Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. PTI is an agency of the Suva based Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, and have offices in Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan. Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission Formerly known as the Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission (PITIC) Pacific Trade Invest is the leading trade and investment facilitation organisation in the Pacific Islands region with a specific focus on export facilitation, investment and tourism promotion. Pacific Trade Invest (PTI) contributes to the sustainable economic development of the Pacific Island Countries by
Marshall Islands at the 2016 Summer Olympics of their largest Olympic delegations, matching their size in 2008. The delegation, however, failed to win their first-ever Olympic medal. The Marshall Islands are a Micronesian island nation, located in the western Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia. As of 2016 the nation had a population of approximately 53,000. The islands were under Spain's influence until their annexation by Germany in 1885. Japan occupied the Islands during World War I and formally annexed them as part of its postwar South Pacific Mandate. The Marshall Islands were placed under United States control in 1944. The islands granted independence in 1986