Global issues & trends
The ICC Global Trade Intelligence Report is the leading industry benchmark and analytical resource for trade finance, providing banks, regulators and market participants with robust data and insights on the performance and resilience of trade finance products.
From standards and traceability to investment, circularity and biodiversity, this policy paper explores the policy priorities that can help create responsible, resilient and future-ready mineral value chains.
This policy paper examines how policymakers can align competition and industrial policy to strengthen competitiveness, encourage investment and innovation, and support sustainable economic growth.
Recycled plastics need a market. In this interview with Catalynx and Wang On Fibres, we explore how a South African circular economy venture is creating demand for recycled materials by connecting collectors, recyclers, manufacturers and retailers into a single value chain. This story offers insight into why investment, collaboration and policy certainty are essential to scaling circular business models and what negotiators can learn as work continues on a future Global Plastics Treaty.
In this interview, Alfa Laval shares why innovation in alternative materials must be matched by industrial scale-up, investment and cross-value chain collaboration.
ICC-commissioned modelling finds that severe and sustained disruption could also contribute to around one million additional diet-related deaths in 2030 and leave 67 million more people underweight.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)’s flagship Trade Register has been renamed the ICC Global Trade Intelligence Report. The first edition under the new name will be released in September 2026.
As packaging regulations multiply and reporting requirements grow more complex, many businesses still rely on fragmented systems and spreadsheets to manage critical packaging information.
Developed by a working group of ICC’s Financial Crime Policy Taskforce, this guide explores challenges and best practices for financial institutions in identifying financial crime risks in trade finance transactions involving ocean shipment.
Maritime piracy and armed robbery incidents fell to their lowest level since 1992 in the first half of 2026, according to the latest report from ICC's International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
ICC coordinated a joint business statement bringing together global and cross-sector business perspectives and recommendations to support inclusive AI adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) worldwide
ICC issues a statement in response to the Friends of the Cali Fund joint government statement on the Convention on Biological Diversity’s multilateral benefit sharing mechanism and its Cali Fund.
