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Electronically
Promote Egyptian products, particularly manufactured and
semi manufactured products to the global market.
Supply with trade opportunities after seeking abroad
through WTPF network and verification, then follow up.
Provide data and information to facilitate market access
for Egyptian products.
Match making between Egyptian and foreign companies
through video conferencing.
Assist in setting up cooperation between exporters and
importers with governmental sectors to facilitate and opened
up trade.
Encourage and assist participation of small and medium
enterprises (SME's) in electronic trading to increase their
exports to global market.
Provide a service for marketing, selling and buying via
the internet.
1-Promotion of Egyptian Products:
Egypt International Trade Point supports importers,
exporters and SME's to access the global market by promoting
and advertising a products using electronic media. The main
objective of the Promotion Department is to inform the
global market and supply chain electronically about the
Egyptian products with comparative advantages including
commodity information and specifications, trade market, and
company profile to increase Egyptian exports through:
- Co-ordinating with the customer to select the appropriate
product for the foreign Market.
- Select of appropriate product image for effective
marketing.
- Supporting the customer to edit all information about the
company and product.
- Advertises the new product on the portal.
- Promote of during video conferences.
- EITP informs the company and send it a copy of the
executed promotion task.
2- Support
by Trade Opportunity:
Egyptian International Trade Point collects trade
opportunities (Export Import Investment) that are sent
as an import request from similar foreign international
trade point, WTPF, regional sources, and Egyptian commercial
offices by using electronic media.
The Trade Points follows these steps to satisfy the expected
benefits from these opportunities:
- Seeking for the trade opportunities from WTPF network or
other partners.
- Classifying these opportunities in terms of commodity
groups.
- Providing these opportunities to registered Egyptian
companies in EITP according to the field of export, import,
and investment.
- Monitoring these opportunities in cooperation with the
Egyptian and foreign companies to facilitate execution and
remove buriers.
- Supporting Egyptian companies with international prices
and information about the foreign market capacity.
- Using video conferencing to facilitate negotiations.
3-Trade Facilitation Services:
EITP cooperates with the Egyptian business society and
exporters to reduce expenses, time, and improve efficiency
of trade logistics by feeding information about trade
processes such as shipping, transportation, packing,
packaging, legislation, agreements, customs, tax, banks,
standard and specifications. EITP through its information
system, links, as one stop shop to different databases, that
includes:
Transportation Database:
Provides with information of freight services related to
imports and exports both by air and sea.
Marine Shipping:
- Marine cargo companies working in Egypt.
- Marine cargo lines.
- Containers data.
- Maps.
- Guiding prices for shipping.
- Used marine shipping terms.
- Marine charts with schedules.
Air Shipping:
- Egyptian and foreign airports information.
- Egyptian and foreign airlines companies with regular
trips.
- World airlines.
- Trucking condition.
- Shipping terms.
- Trip time tables for Egyptian and foreign companies.
- Guiding prices for shipping.
Standard Specifications Database:
It provides Egyptian Exporters with information includes:
- Egyptian standard specifications for exported commodities
- Standard specifications for commodities of other
countries.
- The HACCP , CE-mark, and ISO requirements
Customs Database
It provide Egyptian exporters with information includes:
- Tariff by commodity
- Sales tax.
- Customs clearance companies.
- World customs by country.
Packing and Packaging Database
It provides Egyptian exporters with information includes:
- Packing and Packaging companies.
- Packing and packaging terms dictionary.
Legislations and Agreements Database
Legislation and agreements information system provide
exporters with:
- Rules of import and export.
- Laws concerning export and import.
- Rules of subsidy and dumping.
- The information system includes huge database with more
than three thousands decree and law.
International and Domestic Prices Database
Businessmen are interested to know the guiding prices of
different commodities such as (vegetables, fruits, herbs,
spices, fish, sugar, oil, wood and etc
).
EITP provides the exporters with the international prices of
commodities collected from international commodities global
stock exchanges specialized sources for commodities. There
by, the exporters can be supported during negotiating to
achieve competitive exports. The International Trade Point
gets international prices via internet or through the
publications issued by the global firms, particularly
International Trade Centre (ITC).
At the same time, the domestic prices are collected from
different governorate.
Banks and Insurance Database:
Banks database provide exporters with:
- Egyptian banks, branches and correspondents abroad.
- Main Banks all over the world by country.
- Documentary credit as safe tool of payment in foreign
trade, and the steps for an importer should follow to open
such a credit.
- Foreign exchange rate against Egyptian pound.
- Insurance & Re-insurance companies.
- Data on Egyptian and international stock markets and
mutual funds.
Foreign Trade statistics Database
Egyptian International Trade Point provides trade
information to assist in recognition of importing markets to
each product through product statistics classified by
manufacturing country, foreign market. trading statistics
classified by product, and market trade with world by
product. It provides also the trading statistics by country
and commodity according to partner source to assist them in
market studies for a specific commodity.
4- Small and Medium Enterprises Services:
EITP assists SMEs from establishing products marketing in
cooperation with Social Fund for Development especially
through:
Setting up electronic web sites:
To deduce the expenses of web set up and hosting, Trade
Point assists by free access to EITP portal with one or two
pages especially (SME's). where the company can add or amend
company profile. The EITP site includes the company's
products and data. In case of expansion, the EITP can train
the employees to set up a site.
E-mail Providing:
The Trade Point provides e-mails for the small and medium
enterprises and hosting them until they are able to use
information and communication technology.
CD-Rom Service:
EITP produce commodity catalogue for the promising products
or for the main Egyptian industrial cites. Also EITP
provides technical supports for companies to make
e-catalogues profile these catalogues are distributed in the
international exhibitions as one of the electronic marketing
mechanisms.
5- E-Commerce Services (B2B):
Egyptian International Trade Point is considered as a centre
of implementing electronic commerce, in which EITP
encourages for using Electronic Market (B2B) to assist
Egyptian businessmen to share the in global trade exchange
with electronic portals includes( Egyptian company directory
Egyptian product directory Egyptian sell offer Egyptian
or foreign buy offer tenders and bids trade
facilitation).
6- Exports Awareness:
Conferences & media
EITP disseminate the regulations for healthy export through:
- Participation in conferences and seminars to discuss the
challenges facing Egyptian exports operation.
- Issuing guide directories for developing the export
awareness.
- Enhancing the awareness of Export through media.
Periodicals and Publications:
Egyptian International Trade Point provides publications and
studies such as : Monthly Egypt's foreign trade statistics,
commodity studies in local market , statistical trade
comparison for national and foreign sources , economic
profile , small and medium enterprise (SME's) and E-
business directories.
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