There are a number of problems associated with trade promotions.
Collectively, states have approximately 1,000 employees working on trade promotion.
About 11 joint courses are conducted each year in areas such as economic development, information technology, productivity management, public administration and trade promotion.
Many companies forecast the impact of trade promotions primarily through a human expert approach.
Heavy spending on trade promotions last summer failed to generate a significant increase in sales for the second quarter of 2002.
In a statement, David Cameron said trade promotion was at the heart of the government's foreign and economic policy.
Main tasks of the chambers are foreign trade promotion, vocational training, regional economic development, and general services to their members.
Trade Promotions can also increase a product's consumption rate, or the average quantity of a product used by consumers in a given time period.
Awards that had been conceived as a trade promotion assumed a greater significance.
The expansion into consumer advertising by an industry that had focused almost entirely on trade promotion is a major one.