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With Forum Trade Office’s in Sydney, Auckland, Tokyo and Beijing it is our objective to be the leading Pacific Islands organisation that specialises in export and investment facilitation for the benefit of the Pacific Islands people.

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About Us


We represent the Pacific Island Forum countries which include:

 

~ Cook Islands
  ~ Nauru
~ Federated States of Micronesia
  ~ Niue
~ Fiji  ~ Samoa
~ Kiribati  ~ Solomon Islands
~ Republic of Marshall Islands
  ~ Tonga
~ Palau   ~ Tuvalu
~ Papua New Guinea
   ~ Vanuatu

 

PITIC works closely with a network of government, peak industry bodies and non-government agencies to deliver a range of practical trade, export, tourism and investment support services to businesses in the Pacific region.

 

The Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission is funded by the Government of Australia through AusAID.

 

 


 

Latest News


Samoa's organic bananas making NZ inroads

15 FEBRUARY 2010

 

AUCKLAND (NZ Herald) --- Samoa's organic banana exports are set to get a boost from a new partnership between a New Zealand food company and a Samoan women's group.

 

Chris Morrison, co-owner of All Good Organics, is launching New Zealand's first free trade bananas next week in Auckland. He visited Samoan group Women in Business Development Incorporated (WIBD) in late 2009 to meet farmers as part of a scheme to develop more sustainable trade with the country.

 

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Fiji’s Vatukoula gold mine increases output

10 February 2010

 

Fiji Times (SUVA) ---- In Fiji, MINING activity at the Vatukoula Gold Mine increased in the months to November last year producing a total of 29,703 ounces of gold. This indicated a 38.7 percent increase in production over the corresponding period in 2008.

 

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Forum Secretariat launches upgraded website

28 January 2010

 

The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat this week launched its upgraded website www.forumsec.org in line with its new corporate structure and renewed regional priorities.

 

In launching the site, Secretary General Tuiloma Neroni Slade, said the Secretariat’s website plays an important role as the public interface of the organisation and main information disseminating platform for the public affairs unit and other departments.

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A Bank in Your Pocket : mobile financial services

5 January 2010

 

Nai Sema is a new publication from the Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) which pulls together what the FDC has been discovering over the last two decades while working to expand financial services for the poor.

 

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