International Assistance Program

The FTC helps countries around the world to develop and enhance their own competition and consumer protection programs. We explain how competition and truthful advertising and marketing advance economic efficiency, consumer welfare, and consumer choice.

Technical Assistance to Developing Competition and Consumer Protection Agencies

Contact Us

If your agency would benefit from this type of assistance, please click here to contact us. If you have a consumer issue, please click here.

How We're Funded

Our technical assistance program is, in many instances, funded through cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, and in some cases with the U.S. Trade and Development Agency and the Commercial Law Development Program of the Department of Commerce.  In some cases, we use our own funds.

Background Resources


Last Modified: Monday, April 18, 2011