Belgian Foreign Trade Agency (Bfta)

the belgian foreign trade agency (bfta) operates at the service of three regional bodies for export promotion: flanders investment & trade, brussels invest & export and the wallonia export-investment agency (awex), as well as at the service of the fps foreign affairs. the activities of the agency were stipulated in the cooperation agreement of may 24th 2002 between the federal government and the regions. the agency organises joint economic missions at the request of its partners and contributes since 2015, upon approval of the board of directors, to the logistical organisation and the economic aspects of the state visits. the bfta also runs an information centre and diffuses international business opportunities for the regions to companies through the mobile application trade4u. the database containing belgian exporters is always updated thanks to the regular exchanges with the regions. finally the bfta offers also information on foreign markets: from studies within the framework of ec