Trade

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will host the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg next week, met yesterday with International Chamber of Commerce Chairman Marcus Wallenberg to discuss world business priorities, including the critical state of the Doha trade round.

As ministers gather in Geneva this week during what many claim is a make-or-break stage in the World Trade Organization's Doha trade round, ICC has rallied its resources across the globe to help ensure much needed progress will be made.

ICC’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB) continues to uncover fraudulent activity in the shipping industry, recently discovering a number of trade scams emanating from China and Estonia.

The International Chamber of Commerce today gave its full support to the statements made yesterday by Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization, saying time was running out on the Doha Round of trade negotiations and stressing the critical need for WTO members to meet the end-April deadline for accords vital to an eventual global trade treaty by the end of the year.

ICC’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has uncovered five cases of trade fraud in the shipping of paper and board products from Indonesia in the past three months.

ICC, the world business organization, issued a statement today on behalf of transport companies all over the globe, urging governments not to let tightened security measures slow down the flow of world trade.

Trading partners wrestling with conflicting national laws as they negotiate contracts increasingly turn to an international standard as their preferred solution.

Sir, Politicians and trade diplomats should be made aware that a vast constituency of business interests is convinced that a new broad-based trade round is just what the doctor ordered for the world economy.

An OECD study "Strengthening the multilateral system" notes that trade and foreign direct investment are major engines of growth in developed and developing countries alike.