wachira Baramee, Phichit 66220 • Management and services of utility systems and other Phone: (66 56) 692191-2 facilities; Fax: (66 56) 692193 • Management of properly and commercial activities; • Development and management of industrial ports; Amata City Industrial Estate • Provision of supplies and services in order to enhance quality 7 Highway 331, Km. 95 of life and the environment, as well as the balanced synergy Mapyangporn, Pluakdaeng between businesses, communities and society; Rayong 20230 • Management of the environmental and occupational safety; Phone: (66 38) 490942-5 • One-stop-services for permission, approval and special Fax: (66 38) 490940 privileges. Company Office:
Phone: (66 38) 346007 Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Fax: (66 38) 345771
Rubber industry; textile industry; agro-industry; Halal food Eastern Industrial Estate industry; fishery industry; SMEs auto supporting industry; 18 Pakorn Songkhrao-Rat Road aviation industry; and waste recycling industry. Huay Pong, Muang, Rayong 21150
Phone: (66 38) 683930-8, 681128-9 Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Fax: (66 38) 683941
Company Office: • Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand Act B.E. 2522 Phone: (66 35) 258409-10 (1979). Fax: (66 38) 683963 • Announcement of the Board of Industrial Estate Authority of
Thailand, No. 1/2525 (1982). Subject: criteria and conditions Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate (Rayong) surcharge under the law on promotion of investment, import 112 Moo 4, Highway 331, Km. 91.5 duty and business tax in the export processing zone. Pluakdaeng, Rayong 21140 • Announcement of the Board of Industrial Estate Authority of Phone: (66 38) 954543-4 Thailand, No. 2/2535 (1992). Subject: Criteria and Fax: (66 38) 954546 conditions of payment of surcharge under the law on
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promotion of investment, import duty, value added tax and OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT (BOI) excise tax in the export processing zone. • Announcement of the Board of Industrial Estate Authority Office/postal address: of Thailand, No. 5/2535 (1992). Subject: criteria, method and conditions of take the goods used for products into the 555 Vibhavadi - Rangsit Road export processing zone with tax exemption or refund of Chatuchak taxes. Bangkok 10900 • Announcement of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, No. 107/2535 (1992). Subject: application for tax Phone: (66 2) 5378111, 5378555 exemption for the industrial operator in the export Fax: (66 2) 5378177 processing zone. • Announcement of the Industrial Estate Authority of E-mail: [email protected] Thailand, No. 109/2535 (1992). Subject: application for tax URL: www.boi.go.th exemption for the industrial operator in the export processing zone. Year established: 1958 • Announcement of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, No. 194/2535 (1992). subject: Form of certificate, Principal functions: a written permission and report. • Announcement of the Director-General of the Revenue • To promote investment and stimulate economic growth; Department Governing the Value-Added Tax. Subject: • To manage investment promotion incentives and to criteria, method and conditions for importing of products encourage investment in priority industries which are into the kingdom and transporting them to the export important and beneficial to the development of the country. processing zone; and for selling of products of the bonded warehouse in the category of duty-free shop under the law Services/activities: governing customs as per section 77/1 (14) (a) of the code of revenue. • Grants tax and non-tax incentives and guarantee to projects; • Announcement of the Industrial Estate Authority of • Offers business-related services to investors which include Thailand, No. 62/2537 (1994). assistance in obtaining required licences and permits, finding • Subject: list of goods to be transported into the export prospective joint-venture partners, and assisting in processing zone under section 48 of the Industrial Estate identifying subcontractors and suppliers opportunities. Authority of Thailand B.E. 2522 (1979). • Announcement of the Industrial Estate Authority of Publications issued: Thailand, No. 2/2525 (1982). Subject: Criteria, method and conditions for permission to transport goods out of the • A Business Guide to Thailand. export processing zone. • A Guide to the Board of Investment. • Announcement of the Industrial Estate Authority of • Cost of Doing Business in Thailand. Thailand, No. 1/2531 (1988). Subject: requirements on criteria, method and conditions in an application and • BOI Investment Review (monthly newsletter). approval for operating in industrial estate. • Announcement of the Board of Industrial Estate Authority Local branches: of Thailand, No. 3/2525 (1982). Subject: criterion, methods and process for approval of person to access and stays in the 46 Moo 5, Leam Chabang Industrial Estate export processing zone. Sukhumvit Road, Tambol Toongsukhla • Announcement of the Industrial Estate Authority of Amphur Sriracha, Chonburi 20230 Thailand, No. 3/2535 (1992). Subject: criteria, procedures Phone: (66 38) 491820-40 and conditions in granting approval to own land in industrial Fax: (66 38) 490479 estates. E-mail: [email protected] • Announcement of the Board of Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, No. 6/2535 (1992). Subject: criterion, methods 2112/22, Mittraphab Road and condition for obtaining approval and giving approval to Amphur Muang, Nakhon Ratchasima 3000 operate business in industrial estate (2nd revised edition). Phone: (66 44) 213184 to 86 • Announcement of the Board of Industrial Estate Authority Fax: (66 44) 213182 of Thailand, No. 64/2536 (1993). Subject: general criterion E-mail: [email protected] on land development in industrial estate. • Announcement of the Industrial Estate Authority of 177/54 Moo 17 Mitraphap Rd. Thailand, No. 95/2538 (1995). Subject: general criteria on Muang, Khonkaen 40000 land development in industrial estate (revised). Phone: (66 43) 271300-2 • Announcement of the Board of Industrial Estate Authority Fax: (66 43) 271303 of Thailand, No. 2/2540 (1997). Subject: to stipulate for E-mail: [email protected] category of industrial operation, trading and service to be received permit to operate in export processing zone. Airport Business Park #108-110 90 Mahidol Road Category: Amphur Muang, Chiang Mai 50100 Phone: (66 53) 203400 Export processing zone; industrial promotion; and investment Fax: (66 53) 203404 promotion authority. E-mail: [email protected]
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Thai Sivarat Building 3rd Floor, Royal Thai Consulate-General, Osaka 59-15 Boromtrilokkanat 2 Road, Bangkok Bank Building, 5th Floor Naimuang District, Muang, Phitsanulok 65000 1-9-16 Kyutaro-Machi, Chuo-Hu Phone: (66 55) 248111 Osaka 541-0056, Japan Fax: (66 55) 248777 Phone: (81 6) 6269226-7, 62711395 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (81 6) 62711394 E-mail: [email protected] 7-15 Chaiyong Building Jootee-Unit 1 Road, Haad Yai Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Songkhla 90110 Phone: (66 74) 347161-5 Agriculture and agricultural products; mining, ceramics and basic Fax: (66 74) 347160 metals; light industry; metal products, machinery and transport E-mail: [email protected] equipment; electronics industry and electrical appliances; chemicals, paper and plastics; and services and public utilities. 49/21-22 Sriwichai Road Tambol Makamtia Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Amphur Muang, Suratthani 84000 Phone: (66 77) 284637, 284622 • Investment Promotion Act 1977, Investment Promotion Act Fax: (66 77) 284638 (No. 2) 1991 and Investment Promotion Act (No. 3) 2001. E-mail: [email protected] • Board of Investment Announcement No. 1/2000 and No. 2/2000. Offices abroad: Category: Bethmannstr 58, 5. OG 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Investment promotion authority. Phone: (49 69) 9291230 Fax: (49 69) 92912320 E-mail: [email protected] PORT AUTHORITY OF THAILAND (PAT)
61 Broadway, Suite 2810 Office/postal address: New York, NY 10008, United States of America Phone: (1 212) 4229009 444 Tarua Road Fax: (1 212) 4229119 Klongtoey District E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Bangkok 10110
Phone: (66 2) 22693000 Royal Thai Embassy th Fax: (66 2) 26727156 8 Floor, Fukuda Building West 2-11-3 Akasaka, Minato-ku E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Tokyo 107-0052, Japan URL: www.port.co.th Phone: (81 3) 35821806 Fax: (81 3) 35895176 Year established: 1951 E-mail: [email protected] Principal functions: Ambassade Royale de Thailande 8, Rue Greuze • To provide services and facilities to vessels and cargoes; 75116 Paris, France • To conduct dredging operations and maintenance of the bar Phone: (33 1) 56902600-1 channels and basins; Fax: (33 1) 56902602 • To supervise stevedoring, handling, moving, storing and E-mail: [email protected] delivering of cargoes;
Royal Thai Consulate-General • To cooperate and coordinate with other government agencies 2nd Floor, Zhong Shan Dong Yi Lu concerned and international ports; Shanghai, China • To develop organization to cope with the economic growth. Phone: (86 21) 63219621 Fax: (86 21) 62319383 Services/activities: E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • Manages and develops its organization to be the main Royal Thai Consulate-General infrastructure supporting the country’s sustainable 611 North Larchmont Boulevard, 3rd Floor competitiveness; Los Angeles, CA 90004 United States of America • Cooperates with the Government and the private sector to Phone: (1323) 960 1199, 4669645, ext. 20 invest in port promotion business in order to modernize the Fax: (1 323) 4661559, 9601190 cargo transportation system, to facilitate logistics chain among E-mail: [email protected] ports as well as to support multimodal transportation.
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Publications issued: THAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (TCC)*
• Bi-monthly PAT Magazine (Nitayasan Karntarua) (Thai). Office/postal address: • PAT's Annual Report (Thai/English). • House Journal (Sarnsampan), (Thai). P.O. Box: 2-146, Bangkok 10200 • Brochures, leaflets, etc. (Thai/English). Phone: (66 2) 6221860-70 Local branches: Fax: (66 2) 6221882, 6221991
Laem Chabang Port E-mail: [email protected] Toongsukhla Sub-district URL: www.thaiechamber.com Sriracha District Chonburi 20230 Year established: 1933 Phone: (663) 8490000 Fax: (663) 8490149 Principal functions: E-mail: [email protected] • To enhance competitiveness of business; Products/commodity responsible for: • To lead private sectors in negotiating with the Government; • To be highly recognized by members; Container and conventional cargo. • To be highly recognized by the public; • To network with all provincial Chambers of Commerce; Training: • To cooperate with the government sector on economic and trade development; The Authority arranges training in the following areas: working • To support the role of Chamber of Commerce and trade development; basic management; port administration; associations in promoting, developing and solving economic management; cargo storage; warehousing; cargo handling problems such as overseas goods exhibitions; equipment drivers; mechanical technician; security guard; • To report on the FTA negotiations; dangerous goods; cargo handling; improving port performance; • To organize the Thailand business forum. containerization; basic computer; English for Meeting and Discussion; etc. Services/activities:
The courses conducted in English are Port Administration, • Organizes domestic and international trade fairs and Development in Container Shipping and Intermodalism, Training exhibitions; in Application of Information Technology, and Human Resource • Establishes business information centre; Development and Re-engineering in Port Industry. • Builds business networking centre; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Issues Certificates of Origin; • Issues Certificate of Commodity Standards; Port Operations at Bangkok Port, Laem Chabang Port, Chiang • Provides Certify ATA Carnet; Saen Port, Chiang Khong Port and Ranong Port for instance • Organizes and support seminar and training through Thai container terminal, cargo handling equipment, etc. Entrepreneur Development Institution (TEDI); • Provides service related to arbitration work. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Publications issued: All contracts shall be governed by and constructed according to the law and regulations of the Government of • Thai Chamber of Commerce Membership Directory (biennial, Thailand. English). • Thailand Showcase: A Buyer's Guide (annually, English). Category: Membership structure: 26,035 companies. Port authority. Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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THAI PLASTIC AND PETROCHEMICAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER (TPDC)
Office/postal address:
TPI Tower 26/56 Chan Tat Mai Road Kwang Tungmahamek Khet Sathorn Bangkok 10120
Phone: (66 2) 6785050, 6785000 ext. 10080-1 Fax: (66 2) 6785159
E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.tpigroup.co.th/tpdc/index.html
Year established: 1996
Principal functions:
• To promote export opportunities for Thai manufacturers of plastics and the articles thereof; • To support export potential of Thai manufacturers of plastics and the articles thereof; • To enhance business opportunities between Thai manufacturers of plastic and the articles thereof, and those in foreign countries.
Services/activities:
• Facilitates trade missions to visit the centre which is Thailand’s only specialized one-stop-service plastic centre; • Arranges matchmakings between the members and interesting overseas businesspersons; • Participates in international and local exhibitions and trade fairs; • Provides data of plastic importers worldwide to the members; • Organizes training programmes aimed at enhancing members’ readiness for more business opportunities; • Represents its members in seeking business opportunities in trade promotion forums.
Membership structure: 105 members.
Products/commodity responsible for:
Plastics and articles ranging from petrochemical products, molds and machinery for plastic industry, semi-finished plastic components, and finished plastic products.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Trading of plastic raw materials, plastic finished products, plastic semi-finished products, molds and machinery for plastic processing.
Category:
Export marketing board; trade association; trade promotion organization; training/research institute; and permanent exhibition centre.
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MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND NATIONAL TONGA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND PLANNING INDUSTRY INC.
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Vuna Road Taufa' Ahau Road Nuku'alofa Nuku'alofa
P.O. Box: 87, Nuku'alofa P.O. Box: 1704, Nuku'alofa
Phone: (676) 23066 Phone: (676) 25168 Fax: (676) 26011 Fax: (676) 26039
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.finance.gov.to Year established: 1982 Principal functions: Principal function: • To serve as the key economic and financial policy adviser to the Government; • To promote and protect business interest and to foster new • To formulate and implement fiscal and economic policies and business opportunities for its members throughout the country. programmes that foster growth, create jobs and strengthen the economy and social well being of Tonga; Services/activities: • To ensure high standards of financial and economic management in Government. • Provides information and advice; • Undertakes introductions to professional and business people Services/activities: locally and overseas; • Organizes overseas exhibitions and trade missions; • Provides analysis and policy advice on economic and • Organizes seminars, workshops, meetings and conferences; financial issues, options and their implications; • Coordinates with other organizations locally and overseas; • Provides leadership in the formulation and management of • Liaises with government on commercial and industrial issues; the Government's annual programme budget, with due • Provides secretarial and photocopying services; attention to the Government's economic, social and other
goals the financial and economic position of the Kingdom; • Operates a business library.
• Provides the highest standards of financial management in respect of the Government's revenues and expenditures; Publications issued:
• Ensures the prompt and effective collection of revenues, with the highest standards of integrity and efficiency; • Journals (English). • Provides and disseminates essential statistical information on • Members Directory (English). the economy, Government and people of Tonga; • Implements government decisions; Membership structure: 100 members. • Communicates the economic and financial issues, possible options and government decisions within and outside Category: Government and acts as an effective conduit for listening to the views of participants in the economy from all parts of the Chamber of commerce; and industrial promotion organization. Kingdom.
Category:
Ministry of Finance.
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TONGA TRADE DIVISION Training:
Office/postal address: Conducts entrepreneurship development and short-term training programmes in management fields (basic financial management c/o Ministry of Labour, Commerce and Industries and marketing, and others). Salote Road Nuku’alofa Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
P.O. Box: 110, Nuku’alofa Agriculture and fisheries (mainly processing).
Phone: (676) 25483 Category: Fax: (676) 25410 Export processing zone; Ministry of Trade; trade facilitation body; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] trade fair and exhibition authority; trade promotion organization; URL: mlci.gov.to/index.php/tongatrade-division/ and training/research institute.
Year established: 1997
Principal function:
• To assist in expanding and diversifying Tonga’s export earnings by fostering and promoting sustainable export trade.
Services/activities:
• Is responsible for the development of profiles and liaises for inward and outward trade missions; • Organizes business visit programmes and development of investment portfolios • Identifies markets through research and gap analysis; • Assists in the development of exporters marketing skills and facilitates the development and implementation of market management plans for product groups; • Advises and acts on international trade policy issues pertinent for Tonga, including negotiations, monitoring, implementation and analysis of trade agreements (bilateral, regional and multilateral); • Disseminates information to facilitate trade such as commodity pricing, labelling and other regulatory information directly related to export trade.
Publication issued:
• Trade Directory (annually, English). • Business Guide (online).
Local branches:
Vava’u Branch c/o Ministry of Labour, Commerce and Industries
Office abroad:
Tonga Trade - New Zealand c/o Royal Tongans Shop 27, Royal Oak Mall, 691 Manukau Road P.O. Box 24-419, Royal Oak Auckland, New Zealand Phone: (64 9) 6242810 Fax: (64 9) 6243064 E-mail: [email protected]
Products/commodity responsible for:
All products for export.
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EXPORT PROMOTION CENTER OF TURKEY Offices abroad: (IGEME) Rotterdam Office Office/postal address: Turkish Trade Promotion Office (TIPO) P.O. Box 2396 Mithatpasa Cad. No. 60 300 CJ Rotterdam 06420 Kizilay The Netherlands Ankara Phone: (31 10) 4124212 Fax: (31 10) 4136554 Phone: (90 312) 4172223 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (90 312) 4172233 Lefkosa Office E-mail: [email protected] Sakarya Sokak Mertcan 5 Apt. No. 22 K:3 URL: www.igeme.org.tr Koskluciftlik, Lefkosa Mersin 10 Year established: 1960 Phone: (90 392) 2284346, 2271176 Fax: (90 392) 2272031 Principal function: Category: • To promote Turkish exports. Trade facilitation body; and trade promotion organization. Services/activities:
• Research and development; ISTANBUL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE • Trade information; • International relations; Office/postal address: • Publicity and promotion; Resadiye Caddesi • Training programmes; Eminönü • Trade point - Ankara. Istanbul 34112
Publications issued: Phone: (90 212) 4556081, 4556412, 4556100
Fax: (90 212) 5131565, 5201656 • Turkish Export Directory (also CD-ROM version, English). • Turkey Country Report (annually, English). E-mail: [email protected] • Trading Highlights from Turkey (periodical-3 times a year, URL: www.ito.org.tr English). • Turkey Brochure (in various languages). Year established: 1880 • Balkan Trade Bulletin (periodical-2 times a year, English). • Product/Sector Catalogues (English). Principal functions: • Product/Sector Brochures (English). • Guide Books for Exporters. • To facilitate and promote activities of members, preserving • Guide for Businesspersons (English). professional discipline, ethics and solidarity, promotion of • Other publications prepared in Turkish. economic development; • Looking From IGEME (periodical-3 times a year). • To improve Turkey’s image internationally and placing it • Reports on Export Markets. among the most reputable countries in the world; • Reports on Sectorial Basis. • To establish new market facilities abroad. • Publications on Turkish Foreign Trade Regime. Services/activities: Local branches: • Conducts economic and social research and studies; Marmara Regional Office • Provides documentation and advisory services; Dis Ticaret Kompleksi Cobancesme Mevkii • Hosts trade delegations and representatives from all over the Sanayi Cad. D Blok 4 world; Kat Yenibosna, Bahcelievler, Istanbul • Participates in international fairs (national participation and Phone: (90 212) 4540800 infostands); Fax: (90 212) 4540801 • Organizes Partnership’s Day; E-mail: [email protected] • Organizes product exhibitions; • Participates in domestic fairs; Agean Regional Office • Provides arbitration services; Atatürk Cad. No: 382 • Organizes fairs, exhibitions, informative seminars, panels Alsancak, Izmir and conferences; Phone: (90 232) 4886000 • Monitors and protects consumer rights; Fax: (90 232) 4886177 • Provides trade registration and company registration E-mail: [email protected] services;
• Approves export documents.
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Publications issued: IZMIR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
• Economic Indicators (quarterly, English). Office/postal address: • Economic Report (annually, English). • Istanbul Ticaret (weekly newspaper, part English). Atatürk Cad. No:126 Pasaport • Itovizyon (monthly magazine, part English). 35210 İzmir • Price Indices (monthly, English). • Social Economic Indicators in Istanbul (annually, English). P.O. Box: 35210, Izmir • Turkey in Figures (annually, English). • Turkey: Business Partner (English). Phone: (90 232) 4984200 Fax: (90 232) 4453474 Local branches: E-mail: [email protected] Istoç Branch URL: www.izto.org.tr Istanbul Toptancilar Çarsisi Ada 8 No. 85 Year established: 1885 Mahmutbey, Bagcilar, Istanbul Phone: (90212) 6596950-53 Principal function: Fax: (90212) 6594583 • To deliver services that meet the needs and expectations of Kadikoy Branch members and to contribute to the development of commercial Hasan pasa Egitim Mahallesi and economic life of Turkey. Poyraz Sokak, Erdemler Is Merkezi A Blok No. 9 Services/activities: Kadikoy, Istanbul Phone: (90 216) 4186095-7, 4492852-3 • Provides services to improve the trade potential. Fax: (90 216) 4186096, 4492854 Membership structure: More than 65,000 members. Perpa Branch Perpa Is Merkezi Training: B Blok, K. 2 No. 79 Okmeydani, Istanbul Meetings and conferences organized to improve the trade Phone: (90 212) 2101790-93, 3205460-62 potential and the relations with other countries. The chamber is Fax: (90 212) 2101794 the only chamber in Turkey having an independent training center. In parallel to its mission, the chamber is establishing the Yeni Bosna Branch Izmir Economics University, that has a universal identity and TC Basbakanlik Dis Ticaret Mustesarligi cooperates with the business community. Business schools will be Istanbul Tekstil ve Konfeksiyon Ihracatci Birlikleri organized in the form of vocational schools and will have the aim Coban cesme Mevkii, Dis Ticaret Kompleksi of training middle-level labor force. The chamber will open up Yenibosna, Istanbul fashion schools in order to help members cope with the keen Phone: (90 212) 4540583/86/88, 4540608/42, 4540110 competition prevailing in the world and follow the rapidly changing and developing technology. Membership structure: 359,171 members. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Products/commodity responsible for: Whole city. All kinds of products and services. Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: Training: • Regulations for foreign trade and customs. Istanbul Commerce University which is an affiliated institution; Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Professional Training Centre. Category: Upon demand from institutions of higher education departments such as economics and management in Istanbul, ICOC provides Chamber of commerce. training opportunities to these students in its member and affiliate organizations and in ICOC Units. Demands for training programs by foreign chambers of commerce are met in ICOC as well as with the aid of International Training Exchange Programme AIESEC.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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MINISTRY OF TOURISM, TRADE AND COMMERCE
Office/postal address:
Private Mail Bag Fanafuti
Phone: (688) 20182 Fax: (688) 20829
E-mail: [email protected]
Year established: 1975
Principal functions:
• To promote tourism industry in Tuvalu; • To promote trade and investments, cooperation and marketing; • General management and administration on any matters relating to tourism, trade and commerce.
Services/activities:
As detailed under Principal functions.
Publications issued:
• FORUM Secretariat publications on trade and investment. • TCSP publications on tourism, products and services (various). • Tourism promotional materials on Tuvalu.
Membership structure: 10 staff members.
Products/commodity responsible for:
Tourism, trade and commerce.
Training:
• Training courses on Start Your Business (SYB); • Training courses on Improve Your Business (IYB).
Organizes these courses in association with ILO/UNIDO/UNDP and the Development Bank of Tuvalu.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Case by case.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• Foreign Direct Investment Act, 1996.
Category:
Ministry of Trade.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY • Supports the development of the education system OF UZBEKISTAN and professional training for entrepreneurs; • Maintains the database of the entrepreneurs on the Office/postal address: basis of the state register of the enterprises and the organizations; 6, Buhoro Street • Participates in creation of system tripartite (the union Tashkent 700047 of hired workers, the union of employers and the government) cooperation, elaboration and carries out Phone: (998 71) 1320901 national economic and social policy; Fax: (988 71) 1320903 • Assists in settling disputes between enterprises.
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Local branches: URL: www.chamber.uz Regional branches are located in Andijan region, Year established: 2004 Bukhara region, Jizzak region, Kashkadarya region, Republic of Karakalpakstan, Navoi region, Namangan Principal functions: region, Samarkand region, Syrdarya region, Surkhandarya region, Tashkent region, Ferghana region • To draft and enforce relevant laws, rules and and Khorezm region. regulations that are related to fulfilling its functions; • To create favourable conditions for the further Membership structure: development of entrepreneurship; • To improve the business-environment; Membership can be individual and/or associated • To facilitate business links of domestic entrepreneurs (collective): with foreign partners; • Individual members: entrepreneurs of private, small • To promote domestic goods and services on foreign and large businesses, physical persons; markets; • Associated (collective) members: commercial banks, • To attract foreign investments for creation of new or branch and territorial economic associations, modernize existing companies, manufacturing of insurance organizations, private entrepreneurship finished competitive production; support funds and enterprises entering into them. • To assists the development of economy, to its integration into the world economic system, Category: establishment of trade and economic, scientific and technical relations of entrepreneurs of Uzbekistan Chamber of commerce. with entrepreneurs of other countries; • To unite and support of members of the chamber; • To represent interests and protection of the rights of UZBEK FOREIGN ECONOMIC entrepreneur- members of the chamber; INFORMATION AND COMMERCIAL • To form a complete system of a market CENTER “UZINCOMCENTER” infrastructure. Office/postal address: Services/activities: 107-A, Amir Temur Street • Provides assistance to the accelerated development of Tashkent, 700084 entrepreneurship; • Assists entrepreneurs in expansion of business P.O. Box: 524, Tashkent contacts with the foreign partners and investors; • Organizes business visits of delegations of Phone: (998 71) 1385808, 1370870 entrepreneurs of Uzbekistan and invites into Fax: (998 71) 1370871 Uzbekistan foreign entrepreneurs; • Provides entrepreneurs with wide spectrum of E-mail: [email protected] services, including information and consultation URL: www.uic.uz support, organization of business-catalogues
publications, covering the information on domestic Year established: 1992 manufacturers, production made by them and investment opportunities, and also data on potential partners and opportunities of modern technologies Principal functions:
purchase; • Implements measures to further improve the business • To promote export-oriented products of local environment; manufacturers to the world market; • Represents and protects the rights and legitimate • To assist in importing high-quality products; interests of entrepreneurs, including in relations with • To promote foreign economic activity of the state bodies and an economic board concerning their Republic of Uzbekistan; registration, certification of production, licensing and • To promote foreign trade of the Republic of to other questions, and also at disposal of legal Uzbekistan. proceeding in courts;
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Services/activities: with attraction of foreign investors in 2000-2001 years”, 1999. • Provides marketing, consulting, publishing/printing, • Resolution “On measures designed to stimulate the trade, translation and depositary services; attraction of foreign capital when implement • Organizes training courses; privatization of the state property”, 1998. • Provides Internet services. • Instruction of the Cabinet of Ministers “Approval of the Provision on the procedure for the exemption Publication issued: from value-added tax imposed on technological equipment”, 1998. • The Largest Opportunities Investment Guide of • Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On foreign Uzbekistan for 2000 (English). investments”, 1998. • Foreign Trade Regime of the Republic of • Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On guarantees Uzbekistan for 2002 (Russian). and measures designed to protect rights granted to • Information Bulletin (quarterly, Russian). foreign investors”, 1998. • Directory “Producers and Exporters of Uzbekistan • Decree by the President of the Republic of 2003-2003” (English). Uzbekistan “On additional measures for stimulation • Directory “Foreign Investments” (annually, of investment projects execution”, 1998. Russian/English). • Decree of the President of the Republic of • Directory “Harmonized System Codes of Foreign Uzbekistan about additional measures for bank Economic Activity” (annually, Russian). service improvement of companies with foreign investment, 1998 and others. Training: Category: • Computer literacy; programming; basics of management; marketing and development of foreign Trade promotion organization; industrial promotion; economic activity, business English; export marketing board; training/research institute; and • Languages: Uzbek, English, Uzbek for foreigners. investment promotion authority.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Textile sector, and all indigenous products and raw materials as well as import substitution products.
Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment:
• Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On additional measures to strengthen the legal protection of direct foreign investment”, 2003. • Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan “About investment program of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2002 year”, 2001. • Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On measures to attract direct foreign investment into oil and gas prospecting and extraction”, 2000. • Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On state monitoring of the course of implementation of projects included into Investment Program of the Republic of Uzbekistan”, 2000. • Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On Investment Program of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2000 year”, 1999. • Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers “On measures designed to implement priority investment projects with participation of foreign investments”, 1999. • Regulations “on the procedure for extending freely convertible currency denominated credits to finance investment projects”, 1999. • Law “On investment activity”, 1998. • Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On measures for denationalization and privatization of enterprises
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY VANUATU GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF VANUATU OF INDUSTRY, TRADE AND COMMERCE
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
Rue Pierre Lamy PMB 030 Port Vila Port Vila
P.O. Box: 189, Port Vila URL: www.vanuatu.net.vu/industry.html
Phone: (678) 27542 Principal function: Fax: (678) 27543 • To provide general business advice, guidance and E-mail: [email protected], assistance to both local and foreign investors. [email protected] URL: www.vanuatuchamber.com Services/activities:
Year established: 1995 • Examines business ideas for their practicality, viability and conformity with local laws; Principal functions: • Gives guidance to new business investors; • Prepares business plans for bank finance; • To represent all business licence holders in dealings • Assists entrepreneurs in securing technical training with persons, organizations, public or private at the for their employees; national or international level; • Assists manufacturing businesses in the pursuance of • To collect and disseminate relevant information; overseas markets for products made in Vanuatu; • To promote commerce and industry; • Pursues and facilitates contacts between foreign • To provide training and support to members. investors and local authorities.
Services/activities: Products/commodity responsible for:
• Organizes networking opportunities; The Government of Vanuatu wishes to promote and • Offers member benefits and support; encourage industries which produce goods for export • Provides local and national policy representation; markets, add value to local resources, raise the level of • Provides advisory service to start-up or expanding general and technical skills in Vanuatu, create businesses; employment and provide training opportunities for local • Offers a comprehensive programme of training and people. Import substitution industries will be accorded development activities; less emphasis than enterprises which address export • Undertakes website development to take advantage of markets. the global community and Vanuatu's tax friendly
status. Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Publication issued: Investment opportunities in Vanuatu are many and varied.
The Government of Vanuatu offers investors an • Bisnis Taem (English/Bislama). environment that is regarded as one of the most liberal systems in the world today. Local branches: Preferred sectors are Local chambers exist in Torba, Sanma and luganville, • Agricultural based products; penama, Malampa, Shefa, Port Vila, and Tefea regions. • Forestry and wood products;
Membership structure: More than 5,00 members. • Fisheries and marine products; • Tourism. All business licence holders are automatically members of one of the seven Chambers of Commerce. Category:
Training: Government body.
Main language for training is in Bislama. Future courses may be conducted in either English or French.
Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Agro-based industries; and tourism related projects.
Category:
Chamber of commerce.
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VANUATU INVESTMENT PROMOTION AUTHORITY (VIPA)
Office/postal address:
1st Floor Pilioko House Port Vila
Phone: (678) 24096, 24441 Fax: (678) 25216
Email: [email protected] URL: www.InvestInVanuatu.com
Year established: 1998
Principal functions:
• To expeditiously facilitate, promote and foster foreign investment in Vanuatu and to generate greater economic prosperity for the people of Vanuatu. • To provide a service to all foreign investors from initial inquiry to a project’s operational stage and even beyond.
Services/activities:
• Provides general information packages and advice on investment opportunities, incentives and investment procedures in Vanuatu. • Facilitates business expansions and variations. • Facilitates investors’ requests for work permits, residence permits, business licences and other Government approvals. • Issues approval certificates to foreign investors.
Publication issued
• National Investment Policy, March 2005 (English).
Titles of laws and regulations, including year passed, on foreign investment:
• Vanuatu Foreign Investment Promotion Act No. 15 of 1998.
Category:
Investment Authority.
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DANANG TRADE AND SERVICE COMPANY DIRECTORATE FOR STANDARDS AND QUALITY (STAMEQ)* Office/postal address: Ministry of Science and Technology
07 Tran Phu str Office/postal address: Danang City 8 Hoang Quoc Viet Phone: (84 511) 826831 Cau Giay Fax: (84 511) 873002 Hanoi
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Phone: (84 4) 7562608 Fax: (84 4) 8361556 Year established: 29 March 1998 [Wholly owned by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI)]. E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.tcvn.gov.vn Principle functions: Year established: 1962 • To support the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Principal functions: • To facilitate cooperation between foreign business and VCCI. The Directorate for Standards and Quality (STAMEQ) is the governmental body under the Ministry of Science and Technology Services/activities: having responsibility to advise the Government on issues in the fields of standardization, metrology and quality management in • Provides advisory services on investment and business; the country and representing Viet Nam in international and • Provides services concerning trade fairs and exhibitions; regional organizations in the fields concerned. • Organizes overseas missions; • Organizes short-term professional training courses. The main activities are: • To prepare the rules and regulations on standardization, Membership structure: 17 members. metrology and quality management and submit them to the authorities for approving; Products/commodity responsible for: • To organize the supervision and control on the implementation of the approved rules and regulations; Seafood; pepper; tea; coffee; cinnamon; and spice. • To establish the organization system on standardization, metrology and quality management and provide Category: methodological guidance for all activities of the above system; Industrial promotion, investment promotion. and trade promotion • To organize the development of national standards and organization. maintain the national metrology standards; • To provide the product quality and quality system certification, testing and calibration labouratory accreditation; • To implement the state supervision on quality of goods and measurement; • To conduct studies on standardization, metrology and quality management; • To carry out the activities of information, training and international cooperation on standardization, metrology and quality management.
Services/activities:
Standards and Quality Centre: • To study disciplines on standardization and its related matters, to draft policies and legal documents on developing and applying Viet Nam national standards (TCVNs); • To set up programmes and plans on developing and applying TCVN standards and participating in the preparation of international standards; to supervise and inspect on implementation of these programmes or plans; • To establish and supervise branch commissions and technical committees and subcommittees on standardization; • To publish, print and distribute TCVN standards and other documents relating to standardization; • To carry out consultative, information and training activities in the standardization field; • To provide consultative services on developing branch, company standards and conformity assessment activities;
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• To be representatives of Viet Nam in regional and Quality Certification Centre (Quacert): international organizations for standardization; to cooperate • To take part in developing orientation policy, plan, with these organizations and other countries in the regulations on quality certification in Viet Nam; standardization field. • To join in studying the elements’ effect on quality, quality assurance, total quality management to enhance Metrology Centre: product and service quality for entrepreneurs and social • To establish, maintain and custody national measurement organizations; standards; • To carry out product certification for quality mark in • To ensure trace ability of measurement standards to SI conformity with national or international standards; system; • To participate in training and dissemination activities on • To conduct scientific and technical research in metrology; quality and certification; • To develop measurement and evaluation technology for • To take part in bilateral and multilateral international industries; cooperation in concerned sectors. • To carry out metrology activities of dissemination measurement, technology, calibration, testing, information, Viet Nam Accreditation Bureau: training and international cooperation; • To develop a plan and programme on quality • To organize scientific study on measurement, standards of accreditation; measuring unit, verification methods and equipments; • To carry out the auditing for recognizing the • To take part in writing legal regulations on metrology, plans competence of certification bodies, inspection bodies, for national metrology development. testing and calibration labouratories; play a role as Secretariat of the National Accreditation Committee; Training Centre: • To take part in training auditing assessors and run • To set up basic and follow-up training programmes, to registeration for auditing assessors; organize the compilation of textbooks and reference • To take part in development of Viet Nam National documents; Standards, training courses and related propaganda • To organize training courses on standardization, quality activities; management, testing and measurement techniques for • To be Viet Nam’s representative in the international and managers, officers and technicians of government bodies, regional organizations on accreditation. provincial and city organizations and business; • To cooperate with international organizations on training for Viet Nam WTO/TBT Office standardization metrology and quality management • To notify any technical regulations and conformity (organizing seminars, workshops, training courses; assessment procedures adopted or proposed in Viet organizing study tours and training courses overseas; Nam to the WTO Secretariat; to receive the notification organizing training for foreign trainees in Viet Nam.) from other WTO country members and to notify to relating document bodies in accordance with WTO; Information Centre: • To answer reasonable questions which concern the • To serve as a national reference library which collects, technical regulations, standards (including proposal maintains and updates international/regional/foreign and draft), conformity assessment procedures adopted or domestic information and documentation relating to proposed in Viet Nam, and technical barriers to trade in standards-metrology-quality (SMQ) issues and the others accordance with WTO/TBT Agreement; concerned; • To organize all professional activities and popular • To provide domestic research and development institutions knowledge to relevant individual, organization bodies and all economic sectors with information on standards, about the technical barriers to trade; technical regulations, accreditation and certification and • To provide information and consultant services on recognition procedures and others in various service forms; technical barriers to trade for domestic and foreign • To play the role of a national member of ISONET, the individual, organization, in accordance with the current Information Network of the International Organization for governmental regulations and laws; Standardization (ISO). • To carry out multilateral and bilateral international integration activities on the technical barriers to trade. Viet Nam Productivity Centre (VPC): • Formulating development strategy, objectives and methods Viet Nam-German Technology Transfer and Training Centre: in productivity improvement in Viet Nam; • To plan and organize training courses on welding • Disseminating, impacting and carrying out productivity technique, automation, automobile; promoting activities in Viet Nam and international • To provide technical assistance and consultancy to organizations; entrepreneurs to upgrade and renew technology; • Researching all productivity factors; training, consulting in • To organize compilation of training documents, quality productivity improvement for enterprises and socio- handbooks for technical training and technology-applied economic organizations; consultancy; • Undertaking projects and other activities organized by APO; • To transfer technology, provide entrepreneurs with establishing a Membership Network, formulating the information and services of technique and equipment; Productivity Movement throughout the country; • To take part in international cooperation in related • Managing staff, equipment, asset and finance of the Centre sectors. in accordance with state policies.
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Magazine of Standards, Metrology and Quality: Publications issued: • To publish magazine, other special publications on standards, metrology, quality and customers’ rights • Magazine for SMQ, (monthly, Vietnamese). protection; • TCVN News (bimonthly, English). • To disseminate the magazine to state authorities, • Library information (bimonthly, Vietnamese). research institutes, entrepreneurs, universities; • Subject publication. • To play a role as contact point with other relevant organizations to disseminate activities of SMQ on the Membership structure: 16 member centres and 60 mass media. provincial departments for standards, metrology and quality.
Small and Medium Enterprises Development Centre (SMEDEC): Products/commodity responsible for: • To study targets, orientation, policies, measures; establish technical-support projects to accelerate SME All industry sectors. development, improve the effectiveness of production and product/service quality; Training: • To support technical assistance, consultancy SMEs on barcode, financial techniques to develop production and • Technical training for entrepreneurs and/or successors improve product/service quality; aiming at improving their technical capability; • To carry out consultant activities on standards, • Technology and management training for SMEs aiming at metrology, quality for SMEs; improving technology and management competency; • To organize training courses for SMEs on product • Extension training: to improve the capability of SMEs quality management, manufacturing management, extension officers. financial management, business administration, marketing and technics; All the training courses are conducted by experienced, highly • To provide SMEs with information as follows: qualified resource persons, coming from reputed foreign standards, metrology, product quality, technology, institutions or well-known Vietnamese educational institutions. equipments, innovation, business and other related to The content of training courses as well as the teaching method are manufacturing development, business and services. specially studied to be most adaptable to SME entrepreneurs.
Main activities: Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • Carries out state inspection, testing, calibration of goods quality, measuring equipment; • 13/1999/PL-UBTVQH10, Order No. 04/L-CTN • Maintains, utilize measurement standards, verifies measuring promulgating the Ordinance on the Protection of Consumers' equipment as authorized by STAMEQ; Interests, 1999-04-27. • Takes part in developing Viet Nam national standards and • 14/1999/Q§-TTg, Decision No. 14/1999/QD-TTg on the international standards; establishment of the Department for Management of Food • Provides training and information activities as authorized by quality, Hygiene and Safety under the Ministry of Health, STAMEQ; 1999-02-04. • Collabourates with domestic and foreign organizations in the • 14-Q§/KHCN, Decision No. 14-QD/KHCN issuing the field of inspection, testing, verification, calibration. Regulation on Registration of Commodities Quality of the Specialized Aquatic Product Service, 1997-01-09. Local branches: • 17/2000/Q§-BXD, Decision No. 17/2000/QD-BXD of August 2, 2000 promulgating the Regulation on quality 8 Hoang Quoc Viet Street control of construction works, 2000-08-02. Cau Giay, Hanoi • 20/2000/Q§-BTC, Decision No, 20/2000/QD-BTC dated Phone: (84 4) 7564188 21/02/2000 issuing the Table of charge and fee rates for the Fax: (84 4) 8361199 aquatic resource protection, 2000-02-21. • 22/2000/Q§-BTC, Decision No, 22/2000/QD-BTC dated 97 Ly Thai To Street 21/02/2000 issuing the charge and fee rates for plant Da Nang City protection and quarantine. 2 Ngo Quyen Street • 23/2000/Q§-BTC, Decision No, 23/2000/QD-BTC dated Da Nang City 21/02/2000 promulgating Tables of charges and fees for food Phone: (84 511) 820868, 831511, 848376 quality hygiene and safety control. Fax: (84 511) 820868, 910064 • 27/2000/Q§-BTC, Decision No, 27/2000/QD-BTC dated 24/02/2000 on the issuance of fee levels for granting 49 Pasteur Street certificates of technical and quality evaluation of District1 communications and transport equipment and means, 2000. Ho Chi Minh City • 37/2001/TTLT/BKHCNMT-TCHQ, Joint Circular guiding Phone: (84 8) 8294274 the customs procedures for and quality inspection of export Fax: (84 8) 8293012 and import goods subject to the State quality inspection, 2001-06-28. • 57/CP, Decree No.57-CP on sanctions against administrative violations in the measurement and quality of goods, 1997-05- 31. • 65/2000/TT-BTC, Circular No. 65/2000/TT-BTC of July 5, 2000 guiding the management and use of food quality, hygiene and safety control charges and fees, 2000-07-05.
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• 86/1998/Q§-BNN-BVTV, Decision No. 86/1998/QD-BNN- • 1645/1999/Q§-BKHCNMT, Decision No. 1645/QD- BVTV banning the use of a number of plant protection drugs BKHCNMT by the Minister of Science Technology and in Viet Nam's agricultural production, 1998-06-24. Environment amending the list of export, import goods • 86-CP, Decree No. 86/CP on assignment of State which were checked the quality 1999 by the State, 1999. management responsibilities for the quality of goods, 1995- • Law on Foreign Investment in Viet Nam, 1999. 12-08. • Order No. 16/1999/PL-UBTVQH10 dated 6 October 1999, • 90/2000/Q§-BTC, Decision No. 90/2000/QD-BTC of June Ordinance on metrology. 1, 2000 promulgating the Tables of fee levels for aquatic • Order No. 18/1999/PL-UBTVQH10 dated 24 December product quality, safety and hygiene control, 2000-06-01. 1999, Ordinance on goods quality. • 104/2000/Q§-BNN-KHCN, Decision No. 104/2000/QD- • Decree No. 65/2001/ND-CP dated 28 September 2001, BNN-KHCN promulgating the Provisional Regulation on issuing legal system for measuring units of Viet Nam. the inspection of quality of concrete in irrigation works by • Decree No. 6/2002/ND-CP dated 14 January 2002, concrete the non-destructive method of using ultra-sonic measuring guidance on implementation of ordinance on metrology. machines and concrete guns, 2000-10-13. • Decision No. 2424/2000/QD-BKHCNMT dated 12 • 106/Q§-T§C, Promulgating regulation or the seal of December 2000, temporary guidance on supplier’s self verification for state bodies of metrology and other entities declaration of conformity. which received the authorization of verification, 1991-07-27. • Decision No. 2425/2000/QD-BKHCNMT dated 12 • 107-T§C/Q§, Promulgating regulation on form of December 2000, temporary guidance on supplier’s self certification of state bodies of metrology and other bases declaration of standards development. which received the authorization of state verification, 1991- • Decision No. 13/2001/QD-BKHCNMT dated 6 January 07-20. 2001, temporary guidance on safety certification. • 116/2000/TT-BTC, Circular guiding the regime of • Decision No. 1/2003/QD-BKHCN dated 30 January 2003, management and use of fees for aquatic product quality decision on management of quality, intellectual property, safety and hygiene control, 2000-12-19. technology transfer to domestic assembled and imported • 117/2000/Q§-BKHCNMT, Decision No. 117/2000/QD- motorbike, engine and spare parts. BKHCNMT dated 26/01/2000 promulgating the 2000 list of export goods and import goods subject to the State quality Category: inspection, 2000-01-26. • 125/2000/Q§-BNN-BVTV, Decision on exceptional Standards, testing and inspection body. registration of a kind of plant protection drug in Viet Nam, 2000-12-06. • 143/2001/Q§-TCB§, Decision No. 143/2001/QD-TCBD promulgating the Regulation on control of quality of the post and telecommunications services and networks, 2001-02-28. • 171/1999/N§-CP, Decree No. 171/1999/ND-CP dated 07/12/1999 detailing the implementation of the Ordinance on protection of traffic works with regard to riverway traffic works, 1999-12-07. • 172/1999/N§-CP, Decree No. 172/1999/ND-CP dated 07/12/1999 detailing the implementation of the Ordinance on protection of traffic works with regard to land road traffic works, 1999-12-07. • 228/1999/Q§-TTg, Decision No. 228/1999/QD-TTg dated 15/12/1999 adding the objective of ensuring foodstuff quality, hygiene and safety to the National Target Program for elimination of a number of social diseases and dangerous, 1999-12-15. • 380-Q§, Promulgating regulation on state specialized inspection bodies in metrology, 1991-07-01. • 540/TTg, Administrative operation on measurement and commodity - quality circulated in market, 1995-09-05. • 560/TT-KCM, Guiding the implementation of Decree No 86/CP dated 8 December 1995 of Government relating to assign responsibility of State management in commodity quality, 1996-03-21. • 650/2000/Q§-BTS, Decision No. 650/2000/QD-BTS dated 04/08/2000 promulgating the Regulation on the State inspection and certification of quality of aquatic goods, 2000-08-04. • 1010/2000/Q§-BYT, Decision No. 1010/2000/QD-BYT dated 30/3/2000 issuing the list of food commodities subject to quality registration, 2000-03-30. • 1091/1999/Q§-BKHCNMT, Decision No. 1091/1999/QD- BKHCNMT promulgating the Regulation on the State control of import-export goods quality, 1999-06-22. • 1479/Q§-T§C, Promulgating regulation on accreditation and certification of quality, 1995-08-25.
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INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING AND TRAINING Training: CENTER (ICTC) • Courses on informatic technology; Office/postal address: • Courses on foreign languages: English, Chinese, French, etc; • Courses on professional competence of foreign trade and 46 Ngo Quyen Street, Hoan Kiem District international economic integration; Hanoi • Courses on long-term and short-term vocational training.
Phone: (84 4) 8261980 Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: Fax: (84 4) 8261978 Services and investment for research, training and cooperation as E-mail: [email protected] well as projects of commercial development.
Year established: 1 October 1993 (Pursuant to Decision Category: No.1096/TM-TCCB by Ministry of Trade, Granted License No. 275 to operate in the scientific and technological field by the Investment financing organization, investment authority; trade fair Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment on 18 April and exhibition authority; trade promotion organization; and 1994). training/research institute.
Principle function: INVESTMENT AND TRADE PROMOTION CENTRE Three mains functions: commercial consulting and training in the (ITPC) context of internal and external affairs and research for supplying new science technology in Viet Nam. Office/postal address:
Services/activities: 51 Dinh Tien Hoang Street District 1 • Organizes and implements commercial and economic Ho Chi Minh City consulting activities for individuals and organizations within and outside the country; Phone: (84 8) 8236738, 9101304, 8297426, 9100092 • Organizes classes to improve professional skills, foreign Fax: (84 8) 8242391, 9104733 language, vocational training for individuals and organizations; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • Researches and studies scientific projects for the purpose of promoting cooperation relationships in terms of economics, URL: www.itpc.hochiminhcity.gov.vn trade, investment and training and applies the results on commercial activity in Viet Nam; Year established: 1964 (as Export Development Centre; re- structured in 1982 as Foreign Trade Development Centre, and • Holds international seminars and conferences; renamed Foreign Trade and Investment Development Centre • Holds workshops on issues in the commercial field; (ITPC) in 1992). • Cooperates to research and to exchange information with internal and external partners on issues in the commercial Principal functions: field; • Organizes tourist and business tours; • To advise municipal authorities on policies and measures to • Organizes overseas missions; improve business environment and enhance competitiveness • Collects and disseminates information on domestic and of Vietnamese products; foreign trade as well as economic issues; • To provide information on trade and investment; • Provides services concerning advertisement, trade fairs and • To organize trade and investment promotion activities; exhibitions, and science and techniques. regular government-business meetings to tackle business- related problems such as taxes, customs, land; Publications issued: • To promote foreign direct investment and provide one-stop services for foreign investors; • The results of Uruguay Round conference on trade • To support SMEs; municipal system, 2000. • To offer secretarial and business centre services (package or • Research on making mechanism and policies for producing partial service at the client's request) to local and foreign development of main exports of Vietnam, 2003 (State businesspersonsn. subject). • Research on international treaties of commerce, specially on Services /activities: service-commerce for the integrating process into international economics of Vietnam, 2003. Information: • Research on producing interior equipment from material of • Provides economic information on import-export investment fibre glass composite, 2003. and economic laws; • Prints various publications; Membership structure: • Provides legal consulting services to domestic and foreign
enterprises; The International Consulting and Training Center is a member of • Maintains databank on domestic and foreign businesspersons the Ministry of Trade of Viet Nam. There are 20 members. and enterprises; • Provides documents of local and foreign studies specializing in import, export and investment;
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Training: Trade promotion: • Guides and supports foreign businesspersons in searching Management training courses for SMEs (in cooperation with for business counterparts; ESCAP); training courses on trade promotion, export marketing, • Undertakes trade brokerage (import-export); branding, corporate management skills. • Organizes business missions, in and out of the country, boosting import-export, exploring new markets; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • Organizes seminars on trade promotion, trade shows; especially annual trade fairs of high quality Vietnamese Branches, lines and domains eligible for investment preferences: goods throughout Viet Nam and in the neighboring • Afforestation, zoning for forest regeneration; planting countries; perennial trees on unused land, bare hills or mountains; land • Conducts market studies, marketing surveys for domestic reclamation; salt-making; and aquaculture in unexploited and foreign businesspersons and annual consumer polls; water areas; • Promotes investment; • Infrastructure construction, mass-transit development; • Makes introduction of the Ho Chi Minh City investment development of education and training, healthcare and projects to delegations of foreign investors; national culture; • Supports foreign investors in searching for local • Export goods production and trading; counterparts; • Offshore fishing; processing of agricultural, forestry and • Provides services for domestic and foreign businesspersons; aquatic products; technical services in direct service of • Lends office space and provides package (or partial) services agricultural, forestry and fishery production; for local and foreign companies/businesspersons. • Scientific research and technological development, scientific and technological services; consultancy on legal matters, Supporting small- and medium- scale enterprises: investment, business, business administration, intellectual • Undertakes management training courses for SMEs; property right protection and technology transfer; • Provides consulting services on obtaining loans, equipment • Other branches and lines. to serve and develop production; List of projects with special investment encouragement: • Provides information for enterprises; • Production or processing with 80 per cent or more of the • Provides consulting services on business formalities products for export; (accepting to provide regular legal consulting services for individual enterprise); • Processing of agricultural products, forest products (excluding timber) or aquatic products from domestic raw • Operates a permanent showroom of Vietnamese import- export products. materials, with 50 per cent of the products for export; • Production of new breeds with high quality and economic Publications issued: efficiency; • Agricultural farming, forestation, aquaculture; • Export-Import-Investment Directory (annually, English). • Production of new materials, rare and precious materials, • Vietnam Export-Import Tariff Schedule (annually, English). application of new biotechnologies; new technologies for the manufacture of information and telecommunication • Vietnam Legal update. equipment; • Transparency on economic performance of Viet Nam and • Hi-tech industries; Ho Chi Minh City (quarterly and bi-yearly, Vietnamese/English). • Investment in research and development; • Trade and Investment Promotion Bulletin (weekly, • Manufacture of waste treating equipment; Vietnamese). • Production of antibiotics raw materials; • Guidebook for investing and doing business in Viet Nam; • Pollution treatment and environmental protection, waste and booklets on trademark, international business practices, treatment; Q&A on taxes. • Investment under BOT, BTO or BT contracts. • Saigon Tiep Thi (Saigon Marketing) (weekly,Vietnamese). • Saigon Tiep Thi online. List of projects with investment encouragement: • Consumer Guide for Men (monthly, Vietnamese). • Production or processing with 50 per cent or more of products for export; • Explore (monthly, Vietnamese). • Production or processing with 30 per cent or more of the Local branch: products for export and with the use of large percentages of domestic raw materials and materials (valued from 30 per 92-96 Nguyen Hue Street, District 1 cent or more of the production cost). Ho Chi Minh City (Showroom) • With intensive employment of Vietnamese labourers and efficient use of natural resources available in Viet Nam; Office abroad: Viet Nam House in Singapore; other offices to be • Processing of farm produce, forest products (excluding opened in Japan, Europe and the United States of America. timber), aquatic products; • Preservation of food, post-harvest preservation of farm Membership structure: 76 members. produce; • Mineral exploration, exploitation and intensive processing; • Development of petro-chemical industry; construction and operation of oil and gas pipelines, depots, ports; • Manufacture of equipment, detail groups in oil, gas, mineral or fuel exploitation; manufacture of big lifting and lowering equipment;
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• Manufacture of high-quality steel, alloy nonferrous metals, - Air, rail and sea transport: mass transit, construction of special metals, steel cast, spongy iron for industrial use; harbors and airports (excluding BOT, BTO and BT • Manufacture of machine tools for metalworking, projects); metallurgical equipment; - Production of industrial explosives; • Manufacture of precision tools, safety check and inspection - Forestation; equipment; manufacture of molds for metal and non-metal - Tour business; products; - Culture; • Manufacture of medium- and high-voltage electric • Products which must ensure the export percentage equipment; requirement: • Manufacture of diesel engines through advance technologies - The compulsory export percentages for home-made and techniques; manufacture of dynamic and hydraulic products which have already met the quantitative and machines and spare parts, compressors; qualitative requirements shall be announced for each • Manufacture of automobile and motorbike spare parts; period by the Ministry of Planning and Investment; manufacture and assembly of construction equipment, • Processing projects which must be linked to investment in machines and vehicles; manufacture of technical equipment creation of raw material sources: for transport service; - Dairy production and processing; • Shipbuilding, manufacture of equipment and spare parts for - Vegetal oil and cane sugar production; freighters, fishing ships; - Timber processing; • Manufacture of information and telecommunications • Projects for investment in import services, domestic equipment; distribution services shall comply with the Prime Minister’s • Manufacture of electronic components and equipment, regulations. informatics technology; • Manufacture of agricultural equipment, spare parts, List of fields not licensed for investment: machines, irrigation and drainage equipment; • Projects which are detrimental to national security, defense • Production of assorted insecticide raw materials; and public interests; • Production of base chemicals, pure chemicals, dyes, special- • Projects which cause harm to historical and cultural relics, use chemicals; fine traditions and customs of Viet Nam; • Production of cleansing raw materials, chemicals activities; • Projects which cause harm to the ecological environment; • Production of special-type content, composite materials, projects on treatment of hazardous wastes brought from soundproof, electric-insulated and heat-resistant materials, overseas into Viet Nam; wood substitute composite materials, refractory materials • Projects for the production of toxic chemicals or use of constriction plastic, glass fibers; hazardous agents banned under international treaties. • Production of light construction materials; • Production of paper pulp; Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: • Production of silk, assorted yarns and special fabric for industrial use; • Law on Foreign Investment in Viet Nam (1996); • Manufacture of high-class raw materials for production of • Law on Amendments and Supplements to a number of export footwear and garments; articles of the Law on Foreign Investment in Viet Nam in • Manufacture of high-quality packaging for export goods; 2000; • Manufacture of medical equipment in analytical technology • Decision No. 53/1999/QD-TTg dated 26 March 1999 on and extracting technology in medicine; some measures to encourage FDI; • Production of drug raw materials, medicines of GMP • Decree No. 24/2000/ND-CP on detailed regulations on the international standards. implementation of the Law on Foreign Investment in Viet • Improvement, development of energy sources; Nam; 3 / 0 U IA/L • Mass transit; • Circular No. 12/2000/TT-B^H of the Ministry of Planning • Construction and renovation of bridges, land roads, airports, and Investment providing guidelines for FDI in Vietnam; harbours, railway stations, car terminals, railways; • Decree No. 27/2003/ND-CP dated 19 March 2993 on • Construction of water plants, water supply and drainage amendments and supplements to a number of articles of systems; Decree No. 24/2000/ND-CP; • Construction: commercial operation of infrastructures of • Communique No. 187/pg-QHQT dated 1 April 2003 of the industrial parks, export processing zones, hi-tech parks. Government Office on correction of Decree No. 27/2003/ND-CP; List of geographical areas where investment is encouraged: • Decision No. 36/2003/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister date 11 • Section A: geographical areas facing extremely difficult March 2003 on foreign investors' contribution of capital to socio-economic conditions; and purchase of shares in Vietnamese enterprises. • Section B: geographical areas facing difficult socio- economic conditions. Category:
List of fields with conditional investment: Trade and investment promotion organization. • Investment only in forms of joint venture or business cooperation contract: - Construction and commercial operation of international telecommunication networks, local telecommunication networks (only in form of business cooperation contract); - Production and processing of oil, gas, rare and precious minerals; - Consulting services (excluding technical consultancy);
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VIETNAM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND Centre, settles all cases of general average at the request of the INDUSTRY (VCCI) concerned parties through the Subcommittee of General Average Adjusters (attached to the Chamber); Office/postal address: • Promotes the development of SMEs in Viet Nam through the Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Centre (SME-PC); International Trade Centre • Helps in the registration and protection of intellectual property 9 Dao Duy Anh Street and technology transfer in Viet Nam and abroad; Hanoi • Collects and studies the views and suggestions of business enterprises for reflection, recommendation and advice to the Phone: (84 4) 5742022 State on legal matters and economic policies for the Fax: (84 4) 5742020, 5742030 improvement of the business environment; • Participates in the formation and implementation of the E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] strategy for socio-economic development and international URL: www.vcci.com.vn, vibforum.vcci.com.vn economic integration, to participate in the conferences, and missions for economic and trade negotiations in line with State Year established: 1963 regulation; • Organizes activities for the promotion and encouragement to Principal functions: business enterprises on the strict observance of laws, improvement of socio accountabilities; good business ethics • To promote and assist trade, investment and other business and culture and sound working relations, protection of the activities in Viet Nam and abroad; environment and participation in other social activities in line • To represent the Vietnamese business community, with the Chamber’s objectives. Vietnamese employers and business associations for promotion and protection of their interests in domestic and Publications issued: international relations; • To serve as a forum for the exchange of information and ideas • Business Forum Newspaper (Monday, Wednesday and Friday among business enterprises; every week, Vietnamese). • To liaise with the Vietnamese State on matters concerning the • Business Forum Magazine (weekly, English). economic activity and business environment in Viet Nam; • Vietnam Business Directory (annually, Vietnamese). • To represent the Vietnamese business community for the • Vietnam Info (CD-ROM). promotion and protection of the lawful, legitimate interests of • Doing business in Vietnam (guidebook). the business community and labour users in Viet Nam in domestic and international relations; Local branches: • To promote the development of business enterprises, entrepreneurs, the cooperation among business entities and to 171 Vo Thi Sau offer assistance in trade and investment, economic and District 3, Ho Chi Minh City technological cooperation and other business activities of Phone: (84 8) 9329568 enterprises in Viet Nam and abroad. Fax: (84 8) 9325472 E-mail: [email protected] Services/activities: 1 Ho Quy Ly, Ward 2, Vung Tau City • Issues publications and provides information about Viet Phone: (84 64) 816072 Nam's economy and foreign trade; Fax: (84 64) 859651 • Assists Vietnamese organizations in acquiring information on foreign markets, scientific and technological developments, 29 Cach Mang Thang Tan Street international laws and regulations on foreign trade; Can Tho City • Issues Certificate of Origin of Vietnamese export goods and Phone: (84 71) 824918 endorses other documents used in international trade; Fax: (84 71) 824169 • Represents foreign parties in application for registration of E-mail: [email protected] patents and trade marks; • Assists foreign businesspersons who contemplate doing 256 Tran Phu Street, Danang City business in Viet Nam in such useful services as Phone: (84 511) 821719 intermediation, trade information, business consultancy, Fax: (84 511) 822930 establishment of their representative offices, arrangement for E-mail: [email protected] business tours/ appointments; • Arranges for Viet Nam's participation in international trade 10 Dinh Tien Hoang Street fairs and exhibitions abroad and assists the Vietnamese and Haiphong City foreign parties in the introduction and advertisement of goods Phone: (84 31) 842894 and services; Fax: (84 31) 842243 • Arranges seminars and talks with competent organizations E-mail: [email protected] both at home and abroad on selected topics such as banking, finance, foreign direct investment, trade, legal and management issues, technologies; • Organizes various courses on business and investment management, enterprise creation, marketing, trade promotion, foreign business languages; • Provides services for the settlement of all disputes in foreign trade relations through the Viet Nam International Arbitration
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68 Yersin Street • Provides inspection service on request and supplying Nha Trang City certificates for managerial purpose of various fields to the Phone: (84 58) 810363 Government such as origin of the goods; quality management; safety and hygiene of the goods; balance of Phone: (84 37) 754640 investment project; environment protection (industrial Fax: (84 37) 754641 hygiene; water treatment; waste water, etc.) and custom E-mail: [email protected] clearance service; • Provides advisory, audit and certification services on 155 Tran Phu Street international management standards; advisory on quality of Vinh City, Nghe An goods; Phone: (84 38) 844012 • Carries out entrustment inspection and other services of local Fax: (84 38) 842026 and international inspection organizations; • Provides hotel and office for rent. Members structure: 5,500 membes (as at the end of 2004). Local branches: Training: Vinacontrol Can Tho Regularly organizes training activities in appropriate forms to 14/10 A,B Le Hong Phong road, Binh Thuy District, Can Tho develop human resources for business enterprises, to help City entrepreneurs enhance their knowledge, management skills and Phone: (84 71) 887911 business capacity. Fax: (84 71) 887944 E-mail: [email protected] Category: Vinacontrol Danang Chamber of commerce. 255 Le Duan, Danang City Phone: (84 511) 891087, 821031 Fax: (84 511) 830084 VIETNAM SUPERINTENDENCE AND INSPECTION E-mail: [email protected] JOINT STOCK COMPANY (VINACONTROL) Vinacontrol Dung Quat Office/postal address: Binh Thuan Commune, Binh Son District, Quang Ngai Province Phone: (84 55) 201929 54 Tran Nhan Tong Street Mobile: 0903570909 Hanoi Vinacontrol Haiphong Phone: (84 4) 8226021, 9433840, 9436011 56 and 80 Pham Minh Duc Fax: (84 4) 9433844 Haiphong City Phone: (84 313) 760065, 760453-4 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (84 313) 760103 URL: www.vinacontrol.com.vn E-mail: [email protected]
Year established: 1957 Vinacontrol Hanoi 96 Yet Kieu, Hanoi City Principal function: Phone: (84 4) 9429241, 9421343 Fax: (84 4) 9421002 • To provide inspection of goods and other related services. E-mail: [email protected]
Services/activities: Vinacontrol Ho Chi Minh City 80 Ba Huyen Thanh Quan • Inspects quality, quantity, marking and packing of goods and District 3, Ho Chi Minh City commodities (including machinery, production line and Phone: (84 8) 8438624, 9316704, 9316323 gemstones); Fax: (84 8) 9316961, 8437861 • Undertakes overall supervision of the goods during E-mail: [email protected] production, delivery, preservation, transportation, loading/discharging; supervision of installing and Vinacontrol Lang Son assembling equipments, production line; assessment, Phai Tran T-junction, Hoang Dong ward, Lang Son City, Lang consultant and supervision of construction project; Son Province Phone: (84 25) 870080 • Provides survey on means of transportation, container; Fax: (84 25) 870080 marine survey; gas-free inspection of the ship before E-mail: [email protected] repairing or scrap;
• Samples, tests and analyses at labouratory; • Provides damage survey; acting as the agent for insurance companies in damage survey, adjuster and settling claims; • Provides fumigation, property valuation, non-destructive test (NDT); welding test; test and calibration of tools and measuring equipment; calibration of tank, lighter; tallying, sealing service; auditing quality management system on request;
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Vinacontrol Nha Trang VIETNAM TRADE INFORMATION CENTER (VTIC) 26 Me Llinh, Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa Province Phone: (84 58) 510348 Office/postal address: Fax: (84 58) 510347 E-mail: [email protected] 46 Ngo Quyen Street Hanoi Vinacontrol Phu My Phu My town, TanThanh District, Baria Vung Tau province Phone: (84 4) 8262316, 8250713 Phone; (84 64) 876563 Fax: (84 4) 9349117 Fax: (84 64) 893780 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.vtic.vn/ Vinacontrol Property Valuation Co. Ltd ( Vinacontrol PV) 54 Tran Nhan Tong street, Hanoi City Year established: 1989 Phone: (84 4) 8226024 Fax: (84 4) 9433844 Principal function: E-mail: [email protected] • To collect, analyze and disseminate information on domestic Vinacontrol Quang Ninh and international economy, trade, marketing, price and 11 Hoang Long investment. Ha Long City Quang Ninh Province Services/activities: Phone: (84 33) 825535, 826736 Fax: (84 33) 826169 • Publishes various bulletins and books concerning economy, E-mail: [email protected] trade, marketing, price, international trade, investment, economic relations and cooperation between Viet Nam and Vinacontrol Quy Nhon foreign countries; 5 Tang Bat Ho, Qui Nhon City, Binh Dinh Province • Offers advisory services; Phone: (84 56) 892565 • Organizes seminars on investment and trade; Fax: (84 56) 892528 • Establishes a computerized national trade network known as E-mail: [email protected] VINANET with three servers located in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Danang and connected to various terminals in major Vinacontrol Vinh markets throughout Viet Nam, being the host of Viet Nam 14 Mai Hac De, Vinh City, Nghe An Province national home page on the ASEMCONNECT network at Phone: (84 383) 840299 www.asemconnectvietnam.gov.vn; Fax: (84 383) 844819 • Builds up an economic and trade databank and disseminates E-mail: [email protected] information.
Dac Lac Representative Office Publications issued: 26 Le Loi street, Tan Loi district, Buon Me Thuot City, Dac Lac Province • Ngoai Thuong (foreign trade; weekly, Vietnamese). Phone: (84 50) 950351 • Thi truong (daily market; Vietnamese).
• Thi truong-Gia ca-Vat tu (market and prices and material; Quang Ngai Representative Office Vietnamese). 131 Le Trung Dinh, Quang Ngai Province • Thong tin Thuong mai (trade information; weekly, Phone: (84 55) 822083 Vietnamese). Fax: (84 55) 822083 E-mail: [email protected] • Thi ruong-Thuong nghiep Vietnam (Viet Nam market and commerce; monthly, Vietnamese). Membership structure: Over 600 members. • Thuong mai-Doanh nghiep (commerce and enterprises; weekly, Vietnamese). Category: Local branches: Inspection institution. 173 Hai Ba Trung Street District 1, Ho Chi Minh City Phone: (84 8) 8237192
Fax: (84 8) 8237192
132 Nguyen Chi Thanh Street
Da Nang City
Phone: (84 511) 826927 Fax: (84 511) 830125
Category:
Ministry of Trade; trade facilitation body; and trade promotion organization.
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PART TWO
REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
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ASIA PACIFIC COUNCIL FOR TRADE ASIAN AND PACIFIC COCONUT COMMUNITY FACILITATION AND ELECTRONIC BUSINESS (APCC) (AFACT) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: 3rd Floor, Lina Building 22 floor-a, No. 333, Section 2 Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said Kav. B7 8th Floor, No.133, Section 4 Kuningan Minsheng E. Road Jakarta 12920, Indonesia Taipei 105, Taiwan Province of China P.O. Box: 1343, Jakarta 10013, Indonesia Phone: (886 2) 27139000 #588 Fax: (886 2) 27176511 Phone: (62 21) 5221712-3 Fax: (62 21) 5221714 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.afact.org E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.apccsec.org Year established: April 1999 (AFACT was reorganized through the migration from ASEB (Asia EDIFACT Board, 1990- Year established: 1969 (formerly Asian Coconut Community, 1999)). name changed in 1975).
Principal function: Principal function:
• To guide, stimulate and promote the development and use of • To promote, coordinate and harmonize all activities of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic coconut industry for maximum economic development. Business (UN/CEFACT) standards in its member countries and economies. Services/activities:
Services/activities: • As detailed under Principal function.
• Annual Plenary Meeting; Publications issued: • Steering Committee Meeting; • Working Group Meetings (online and offline); • Cocoinfo International (semi annually, English). • Annual EDICOM Conference. • Cocomunity (monthly, English). • Coconut Statistical Yearbook (annually, English). Organizational structure: • Cocotech Meetings Proceedings: - Coconut Based Farming System (27th), The AFACT Plenary is composed of all the participants. Under - Small Scale Processing on Coconut Products (28th), the AFACT Plenary, there is the Steering Committee composed - Coconut Trade and Marketing (29th), of six members, a chair, two vice-chairs and Asia Rapporteur. - Product Diversification as a Strategy for Market Development for Coconut Products (30th), There are 11 working groups formed under AFACT, each with its - Coconut Industry into the 21st Century (31st), own scope of work and responsibilities. The Working Groups are - Global Competitiveness of the Coconut Industry (32nd), Awareness and Education Working Group (AEG), Financial - Technology Transfer and Application in Relation to the Working Group (FWG), Transportation Working Group (TWG), Coconut Industry (33rd), Customs Working Group (CWG), Supply Chain Working Group - Environment-Friendly Coconut and Coconut Products (SCWG=PWG+ECWG), Security Working Group (SWG), Air (34th), Transportation Working Group (ATG), Legal Working Group - Technological Development in Coconut Production (LWG), Inter-networking Implementation Committee (IIC), Product Diversification, Processing and Marketing (35th), Business collaboration Framework Working Group (BCFWG) - Promoting Coconut Products in a Competitive Global and XML Working Group (XMLWG). Market (36th), - Sustainable Coconut Industry in the 21st Century (37th), Membership structure: 17 countries and economies. - Health and Wealth from the Tree of Life (38th), - Strategic Agenda to make Coconut Industry Globally Australia, Cambodia, China, Taiwan Province of China, India, Competitive (39th), Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, - New Approaches to Product Diversification, Value Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Addition and Global Marketing of Coconut Products Thailand and Viet Nam. (40th), - Strategies for Enhancing Productivity and Income of Category: Coconut Farmers (41st), - Global Development Affecting the Development of the Trade facilitation body; and trade promotion organization. Coconut Industry.( 42nd), • CORD - Coconut R&D (semi annually, English). • Directory of Coconut Traders and Equipment Manufacturers. • Guidelines for Promoting of Organic Farming in Coconut. • Coconut Processing Information Series. Technology Sheets: Generated Technologies of Coconut Product Diversification for Small Scale Industry (English).
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• Coconut Oil for Health and Nutrition (English). ASIAN CLEARING UNION (ACU) • Coconut Leaf Beetle Brontispa longissima (English). • Coconut Eriophyid Mite Aceria guerreronis (English). Office/postal address:
Other studies: No. 207/1 Pasdaran Avenue • Assessment of Experience of New Varieties of Coconuts: Field Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran Studies in India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, P.O. Box 15875/7177 Samoa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vanuatu. Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran • Coconut Industry (Country studies in Micronesia (Federated States of), Fiji, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Phone: (98 21) 2847676 Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Fax: (98 21) 2842077 Thailand, Vanuatu and Viet Nam). • The Coconut Palm - Botany and Breeding. E-mail: [email protected] • Desiccated Coconut Processing. URL: www.asianclearingunion.org • Energy Values and Uses of Coconut Products. Year established: 1974 • Facts and Fallacies about Coconut Oil.
• The Isolated Coconut Seed Garden at Ambakelle - Facts and Principal functions: Figures.
• Studies on Coconut Production and Productivity [country • To provide a facility for the multilateral settlement of studies on India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Federated States of payments between the participants for all current international Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka and transitions and capital transactions; Vanuatu]. • To promote trade expansion and monetary cooperation among • Studies on Domestic Marketing of Coconut Products (country the members and to encourage the use of participants' studies on Fiji, India, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, currencies in settlements; Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka and Vanuatu) • To provide for currency swap arrangement among participants. • Studies on Domestic Processing of Coconut Products (country
studies on Fiji, India, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Sri Service/activity: Lanka and Vanuatu).
• Waste Heat-Recovery Unit for the Carbonization of Coconut • The agent administers the clearing operations and currency Shells. swap arrangement within the ACU Procedure Rules.
Organizational structure: Publications issued:
The Community was set up under the Agreement Establishing the • Annual Report (English). Asian Coconut Community, negotiated under the aegis of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific • Monthly Newsletter (English). (ESCAP). Each member State is represented in the Community by one representative with plenipotentiary authority. A member State Organizational structure: may also designate one or more advisors to accompany its representative. The Community may invite any non-member State The ACU was set up under the Agreement establishing the Asian or interested international or nongovernmental organization to Clearing Union which was negotiated under the aegis of the participate in a consultative capacity in its consideration of any Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific matter of particular concern to it. The chairmanship of the (ESCAP). Each participant appoints one Director and one Alternate Community is held in turn in alphabetical order for one year by Director to the Board of Directors. The Board selects a Chairman representatives of member States. and a Vice-Chairman from its members. The Board meets at least once a year and decisions are taken by a simple majority vote of all The Community is served by a Secretariat, headed by an Executive Directors, except as provided for in the Agreement. The Board of Director appointed for a three-year term and extended to another Directors may make arrangements with a central bank or monetary three years by the session. The Community meets once in each authority of a participant to provide the necessary services and calendar year but may also be called to extra sessions when facilities for the operation of the clearing facility. The Board necessary. In addition, a Permanent Panel on Coconut Techno- accepted the offer of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Economic Studies (COCOTECH) meets once in two years to Iran to act as Agent for the Union. undertake technical studies and submit recommendations on coconut policies, strategies and programmes for decision by the Membership structure: 8 countries. Community sessions. Participation is open to all central banks or monetary authorities of Membership structure: 15 countries. members and associate members of ESCAP. Its current members are central banks of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Islamic Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Republic of Iran, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Micronesia (Federated States of), Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vanuatu and Viet Category: Nam. Monetary arrangements. Category:
Intergovernmental organization.
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ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) Membership structure: 67 members (48 regional; 19 nonregional). Office/postal address: Regional members: Afghanistan; Armenia, Australia; Azerbaijan; 6 ADB Avenue Bangladesh; Bhutan; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; People's Mandaluyong City Republic of China; Cook Islands; Fiji Islands; Georgia; Hong Kong, 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines China; India; Indonesia; Japan; Kazakhstan; Kiribati; Republic of Korea; Kyrgyzstan; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Phone: (63 2) 632 4444 Maldives; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Mongolia; Myanmar; Fax: (63 2) 636 2444 Nauru; Nepal; New Zealand; Pakistan; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Samoa; Singapore; Solomon Islands; Sri Lanka; E-mail: [email protected] Taiwan Province of China; Tajikistan; Thailand; Timor-Leste; URL: www.adb.org Tonga; Turkmenistan; Tuvalu; Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; and Viet Nam.
Year established: December 1966 Nonregional members: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Principal function: Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States of America. • To help its developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific reduce poverty and improve their living conditions Category: and quality of life. Banks. Service/activity:
• Headquartered in Manila, ADB helps its developing member countries through policy advice, loans, technical assistance, grants, guarantees and other equity investments; • ADB fights poverty by encouraging economic growth, social development, and good governance; • In an increasingly interdependent world, ADB promotes regional cooperation and integration in partnership with Governments, the private sector, and non-government and international organizations; • ADB’s operations are financed with contributions from 67 member nations—48 from the region; • Its triple-A credit rating helps it mobilize funds for development.
Publications issued:
Wide range of publications available, for example: • Asian Development Outlook 2007: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2007/default.asp. • Key Indicators 2006: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Key_Indicators/2006/d efault.asp • Energy for All: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Key_Indicators/2006/ default.asp • Asian Environment Outlook 2005: http://www.adb.org/environment/aeo/ • Toward E-Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Strategic Approach for Information and Communication Technology. For further information please refer to www.adb.org/publications.
Organizational structure:
ADB is a development finance institution set up under the Agreement Establishing the Asian Development Bank that was negotiated under the aegis of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The Board of Governors is vested with all the powers of the Bank and delegates its authority to the Board of Directors. The ADB President, who is Chairman of the Board of Directors, is the head of the Bank's management. He is assisted by four Vice-Presidents who are responsible for the various programmes, projects and departments, and a Managing Director General.
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ASIAN FINANCE AND INVESTMENT ASIAN PRODUCTIVITY ORGANIZATION (APO)* CORPORATION LTD (AFIC) Office/postal address: Office/postal address: 1-2-10 Hirakawacho Registered Office Chiyoda-ku 78 Shenton Way #29-03 Tokyo 102-0093, Japan Singapore 079120 Phone: (81 3) 52263920 Phone: (65) 63236236 Fax: (81 3) 52263950 Fax: (65) 63233607 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] URL: www.apo-tokyo.com
Year established: 1989 Year established: 1961
Principal functions: Principal function:
• To provide investment, lending, underwriting, guarantees, fee- • To help member countries increase productivity through based merchant banking and other related activities with focus mutual cooperation. on private sector development in the developing countries of Asia and the Pacific; Services/activities: • Merchant Banking licence with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. • Performs the roles of think tank, catalyst, regional advisor, institution builder and clearing house for member countries; Services/activities: • Undertakes research studies and surveys at both the macro and micro levels to identify productivity issues; • Loans, equity participation, underwriting, guarantees and • Develops human resources through technical assistance; related merchant banking services. • Develops the capabilities of the national productivity organizations of member countries; Publication issued: • Promotes green productivity, which is the integration of productivity improvement and environmental protection; • Annual Report (English). • Disseminates information on productivity through newsletter, journal, reports and audiovisual training aids. Office abroad: Publications issued: Regional Headquarters: th 19 Floor, Wynsum Corporate Plaza • Annual Report (English). Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Center • APO News (monthly, English). P.O. Box 13746, Pasig City 1605 • APO Productivity Journal (semi-annually). Metro Manila, Philippines • Reports of proceedings of symposia/study meetings/seminars. Phone: (632) 6368150 • Survey and research reports. Fax: (632) 6353689-90 E-mail: [email protected] Organizational structure:
Organizational structure: The governing body of APO is the supreme organ, comprising directors designated by each member government. The governing AFIC, a public company limited by shares, is incorporated under body annually elects a Chairperson and two Vice-Chairperson from the Companies Act of Singapore and approved as a merchant a amongst the Directors who act on all important matters when the bank with Asian Currency Unit licence by the Monetary Authority governing body is not in session. The Secretariat is the executive of Singapore. It was founded on the initiative of the Asian arm of the Organization. It has the following functions: Development Bank (ADB) to supplement ADB's private sector administration and finance; research/planning; industry; agriculture; operations. To facilitate close coordination with the ADB, AFIC's environment; and information and public relations. regional headquarters are located in Manila. Membership structure: Membership structure: ADB is the largest shareholder and the other shareholders are mainly financial institutions. 19 members: Bangladesh; China; Fiji; Hong Kong, China; India; Indonesia; Islamic Republic of Iran; Japan; Lao People’s Category: Democratic Republic, Malaysia; Mongolia; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Republic of Korea; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Thailand and Financial institution. Viet Nam.
Category:
Productivity centre.
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ASIAN REINSURANCE CORPORATION (ARC) ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address:
17th Floor, Tower B 35 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Chamnan Phenjati Business Centre Singapore 119616 65 Rama 9 Road Huaykwang Phone: (65) 67756012 Bangkok 10320, Thailand Fax: (65) 67756013
Phone: (66 2) 2452169, 2452190, 2452197-9 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (66 2) 2481377, 2488011 URL: www.apec.org
E-mail: [email protected] Year established: 1989 URL: www.asianrecorp.com Principal functions: Year established: 1979 • To achieve free and open trade and investment in Asia and Principal functions: the Pacific by 2010 for developed member economies and 2020 for developing ones; • To operate as a professional reinsurer accepting business from • To promote trade and investment liberalization, business the insurance markets in member States as well as other facilitation, and economic and technical cooperation; markets in the region and elsewhere and to retrocede its • To give priority to the following six areas of economic and surpluses after net retention with priority given to the national technical cooperation: developing human capital, fostering insurance and reinsurance markets of member States; safe and efficient capital markets, strengthening economic • To invest a sizeable proportion of its funds within the region. infrastructure, harnessing technologies of the future; promoting environmentally sustainable growth, and Services/activities: encouraging the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises. • Serves as a regional centre for the collection of insurance information and the development of expertise in insurance and Services/activities: reinsurance to be put at the disposal of national insurance markets of the member States; • Holds discussions regarding trade, economic cooperation, • Provides technical assistance to the national insurance markets investment liberalization and stronger multilateral trading of the member States. systems; • Addresses the challenges of the New Economy in the Publication issued: following areas: Managing globalization, the Action Agenda for the New Economy, creating new opportunities, • Annual Report. strengthening the multilateral trading system, making APEC matter more through the electronic-Individual Action Plans; Organizational structure: • Provides access to databases, including the APEC Tariff Database, a webpage on import regulations in APEC ASIANRE is an intergovernmental organization set up under the economies; the APEC project database of project activities Agreement establishing the Asian Reinsurance Corporation being undertaken by APEC fora; LMI database of labour negotiated under the aegis of the Economic and Social Commission market information; APEC Electronic Individual Action Plan for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). A Council of Members (e-IAP). (equivalent to Board of Directors) is the governing body with one representative from each member state. It normally meets once a Publications issued: year. A Management Board comprising Chairperson, Vice- Chairperson, General Manager (Chief Executive Officer) and Available at www.apec.org/apec/publications.html. Assistant General Manager is responsible for the direction of management within the guidelines given by the Council. Organizational structure:
Membership structure: Regular members: 10 countries; The APEC Chair, which rotates annually among members, is associate members: 6 institutions (non-ESCAP member countries, responsible for chairing the annual Economic Leaders' Meeting, private organizations, private corporations, non-governmental selected Ministerial Meetings and Senior Officials Meetings among organizations, multilateral institutions, etc.) Regular members are: others. Australia is the APEC Chair for 2007 and Peru will be the Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Islamic Republic APEC Chair in 2008. of Iran, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand. APEC Senior Officials Meetings (SOM) are held regularly prior to Training: every ministerial meeting making recommendations to the Ministers and to carry out their decisions. It oversees and coordinates, with Reinsurance seminar (one week). approval from Ministers, the budgets and work programmes of the APEC fora. Category: Other ministerial meetings are also being held in the following Commercial enterprise. areas: meetings for ministers of education, energy, environment and sustainable development, finance, human resources development, regional science and technology cooperation, small and medium
256 REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS enterprises, telecommunications and information industry, trade, ASSOCIATION OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCING transportation and women. INSTITUTIONS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (ADFIAP) APEC has 4 committees, 11 working groups and other APEC fora. Office/postal address: The Committee on Trade and Investment (CTI) aims to create an APEC perspective on trade and investment issues and to pursue 2nd Floor, Skyland Plaza liberalization and facilitation initiatives. The Economic Committee Senator Gil Puyat Avenue (EC) analyses economic trends and issues in support of APEC's City of Makati 1200 trade and investment liberalization and facilitation and economic Metro Manila, Philippines and technical cooperation agendas. The Budget and Management Committee (BMC) advises APEC senior officials on budgetary, Phone: (63 2) 8161672, 843 0932, 843 5892 administrative and managerial issues. The SOM Steering Fax: (63 2) 817 6498 Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE) assists the SOM in coordinating and managing APEC’s economic and E-mail: [email protected] technical cooperation (ECOTECH) agenda. URL: www.adfiap.org
The working groups deal with the following areas: agricultural Year established: 1976 technical cooperation, energy, fisheries, human resources development, industrial science and technology, marine Principal function: resource conservation, small and medium enterprises, telecommunications and information, trade promotion, • To advance sustainable development by strengthening the development finance function and institutions, enhancing transportation and tourism. capacity of members, and advocating development finance
innovations. In 1995, APEC Economic Leaders established the APEC Business
Advisory Council (ABAC), composed of up to three senior Services/activities: business people from each member economy to advise Leaders on the implementation of APEC action plans and on other specific • Professional career training and development; business sector priorities.
• Networking opportunities; Secretariat • Business cooperation; • Information technology. The APEC Secretariat, located in Singapore, serves as the central link and core support mechanism for all APEC activities. ADFIAP pursues the following activities to achieve its mission:
The Executive Director of the Secretariat is seconded from the • Advocacy programmes to support its belief that excellence and member economy chairing APEC, for one year. The Deputy good governance in development financing is key to Executive Director is appointed by the economy designated to sustainable development; assume the chair the following year. • Continuing professional education and certification programme for bankers involved in the financing of Membership structure: 21 members. development through the Asia-Pacific Institute of Development Finance; Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Chile; China; Hong Kong, • Consultancy and advisory services through the Asia-Pacific China; Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; Mexico; New Zealand; Papua Strategic Center for Development Finance; New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Republic of Korea; Russian • Publication of the Journal of Development Finance (JDF), the Federation; Singapore; Taiwan Province of China; Thailand; ADFIAP Newsletter, the ADFIAP Chief Executive United States of America and Viet Nam. Memogenda, Governance, Greenbank, SMEToolbox, ADFIAP Annual Report, books, surveys and research reports; Category: • Membership meetings held in different countries of the region; • Forums, seminars and professional gatherings organized in Intergovernmental organization. cooperation with international organizations that share common development objectives with ADFIAP, i.e. the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank Institute (WBI), the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS), and others; • Promotion and management of Internet projects such as SME Finance Initiative (www.smefi.com), a knowledge forum and business network in support of small and medium enterprises, ADFIAP.org (www.adfiap.org), the official website of the Association, DFIs for Governance website, policies, practices and programs on bank governance (www.governance- asia.com) and Environmental Governance Standards for internal management systems and bank lending (www.egs- asia.com); • Business and development networking through the ADFIAP Fund to support development projects of members.
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Publications issued: ASSOCIATION OF NATURAL RUBBER PRODUCING COUNTRIES (ANRPC) • Journal of Development Finance (JDF). • History of Development Finance in Asia and the Pacific: Its Office/postal address: Evolution and Impact (Volumes I and II). • Principles and Practices of Development Banking (Volumes I, 7th Floor, Bangunan Getah Asli (Menara) II, III). 148 Jalan Ampang • ADFIAP Chief Executive Memogenda. 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia • ADFIAP Greenbank. • Governance. Phone: (60 3) 21611900, 21611937, 21611935 • ADFIAP SMEToolbox. Fax: (60 3) 21613014 • ADFIAP Annual Report. • ADFIAP Newsletter (both printed and online). E-mail: [email protected] • Who’s Who in Development Financing in Asia and the URL: www.anrpc.org Pacific. Year established: 1970 Organizational structure: Principal functions: The General Assembly meets at least every two years consisting of authorized representatives of member institutions, elects a Board of • To bring about coordination in the production and marketing Directors (meets twice a year), which appoints a Chairperson, three of natural rubber (NR); Vice Chairpersons and Treasurer. The Secretariat is headed by the • To promote technical cooperation amongst members; Secretary General acting as its executive officer. • To bring about remunerative and stable prices for natural rubber. Membership structure: 83 institutions in 37 countries and territories. Services/activities:
This includes some institutions outside the Asia-Pacific region such • Organizes seminars, workshops, training courses and meetings as those in Canada, Islamic Republic of Iran, Oman and Jamaica, connected with: which aim to establish closer links with development financing - progress and development of rubber smallholders, institutions in the region. The Asian Development Bank is a Special - NR marketing, Member of the Association. ADFIAP is also a founding member of - NR quality, packaging and pricing, the 200-member strong World Federation of Development - NR cost of production in member countries, and Financing Institutions (WFDFIs) comprising the regional - development of rubber-based manufacturing in associations in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle member countries; East. • Makes studies of the world rubber position and examines the short- and long-term problems facing the natural rubber Category: industry; • Promotes research and development in production, processing, Development finance association. marketing and consumption of natural rubber; • Sets up such institutional arrangements as may be considered necessary; • Cooperates with appropriate international organizations; • Makes recommendations to members whenever necessary.
Publications issued:
• ANRPC Quarterly Natural Rubber Statistical Bulletin. • ANRPC Economic and Statistical Review (half-yearly).. • ANRPC News (quarterly). • Reports of studies and meetings of the Association • Study reports and working papers for the reference of Member Governments.
Organizational structure:
The Assembly, which is the supreme body of the Association, is made up of all members of the ANRPC; its regular session is usually held once a year. The Executive Committee of the Association exercises the functions of the Association between sessions of the Assembly. It consists of all members of the Association and it is empowered to determine procedural matters and formulate such rules for the proper functioning of the Secretariat.
The Executive Committee appoints and determines the membership and functions of other committees. Each committee elects its Chairman. Presently there are two committees: (1) Information and
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Statistics Committee of the ANRPC and (2) Industry Matters ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS Committee of the ANRPC. For specific purpose, Working Groups (ASEAN)* and Expert Groups are established whenever needed. Office/postal address: The Secretariat of the Association functions: to provide the necessary link between members; to make preparations for all ASEAN Secretariat meetings of the Assembly, the Executive and other committees and 70A, Jalan Sisingamangaraja to service such meetings; to maintain liaison with international Jakarta 12110, Indonesia organizations whose work is of interest to the Association; to make such studies as specified from time to time by the various Phone: (62 21) 7243372, 7262991, 7262410 committees of the Association; and to carry out the directives of the Fax: (62 21) 7398234, 7243504 Association. E-mail: [email protected] Membership structure: URL: www.aseansec.org
Membership is open to Governments of rubber producing Year established: August 1967 countries. There are 9 members now: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Principal functions: Viet Nam. These 9 countries together account for 94 per cent of the total world production of natural rubber. • To accelerate the region’s economic growth, social progress and cultural development through active collaboration in Products/commodity responsible for: agriculture, industry, trade, transportation and communication; • To promote South-East Asian studies and to provide assistance Natural rubber. in training and research; • To maintain close and beneficial cooperation with existing Training: international and regional organizations with similar aims;
• To promote regional peace and stability through abiding Can arrange (through Member Governments) training on various respect for justice and the rule of law and adherence to the aspects of cultivation, production, processing and marketing of principles of the United Nations. natural rubber.
Services/activities: Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
• Enhances economic cooperation among its members; Production, processing and marketing of natural rubber are the areas of investment opportunities, however, the association only • Accelerates the implementation of the Common Effective assists its Member Governments. Preferential Tariff scheme for ASEAN Free Trade Areas; • Establishes external relations, i.e. ASEAN-European Union. Category: Publications issued: Intergovernmental organization. • AFTA Reader. • Annual Report of the ASEAN Standing Committee. • ASEAN: An Overview. • ASEAN Document Series. • ASEAN Functional Cooperation: From Strength to Strength. • The ASEAN Selected Statistics. • ASEAN Update. • Investing in ASEAN.
Organizational structure:
The annual Meeting of the Heads of Government is the highest authority. Policy guidelines are provided by the annual Ministerial Meeting, consisting of the Foreign Ministers of member countries. The Standing Committee carries out the work between meetings. Economic cooperation is overseen by the Senior Economic Officials Meetings and the Economic Ministers. The Foreign Ministers and Economic Ministers meet whenever necessary as the Joint Ministerial Meeting (JMM).
Membership: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.
Category:
Intergovernmental organization.
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ASSOCIATION OF TRAINING INSTITUTIONS FOR BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION (BSEC) FOREIGN TRADE IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (ATIFTAP) Office/postal address:
Office/postal address: Sakıp Sabancı Caddesi Müşir Fuad Paşa Yalısı Unit 1201-1202 EGI Taft Tower Condominium Eski Tersane Taft Avenue, Manila 34460 İstanbul Philippines Turkey
Phone: (63 2) 303 1442 Phone: (90 212) 229 63 30-35 Fax: (63 2) 3031443 Fax: (90 212) 229 63 36
E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] URL: www.atiftap.org URL: www.bsec-organization.org
Year established: 1992 Year established: 1992
Principal function: Principal functions:
• To strengthen training institutions in the foreign trade sector in • To act in a spirit of friendship and good neighborliness and the participating countries. enhance mutual respect and confidence, dialogue and cooperation among the Member States; Services/activities: • To further develop and diversify bilateral and multilateral cooperation on the basis of the principles and rules of • Offers training programmes for managers on all aspects of international law; management, export- and e-readiness; • To act for improving the business environment and • Offers counseling services to businesses on management, promoting individual and collective initiative of the building marketing and production capabilities, managing enterprises and companies directly involved in the process of export transactions and utilizing information communication economic cooperation; technologies in the management of the business processes; • To develop economic collaboration in a manner not contravening the international obligations of the Member • Builds local and national capacities by designing and States including those deriving from their membership to delivering training programmes for trainers; international organizations or institutions of an integrative or • Promotes exchange programmes of students, faculty and other nature and not preventing the promotion of their experts, training programmes and materials including joint relations with third parties; research projects; • To take into account the specific economic conditions and • Provides access to up-to-date and significant information interests of the Member States involved; about trade opportunities, using each other as a resource, • To further encourage the participation in the BSEC process expertise available in the participating institutions, and of economic cooperation of other interested states, training materials and formation centre; international economic and financial institutions as well as • Participates in regional meetings and technical cooperation enterprises and companies. projects; • Designs postgraduate-level international business programmes Organizational structure: and courses. The Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs is the principal Publications issued: regular decision making organ of the BSEC. The Chairman-in- office coordinates all activities carried out within the framework • Researches: E Trade Assessment of the Philippines; Export of the BSEC and ensures the proper conduct of the BSEC Financing; ASEAN E-Readiness Report. proceedings as well as the implementation of the resolutions and • WWW cases: Winning with the web. decisions adopted. The Chairmanship rotates every six months.
Organizational structure: Upon request of the Chairman-in-office, the Troika ( “Troika” means the System which consists of the Chairman-in-Office, the The establishment of ATIFTAP is based on a regional project. Its previous and the next Chairmen of the BSEC or their founding countries are China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the representatives) convenes at the appropriate level in order to Philippines and Thailand. exchange views on current and prospective activities of the BSEC and on its relations with other international organizations and Membership structure: 21 institutions from 8 countries. institutions.
Training: Category:
Training on the Business Management System. Intergovernmental organization.
Category:
Training/research institution.
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BAY OF BENGAL INITIATIVE FOR MULTI- ECONOMIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (ECO) SECTORAL TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION (BIMSTEC) Office/postal address:
Office/postal address: 1 Golbou Alley Kamranieh BIMSTEC Center Tehran Building No. 20 5th Floor Islamic Republic of Iran The University of Thai Chamber of Commerce 126/22-25 Vibhavadee-rangsit Rd., Dindaeng P.O. Box: 14155-6176, Tehran Bangkok 10400, Thailand Phone: (98 21) 2831731, 2831733, 2291305 Phone: (66 2) 6923162-3 Fax: (98 21) 2831732 Fax: (66 2) 6923161 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ecosecretariat.org URL: www.bimstec.org Year established: 1985 (formerly Regional Cooperation for Year established: BIMSTEC established in 1997; BIMSTEC Development (RCD)). Center established in 2004. Principal function: Principal functions: • To promote regional economic, technical and cultural • BIMSTEC is a regional cooperation framework which cooperation among member States. consists of 13 areas of cooperation in all possible dimension, be they economic, social or cultural. Services/activities: • BIMSTEC Centre serves as a mini-secretariat to BIMSTEC Working Group in Bangkok which is one of the driving • Encourages sustainable economic development of member mechanisms of BIMSTEC. States; • Undertakes progressive removal of trade barriers and Services/activities: promotion of intraregional trade through the Economic Cooperation Organization Trade Agreement; • BIMSTEC Centre currently acts as a mini-secretariat to • Enhances greater role of the ECO region in the growth of BIMSTEC and serves as a channel of communication world trade; between BIMSTEC and other international organisation • Gradually integrates the economies of the member States such as ADB and ESCAP. with the world economy; • Develops transport and communications infrastructure Publications issued: linking the member States with each other and with the outside world; • BIMSTEC Intra-trade studies (2005). • Encourages economic liberalization and privatization; • Mobilizes and utilizes ECO region’s material resources; Membership structure: BIMSTEC comprises of 7 countries • Effectively utilizes the agricultural and industrial potentials with Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand as founding of the ECO region; members. Later Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan joined the group. • Undertakes regional cooperation for drug abuse control, ecological and environmental protection and strengthens Training: historical and cultural ties among the peoples of the ECO region; There are a couple of training courses held in the past few years • Cooperates with regional and international organizations. in some areas of cooperation, to enhance greater capacity building among the member countries, including: Publications issued: • International training programme on bio-energy;
• Training courses on “Trans-Asian Railway Networks”; • ECO News Bulletin (quarterly). • Series of workshop on energy and agriculture cooperation. • ECO Environmental Bulletin (quarterly) Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • ECO Trade Officer Working Group (TOWG Newsletter) monthly. BIMSTEC has been holding series of business and economic • Summit Communiqués and Declarations. forums where both private and public sectors of the respective • MOU’s and Agreements with international and regional member countries are encouraged to participate. A BIMSTEC organizations and agencies. free trade agreement negotiating process has been undertaken since September 2004 by the trade negotiating committee. It is Membership structure: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Islamic expected to be completed and finalised by the end of 2007 or Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, before the 2nd BIMSTEC Summit which will be held in February Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. 2008. Category: Category: Intergovernmental regional organization for economic Intergovernmental organization; and chamber of commerce, trade cooperation; and regional economic organization. association.
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION FOR Organizational structure: MARKETING INFORMATION AND TECHNICAL ADVISORY SERVICES FOR FISHERY PRODUCTS INFOFISH is an intergovernmental organization hosted by the IN THE ASIA AND PACIFIC REGION (INFOFISH) Government of Malaysia. A national liaison office is maintained in each member country. INFOFISH maintains close links with the
worldwide fish marketing information network of the Food and Office/postal address: Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) comprising
st FAO-GLOBEFISH, INFOPESCA (Latin America), INFOPECHE 1 Floor, Wisma PKNS (Africa), INFOSAMAK (Arab countries), EUROFISH (Eastern Jalan Raja Laut Europe) and INFOYU (China). 50350 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia Membership structure:
P.O. Box: 10899, 50728 Kuala Lumpur INFOFISH is open to all countries in Asia and the Pacific with
present membership comprising the following major fish producing Phone: (60 3) 26914466, 26914614, 26914794 countries in the region: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Islamic Fax: (60 3) 26916804 Republic of Iran, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Malaysia,
Maldives, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Islands, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. URL: www.infofish.org
Since 1996, INFOFISH is open to selected companies, corporate Year established: 1981 bodies, institutions and associations, academia, etc., linked to the
fishery field, irrespective of nationality to join as Associate Principal function: Members through invitation.
• To provide marketing information and technical advisory Category: service for fish and fishery products in the Asia-Pacific region.
Marketing information and technical advisory services for fish Services/activities: and fishery products.
• Undertakes trade promotion services by identifying new marketing opportunities for companies in the Asia-Pacific region and new sources of supply for importers; • Provides current and long-term marketing information services by offering sales support through publications; • Provides technical advisory services on aquaculture, fishing technology and on all phases of handling, processing and marketing of fish and fishery products; • Conducts regular training courses and workshops on handling, processing, inspection and quality assurance; • Undertakes consultancy services on all aspects of fisheries including fishing, aquaculture, processing and marketing; • Organizes international trade conferences, exhibitions, workshops, seminars and training programmes.
Publications issued:
• The Fish Inspector (quarterly, English). • INFOFISH Fishing Technology Digest for Asia-Pacific (quarterly, English). • INFOFISH International (bimonthly, English). • INFOFISH Technical Handbook Series. • INFOFISH Trade News (fortnightly, English). • Papers of Tuna 2000 Bangkok Conference (English). • Papers of Tilapia 2001 Kuala Lumpur Conference (English). • Papers of Shrimp 2001 Chennai Conference (English). • Papers of Tuna 2002 Kuala Lumpur Conference (English). • Papers of Tuna 2004 Bangkok Conference (English). • Warta Akuakultur (quarterly, Indo-Malay). • The Production and Marketing of Organic Aquaculture Products - Proceedings of Organic Aquaculture and Sea Farming 2004 Global Technical and Trade Conference (English).
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INTERNATIONAL JUTE STUDY GROUP (IJSG) Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Office/postal address: Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia. Associate Members have also joined IJSG. 145 Monipuripara Tejgaon Products/commodity responsible for: Dhaka 1215 Bangladesh Jute, kenaf and allied fibres.
P.O. Box: 6073, Gulshan, Dhaka Areas/industries where investment is encouraged:
Phone: (880 2) 9125581-5 Industries related to jute, kenaf and allied fibres. Fax: (880 2) 9125248-9 Category: E-mail: [email protected] International commodity body. Year established: April 2002
Principal functions: INTERNATIONAL PEPPER COMMUNITY (IPC)
• To administer the provisions of the Agreement establishing Office/postal address: the Terms of Reference of the International Jute Study Group, 2001; 4th Floor, LINA Building • To provide an effective framework for cooperation and Jalan H.R. Rasuna Said Kav. B7 consultation between the jute exporting and importing Kuningan, Jakarta 12920 countries for the development of the jute economy; Indonesia • To provide a forum for the active participation of the private sector in the development of the jute sector; Phone: (62 21) 5224902-3, 5227664 • To improve structural conditions in the jute market; Fax: (62 21) 5224905 • To increase the competitiveness and quality of jute and jute products, upholding jute’s positive environmental aspects. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] (Executive Director) URL: www.ipcnet.org Services/activities: Year established: 1972 • Undertakes projects of research and development, market promotion and cost reduction so as to improve the structural Principal function: conditions in the jute market; • Collects, collates and disseminates information relating to • To promote, coordinate and harmonize all activities relating jute and jute products; to the pepper economy with a view to achieving maximum accelerated economic development. • Undertakes market promotion activities to promote existing
and new diversified jute products; Services/activities:
Publications issued: • Coordinates and stimulates research on technical and economic aspects of production, including research on • Annual Report (English). diseases affecting the pepper plant, research on development • IJSG News ( biannual, English). of disease-resistant and high-yielding varieties;
• Facilitates the exchange of information on programmes and Organizational structure: policies, and on any other aspects relating to production;
IJSG was established under the Agreement Establishing the • Develops programmes for increasing consumption in Terms of Reference under the aegis of the United Nations traditional and new markets; Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The Council • Intensifies and coordinates research on new uses of pepper; of the International Jute Study Group is the highest body of IJSG • Undertakes further joint action for the relaxation of tariff and and consists of all members. There is a Committee on Projects non-tariff barriers and for the removal of other obstacles to (COP) which is responsible to and works under the general trade; direction of the Council. There is also a Private Sector • Coordinates standards of quality so as to facilitate Consultative Board (PSCB) constituted by the Associate international marketing; Members, belongs to organizations and entities of the jute • Keeps under constant review developments relating to industry and trade in the producing as well as in the importing supply, demand and prices of pepper; countries who are not entitled to full membership. • Carries out investigations into the causes and consequences of fluctuations in the prices of pepper and suggest Membership structure: 4 Members and 45 Associate appropriate solution; Members. • Improves statistical and other information on pepper production, consumption, trade and prices, including As of 22 July 2007, the IJSG has the following members: techniques of production and consumption forecasting; Bangladesh, India, Switzerland, European Union and its 27 • Undertakes such other activities and functions as may be Member States - Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, deemed desirable in the interests of the world pepper France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, economies.
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Publications issued: INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION (ITTO) • Abstracts Research Findings on Pepper (English). • Directory of Exporters and Importers of Pepper and other Office/postal address: Spices, Latest 2006 edition (CD, English). • Pepper News & Market Review (monthly newsletters, 5th Floor, International Organizations Center English, print and web version). Pacifico-Yokohama • Pepper Statistical Yearbook, Latest 2004 Edition (2000 - 1-1-1, Minato-Mirai, Nishi-Ku 2004) (CD, English). Yokohama 220-0012 • Weekly Prices Bulletin (by e-mail/fax, weekly, English Japan published every Friday and can be downloaded from the website). Phone: (81 45) 2231110 • IPC/FAO Pepper Production Guide for Asia & Pacific (in Fax: (81 45) 2231111 CD and book version). • Grandma’s Home Remedies with Pepper (German/English). E-mail: [email protected] • IPC recipes book (Peppered Tales on the Table). URL: www.itto.or.jp
Organizational structure: Year established: 1983
Each full member country is represented in IPC by a Principal functions: representative with plenipotentiary authority. The Chairmanship is held in turn by a representative of each member country, in • To provide an effective framework for cooperation and alphabetical order, who holds office for one year. IPC is served consultation between tropical timber producing and by a Secretariat located in Jakarta and is headed by an Executive consuming members with regard to all relevant aspects of the Director. tropical timber economy; • To promote the expansion and diversification of international Membership structure: 6 full members and 2 associate trade in tropical timber and the improvement of structural members. conditions in the tropical timber market, by taking into account, on the one hand, a long-term increase in consumption IPC is an intergovernmental organization of six pepper producing and continuity of supplies, and, on the other, prices which are countries established in 1972 under the auspices of ESCAP. The remunerative to producers and equitable for consumers, and full members of IPC are Brazil, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri the improvement of market access; Lanka, and Viet Nam. Papua New Guinea and Hainan Province • To promote and support research and development with a view of China, which is represented by Department of Agriculture, are to improving forest management and wood utilization; associate members. • To encourage increased and further processing of tropical timber in producing member countries with a view to Products/commodity responsible for: promoting their industrialization and thereby increasing their export earnings; Pepper (Piper nigrum L.). • To encourage members to support and develop industrial tropical timber reforestation and forest management activities; Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: • To encourage members to support and develop industrial tropical timer; Post-harvest processing and product development for pepper and • To improve marketing and distribution of tropical timber its byproducts. exports of producing members; • To encourage the development of national policies aimed at Category: sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical forests and their genetic resources, and maintaining the ecological balance Trade promotion organization. in the regions concerned.
Services/activities:
• Funds projects either in its producing member countries or globally in the fields of activity of its Committees; • Provides a forum for producer/consumer discussions; • Publishes guidelines and convenes training workshops, expert panels, seminars and other public forums on issues designed to encourage sustainable management, utilization and trade in the forestry sector; • Publishes reports on its projects and activities; • Acts as a repository for information and conducts market surveys among its Members; • Cooperates with other international organizations to promote lasting improvements in the welfare of the forestry sectors of its tropical Member countries.
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Publications issued: ISLAMIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANDINDUSTRY (ICCI)* Wide range of publications available in English, French and Spanish, for example: Office/postal address:
• Annual Report 2006. ST 2/A, Block9, KDA Scheme 5 Clifton • ITTO Mangrove Workplan, 2002-2006. Karachi-75600 • Forest Certification: Pending Challenges for Tropical Pakistan Timber, 2002. • Achieving Sustainable Forest Management in Indonesia. P.O. Box: 3831, Karachi • Making SFM Work. ITTO's first twenty years, 2007 (English/French/ Spanish) Phone: (92 21) 5874756, 5874910, 5830646, 5830535 • Mission in Support of the Government of the Congo for the Fax: (92 21) 5870765, 5874212 Realization of ITTO Objective 2000 and Sustainable Forest Management. E-mail: [email protected] • Tropical Forest Update (TFU) (quarterly, English/French/ URL: www.icci-oic.org Spanish). • Tropical Timber Market Information Service (MIS) (bi- Year established: 1979 weekly, English). Principal function: For further information, please refer to www.itto.or.jp. • To strengthen closer collaboration in the field of trade, Organizational structure: commerce, shipping, banking, promotion of investment opportunities and joint ventures in the member countries. ITTO was set up under the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983, negotiated under the aegis of the United Nations Services/activities: Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In 1994, a new agreement was negotiated and came into force on 1 January • Encourages trade, industry, agriculture and handicrafts; 1997. The governing body is the International Tropical Timber proposes economic policies advantageous to its members and Council which is composed of representatives of Member States. creates avenues for the collaboration amongst its members The biannual sessions of the Council are accompanied by the and similar organizations throughout the Islamic world in meetings of its three Committees on Economic Information and their efforts for economic development; Market Intelligence, Reforestation and Forest Management, and • Promotes investment opportunities and joint ventures among Forest Industry. The ITTO Secretariat is the executive arm and the member countries; similarly structured into three divisions with the addition of • Organizes trade fairs, joint show rooms, exhibitions, Management Services. The Executive Director is appointed by the seminars, lectures and publicity campaigns as and where may Council. be thought advisable.
Membership structure: The membership comprises tropical Publications issued: timber producing and consuming countries. • Perspectives of the Islamic Economy. Producers: • Quarterly Magazine (Arabic/English/French). • Africa: Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Togo; Offices abroad: • Asia and Pacific: Cambodia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, , Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand and Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vanuatu; P.O. Box 1264 • Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Jeddah 211431 Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Saudi Arabia Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago Phone: (96 62) 6515111 Fax: (96 62) 6510179 Consumers: Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, EU (Austria, E-mail: [email protected] Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Membership structure: 57 OIC member countries. Kingdom, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia), Japan, Products/commodity responsible for: Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Switzerland and United States of America. All products.
Category: Training:
Commodity organization. • SMEs; • Information technology;
• Packaging of perishable and general consumer products;
• Quality assurance system under ISO 9000 programme.
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Areas/industries where investment is encouraged: PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION COUNCIL (PECC) Agriculture; engineering and communication industries; food/fruit processing industries; grading and packaging of food Office/postal address: products; fishery and livestock; furniture industry and ceramic and glassware; information technology; oil/gas exploration and 29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace refining; petroleum products; petrochemicals and industrial dye; Singapore 119620 tourism related services; and transportation by sea and land. Phone: (65) 67379823 Category: Fax: (65) 67379824
Chamber of commerce; industrial promotion; trade facilitation E-mail: [email protected] body; and trade promotion organization. URL: www.pecc.org
Year established: 1980
Principal functions:
• To serve as a regional forum for cooperation and policy coordination to promote economic development in the Asia- Pacific region; • To enhance cooperation and policy coordination in areas including trade, investment, finance, human resource development, natural resources (agriculture, fisheries, minerals and energy), industrial adjustment, and the improvement of transportation and communication capabilities; • To provide information and analytical support to APEC ministerial meetings and working groups; • To channel and facilitate private sector participation in the formal process; • To work closely with other regional and global organizations which have complementary objectives and programmes, i.e. Asian Development Bank, Organization for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD), United Nations agencies, the World Bank and WTO.
Services/activities:
• General Meeting: The major forum of PECC held every two years with relevant regional and international organizations; • Standing Committee (SC) and Coordinating Group (CG): meet twice a year to discuss economic issues/measures, and review and plan the PECC work programme; • Task Forces, Fora and Projects Groups are the primary mechanisms for PECC work programme. Their coverage includes trade, investment, finance, HRD and all major industrial sectors.
Publications issued:
• PECC Economic Outlook - Forecast (annually, English). • PECC Economic Outlook - Structure (annually, English). • Pacific Food Outlook (annually, English). • Issues@PECC (four issues annually, English).
Membership structure: 27 members (23 full members, 2 associate members and 2 institutional members).
Full members committees: Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Chile; China; Colombia; Ecuador; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Japan; Republic of Korea; Malaysia; Mexico; New Zealand; Peru; Philippines; Russian Federation; Singapore; Pacific Islands Forum; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; United States of America and Viet Nam.
Associate members: French Pacific Territories and Mongolia.
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Institutional members: Pacific Trade and Development • Profiles of Forum Member Countries. Conference (PAFTAD) and Pacific Basin Economic Council • SPARTECA: A reference handbook for Forum Island (PBEC). Country Exporters. • Trade Forum (bi-monthly newsletter). Each member committee comprises tripartite, senior • Forum Review (quarterly newsletter). representatives from business, government and academic circles. • Economic Outlook (three times per year).
Category: Offices abroad
International independent and economic cooperation body. Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission P. O. Box 774 12th Floor, 48 Emily Place PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM SECRETARIAT* Auckland 1, New Zealand Phone: (64 9) 302 0465 Office/postal address: Fax: (64 9) 377 6642 E-mail: [email protected] Private Mail Bag Suva Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission Fiji Level 11, 171 Clarence Street Sydney NSW 2001, Australia Phone: (679) 3312600 G.P.O. Box 5407, Sydney, Australia Fax: (679) 3305573, 3312226 Phone: (61 2) 9299 2350 Fax: (61 2) 9299 2151 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.forumsec.org.fj URL: www.pitic.org.au
Year established: 1973 (formerly South Pacific Bureau for Pacific Islands Centre Economic Cooperation, changed to South Pacific Forum 5th Floor, Sotobori Sky Building Secretariat in 1988 and then to Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat 2-11 Ichigayahonmura-cho in 2000). Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162-0845, Japan Principal functions: Phone: (81 3) 3268 8419 Fax: (81 3) 3268 6311 • To implement the directives of the Forum, to disseminate its E-mail: [email protected] views and to represent its concerns effectively; • To provide the Forum and its associated bodies with Pacific Islands Forum Trade Office secretariat and support services; 1 Xin Dong Lu, 5-1-3-1 Ta Yuan Diplomatic Compound • To provide quality policy advice and analysis to the Forum Chaoyang District, Beijing and its members, coordinating where necessary with other China 100600 agencies involved; Phone: (86 10) 65326622 • To implement regional policies and programmes that Mobile: (86 139) 11180521 support the priorities of Forum countries and enhance their Fax: (86 10) 65326360 capacity to contribute to the welfare of their members, E-mail: [email protected] giving special attention to the smaller and more URL: www.pifto.org.cn disadvantaged States; • To promote sustainable regional development of the region Membership structure: 16 countries. in the interests of its people; • To encourage regional cooperation and partnerships; Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, • To foster a commitment to excellence in the service of Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Forum Members among Secretariat staff, including by Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, developing staff resources; Tuvalu and Vanuatu. • To manage the resources of the Forum efficiently and effectively so as to provide the best possible service to Products/commodity responsible for: Forum members The Forum Island Countries (FICs) encourage investment in a Service/activity: wide range of areas including tourism, fisheries, forestry, agriculture, manufacturing and other local value added processing, and services. • Works towards achieving the above primary functions,
which reflect the Secretariat’s mandate from the Forum, as Titles of laws and regulations on foreign investment: well as its corporate role.
Publications issued: • Most of the FICs are either developing or improving their national investment policies, and thus working towards the development of their foreign investment bills. • Foreign Investment Climate in South Pacific Forum
Countries, 2001. Category: • Trade Route Asia Pacific, 2000.
• Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat: Annual Report 2000- Intergovernmental organization. 2001.
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PACIFIC ISLANDS SMALL BUSINESS SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE NETWORK (PISBDCN) (SPC)
Office/postal address: Office/postal address: c/o University of Guam BPD 5 UOG Warehouse B Room #2 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia Mangilao 96923, Guam Phone: (687) 262000 P.O. Box: 5404 Fax: (687) 263818
Phone: (67 1) 7352590 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (67 1) 7342002 URL: www.spc.int
Email: [email protected] Year established: 6 February 1947 (formerly South Pacific URL: www.pacificsbdc.com Commission, name changed in 1998).
Principal function: Principal functions:
• To support the growth and economic development of the • To implement the activities and projects identified as priorities United States affiliated Pacific islands in the western pacific by its members and incorporated in its annual work region by providing high quality one-on-one confidential programme; counseling and training to existing and prospective small • To provide technical assistance, advisory services, businesses. information, research and clearing house services to Island countries and territories of the region; Services/activities: • To conduct regional conferences and technical meetings, as well as training courses, workshops and seminars at the local, • Offers a counseling service without charge to small business subregional and regional levels; owners and prospective owners; • To assist in developing local expertise and promote regional • Sponsors a programme of open enrolment training courses, conferences and workshops that are designed to enhance the cooperation with emphasis on self-reliance and development skills and knowledge of existing and prospective small activities. business owners/managers; Service/activity: • Develops a cooperative working relationship with minority organizations to insure that the full spectrum of PISBDCN programmes are available to disadvantaged and minority The SPC integrated work programme focuses on technical citizens; assistance, education and training, delivered through courses, workshops and seminars at the local, subregional and regional • Provides specialized village outreach programmes provide counseling services beyond the confines of the network’s levels. SPC also has strong applied research components, service centres offices to the ‘on site’ locations of its clients particularly in its oceanic fisheries and agriculture programmes. It is throughout the network; a bilingual organization, with English and French as its working languages. • Strives to increase access to venture capital and loanable funds throughout the network; Publications issued: • Develops and provides access to a depository of business and economic data for its clients and the small business community and disseminates respective information; • Annual Report. • Provide its clients with access to basic and advanced • Report of the Conference of the Pacific Community; Report management technologies (i.e. accounting, marketing, word- of Conference of Representatives of Governments and processing systems, research, and tax) as well computer Administrations. laboratories; • Technical publications, reports of meetings, statistical • Acts as a catalyst to foster an international trade program for bulletin, newsletters (fisheries, nutrition, health, women), the network; extension materials. • Works to develop a network for technology transfers that encourage partnerships between small business and the Organizational structure: academic community to help commercialize university- based research. SPC is the oldest regional organization in the Pacific. It is a non- political organization, gathering countries and territories as full Organizational Structure: members irrespective of their political status.
Each service center contributes to the services provided by the SPC’s policies are set by the Conference of the Pacific network. Community, held every second year. The chief executive of SPC Membership structure: is elected at this conference.
Pacific Islands Small Business Development Centres are located in To ensure that SPC responds to the expressed needs of its Island the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Yap); Marshall members, the Conference of Representatives of Governments and Islands (Majuro) and Palau (Korror). Administrations approves the work programme and budget each year. Requests carry government or administration approval, and Category: are transmitted to the Secretariat via official country or territory contacts. Also contributing to the formulation of the work Training/research organization.
268 REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS programme are regional conferences and technical meetings, SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANISATION which gather specialists working in the region to ensure that SPC remains effective. Office/postal address:
SPC has three divisions: Social Resources (including public No 41 Liangmaqiao Road health, culture, women, youth, community training, media centre, Chaoyang District Beijing 100600, China and demography and statistics), Marine Resources (coastal fisheries, oceanic fisheries and maritime) and Land Resources Phone: (86 10) 65329806, 65329807 (sustainable management of forest and agriculture systems and Fax: (86 10) 65329237, 65329838 biosecurity and trade facilitation). E-mail: [email protected] Membership structure: 26 member countries and territories. URL: www.sectsco.org
SPC implements programmes that benefit 22 Pacific Island Year established: 2001 countries and territories. These are: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Principal function: Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn • To strengthen mutual trust and good-neighbourly relations Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, among member states; Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna. • To promote their effective cooperation in political affairs, economy and trade, scientific-technical, cultural, and The 26 members of SPC include the above island countries and educational spheres as well as in energy, transportation, territories plus the four remaining founding countries: Australia, tourism and environment protection fields; France, New Zealand and the United States of America. • To safeguard regional peace, security and stability; • To strive towards creation of a democratic, just, reasonable new international political and economic order.
Organizational structure:
The Council of Heads of Member States is a supreme body responsible for decision-making. It holds regular sessions once a year and makes decisions and issues instructions on all the important matters of the organisation. It meets to discuss the strategy of multilateral cooperation and priority directions within the SCO framework; to decide on actual matters of principle regarding economic and other cooperation, as well as to approve next year budget of the Organisation. Besides meetings of the Councils of Heads of State and Heads of Government there also exists the mechanism of annual meetings of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Ministers of economy, transport, culture, defence, security, General Public Prosecutors, as well as Heads of border and authorities of Ministry of extreme measures.
The Council of National Coordinators serves as the coordination mechanism within the SCO framework. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has two permanent bodies; the Secretariat in Beijing and the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) in Tashkent. The Secretary-General and the Director of the Executive Committee are appointed by the Council of Heads of State for a period of three years.
Membership structure: 6 Member States: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. 4 Observer States: India, Islamic Republic of Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan. Secretary-General: Bolat K. Nurgaliev.
Category:
Intergovernmental organisation.
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SOUTH ASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR REGIONAL Organizational structure: COOPERATION (SAARC) Summit Office/postal address: The highest authority of the Association rests with the Heads of State or Government, who meet annually at Summit level. SAARC Secretariat P.O. Box 4222 Council of Ministers Kathmandu, Nepal Comprising the Foreign Ministers of Member States, it is responsible for formulating policies; reviewing progress; deciding Phone: (977 1) 221794, 221785 on new areas of cooperation; establishing additional mechanisms; Fax: (977 1) 227033, 223991 and deciding on other matters of general interest. It meets twice a year and may also meet in extraordinary session by agreement of E-mail: [email protected] Member States. URL: www.saarc-sec.org Standing Committee Year established: 8 December 1985 Comprising the Foreign Secretaries of Member States, it is entrusted with the task of overall monitoring and coordination of programmes Principal functions: and the modalities of financing; determining intersectoral priorities; mobilizing regional and external resources; and identifying new • To promote the welfare and to improve the quality of life; areas of cooperation • To accelerate economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region and to provide all individuals the Technical Committees opportunity to live in dignity and to realize their full potential; Comprising representatives from the Member States; formulate • To promote and strengthen collective self-reliance among the programmes and prepare projects in their respective fields which countries of South Asia and to contribute to mutual trust, make up the Integrated Programme of Action under SAARC. understanding and appreciation of one another's problems; SAARC Secretariat • To promote active collaboration and mutual assistance in the Coordinates and monitors the implementation of SAARC activities, economic, social, cultural, technical and scientific fields; services the meetings of the Association and serves as the channel • To strengthen cooperation among themselves in international of communication between SAARC and other international forums on matters of common interests; organizations. • To cooperate with international and regional organizations with similar aims and purposes. Trade and Economic Cooperation An Inter-Governmental Group (IGG) has been setup to undertake Services/activities: the Round of Trade Negotiations under the SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA). Similarly an Inter-Governmental • The integrated programme of action: agriculture; health and Expert Group (IGEG) has been established to work out the stages population; tourism, meteorology; education, postal services; required for transition from SAPTA to SAFTA (South Asian Free environment, prevention of drug trafficking and abuse; rural Trade Area). A separate body, namely, the Committee of development; science and technology; sports, arts and culture; Participants, follows up on the progress of the trade negotiations communications; transportation; and women in development; under SAPTA. • Poverty eradication; • Trade and economic cooperation; The Committee on Economic Cooperation (CEC) comprising the • People-to-people contact: audiovisual exchange programme, Commerce Secretaries of Member States was set up on 1991. It scheme for promotion of tourism, documentation centre, oversees the implementation of specific measures, policies and fellowships scheme and youth volunteers programme. programmes within the framework of SAARC to strengthen and enhance intraregional cooperation in the fields of trade and Publications issued: economic relations.
Free publications: Membership: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, • Agreement on Establishing the SAARC Food Security Reserve. Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. • Agreement on SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA). Permanent headquarters • Charter of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Executive Secretary, Programme Coordinator • Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment of the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry Secretariat. Permanent Headquarters • Provisional Rules of Procedure. House No. 5, Street No. 59, F-8/4 • SAARC - A Profile. Islamabad, Pakistan • SAARC Convention on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Phone: (92 51) 2281395, 2281396, 2280608 Substances. Fax: (92 51) 2281390 • SAARC Newsletter (monthly). E-mail: [email protected] • SAARC Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism. Constituent units • SAARC Youth Resolution.
• SPECTRUM (magazine of the SAARC Secretariat). Constituent units in Dhaka, Thimphu, New Delhi, Mumbai, Malé,
Kathmandu, Karachi, Lahore, Colombo. For further information, please refer to www.saarc-sec.org.
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WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM • Identifies appropriate institutions and facilitates training of ENTERPRISES (WASME) personnel and beneficiaries of the member/associate institutions in WASME member countries; Office/postal address: • Undertakes special studies and research on areas of relevance to SMEs; Plot No. 4, Sector 16-A • Establishes a fully computerized International Network of Noida 201 301 Industrial Technology and Trade Information based at Uttar Pradesh WASME Headquarters with potential online linkages with India United Nations agencies and European Commission countries; Phone: (91 120) 2515241 • Strengthens or assists in setting up associations of SMEs and Fax: (91 120) 2515243 women entrepreneurs; • Publishes and disseminates news magazine, reports of E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] workshops/seminars, studies, research papers and articles of URL: www.wasmeinfo.org interest to members/associate institutions; • Provides information services through its Technology and Year established: November 1980 (formerly World Trade Promotion Exchange Centre (WASME/TPX); Assembly of Small and Medium Enterprises, name changed in • Provides training to rural youth and guides them in setting up April 1994). their own enterprises through WASME Rural Small Business Development Centre (RSBDC). Principal functions: Publications issued: • To promote and strengthen an international movement for the promotion of SME; • WASME News Magazine (monthly). • To establish closer ties of understanding and cooperation • World Small Enterprise Series 1-8. among organizations, both governmental and non- • Report: First International Symposium on rural governmental engaged in the promotion and protection of Industrialization, 2000. small and medium sized enterprises in each member • Report: First Global Conference on Micro Enterprises, country; 2001. • To facilitate greater technical cooperation between the • Report: XIIth International Conference on Small and Medium SMEs of developed and developing countries and within Enterprises, 2001. developing countries; • Report: XIIIth International Conference on Small and • To mobilize public opinion on all problems pertaining to Medium Enterprises, 2002. SMEs; • Report: World Convention on Small and Medium Enterprises • To undertake special surveys and studies on problems 2002, 2003. relating to SMEs; • DISC News (bi-monthly). • To present to the United Nations and other international bodies memoranda, reports, studies and recommendations Offices abroad: with a view to securing their fullest support to the various
suggestion contained therein. Offices abroad in Paris, Moedling, Brussels, Neuilly-Sur-Seine,
Chevy Chase, Petaling Jaya, Versoix, Bangkok. Services/activities:
Membership structure: 112 countries.
• Secures enterprise-to-enterprise cooperation in terms of technology transfer, training skill development and Membership comprises of SME associations, chambers of marketing between enterprises of industrialized countries commerce and industry, governmental and non-governmental and developing countries and amongst the developing promotion agencies, development financial institutions, and countries themselves; research and planning bodies. • Maintains a roster of experts/consultants whose services can be utilized for accelerating the pace of industrial Training: development in the developing countries, particularly in the least developed counties; Sponsored Capacity Building Programmes for SMEs and SME- • Ensures greater business cooperation amongst enterprises of promotional Organizations and Rural Enterprises Development the South and the North including transfer of technology; Programmes. • Participates in various conferences, seminars, workshops and high level expert group meetings convened by the Category: different national and international agencies; • Participates in various international seminars, workshops, Non-governmental organization of small and medium-sized conferences of SMEs, to collaborate in the organization of enterprises (NGO of SME). the same; • Organizes or sponsors consultations, seminars, workshops and conference on issues/subjects of relevance to SMEs with respect to legislations, policies, systems, projects, programmes and schemes; • Acts as a clearing house of information relating to SMEs with respect to legislations, policies, systems projects, programmes and schemes;
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Abamakoro Trading Ltd.* - Kiribati 113 Bureau of Trade Measures - Thailand 218 Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) 1 Business Advisory Services Center (BASC) - Bangladesh 21 Afghanistan International Chamber of Commerce (AICC) 1 Cambodian Federation of Employers and Business Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) 2 Associations (CAMFEBA) 35 Afghan National Insurance Company 2 Capital Market Development Authority (CMDA) - Fiji 48 Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) 3 Cashew Export Promotion Council of India 71 Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Caspian Investment Centre (CIC) - Azerbaijan 14 Development Authority (APEDA) – India 66 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - All Pakistan Commercial Exporters Association 159 Philippines 174 All-China Federation Of Industry and Commerce/All-China Central Silk Board - India 71 General Chamber Of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) 40 Ceylon Chamber of Commerce* 208 American Samoa Chamber of Commerce 5 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Astana 111 American Samoa Small Business Development Center (AS- Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kyrgyzstan* 114 SBDC) 5 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New Caledonia 155 Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) - India 67 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Armenian Development Agency 7 Armenia 9 Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan 237 Business (AFACT) - Taiwan Province of China 252 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vanuatu 239 Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) - Indonesia 252 Chamber of Commerce and Industry Republic of Asian Clearing Union (ACU) - Islamic Republic of Iran 253 Tajikistan (ICC RP) 216 Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Philippines 254 Chamber of Commerce of the People's Democratic Asian Finance and Investment Corporation Ltd. (AFIC) - Republic of Korea 47 Singapore 255 Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Trade of French Asian Productivity Organization (APO)* - Japan 255 Polynesia 52 Asian Reinsurance Corporation (ARC) - Thailand 256 Chemical and Allied Products Export Promotion Council Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) - Singapore 256 (CAPEXIL) - India 73 Association for Foreign Investment & Cooperation (AFIC) - China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Armenia 7 (CCPIT) 40 Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic and the Pacific (ADFIAP) - Philippines 257 Cooperation (CAITEC) 41 Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries Chinese General Chamber of Commerce - Hong Kong, (ANRPC) - Malaysia 258 China 58 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)* - CITIC Group* - China 43 Indonesia 259 Coconut Development Board - India 74 Association of Training Institutions for Foreign Trade in Asia Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd. (CIC) - Papua New and the Pacific (ATIFTAP) - Philippines 260 Guinea 168 Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and Industry 13 Commonwealth Development Authority (CDA) - Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation Northern Mariana Islands 157 (AZPROMO) 13 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) 76 Bangko Sentral NG Pilipinas (BSP) 172 Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce Inc. 45 Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) 16 Cook Islands Development Investment Board 45 Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) 17 Council for Leather Exports - India 76 Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) 18 Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) 35 Bank of the Lao PDR 115 Danang Trade and Service Company - Viet Nam 241 Basic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Export Delhi Chamber of Commerce 77 Promotion Council (CHEMEXCIL)* - India 68 Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and - Niue 156 Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) - Thailand 261 Department of Commerce, Industries and Employment* - Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Solomon Islands 206 (BNCCI) - India 69 Department of Domestic and Foreign Investment (DDFI) - Bhaktapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI)* - Lao People’s Democratic Republic 115 Nepal 148 Department of Economic Affairs - Micronesia (Federated Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) 27 States of) 139 Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) - Turkey 260 Department of Export Promotion (DEP) - Thailand 218 Board of Investment (BOI) - Bangladesh 19 Department of Island Development and Industry* - Nauru 147 Board of Investment (BOI) - Pakistan 160 Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - Philippines 174 Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) 207 Department of Trade and Industry* - Papua New Guinea 168 Board of Investments (BOI) - Philippines 172 Department of Trade Negotiations (DTN)* - Thailand 219 Board of Trade of Thailand* 217 Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) 179 Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry - India 69 Development Bank of American Samoa 6 Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) 31 Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) 22 Brunei Industrial Development Authority (BINA) 31 Directorate for Standards and Quality (STAMEQ)* - Viet BSC Business and Community Development - Armenia 8 Nam 241 Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) 70 Directorate of Investment and Company Administration* - Bureau of Product Standards (BPS) - Philippines 173 Myanmar 145 Bureau of Statistics and Plans - Guam 56 Directorate of Trade - Myanmar 145
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Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) - Islamic Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran Republic of Iran 261 (ISIRI) 107 Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited Intergovernmental Organization for Marketing (ECGC) 78 Information and Technical Advisory Services for Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan (EPAA) 3 Fishery Products in the Asia and Pacific Region Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) - Bangladesh 23 (INFOFISH) - Malaysia 262 Export Promotion Center of Turkey (IGEME) 234 International Consulting and Training Centre (ICTC) - Export Promotion Department (EPD) - Cambodia 36 Viet Nam 245 Exporters Club - Malaysia 119 International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore) 200 Export-Import Bank of India 79 International Institute for Trade Relations Promotion Export-Import Bank of Korea - Republic of Korea 186 (ITRP) - Islamic Republic of Iran 107 Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM THAILAND) 220 International Jute Study Group (IJSG) - Bangladesh 263 External Trade Service - French Polynesia 52 International Pepper Community (IPC) - Indonesia 263 Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) - International Trade Group (ITG)* - Philippines 175 Malaysia 119 International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) - Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Japan 264 Industry (FBCCI) 24 Invest Hong Kong 63 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) - Viet (FICCI) 81 Nam 245 Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO) 82 Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) - Indonesia 103 Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines 108 Enterprises (FISME) 83 Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)* - Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) - Republic of Korea 188 Pakistan 265 Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) 121 Istanbul Chamber of Commerce - Turkey 234 Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Izmir Chamber of Commerce - Turkey 235 (FNCCI) 148 Jute Manufactures Development Council (JMDC) 93 Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry Kazakhstan Investment Promotion Center (KAZINVEST) 112 (FPCCI) 161 Kish Free Zone Organization - Islamic Republic of Iran 108 Federation of Small and Medium Industries (FOSMI) - India 83 Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) - Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) 221 Republic of Korea 189 Fiji Chamber of Commerce and Industry 48 Korea Importers Association (KOIMA) - Republic of Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau (FTIB) 49 Korea 189 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Thailand 224 Korea International Trade Association (KITA) - Food Corporation of Bhutan 27 Republicof Korea 190 Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency (FIFTA) - Korea Trade and Economy Institute (KOTEI)* - Mongolia 141 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 47 Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) - (FICCI) - Bangladesh 25 Republic of Korea 191 Foreign Investors' Council (FIC) - Kazakhstan 111 Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) - Foreign Trade Development Centre - India 84 Republic of Korea 192 Garment Manufacturers’ Association in Cambodia 36 Korean Shippers Council (KSC) - Republic of Korea 193 Gegharkunik Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Armenia 11 Korean Standards Association (KSA) - Republic of Korea 195 Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 54 Laboratory for Quality Testing of Export and Import Georgian National Investment Agency (GNIA) 54 Goods - Indonesia 104 Guam Chamber of Commerce 56 Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Guam Economic Development and Commerce Authority (LNCCI) 116 (GEDCA) 57 M Visvesvaraya Industrial Research and Development Handicrafts and Handlooms Exports Corporation of India Centre (MVIRDC) - India 93 Ltd. (HHEC) 85 Macao Chamber of Commerce 117 Handloom Export Promotion Council - India 85 Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) 117 Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries (HKCSI) 58 Macau Importers and Exporters Association* 118 Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC) 59 Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) 94 Hong Kong Exporters’ Association 59 Malaysia Export Credit Insurance Berhad (MECIB) 123 Hong Kong Franchise Association (HKFA) 60 Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) 60 (MATRADE) 124 Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) 61 Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) 125 Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) 62 Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and India International Trade Centre (IITC) 86 Industry (MICCI) 128 India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) 87 Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council (MPOC) 128 Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Cochin 89 Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (MPIB) 129 Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA) 89 Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) 130 Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) (Deemed University) 91 Maldives Association of Tourism Industry (MATI) 134 Indian Investment Centre (IIC) 92 Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company Limited 134 Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT)* 225 Maldives Tourism Promotion Board 135 Institute for Trade Studies and Research (ITSR) - Islamic Marshall Islands Chamber of Commerce 136 Republic of Iran 106 Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka 25 Institute of Small Enterprises and Development (ISED) 92 Ministry of Commerce (MOC) - Cambodia 37
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Ministry of Commerce and Industry - Afghanistan 4 Samoa Association of Manufacturers and Exporters Ministry of Economic Development and Trade - Maldives 135 (SAME) 198 Ministry of Finance and National Planning - Tonga 232 Samoa Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. 198 Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Commerce - Tuvalu 236 Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) - New Ministry of Trade and Economic Development - Armenia 11 Caledonia 268 Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) 200 Semaun Holdings SDN BHD - Brunei Darussalam 33 Mongolian Business Development Agency (MBDA)* 142 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - China 269 Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Shanghai Small Enterprises Trade Development Service (MNCCI) 143 Center 43 National Agency for Direct Investment (NADI) - Russian Shellac Export Promotion Council - India 99 Federation 196 Siem Reap Chamber of Commerce (SRCC) 38 National Agency for Export Development (NAFED) - Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Indonesia 104 (SCCCI) 202 National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI) - India 95 Singapore Commodity Exchange (SICOM) 203 National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation (SMa) 203 NCCIM) 131 Singapore National Shippers’ Council (SNSC) 204 National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka 209 Singapore Quality Institute (SQI) 205 National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers’) Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry Organizations of Azerbaijan Republic 15 (SICCI) 206 National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) 100 (NIMSME) - India 96 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation National Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Promotion and (SAARC) - Nepal 270 Development Office (SMEPDO) - Lao People’s Sports Goods Export Promotion Council (SGPEC) - India 101 Democratic Republic 116 Sri Lanka Business Development Centre (SLBDC) 210 National Tobacco Board (NTB) - Malaysia 131 Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) 210 National Trade and Transport Facilitation Committee Sri Lanka Export Development Board (SLEDB) 211 (NTTFC) - Pakistan 161 Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board (LAKSALA)* 212 Nepal Chamber of Commerce 149 Sri Lanka Importers’, Exporters’ and Manufacturers’ Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC) 150 Association (SLIEMA) 213 Nepal Rastra Bank 151 Sri Lanka Shippers’ Council 214 Office of the Board of Investment (BOI) - Thailand 228 Sri Lanka Tea Board 214 Organization for Investment, Economic and Technical St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry 197 Assistance of Iran (OIETAI) - Islamic Republic of Iran 109 Suva Chamber of Commerce and Industry 50 Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) - Sinagpore 266 Tahiti Invest - French Polynesia 53 Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat* - Fiji 267 Technical Information Center of Iran Co. Ltd. (TICI) 109 Pacific Islands Small Business Development Centre Network Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC)* 230 (PISBDCN) - Guam 268 Thai Plastic and Petrochemical Business Development Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Center (TPDC) 231 Association (PRGMEA) 162 The Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia (PORAM) 133 Palau Chamber of Commerce 167 The People's Bank of China (PBC) 44 Papua New Guinea Chamber of Commerce and Industry 170 The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Pepper Marketing Board - Malaysia 132 Pakistan 164 PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) - India 96 Tobacco Board - India 102 Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) 177 Tonga Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. 232 Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) 178 Tonga Trade Division 233 Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. (PHILEXPORT) 179 Trade and Export Promotion Centre (TPC) - Nepal 153 Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PHILEXIM) 180 Trade and Industry Department - Hong Kong, China 64 Philippine Shippers’ Bureau 181 Trade and Industry Information Center (TIIC) - Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) 182 Philippines 184 Phnom Penh Chamber of Commerce (PPCC) 38 Trade and Investment Services Division - Marshall Planning and Development Office, Office of the Secretary to Islands 136 Government* - Niue 156 Trade Department - Brunei Darussalam 33 Plastics Export Promotion Council - India 97 Trade Development Authority of Pakistan 164 Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) 229 Trade Development Office - Bhutan 29 Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Papua Trade Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade - New Guinea 171 Samoa 199 Port of Singapore Authority Corporation Ltd. (PSA) 201 Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (IRAN TPO) 110 Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines Trading Corporation of Pakistan Limited (TCP) - Pakistan 166 (PDDCP) 183 Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji (TPAF) 50 Promotion and Entrepreneurial Development Division - Tschong-Rig Knowledge Centre - Bhutan 29 Brunei Darussalam 32 Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce Rastriya Banijya Bank* - Nepal 152 and Industry (UMFCCI) 146 Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Pakistan 163 Uzbek Foreign Economic Information and Commercial Rubber Board - India 98 Center “Uzincomcenter” 237 Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 196 Vanuatu Government Department of Industry, Trade and Saipan Chamber of Commerce - Northern Mariana Islands 157 Commerce 239
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Vanuatu Investment Promotion Authority (VIPA) 240 Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) 248 Vietnam Superintendence and Inspection Joint Stock Company (VINACONTROL) 249 Vietnam Trade Information Centre (VTIC) 250 World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME) - India 271 World Trade Center Metro Manila 185
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Chambers of commerce, trade associations Bureau of Product Standards (BPS) - Philippines 167 Bureau of Statistics and Plans - Guam 51 Abamakoro Trading Ltd.* - Kiribati 108 Bureau of Trade Measures - Thailand 211 Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) 1 Business Advisory Services Center (BASC) - Bangladesh 20 Afghan National Insurance Company 1 Cambodian Federation of Employers and Business Afghanistan International Chamber of Commerce (AICC) 2 Associations (CAMFEBA) 32 Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) 2 Capital Market Development Authority (CMDA) - Fiji 44 Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Cashew Export Promotion Council of India 66 Development Authority (APEDA) - India 61 Caspian Investment Centre (CIC) - Azerbaijan 13 All Pakistan Commercial Exporters Association 151 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - All-China Federation Of Industry and Commerce/All-China Philippines 167 General Chamber Of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) 36 Central Silk Board - India 66 American Samoa Chamber of Commerce 4 Ceylon Chamber of Commerce* 201 American Samoa Small Business Development Center (AS- Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Astana 106 SBDC) 4 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kyrgyzstan* 109 Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) - India 62 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New Caledonia 148 Armenian Development Agency 6 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Armenia 8 Business (AFACT) - Taiwan Province of China 247 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan 230 Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) - Indonesia 247 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vanuatu 232 Asian Clearing Union (ACU) - Islamic Republic of Iran 248 Chamber of Commerce and Industry Republic of Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Philippines 249 Tajikistan (ICC RP) 209 Asian Finance and Investment Corporation Ltd. (AFIC) - Chamber of Commerce of the People's Democratic Singapore 250 Republic of Korea 43 Asian Productivity Organization (APO)* - Japan 250 Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Trade of French Asian Reinsurance Corporation (ARC) - Thailand 251 Polynesia 47 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) - Singapore 251 Chemical and Allied Products Export Promotion Council Association for Foreign Investment & Cooperation (AFIC) - (CAPEXIL) - India 68 Armenia 6 China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia (CCPIT) 36 and the Pacific (ADFIAP) - Philippines 252 Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries Cooperation (CAITEC) 37 (ANRPC) - Malaysia 253 Chinese General Chamber of Commerce - Hong Kong, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)* - China 53 Indonesia 254 CITIC Group* - China 39 Association of Training Institutions for Foreign Trade in Asia Coconut Development Board - India 69 and the Pacific (ATIFTAP) - Philippines 255 Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd. (CIC) - Papua New Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and Industry 12 Guinea 161 Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation Commonwealth Development Authority (CDA) - (AZPROMO) 12 Northern Mariana Islands 150 Bangko Sentral NG Pilipinas (BSP) 165 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) 71 Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) 15 Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce Inc. 41 Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) 16 Cook Islands Development Investment Board 41 Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) 17 Council for Leather Exports - India 71 Bank of the Lao PDR 110 Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) 32 Basic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Export Danang Trade and Service Company - Viet Nam 234 Promotion Council (CHEMEXCIL)* - India 63 Delhi Chamber of Commerce 72 Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) - Thailand 256 - Niue 149 Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Department of Commerce, Industries and Employment* - Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) - Thailand 256 Solomon Islands 199 Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Department of Domestic and Foreign Investment (DDFI) - (BNCCI) - India 64 Lao People’s Democratic Republic 110 Bhaktapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI)* - Department of Economic Affairs - Micronesia (Federated Nepal 142 States of) 133 Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) 25 Department of Export Promotion (DEP) - Thailand 211 Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) - Turkey 255 Department of Island Development and Industry* - Nauru 141 Board of Investment (BOI) - Bangladesh 18 Department of Island Development and Industry* - Nauru 141 Board of Investment (BOI) - Pakistan 153 Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - Philippines 168 Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) 200 Department of Trade and Industry* - Papua New Guinea 161 Board of Investments (BOI) - Philippines 166 Department of Trade Negotiations (DTN)* - Thailand 212 Board of Trade of Thailand* 210 Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) 168 Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry - India 64 Development Bank of American Samoa 5 Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) 28 Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) 20 Brunei Industrial Development Authority (BINA) 28 Directorate for Standards and Quality (STAMEQ)* - Viet BSC Business and Community Development - Armenia 7 Nam 234 Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) 65
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Directorate of Investment and Company Administration* - Institute for Trade Studies and Research (ITSR) - Islamic Myanmar 139 Republic of Iran 101 Directorate of Trade - Myanmar 139 Institute for Trade Studies and Research (ITSR) - Islamic Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) - Islamic Republic of Iran 101 Republic of Iran 256 Institute of Small Enterprises and Development (ISED) 88 Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran (ECGC) 73 (ISIRI) 102 Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan (EPAA) 3 Intergovernmental Organization for Marketing Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) - Bangladesh 21 Information and Technical Advisory Services for Export Promotion Center of Turkey (IGEME) 227 Fishery Products in the Asia and Pacific Region Export Promotion Department (EPD) - Cambodia 33 (INFOFISH) - Malaysia 257 Exporters Club - Malaysia 114 International Consulting and Training Centre (ICTC) - Export-Import Bank of India 74 Viet Nam 238 Export-Import Bank of Korea - Republic of Korea 179 International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore) 193 Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM THAILAND) 213 International Institute for Trade Relations Promotion External Trade Service - French Polynesia 47 (ITRP) - Islamic Republic of Iran 102 Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) - International Jute Study Group (IJSG) - Bangladesh 258 Malaysia 114 International Pepper Community (IPC) - Indonesia 258 Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and International Trade Group (ITG)* - Philippines 169 Industry (FBCCI) 22 International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) - Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Japan 259 (FICCI) 76 Invest Hong Kong 58 Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO) 77 Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) - Viet Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Nam 238 Enterprises (FISME) 78 Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) - Indonesia 98 Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) - Republic of Korea 181 Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines 103 Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) 116 Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)* - Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Pakistan 260 (FNCCI) 142 Istanbul Chamber of Commerce - Turkey 227 Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry Izmir Chamber of Commerce - Turkey 228 (FPCCI) 154 Jute Manufactures Development Council (JMDC) 88 Federation of Small and Medium Industries (FOSMI) - India 78 Kazakhstan Investment Promotion Center (KAZINVEST) 107 Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) 214 Kish Free Zone Organization - Islamic Republic of Iran 103 Fiji Chamber of Commerce and Industry 44 Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) - Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau (FTIB) 45 Republic of Korea 182 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Thailand 217 Korea Importers Association (KOIMA) - Republic of Food Corporation of Bhutan 25 Korea 182 Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency (FIFTA) - Korea International Trade Association (KITA) - Republic Mongolia 135 of Korea 183 Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry Korea Trade and Economy Institute (KOTEI)* - (FICCI) - Bangladesh 23 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 43 Foreign Investors' Council (FIC) - Kazakhstan 106 Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) - Foreign Trade Development Centre - India 79 Republic of Korea 184 Garment Manufacturers’ Association in Cambodia 33 Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) - Gegharkunik Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Armenia 9 Republic of Korea 185 Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 49 Korean Shippers Council (KSC) - Republic of Korea 186 Georgian National Investment Agency (GNIA) 49 Korean Standards Association (KSA) - Republic of Korea 188 Guam Chamber of Commerce 51 Laboratory for Quality Testing of Export and Import Guam Economic Development and Commerce Authority Goods - Indonesia 99 (GEDCA) 52 Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Handicrafts and Handlooms Exports Corporation of India (LNCCI) 111 Ltd. (HHEC) 80 M Visvesvaraya Industrial Research and Development Handloom Export Promotion Council - India 80 Centre (MVIRDC) - India 89 Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries (HKCSI) 53 Macao Chamber of Commerce 112 Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC) 54 Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) 112 Hong Kong Exporters’ Association 54 Macau Importers and Exporters Association* 113 Hong Kong Franchise Association (HKFA) 55 Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) 89 Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) 55 Malaysia Export Credit Insurance Berhad (MECIB) 117 Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) 56 Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) 57 (MATRADE) 118 India International Trade Centre (IITC) 81 Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) 119 India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) 82 Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Cochin 84 Industry (MICCI) 122 Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA) 84 Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council (MPOC) 122 Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) (Deemed University) 86 Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (MPIB) 123 Indian Investment Centre (IIC) 87 Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) 124 Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT)* 218 Maldives Association of Tourism Industry (MATI) 128
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Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company Limited 134 Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Maldives Tourism Promotion Board 135 Pakistan 163 Marshall Islands Chamber of Commerce 136 Rubber Board - India 98 Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka 25 Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 196 Ministry of Commerce (MOC) - Cambodia 37 Saipan Chamber of Commerce - Northern Mariana Ministry of Commerce and Industry - Afghanistan 4 Islands 157 Ministry of Economic Development and Trade - Maldives 135 Samoa Association of Manufacturers and Exporters Ministry of Finance and National Planning - Tonga 232 (SAME) 198 Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Commerce - Tuvalu 236 Samoa Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. 198 Ministry of Trade and Economic Development - Armenia 11 Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) - New Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) 200 Caledonia 268 Mongolian Business Development Agency (MBDA)* 142 Semaun Holdings SDN BHD - Brunei Darussalam 33 Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - China 269 (MNCCI) 143 Shanghai Small Enterprises Trade Development Service National Agency for Direct Investment (NADI) - Russian Center 43 Federation 196 Shellac Export Promotion Council - India 99 National Agency for Export Development (NAFED) - Siem Reap Chamber of Commerce (SRCC) 38 Indonesia 104 Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI) - India 95 (SCCCI) 202 National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia Singapore Commodity Exchange (SICOM) 203 (NCCIM) 131 Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation (SMa) 203 National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka 209 Singapore National Shippers’ Council (SNSC) 204 National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers’) Singapore Quality Institute (SQI) 205 Organizations of Azerbaijan Republic 15 Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SICCI) 206 (NIMSME) - India 96 Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) 100 National Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Promotion and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Development Office (SMEPDO) - Lao People’s (SAARC) - Nepal 270 Democratic Republic 116 Sports Goods Export Promotion Council (SGPEC) - India 101 National Tobacco Board (NTB) - Malaysia 131 Sri Lanka Business Development Centre (SLBDC) 210 National Trade and Transport Facilitation Committee Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) 210 (NTTFC) - Pakistan 161 Sri Lanka Export Development Board (SLEDB) 211 Nepal Chamber of Commerce 149 Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board (LAKSALA)* 212 Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC) 150 Sri Lanka Importers’, Exporters’ and Manufacturers’ Nepal Rastra Bank 151 Association (SLIEMA) 213 Office of the Board of Investment (BOI) - Thailand 228 Sri Lanka Shippers’ Council 214 Organization for Investment, Economic and Technical Sri Lanka Tea Board 214 Assistance of Iran (OIETAI) - Islamic Republic of Iran 109 St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry 197 Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) - Sinagpore 266 Suva Chamber of Commerce and Industry 50 Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat* - Fiji 267 Tahiti Invest - French Polynesia 53 Pacific Islands Small Business Development Centre Network Technical Information Center of Iran Co. Ltd. (TICI) 109 (PISBDCN) - Guam 268 Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC)* 230 Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Thai Plastic and Petrochemical Business Development Association (PRGMEA) 162 Center (TPDC) 231 Palau Chamber of Commerce 167 The Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia (PORAM) 133 Papua New Guinea Chamber of Commerce and Industry 170 The People's Bank of China (PBC) 44 Pepper Marketing Board - Malaysia 132 The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry - PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) - India 96 Pakistan 164 Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) 177 Tobacco Board - India 102 Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) 178 Tonga Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. 232 Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. (PHILEXPORT) 179 Tonga Trade Division 233 Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PHILEXIM) 180 Trade and Export Promotion Centre (TPC) - Nepal 153 Philippine Shippers’ Bureau 181 Trade and Industry Department - Hong Kong, China 64 Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) 182 Trade and Industry Information Center (TIIC) - Phnom Penh Chamber of Commerce (PPCC) 38 Philippines 184 Planning and Development Office, Office of the Secretary to Trade and Investment Services Division - Marshall Government* - Niue 156 Islands 136 Plastics Export Promotion Council - India 97 Trade Department - Brunei Darussalam 33 Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) 229 Trade Development Authority of Pakistan 164 Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Papua Trade Development Office - Bhutan 29 New Guinea 171 Trade Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Port of Singapore Authority Corporation Ltd. (PSA) 201 Samoa 199 Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (IRAN TPO) 110 (PDDCP) 183 Trading Corporation of Pakistan Limited (TCP) - Pakistan 166 Promotion and Fntrepreneurial Development Division - Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji (TPAF) 50 Brunei Darussalam 32 Tschong-Rig Knowledge Centre - Bhutan 29 Rastriya Banijya Bank* - Nepal 152
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Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce Export processing zones and Industry (UMFCCI) 146 Uzbek Foreign Economic Information and Commercial Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) 17 Center “Uzincomcenter” 237 Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT)* 225 Vanuatu Government Department of Industry, Trade and Kish Free Zone Organization - Islamic Republic of Iran 108 Commerce 239 Tonga Trade Division 233 Vanuatu Investment Promotion Authority (VIPA) 240 Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) 248 Government agency Vietnam Superintendence and Inspection Joint Stock Company (VINACONTROL) 249 Brunei Industrial Development Authority (BINA) 31 Vietnam Trade Information Centre (VTIC) 250 Bureau of Statistics and Plans - Guam 56 World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises Capital Market Development Authority (CMDA) - Fiji 48 (WASME) - India 271 International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore) 200 World Trade Center Metro Manila 185 Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) 117 Pepper Marketing Board - Malaysia 132 Vanuatu Government Department of Industry, Trade and Commodity boards, marketing and state trading Commerce 239 organizations
Bureau of Trade Measures - Thailand 218 Industrial promotion Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Philippines 174 Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) 16 Central Silk Board - India 71 Board of Investment (BOI) - Pakistan 160 Coconut Development Board - India 74 Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) 31 Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd. (CIC) - Papua New Guinea 168 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Council for Leather Exports - India 76 Philippines 174 Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) - Chamber of Commerce of the People's Democratic Niue 156 Republic of Korea 47 Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran (ISIRI) 107 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) 76 Intergovernmental Organization for Marketing Information Cook Islands Development Investment Board 45 and Technical Advisory Services for Fishery Products Danang Trade and Service Company - Viet Nam 241 in the Asia and Pacific Region (INFOFISH) - Malaysia 262 Department of Island Development and Industry* - Nauru 147 International Jute Study Group (IJSG) - Bangladesh 263 Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) 22 International Trade Group (ITG)* - Philippines 175 Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) - Japan 264 Industry (FBCCI) 24 Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) - Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) - Republic of Korea 188 Republic of Korea 192 Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) 221 Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council (MPOC) 128 Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau (FTIB) 49 Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (MPIB) 129 Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) 60 Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) 130 Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) 61 National Tobacco Board (NTB) - Malaysia 131 Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT)* 225 Pepper Marketing Board - Malaysia 132 Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran Rubber Board - India 98 (ISIRI) 107 Singapore Commodity Exchange (SICOM) 203 Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)* - Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board (LAKSALA)* 212 Pakistan 265 Tobacco Board - India 102 Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) - Republic of Korea 189 Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) - Export Marketing Board Republic of Korea 192 Korean Standards Association (KSA) - Republic of Korea 195 Basic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Export Macau Importers and Exporters Association* 118 Promotion Council (CHEMEXCIL)* - India 68 Maldives Association of Tourism Industry (MATI) 134 Chamber of Commerce of the People's Democratic Republic Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company Limited 134 of Korea 47 Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka 25 Council for Leather Exports - India 76 Mongolian Business Development Agency (MBDA)* 142 External Trade Service - French Polynesia 52 Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Pepper Marketing Board - Malaysia 132 (MNCCI) 143 Shellac Export Promotion Council - India 99 National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Thai Plastic and Petrochemical Business Development Enterprises (NIMSME) - India 96 Center (TPDC) 231 National Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Promotion Trade Development Office - Bhutan 29 and Development Office (SMEPDO) - Lao People’s Uzbek Foreign Economic Information and Commercial Democratic Republic 116 Center “Uzincomcenter” 237 Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC) 150 Promotion and Fntrepreneurial Development Division - Brunei Darussalam 32 Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation (SMa) 203 Sri Lanka Business Development Centre (SLBDC) 210
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Tonga Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. 232 International Consulting and Training Centre (ICTC) - Trade and Industry Department - Hong Kong, China 64 Viet Nam 245 Trade and Industry Information Center (TIIC) - Philippines 184 Invest Hong Kong 63 Uzbek Foreign Economic Information and Commercial Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) - Viet Center “Uzincomcenter” 237 Nam 245 Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) - Indonesia 103 Kazakhstan Investment Promotion Center (KAZINVEST) 112 Intergovernmental organization Kish Free Zone Organization - Islamic Republic of Iran 108 Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) - Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) - Indonesia 252 Republic of Korea 191 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) - Singapore 256 Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) 125 Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ANRPC) - Malaysia 258 (MNCCI) 143 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)* - National Agency for Direct Investment (NADI) - Russian Indonesia 259 Federation 191 Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Office of the Board of Investment (BOI) - Thailand 228 Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) - Thailand 261 Organization for Investment, Economic and Technical Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) - Turkey 260 Assistance of Iran (OIETAI) 109 Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) - Islamic Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) 178 Republic of Iran 261 Semaun Holdings SDN BHD - Brunei Darussalam 33 Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat* - Fiji 267 Tahiti Invest - French Polynesia 53 Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) - New Caledonia 268 Trade and Investment Services Division - Marshall Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - China 269 Islands 136 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Uzbek Foreign Economic Information and Commercial - Nepal 270 Center “Uzincomcenter” 237 Trade and Industry Department - Hong Kong, China 64 Vanuatu Investment Promotion Authority (VIPA) 240
Investment authorities, investment promotion Productivity centres, design centres organizations Asian Productivity Organization (APO)* - Japan 255 Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) 2 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Association for Foreign Investment & Cooperation (AFIC) - Philippines 174 Armenia 7 Department of Island Development and Industry* - Nauru 147 Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) 179 (AZPROMO) 13 Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) 61 Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) 17 International Trade Group (ITG)* - Philippines 175 Board of Investment (BOI) - Bangladesh 19 Product Development and Design Center of the Board of Investment (BOI) - Pakistan 160 Philippines (PDDCP) 183 Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) 207 Board of Investments (BOI) - Philippines 172 Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) Shippers' councils, port authorities, national shipping Capital Market Development Authority (CMDA) - Fiji 48 corporations Caspian Investment Centre (CIC) - Azerbaijan 14 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) 18 Philippines 174 Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) 70 Chamber of Commerce of the People's Democratic Republic Bureau of Product Standards (BPS) - Philippines 173 of Korea 47 Bureau of Trade Measures - Thailand 218 CITIC Group* - China 43 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) 35 Philippines 174 Danang Trade and Service Company - Viet Nam 241 Directorate for Standards and Quality (STAMEQ)* - Viet Department of Domestic and Foreign Investment (DDFI) - Nam 241 Lao People’s Democratic Republic 115 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Thailand 224 Department of Economic Affairs - Micronesia (Federated Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran States of) 139 (ISIRI) 107 Department of Island Development and Industry* - Nauru 147 Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) - Directorate of Investment and Company Administration* - Republic of Korea 192 Myanmar 145 Korean Shippers Council (KSC) - Republic of Korea 193 Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau (FTIB) 49 Laboratory for Quality Testing of Export and Import Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency (FIFTA) - Goods - Indonesia 104 Mongolia 141 Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foreign Investors' Council (FIC) - Kazakhstan 111 (MNCCI) 143 Georgian National Investment Agency (GNIA) 54 Pepper Marketing Board - Malaysia 132 Guam Economic Development and Commerce Authority Philippine Shippers’ Bureau 181 (GEDCA) 57 Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) 229 Indian Investment Centre (IIC) 92 Port of Singapore Authority Corporation Ltd. (PSA) 201 Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT)* 225
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Promotion and Fntrepreneurial Development Division - Trade facilitation bodies Brunei Darussalam 32 Singapore National Shippers’ Council (SNSC) 204 All Pakistan Commercial Exporters Association 159 Sri Lanka Shippers’ Council 214 Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Sri Lanka Tea Board 214 Business (AFACT) - Taiwan Province of China 252 Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) 27 Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry - India 69 Standards, testing and inspection bodies Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Philippines 174 Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) 18 Chemical and Allied Products Export Promotion Council Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) 70 (CAPEXIL) - India 73 Bureau of Product Standards (BPS) - Philippines 173 Department of Economic Affairs - Micronesia (Federated Bureau of Trade Measures - Thailand 218 States of) 139 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Directorate of Trade - Myanmar 145 Philippines 174 Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) - Bangladesh 23 Directorate for Standards and Quality (STAMEQ)* - Viet Export Promotion Center of Turkey (IGEME) 234 Nam 241 Export-Import Bank of India 79 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Thailand 224 Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau (FTIB) 49 Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran (ISIRI) 107 Foreign Trade Development Centre - India 84 Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) - Institute for Trade Studies and Research (ITSR) - Islamic Republic of Korea 192 Republic of Iran 106 Laboratory for Quality Testing of Export and Import Goods - International Trade Group (ITG)* - Philippines 175 Indonesia 104 Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)* - Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Pakistan 265 (MNCCI) 143 M Visvesvaraya Industrial Research and Development Pepper Marketing Board - Malaysia 132 Centre (MVIRDC) - India 93 Promotion and Fntrepreneurial Development Division - Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Brunei Darussalam 32 (MNCCI) 143 Sri Lanka Tea Board 214 National Agency for Export Development (NAFED) - Vietnam Superintendence and Inspection Joint Stock Indonesia 104 Company (VINACONTROL) 249 National Trade and Transport Facilitation Committee (NTTFC) - Pakistan 161 Philippine Shippers’ Bureau 181 Trade and investment financing organizations, credit Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) 210 guarantee and insurance organizations, banks Sri Lanka Importers’, Exporters’ and Manufacturers’ Association (SLIEMA) 213 Afghan National Insurance Company 2 Tonga Trade Division 233 Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Philippines 254 Trade and Industry Department - Hong Kong, China 64 Asian Finance and Investment Corporation Ltd. (AFIC) - Trade Department - Brunei Darussalam 33 Singapore 255 Trade Development Office - Bhutan 29 Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia Vietnam Trade Information Centre (VTIC) 250 and the Pacific (ADFIAP) - Philippines 257 Bangko Sentral NG Pilipinas (BSP) 172 Bank of the Lao PDR 115 Trade fair and exhibition authorities Commonwealth Development Authority (CDA) - Northern Mariana Islands 157 Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) 27 Development Bank of American Samoa 6 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited Philippines 174 (ECGC) 78 Chamber of Commerce of the People's Democratic Export-Import Bank of India 79 Republic of Korea 47 Export-Import Bank of Korea - Republic of Korea 186 Department of Economic Affairs - Micronesia (Federated Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM THAILAND) 220 States of) 139 Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC) 59 Directorate of Trade - Myanmar 145 International Consulting and Training Centre (ICTC) - Viet Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) - Bangladesh 23 Nam 245 International Consulting and Training Centre (ICTC) - Malaysia Export Credit Insurance Berhad (MECIB) 123 Viet Nam 245 Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) 200 International Trade Group (ITG)* - Philippines 175 Nepal Rastra Bank 151 Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PHILEXIM) 180 (MNCCI) 143 Rastriya Banijya Bank* - Nepal 152 National Agency for Export Development (NAFED) - Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) 210 Indonesia 104 The People's Bank of China (PBC) 44 Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) 182 Promotion and Entrepreneurial Development Division - Brunei Darussalam 32 Sri Lanka Importers’, Exporters’ and Manufacturers’ Association (SLIEMA) 213
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Thai Plastic and Petrochemical Business Development Institute for Trade Studies and Research (ITSR) - Islamic Center (TPDC) 231 Republic of Iran 106 Tonga Trade Division 233 International Consulting and Training Centre (ICTC) - Trade Development Office - Bhutan 29 Viet Nam 245 World Trade Center Metro Manila 185 International Institute for Trade Relations Promotion (ITRP) - Islamic Republic of Iran 107 International Pepper Community (IPC) - Indonesia 263 Trade promotion organizations, ministries of International Trade Group (ITG)* - Philippines 175 trade/industry/commerce Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) - Viet Nam 245 Abamakoro Trading Ltd.* - Kiribati 113 Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)* - Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Pakistan 265 Development Authority (APEDA) - India 66 Jute Manufactures Development Council (JMDC) 93 Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) - India 67 Korea International Trade Association (KITA) - Republic Armenian Development Agency 7 of Korea 190 Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) - Business (AFACT) - Taiwan Province of China 252 Republic of Korea 192 Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) 27 M Visvesvaraya Industrial Research and Development Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry - India 69 Centre (MVIRDC) - India 93 Bureau of Trade Measures - Thailand 218 Macau Importers and Exporters Association* 118 Business Advisory Services Center (BASC) - Bangladesh 21 Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation Cashew Export Promotion Council of India 71 (MATRADE) 124 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka 25 Philippines 174 Ministry of Commerce (MOC) - Cambodia 37 Chamber of Commerce of the People's Democratic Republic Ministry of Commerce and Industry - Afghanistan 4 of Korea 47 Ministry of Economic Development and Trade - Maldives 135 Chemical and Allied Products Export Promotion Council Ministry of Finance and National Planning - Tonga 232 (CAPEXIL) - India 73 Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Commerce - Tuvalu 236 China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Ministry of Trade and Economic Development - Armenia 11 (CCPIT) 40 Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic (MNCCI) 143 Cooperation (CAITEC) 41 National Agency for Export Development (NAFED) - Council for Leather Exports - India 76 Indonesia 104 Danang Trade and Service Company - Viet Nam 241 National Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Promotion Department of Commerce, Industries and Employment* - and Development Office (SMEPDO) - Lao People’s Solomon Islands 206 Democratic Republic 116 Department of Economic Affairs - Micronesia (Federated Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. (PHILEXPORT) 179 States of) 139 Philippine Shippers’ Bureau 181 Department of Export Promotion (DEP) - Thailand 218 Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) 182 Department of Island Development and Industry* - Nauru 147 Planning and Development Office, Office of the Secretary Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - Philippines 174 to Government* - Niue 156 Department of Trade and Industry* - Papua New Guinea 168 Plastics Export Promotion Council - India 97 Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) 22 Promotion and Fntrepreneurial Development Division - Directorate of Trade - Myanmar 145 Brunei Darussalam 32 Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan (EPAA) 3 Shanghai Small Enterprises Trade Development Service Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) - Bangladesh 23 Center 43 Export Promotion Center of Turkey (IGEME) 234 Sports Goods Export Promotion Council (SGPEC) - India 101 Export Promotion Department (EPD) - Cambodia 36 Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) 210 Export-Import Bank of India 79 Sri Lanka Export Development Board (SLEDB) 211 Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Sri Lanka Importers’, Exporters’ and Manufacturers’ Industry (FBCCI) 24 Association (SLIEMA) 213 Federation of Indian Export Organizations 82 Sri Lanka Tea Board 214 Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Technical Information Center of Iran Co. Ltd. (TICI) 109 Enterprises (FISME) 83 Thai Plastic and Petrochemical Business Development Fiji Chamber of Commerce and Industry 48 Center (TPDC) 231 Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau (FTIB) 49 Tonga Trade Division 232 Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency (FIFTA) - Trade and Export Promotion Centre (TPC) - Nepal 153 Mongolia 141 Trade and Industry Department - Hong Kong, China 64 Foreign Trade Development Centre - India 84 Trade and Industry Information Center (TIIC) - Handicrafts and Handlooms Exports Corporation of India Philippines 184 Ltd. (HHEC) 85 Trade and Investment Services Division - Marshall Handloom Export Promotion Council - India 85 Islands 136 Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) 60 Trade Development Authority of Pakistan 164 Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) 62 Trade Development Office - Bhutan 29 India International Trade Centre (IITC) 86 Trade Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade - India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) 87 Samoa 199 Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (IRAN TPO) 110
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Uzbek Foreign Economic Information and Commercial Others Center “Uzincomcenter” 237 Vietnam Trade Information Centre (VTIC) 250 Asian Clearing Union (ACU) - Islamic Republic of Iran 253 World Trade Center Metro Manila 185 Asian Reinsurance Corporation (ARC) - Thailand 256 BSC Business and Community Development - Armenia 8 Cambodian Federation of Employers and Business Training/research institutions, organizations with training Associations (CAMFEBA) 35 functions Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC) 41 All Pakistan Commercial Exporters Association 159 Department of Trade Negotiations (DTN)* - Thailand 219 American Samoa Small Business Development Center (AS- Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) - SBDC) 5 Malaysia 119 Association of Training Institutions for Foreign Trade in Asia Food Corporation of Bhutan 27 and the Pacific (ATIFTAP) - Philippines 260 Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries (HKCSI) 58 Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) 27 Hong Kong Franchise Association (HKFA) 60 Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) - Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA) 89 Philippines 174 Korea International Trade Association (KITA) - Republic Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Trade of French of Korea 190 Polynesia 52 Maldives Tourism Promotion Board 135 Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI) - India 95 Cooperation (CAITEC) 41 National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers’) Exporters Club - Malaysia 119 Organizations of Azerbaijan Republic 15 External Trade Service - French Polynesia 52 Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) - Federation of Indian Export Organizations 82 Sinagpore 266 Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) 121 Philippine Shippers’ Bureau 181 Foreign Trade Development Centre - India 84 Trading Corporation of Pakistan Limited (TCP) - Pakistan 166 Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) 61 World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) (Deemed University) 91 (WASME) - India 271 Institute for Trade Studies and Research (ITSR) - Islamic Republic of Iran 106 Institute of Small Enterprises and Development (ISED) 92 Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran (ISIRI) 107 International Consulting and Training Centre (ICTC) - Viet Nam 245 International Trade Group (ITG)* - Philippines 175 Korea International Trade Association (KITA) - Republic of Korea 190 Korea Trade and Economy Institute (KOTEI)* - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 47 M Visvesvaraya Industrial Research and Development Centre (MVIRDC) - India 93 Mongolian Business Development Agency (MBDA)* 142 Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MNCCI) 143 National Agency for Export Development (NAFED) - Indonesia 104 National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NIMSME) - India 96 Pacific Islands Small Business Development Centre Network (PISBDCN) - Guam 268 Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) 182 Promotion and Entrepreneurial Development Division - Brunei Darussalam 32 Singapore Quality Institute (SQI) 205 Sri Lanka Business Development Centre (SLBDC) 210 Sri Lanka Importers’, Exporters’ and Manufacturers’ Association (SLIEMA) 213 Thai Plastic and Petrochemical Business Development Center (TPDC) 231 Tonga Trade Division 233 Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji (TPAF) 50 Tschong-Rig Knowledge Centre - Bhutan 29 Uzbek Foreign Economic Information and Commercial Center “Uzincomcenter” 237
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