Morocco International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) was founded in Paris in 1919. It brings together thousands of companies and economic associations in more than 100 countries.

ICC is the world business organization. It is the only recognized spokesperson for the business community to speak on behalf of all sectors and all regions.

ICC’s fundamental mission is to encourage trade and investment and to help businesses meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of globalization.

ICC’s activities fall into three areas: Development of rules, codes and standards; arbitration and ADR and taking positions on economic policy.

In addition, the ICC commissions formulate the point of view of the world economic community, both on major issues relating to trade and investment and on technical and sectoral matters.

ICC enjoys observer member status at the UN level and is the privileged interlocutor of several intergovernmental organizations, notably the G8 and the G20.

ICC is headquartered in Paris.

By joining ICC in 1957, the Moroccan National Committee opened to its members the great doors of the International Chamber of Commerce, the world business organization.

Since then, ICC Morocco, a non-profit association, has worked tirelessly to ensure the promotion of ICC’s rules and positions, while relaying to it the point of view of Moroccan companies, through various brackets.

The members of ICC Morocco today represent the main sectors of economic activity in Morocco, most of the financial institutions, associations and chambers of commerce and industry, as well as eminent members of the Moroccan legal community.

ICC Morocco strives through its activities to achieve several objectives, including:

•  Develop and promote alternative methods of resolving commercial disputes with particular emphasis on arbitration;
•  Use the ICC platform to initiate and accelerate certain upgrades of the economic fabric in Morocco through training actions;
•  Raise awareness and initiate debates around certain major global and Moroccan economic issues;
•  Facilitate the reception of foreign operators who are members of the ICC global network and open it up to the trade opportunities it represents for national operators;
•  Promote innovative economic projects of national interest;
•  Influencing the thinking of the international economic community on a few targeted key issues of major interest to Morocco.