NETWORKING
throughout the world

The Veneto Foreign Trade Centre was set up in 1968 as a non-profit-making regional agency to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their quest to become leading players on foreign markets.
IN VENETO, the Foreign Trade Centre is of course linked to the seven Chambers of Commerce, to the Regional Government, to all business Associations and their service organisations, to local Authorities, to the Universities and to various credit Institutions.

AT NATIONAL LEVEL, the Centre co-operates actively with the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade, Unioncamere - Italian Union of the Chambers of Commerce and its associated organizations.

IN EUROPE, the Foreign Trade Centre enjoys a special relationship with the European Union through the offices of the EIC - Euro Info Centre IT378. This means that the Centre is able to use on-line EU information and databases and also obtain updated information from Brussels via its special department situated in the heart of the Belgian capital. The Centre also has a special relationship with Eurochambres, the European Association of Chambers of Commerce.

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, the Veneto Foreign Centre has close co-operative agreements with Industry Federations, Trade  Associations, SMEs development organisations, local Chambers of Commerce and Government Agencies in all the areas where companies from Veneto have forged business links.

The Centre works with the Italian Chambers of Commerce in other countries and with the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade to promote the Veneto business system and serve its SMEs better within the new increasingly international business context.