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            • ICC urges expanding the ATA Carnet System to all APEC countries

              ICC urges expanding the ATA Carnet System to all APEC countries

              Singapore, 03/08/2009

              The already fruitful collaboration between customs and business should be further expanded by Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) nations to speed up regional integration, provide greater trade facilitation, and harmonize customs procedures, a top ICC official said.

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            • Intellectual Property survey shows chambers increasingly active in field

              Intellectual Property survey shows chambers increasingly active in field(2)

              Paris, 31/07/2009

              A new survey on intellectual property (IP) services provided by chambers of commerce shows that many more chambers around the world are actively involved in this increasingly important area.

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            • Intellectual Property survey shows chambers increasingly active in field

              Paris, 31/07/2009

              A new survey on intellectual property (IP) services provided by chambers of commerce shows that many more chambers around the world are actively involved in this increasingly important area.

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            • Secretary General attends Global Compact in New York addresses JCI in Geneva

              Secretary General attends Global Compact in New York; addresses JCI in Geneva

              New York, 30/07/2009

              Less than one month after taking office, ICC Secretary General Jean Rozwadowski visited New York where he participated in a UN Global Compact board meeting and met with ICC’s US national committee before returning to Europe to speak at the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Leadership Summit in Geneva.

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            • ICC representatives participate in summer school on Internet governance

              Paris, 28/07/2009

              Two ICC representatives will teach a course on business’ role and priorities regarding Internet policy issues to a diverse group of international students at the European Summer School on Internet governance (Euro-SSIG).

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            • ICC welcomes steps on climate change from G8 and Major Economies Forum

              Paris, 21/07/2009

              G8 leaders took steps at their summit in L’Aquila to develop an effective response to climate change that meets economic, social and energy needs, most especially in developing countries, but more cooperation between governments and business is needed, ICC said today.

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            • UN endorses ICC Documentary Credit Rules

              Vienna, 20/07/2009

              ICC’s most recent revision of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP 600) was officially endorsed by the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) at its 42nd annual session in Vienna.

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            • Piracy doubles in first six months of 2009

              Kuala Lumpur, 15/07/2009

              Piracy attacks around the world more than doubled to 240 from 114 during the first six months of the year compared with the same period in 2008, the ICC International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB) said today.

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            • ICC expresses concerns to EC on fining policy

              Paris, 13/07/2009

              ICC today expressed concerns to the European Commission (EC) and members of the European Parliament regarding the EC’s fining policy in competition cases and called for a radical revision of the EC’s Fining Guidelines.

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            • ICC looks for rapid action on G8 pledge to conclude Doha trade negotiations in 2010

              Paris, 10/07/2009

              ICC welcomes the pledge by leaders of the G8 countries to conclude the Doha Round of trade negotiations in 2010. However, the G8 has set many deadlines for these negotiations in the past which have not been met. International business hopes that after so many years of failure governments may now be on the verge of rapid, concrete, and determined action to reach an ambitious agreement.

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            • ICC Marketing Commission assesses challenges and growth of digital media

              Paris, 06/07/2009

              Governments in both the United States and around Europe have warned digital marketers to regulate themselves and allay consumer fears about privacy on the Internet or they will do it for them, the ICC Marketing and Advertising Commission has been told.

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            • ICC Chairman addresses major Chinese economic conference

              Beijing, 03/07/2009

              ICC Chairman Victor Fung told a group of high-level international business leaders and government officials today that governments must avoid the temptation to seek isolation from the global recession through protectionist measures to restrict imports and foreign investment.

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            • News on governance of the Foundation

              Paris, 01/07/2009

              The ICC Research Foundation was established in February 2009, with private funding, to extend the intellectual leadership of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), by commissioning independent research that contributes to public knowledge, education and debate on the benefits of global trade and investment.

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            • Disruptive forces still at play as financial markets recover

              Monaco, 01/07/2009

              The recovery of the world’s financial markets depends on the interaction between regulation, finance and the real economy. However, other major driving forces including social, cultural and political factors are playing an increasingly important role in shaping the process, a workshop on the future of world financial markets concluded.

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            • CCS issues new warning following South Africa’s largest corporate fraud

              London, 26/06/2009

              With the news that hundreds of wealthy investors from South Africa and other parts of the world have been defrauded of more than one billion rand in an audacious Ponzi fraud, ICC Commercial Crime Services (CCS) have warned investors to be on the lookout for more scams of this type.

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            • ICC-IFA to draft trade finance forfaiting rules

              Paris, 24/06/2009

              ICC and the International Forfaiting Association (IFA) have created a joint drafting group to prepare new global forfaiting rules, the ICC Banking Commission announced today.

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            • Attacking the proceeds of crime

              London, 22/06/2009

              ICC Commercial Crime Services (CCS) recently hosted the organization’s 9th annual Economic Crime lecture. The event was held in London, on 16 June, 2009 in conjunction with Lawrence Graham, Solicitors. This year’s keynote speech was delivered by Paul Evans of the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA).

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            • ICC calls on G8 to avoid economic nationalism

              Rome, 12/06/2009

              The G8 summit should resist pressures to resort to economic nationalism and should further strengthen international cooperation to meet the challenges posed by the global recession, climate change and product counterfeiting, ICC urged Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today.

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            • ICC provides business views on UN transport treaty

              Paris, 12/06/2009

              The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued a statement on a United Nations treaty that will provide uniformity for the international carriage of goods.

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            • ICC Banking seminar to focus on the future of world financial markets

              Paris, 08/06/2009

              The challenges of rebuilding the world’s financial markets in the aftermath of the global recession will be the theme of a seminar hosted by ICC later this month in Monaco.

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