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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.