The Title - Commercial Diplomat
The new uniquely dynamic class of career commercial diplomats have emerged from the requirements for policy coordination and negotiation among nations on issues affecting global trade, investment, commerce and international arbitration.

Their vocational training-related comprehensive learning has been haphazard at best and has relied largely on a defacto apprenticeship system that generates neither enough qualified nor sufficiently well-trained professionals, highly-skilled specialists, highly-competent advocates and highly-influential experts.

This gap between the demand and supply of appropriately examined, qualified, certified, accredited and better impactfully regulated career commercial diplomats has to be met through dedicated vocational training-related comprehensive learning programmes, which are focused on the skills-specific knowledge and specialism-based expertise required of high-quality and highly-talented competent professionals in the commercial diplomatic field.

Another, but very significant consideration is that the title 'Commercial Diplomat' is a generic term and there is nothing to stop anyone identifying themselves as 'Commercial Diplomat' which, consequentially, does not distinguish the highly-skilled, highly-proficient, integrity-inspired, highly-competent and highly-influential accredited practitioner from the unskilled, incompetent, unqualified, and unsuitable, and this could be detrimental.

The need and demand for high-performing sector, highly-knowledgeable experts, highly-trained specialists, highly-qualified practitioners, highly-skilled advocates and appropriately authorised, accredited and better regulated highly-competent diplomatists with the relevant skills will grow. 

Commercial Diplomacy has had significantly important impacts on the global economy and ensured development of effective cooperation through international trade policy and negotiation, international investment policy for development, international commerce and international arbitration, and the Commercial Diplomatic sector.

Regulation of Commercial Diplomats and Commercial Diplomatic Practice
Association of Certified Commercial Diplomats is the independent, not-for-profit and extraterritorial rules-based representative body and global voice of the commercial diplomatic profession, and only extraterritorial rules-based regulatory authority that provides a wide range of qualification, certification and accreditation options, which are tailored to recognize seasoned highly-skilled, highly-knowledgeable, highly-experienced, highly-competent and highly-influential accomplished learned career commercial diplomats, including international trade policy practitioners alike.

Independent and Self-Regulatory
Behind every trade, investment and commerce-related policy analysis, facilitation of mutually beneficial cross-border cooperation and sustainable strategic collaborative partnership, negotiation of policies and agreements or treaties, promotion of goods and services between economies or multinational corporations, the resolution, settlement and management of disputes in international trade, investment, and commerce, and other related-relevant sector-specific services that bring together senior civil, public-private and foreign commercial diplomatic service officials involved in commercial-judicial diplomatic activities, are distinguished individuals that make them happen:

• All these services are provided by accredited commercial diplomats, under the adopted related-relevant and applicable rules, models, conventions, frameworks, mechanisms and standards which are incorporated into the Commercial Diplomatic Code by which all accredited practitioners are regulated.