Taiwan External Trade Development Council

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section should be translated (or additional material should be added from material at zh:中華民國對外貿易發展協會). Please translate this.

Taiwan External Trade Development Council
TAITRA 4C Main Logo
Motto	Cooperation, Commitment, Concentration, Creativity
Formation	July 1, 1970
Type	Juridical Person / Trade
Headquarters	Taipei City, Taiwan
Official languages	Traditional Chinese & English
Chairman	Chih-jen Hsu
Key people	Sun Yun-suan (The 1st CEO of TAITRA) Wu Kuan-hsiung (Founder of TAITRA)
Website	http://www.taitra.org.tw

The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is a non-profit government co-sponsored^[1] trade promotion organization in the Republic of China on Taiwan (R.O.C.) founded in 1970. TAITRA assists Taiwan businesses and manufacturers to reinforce their international competitiveness and to cope with the challenges they face in the foreign markets.

Over the past decades, TAITRA has developed trade promotion, and it has an information network consisting of over 600 trained specialists stationed in its headquarters in Taipei, four local branch offices in Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung, over 44^[1] overseas branch offices worldwide. Cooperating with Far East Trade Services, Inc. (FETS) and the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC), its sister organizations, TAITRA has done everything possible to adapt its trade promotion strategies to the changing international conditions. Its major functions include: Market Research & Information Service, Market Development, Exhibition & Convention Service, Trade Education, and Web Service.