India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO)

India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) is synonymous with the country's trade promotion around the world all round the year. Indeed at ITPO, the promotion of trade is an exacting mission, translating into a search for new frontiers and new horizons in the world of commercial interactions, both at macro and micro levels. A mission that finds expression in the successful organisation of trade exhibitions in India and abroad, buyer-seller meets, promotion through department stores, contact promotion and product development programmes apart from dissemination of information on products and markets.

1. Organising various trade fairs and exhibitions at its exhibition complex, Pragati Maidan, and other centres in India.
2. Extending the use of Pragati Maidan for holding trade fairs and exhibitions by other fair organisers both from India and abroad.
3. Identifying and nurturing specific export products with long range growth prospects.
4. Cultivating overseas buyers through timely and efficient services.
5. Establishing durable contacts between Indian suppliers and overseas buyers.
6. Assisting Indian companies in product development and adaptation to meet buyers requirements.
7. Organising Buyer-Seller Meets and other exclusive India Shows in order to bring buyers and sellers together.
8. Organising India Promotions with Department Stores and Mail Order Houses abroad.
9. Participating in overseas trade fairs and exhibitions.
10. Arranging product displays for visiting overseas buyers.
11. Inviting overseas buyers and organising their meetings with Indian suppliers.
12. Providing assistance in locating suitable foreign collaborators for transfer of technology, joint ventures, marketing tie-ups and investment promotion.
13. Organising seminars/conferences/workshops.
14. Encouraging and involving small and medium scale units in export promotion efforts.
15. Conducting in-house and need-based research on trade and export promotion.
16. Enlisting the involvement and support of the State Governments in India for promotion of India's foreign trade.
17. Promoting establishment of facilities and infrastructure for holding trade fairs in State Capitals or other suitable locations in India, in consultation with State Governments concerned.