Italy’s importance in the global export scenario has increased. As emerges from ICEs (the National Institute for foreign trade: www.ice.gov.it) 2007 – 2008 Report, in 2007 the Made in Italy share of world trade exports, measured considering current price levels, slightly increased (from 3.5% to 3.6%), thereby interrupting a downturn that has been happening for many years. This has permitted an attenuation of the trade deficit that showed a negative balance of 9.447 million Euros in 2007 compared to 20.453 million in the previous year. Net of energy products, the trade balance has shown a positive balance of 37.133 million ....>>


THE ICE INITIATIVES FOR TRAINING FOREIGN OPERATORS

ICE, the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (www.italtrade.com), does not only guarantee support and promotion for the internationalisation of products Made in Italy. For the last 30 years the Institute has also watched over the training industry with initiatives aimed at directors, managers and foreign businessmen, for developing countries and for countries with planned economies currently in the process of privatization and/or internationalisation of their business systems. In 2007, ICEs International Projects and Training area carried out 31 initiatives for a total of 403 training days (2.444 hours of training). The number of foreign participants was over 1.500.

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