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ACE S.p.A. – Foreign trade insurance services

insures export credits with social capital underwritten by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance;

• assumes, in the form of insurance and re-insurance, the political, economic and commercial risks to which Italian operators are exposed in international transactions;
• supports the exportation of Italian small and medium-sized enterprises by facilitating their access to insurance through two strategies based on the possibility of letting companies choose the kind of relationship they wish to set up with SACE:
• direct strategy: Global Policies stands out among the various insurance instruments available, and is designed for companies that have continuous trade relations with various foreign debtors;
• indirect strategy: activities mediated by private banks or insurance companies.

Website: SACE S.p.A. – Foreign trade insurance services

SIMEST S.p.A. – Financing development and promotion of Italian enterprises abroad

firm in which the Italian government holds a 76% share, and which includes the participation of banks, enterprises and business and trade associations;

• promotes and supports the activities abroad of all Italian companies, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, including commercial, artisan and tourism-related ones, as well as cooperatives, consortiums and other economic bodies, by means of two principle channels of activity: support for trade exchanges and support for investments abroad;
• supplies assistance and consulting throughout all the phases of the launch and realisation of foreign investment;
• supplies financial support for the investments of Italian enterprises abroad through the direct administration of incentives and concessions;the participation of SIMEST in the capital of foreign enterprises allows new undertakings to share potential risks with an institutional partner that invests its own capital and makes available its extensive foreign market experience based on its participation in hundreds of projects all over the world;administrates the venture capital funds of the Ministry of Productive Activities;
• distributes interest on financing granted to Italian exporters;
• finances expenditures earmarked for the creation of permanent commercial facilities;
• distributes funding for feasibility studies and technical assistance;
• underwrites the costs of international tenders;

Website: SIMEST S.p.A. – Financing development and promotion of Italian enterprises abroad

ICE – Italian Trade Promotion Agency

The ICE-Italian Trade Promotion Agency is the government organisation which promotes the internationalisation of the Italian companies, in line with the strategies of the Ministry for Economic Development. ICE provides information, support and advice to Italian and foreign companies.

In addition to its Rome headquarters, ICE operates worldwide from a large network of Trade Promotion Offices linked to Italian embassies and consulates and working closely with local authorities and businesses.

ICE provides a wide range of services overseas helping Italian and foreign businesses to connect with each other:

• identification of possible business partners;
• bilateral trade meetings with Italian companies;
• trade delegation visits to Italy;
• official participation in local fairs and exhibitions;
• forums and seminars with Italian experts.

Website: ICE – Italian Trade Promotion Agency

ASSOCAMERESTERO – Association of Italian Chambers of Commerce Abroad

Association representing the needs and potential of the services of the Italian Chambers of Commerce Abroad (CCIE), and researches strategic collaborations and alliances with government and private actors – both Italian and international – in order to enhance familiarity with and use of the CCIE network;

• provides for the drafting of the Report on Business Opportunities, which illustrates the CCIE’s potential as supplier of information on business opportunities, on a sector-by-sector basis, in countries covered by the network;
• provides project and coordination assistance to the internationalisation services of the Italian Chambers of Commerce abroad, in conjunction with the Unioncamere project;

Website: ASSOCAMERESTERO – Association of Italian Chambers of Commerce Abroad

UNIONCAMERE – Union of Italian Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Artisan Industry

handles and represents the general interests of the Chambers of Commerce and is a point of reference for productive sectors both on national and international levels;

• promotes, creates and manages services and activities of interest to the Chambers of Commerce and some economic categories, either directly or through their own special agencies;
• aims at strengthening and developing collaboration with the CCIE network;
• facilitates access, using advanced technologies, to community initiatives and programmes, thus fostering international agreements for the promotion of Italy throughout the world.

Website: UNIONCAMERE – Union of Italian Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Artisan Industry

ENIT – Italian Tourism Board

institution concerned with the promotion abroad of tourism in Italy, which seeks to disseminate information on our country’s national and regional tourism resources and, in particular, its natural, environmental, cultural, artistic and historic treasures;

• assists and offers technical services to Italian tourism enterprises attempting to penetrate foreign markets;
• drafts studies on international markets and, in particular, on individual and group tourism trends;
• analyses the evolution of foreign tourism and plans operational strategies in accordance with government and private sector leaders in Italian tourism (Ministry of Productive Activities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regional governments, public administrations, trade associations and agencies and producers of tourism services);

Website: ENIT – Italian Tourism Board

Mondimpresa – Agency for the Internationalisation of Businesses

• promotes and supports internationalisation, in particular of SMEs – for the most part those of Southern Italy – by means of an extensive and articulated Italian network made up of the various components of System Italy, the Chambers of Commerce, the Confcommercio and the Confagricoltura;
• drafts calls for tenders and offers to access funding from the government and prinicpal international organisations;
• organises initiatives aimed at the promotion of both sector and non-sector transnational business partnership;
• promotes foreign investments in Italy through special information initiatives illustrating the structure of the Italian entrepreneurial system and legislation in support of investments;

Website: Mondimpresa

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EXTENDER – Sistema informativo per l’anticipazione di gare e grandi progetti

Non-economic government bodies

INFORMEST – Agency for development and international economic cooperation

Non-profit government body created to provide market operators with information, documentation, training, assistance and consulting with regard to the countries of Eastern Europe (Balkans, Central-Eastern Europe, CIS) and Central and Eastern Asia (China, Mongolia, Vietnam):

• provides assistance in the use of government internationalisation instruments, which includes helping enterprises to complete the application procedure for funding or contributions.

Website: INFORMEST – Agency for development and international economic cooperation

Several principal representative organisations

CONFINDUSTRIA – Italian Manufacturers’ association

• contributes – along with political institutions and national and international economic, social and cultural organisations – to the country’s economic growth and social progress;
• intervenes in support of economic, political, social and cultural organisations in Italy and the European Union;
• represents and safeguards the sector of goods and services production.

Website: CONFINDUSTRIA – Italian Manufacturers’ association

CONFAPI – Italian Confederation of Small and medium-Sized Enterprises

• promotes the interests of small and medium-sized industry;
• fosters the economic and civil development of the country in association with national and foreign organisations and institutions.

Website: CONFAPI – Italian Confederation of Small and medium-Sized Enterprises

CONFCOMMERCIO – General Italian Confederation of Trade, Tourism, and Services for SMEs

• collaborates with the European Union in defining community policy in the sector;
• assists and handles applications for contributions for promotional activities abroad;
• researches new markets and seeks out potential buyers on international markets.

Website: CONFCOMMERCIO – General Italian Confederation of Trade, Tourism, and Services for SMEs

CONFARTIGIANATO – Organisation for information on and representation of Italian artisan enterprises

• supports the development of new enterprises through training activities and information on local and national level opportunities and concessions;
• provides initial assessments of the quality of entrepreneurial projects and offers basic consulting on matters of legislation, credit, taxes and the environment;
• grants financial concessions in order to turn “business plans” into concrete enterprises.

Website: CONFARTIGIANATO – Organisation for information on and representation of Italian artisan enterprises

CNA – National Confederation of artisan and small and medium-sized enterprises

• represents artisan enterprises;
• formulates sector strategies and supplies information on opportunities, programmes and tenders proposed by the European Union;
• represents the world of self-enterprise through “CNA self-employed” consultants and collaborators.

Website: CNA – National Confederation of artisan and small and medium-sized enterprises

CONFAGRICOLTURA – Italian agriculture organisation

• promotes, assists and coordinates the economic activities of individual products or sectors of production;
• represents and safeguards its associate enterprises within the institutional context;
• provides its associates with various qualified services such as legal consultation, training and technical assistance in the management of the agricultural enterprise.

Website: CONFAGRICOLTURA – Italian agriculture organisation