Structuring commodity markets

The world's most successful commodity market, the foreign exchange market, has no physical existence. Trade is conducted through the exchange of electronic messages, mainly via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) which is used to transfer foreign exchange deposits and loans between thousands of banks in numerous countries.

1. Structuring wholesale marketing of materials
2. Promoting goods exchange

1. Structuring retail marketing of goods
2. Structuring market for consumer items
3. Disputing international commodity agreements

1. Trading commodities
2. Strengthening sustainable development through trade cooperation
3. Restricting production in primary commodities in developing countries
4. Limiting commodity futures trading

1. Strengthening technical cooperation in commodities

1. Unstable supply of raw materials
2. Underproduction of primary commodities
3. Over-production of commodities
4. Obstacles to commodity futures trading
5. International trade barriers for primary commodities
6. Instability of the commodities trade