Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) took the initiative to raise awareness and encourage SMEs about exports and to encourage new companies to export as well as contributing the country's economy. To this end, TOBB has begun to provide chamber-exchange personnel with training on “Intelligence in Foreign Trade”. Training sessions are to be held in 3 groups and will be completed on March 9^th, 2017.

On the subject, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that they are undertaking work to ensure that more SMEs become export-capable. Hisarcıklıoğlu explained that the goal is to make companies into players in global trade, “We are looking for companies that know no boundaries. The first phase of this is to encourage our companies. The government produces very comprehensive incentives for investment and export. We will motivate our companies who want to export their goods across borders with information regarding foreign target markets, customers, and various countries’ legislations. In the past, information was used to reach an objective; now information itself is of great value. This will be relayed to our members with the project ‘Intelligence in Foreign Trade’ which we started with our Chambers and Commodity Exchanges under the coordination of our Union. We aim to eliminate the lack of information in foreign trade through the provision of commercial information and technical information. Commercial information on markets at the global level, target country markets, target competitors, target customers, country legislation, foreign trade operations, new technologies and applications will be relayed to Chambers and Commodity Exchange members by personnel who will take part in the training at TOBB.”

Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that a second project, following the “Intelligence in Foreign Trade” project, will be aimed at improving the commercial cooperation of members in the digital field of the international arena and will be take place later this year. Stating that they want to bale more SMEs to be exporters; this will ensure increased employment and foreign exchange for the country's economy, TOBB President said that they are striving to ensure a strong presence for Turkey in the global supply chain.