The International Trade Center Organization (Centre The ITC is a subsidiary body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and provides trade-related technical assistance limited to promoting exports from (so-called) developing countries and economies in transition.

The International Trade Information Center is the predecessor of the International Trade Center. Its predecessor, the "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT), was adopted in 1964 to help developing countries develop their export promotion services by providing them with export market and marketing-related information and to assist them in training the personnel needed to advance their export promotion efforts.

In an effort to streamline export promotion in the United Nations system, the GATT (the predecessor of the WTO, which was not part of the UN system), then still part of the UN system, and the newly created UNCTAD agreed to establish a branch to integrate the trade promotion efforts of the two organizations. The agreement was reached in 1967, and on January 1, 1968, the International Trade Center was officially established (without the use of the term "Trade Information Center"). The headquarters of the International Trade Center is located in Geneva, with an office in Mexico City.

The International Trade Center cannot be described in a systematic way. Therefore, the following description may be inaccurate. The ITC provides a variety of services to its partners. In its work, it divides its partners into three categories: policy makers, trade support organizations, and companies. Some services are designed specifically for one type of partner, while others are provided to all partners. In principle, there is no limit to the scope of services provided by the ITC, which will be designed according to the specific requirements of the beneficiary country or donor.