İzmir, Turkey
Abbreviation
İTB
Location
İzmir, Turkey
Region
Asia
Product Types
Agricultural
The İzmir Commodity Exchange (İzmir Ticaret Borsası, İTB) is one of Turkey's oldest and most important commodity exchanges, established in 1891. Located in İzmir on the Aegean coast, the exchange is the primary trading venue for key Turkish agricultural exports including cotton, dried figs, dried apricots, raisins, and olive oil. İTB plays a central role in setting benchmark prices for Turkish agricultural produce, serving as a price-discovery centre for domestic and export markets.
The Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX) is Pakistan's first and only multi-commodity futures exchange, established in 2007 in Karachi and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP). PMEX offers futures contracts across precious metals (gold, silver), energy (crude oil, natural gas), agricultural commodities, equity index futures, and currency derivatives including gold in Pakistani rupees. The exchange is owned by the National Bank of Pakistan, Karachi Stock Exchange, Islamabad Stock Exchange, and Lahore Stock Exchange.
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) is Japan's primary commodity derivatives exchange, trading futures and options for energy products (crude oil, gasoline, kerosene, gas oil, electricity), precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium), and rubber. Founded in 1984 through a merger of the Tokyo Gold Exchange, Tokyo Rubber Exchange, and Tokyo Textile Exchange, TOCOM operates under the Japan Exchange Group (JPX).
The Buôn Ma Thuột Coffee Exchange Center (BCEC) is a specialised coffee commodity exchange based in Buôn Ma Thuột (Đắk Lắk province), the heart of Vietnam's Central Highlands coffee-growing region. BCEC provides a local trading and auction platform for robusta coffee, the primary variety grown in the Central Highlands, which accounts for approximately 90% of Vietnam's coffee output. Vietnam is the world's second-largest coffee producer and the largest producer of robusta coffee globally, making the Buôn Ma Thuột market a significant reference point for global robusta coffee price formation.
National Multi-Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (NMCE), founded in 2002 and headquartered in Ahmedabad, was India's first demutualized national-level commodity futures exchange. NMCE offered futures contracts for precious metals, base metals, and agricultural commodities. Despite being a first-mover in India's commodity derivatives space, NMCE faced sustained challenges in liquidity and competition from MCX and NCDEX. SEBI cancelled NMCE's recognition as a national commodity exchange in 2018, effectively ending its operations.