VENETO
And its Foreign Trade Centre

Determination and enthusiasm for enterprise: this spirit has made Veneto a model of good business practice throughout the world. This 18.365 sq. km. region located in northeastern Italy, considered beautiful for its natural environment and picturesque old town centres, is the setting for a flourishing business community unrivalled in Italy and remarkable even by European standards.

With just 4,5 million inhabitants, the region boasts more than 450.000 companies, mostly small and medium-sized, and these account for more than 14% of Italian national exports throughout the world.
Against this dynamic and forward-looking socio-economic backdrop, the Veneto Foreign Trade Centre operates as a service agency with the role of promoting the regional business community.

The Foreign Trade Centre was set up and founded by the seven Chambers of Commerce of the Veneto Region and is supported by the Regional Government. During more than thirty years of activity, it has made contacts and fostered co-operation with all the major areas of the global market.

Located at the centre of a veritable web of institutions and economic organizations that work outwards from regional to national and world level, its main goal is to internationalise Veneto companies and set up international co-operation projects.

The foreign Trade Centre uses its knowledge of the various legal and financial resources available from the Veneto Region, the Italian Government and the European Commission and secures advantageous terms with numerous foreign organisations and institutions to intensify trade between Veneto and the rest of the world.

As promoter of the active internationalisation of the Veneto business system, the Foreign Trade Centre encourages companies to specialise but also to be flexible in order to adapt to different business trends on a domestic as well as an  international level.