Chambers of Commerce play a very important
role in dissemination of trade information. Essentially
an association of businesses in a particular region,
its main purpose is to help its members maximize their
business. Trade Promotion and developing market opportunities
for members occupy very important place in any chamber's
activity list. Apart from organizing trade shows and
foreign delegations, most chambers maintain a trade
information cell for dissemination of information
on products, services, opportunities etc.
Though not all chambers provide international
service, quite a few do. Contacting Trade Information
Officers of such chambers for specific information
on products or companies in the region can be extremely
helpful. The challenge is to identify right chambers
from thousands and home on to right person in the
organization.
Before the advent of Internet it was
a difficult and expensive job. Today Internet has
made it fairly inexpensive and less difficult. World
has become that much smaller as anyone with right
aptitude can find extremely valuable information from
the Net.
At www.infobanc.com we started the process
of identifying chambers in 1999 and have developed
comprehensive in-house database of important contacts.
Some of these have been displayed at country profiles
(http://www.infobanc.com/indexebz.htm).
We have an information sharing program
with many chambers around the world. Our weekly publication
'SUCHNA' is meant only for foreign trade organizations.
SUCHNA contains trade inquiries from Indian importers.
Overseas trade organizations receiving SUCHNA send
us BUY/DEMAND inquiries received from their members
for distribution among Indian exporters. This has
proved to be extremely helpful as Indian importers
receive excellent quotations from actual manufacturers
and exporters and our exporter members receive genuine
buy/demand inquiries from overseas importers.
As there are literally thousands of Chambers
of Commerce, we list here select sources from the
Net. Each of the websites listed below has a directory
of Chambers of Commerce ranging from local to national
to international.
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International Bureau of Chambers
of Commerce (IBCC) ICC's International Bureau
of Chambers of Commerce (IBCC) is the hub of the
worldwide network of chambers of commerce.
http://www.iccwbo.org/entry/ibcc_entry.asp
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Eurochambres - Association of European
Chambers of Commerce and Industry - Eurochambres
is the Association of more than 1,300 Chambers
of Commerce and Industry and their national organisations
in 34 European countries.
http://www.eurochambres.be/
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