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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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Source: FAIDA
- Newsletter on Business Opportunties from India and Abroad
Vol: 2, Issue 35
February 7' 2002
Author :
Dr. Amit K. Chatterjee
(Amit worked in blue-chip Indian and MNCs for 15 years in various
capacities like Research and Information Analysis, Market Development,
MIS, R&D Information Systems etc. before starting his e-commerce
venture in 1997. The views expressed in this columns are of
his own. He may be reached at amit@infobanc.com
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