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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