FTTC is a non profit organization established by the Ministry of Trade and Industry(MTI) as the first specialized training center in export promotion. FTTC establishment came to support theEgyptian government’s clear vision towards a competitive and comprehensive trade scheme, setting export promotion as a priority for the next decade.
		FTTC was established in year 2001 after thorough studies and several steps that had been conducted by MTI in collaboration with the Japanese Government represented by:- Japan International Cooperation Agency – JICA Japan External Trade Organization – JETRO
The idea was born in 1996 by theEgyptian Government request submitted tothe Government of Japan for the technical cooperation to establish a training center with the aim of the human resource development in trade issues and business in accordance with the provisions of the agreement on technical cooperation between both Governments signed in Cairo on 15th June 1983. In 1999 H.E. President Hosni Moubarak visited Japan for trade promotion and discussing the announced “Japan - Egypt Partnership Program” which included the establishment of Foreign Trade Training Center in Egypt on the basis of JICA schemes. MTI representing the Egyptian Government and JICA representing the Japanese Government worked since then as a team for project formulation and conducted a needs survey for foreign trade training in Egypt. The survey results proved the need of specialized organization for export marketing training due to the fact that one of the major obstacles to export development is the lack of qualified personnel coupled with insufficiency of training opportunities in export market techniques.
		FTTC started operation in 2002 and signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the cooperation with JICA and since then both were jointly engaged to create a training institution to deliver training courses and services related to business and trade development using the state-of-the-art in training methods and techniques for accelerating the awareness of the global market needs and competitiveness