The Torino Chamber of Commerce has emerged victorious to be named host of the 9th World Chambers Congress.
ICC has announced a new working partnership with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The partnership aims to raise broader business awareness about ICANN’s functions and role in the Internet governance landscape while increasing engagement in ICANN issues relating to the domain system.
Addressing the opening plenary of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) World Congress in Taipei last week, World Chambers Federation (WCF) Chair Rona Yircali called on young people to take a leadership role in addressing the concerns of the global economy and act as pioneers in its transformation.
Global business has a strong presence at the 18th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar and hopes that additional momentum will be created to move forward on a new global climate deal. From 26 November to 7 December, governments from around the world are gathering for the next round of climate talks, where negotiators are seeking to agree a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol and lay the groundwork for a post-2020 agreement.
International members of the ICC Commission on Taxation and delegates from large Indian corporates and multinationals, including tax professionals, held important discussions today on the investment climate in India, including specific tax policies such as Finance Act 2012, Direct Taxes Code, PE litigation and income attribution, and the Goods and Service Tax (GST).
Business leaders from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) gathered in Doha today to provide regional input on the recommendations of the Business World Trade Agenda, an initiative launched by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in partnership with Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Ethics training can be a major tool in fighting corruption in developing countries, according to the results of the latest quarterly World Economic Survey (WES) by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Institute for Economic Research (Ifo) in Munich.
With registration now open and a full programme available from the ICC website, ICC is gearing up for its 4th ICC International Mediation Conference – an event tailored for users of commercial mediation.
The health of the world’s economy continues to deteriorate as insufficient demand, unemployment and the on-going debt crisis in Europe undermine recovery efforts, results of the ICC-Ifo World Economic Survey (WES), released today, revealed.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) today unveiled new uniform rules on forfaiting (URF) to govern the international forfaiting market estimated at more than US$300 billion annually. The URF will enter into effect on 1 January 2013, providing a set of rules for the sale of instruments used for financing trade – which include bills of exchange, promissory notes, documentary credits and invoice purchases as well as some newer instruments.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Oslo-based Business for Peace Foundation are seeking nominees for the 2013 Business for Peace Award, a global honour accorded to inspiring business leaders and entrepreneurs who combine ethical responsibility with business success.
What steps should be taken in the lead up to an international mediation and how can confidentiality and enforceability be ensured? These are just some of the questions that will be answered when an ICC seminar on mediation takes place in Hong Kong at the end of the month.
In light of its leadership role with the Mexico 2012 B20 task force on trade and investment, ICC was invited to give one of the inaugural addresses at the first G20 Trade and Investment Promotion Summit, 4-6 November in Mexico City. ICC presented the recommendations of the task force on trade and investment, which were the basis for the organization of this summit.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) underscored at the Climate Investment Funds meetings, which ran from 30 October to 7 November in Istanbul, that effectively leveraging private and public capital will require a range of incentives, partnerships, policy frameworks, and risk sharing in order to achieve the desired environmental and socioeconomic results.
As the seventh Internet Governance Forum (IGF) draws to a close in Azerbaijan today, ICC BASIS (Business Action to Support the Information Society) members highlighted that market-focused enabling policy frameworks are key to driving Internet innovation and economic growth. Highlighting a need to enrich the Internet governance debate, business believes that inclusive participation and the multistakeholder approach are the most effective ways to promote and protect these policies.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies came together to set out common principles for advertising self-regulation and agreed on the importance of the Consolidated ICC Code of Advertising and Marketing Practice as an essential foundation.
Now is the time to register for the few remaining places at the ICC Advanced PIDA Training on international commercial arbitration, in Paris on 3-6 December 2012, hosted by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Institute of World Business Law.
Government officials and intellectual property experts at a recent conference in Beijing emphasized the strategic importance of intellectual property (IP) in shaping current economic policies of governments and businesses.
Chamber trade documentation experts from more than 20 countries set in motion a series of global initiatives and action plans during their recent meeting on 6 November 2012 in Goa, reinforcing their central role in helping business do international trade.
7th annual, UN-linked Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to focus on maintaining the free flow of information online and maximizing the economic potential of the Internet.