What is APEC MSME Marketplace?

An interactive repository of APEC activities and member economies’ individual efforts as a tool to promote cooperation and linkages across MSMEs and other stakeholders with an interest in MSME development.

The APEC MSME Marketplace is an online portal which has the following functionalities:

• Facilitating business matching for MSMEs, funders, innovation centers, incubators, and other stakeholders with interest on MSME development;
• Providing information about international trade standards and regulations;
• Disseminating information on available trade promotion assistance packages that APEC economies individually or collectively provide for MSME development and internationalization; and
• Building networks and linkages among the MSMEs, academe, innovation centers, and other relevant stakeholders that have a shared interest to foster MSME participation in regional and global supply chains and markets may face as they participate in global trade.