CONFEDERATION OF ASIA - PACIFIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (CACCI)

The Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CACCI) is a regional association principally composed of the apex chambers or association of commerce and industry in Asia and the Western Region.

It is a non-governmental organization granted consultative status under the United Nations.

Objectives

The CACCI envisions itself as the regional organisation of Asian and
Western Pacific business enterprise. It seeks to serve as a forum for examining, crystallizing and consolidating economic thinking of Asian and Western Pacific Enterprises.

Activities

• Holds biennial conferences in Asia and Western Pacific countries.
• Undertakes, through its members, liaison with Government bodies concerned in the promotion of laws and regulations.
• Serve as a centre for the compilation and dissemination of trade and business.
• Encourages, through the Product and Service Councils, personal contacts among the businessmen of the region.
• Collaborates with other international and regional orgnisations working for the economic progress of the region and the world
• Conducts or encourages training programmes to improve the structure and services of member chambers
• Carries out studies and researches in various fields of economic activities.
• Undertakes projects aimed at giving concrete forms to economic cooperation in trade or industry
• Promotes trade relationships among businessmen in the region.

Membership

CACCI Members are classified into three categories - Primary Members, Affiliate Members and Special Members. FICCI is a Primary Member of CACCI.