TFO Canada improves lives through the creation of sustainable trade partnerships for exporters from developing countries with Canadian and foreign buyers. TFO Canada confronts the challenge of global poverty by promoting sustainable economic development through export information, advice and contact. TFO Canada facilitates access to foreign markets and shares Canadian trade expertise for the benefit of smaller exporters in developing countries. Founded in 1980, TFO Canada is a non-governmental, non-profit organization.
To represent TFO Canada in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and to establish and maintain relationships with local importers, trade support organisations and locally based trade representatives of TFO Canada’s client countries, in order to promote and advance TFO Canada’s mandate of forging market linkages between developing country exporters and the Canadian marketplace.