The Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM) is the export promotion arm of the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

CITEM is committed to developing, nurturing, and promoting globally-competitive small and medium enterprises (SMEs), exporters, designers, and manufacturers by implementing an Integrated Approach to Export Marketing in partnership with other government and private entities.

For three decades, CITEM has established the country’s image as the premier destination for quality export products and services. It continues to set the highest standards of creativity, excellence and innovation to achieve export competitiveness in the international market.

CFI.co awards CITEM the Best Export Promotion Agency Southeast Asia 2022

The Tagalog word malasakit has no direct translation in English, but an approximate definition might be to “care for something (someone) as if it were one’s own.” The Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM) works primarily — 99 percent — with micro and small businesses across the Philippines.

Buy Local, Go Lokal!

Established by the DTI Philippines, “Buy Local, Go Lokal” is a national media campaign which aims to encourage Filipino consumers into shifting their buying patterns towards the consumption and purchase of local produce and goods.

#BuyLocalGoLokal

Available now at www.shopinas.com/go-lokal and Go Lokal! stores nationwide.

VISIT GO LOKAL!