Automotive Manufacturing Meetings Detroit 2016

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Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Eastern time
Fee: No charge, but registration required

Maximize Your Participation in the “Automotive Manufacturing Meetings Detroit 2016”

Join a U.S. Commercial Service’s complimentary webinar on June 14 for tips on how to get the most out of Automotive Manufacturing Meetings (AMM) Detroit, which will take place on November 15-17, 2016. The event offers a unique B2B platform based on pre-arranged meetings between buyers and sellers.

The webinar will answer the following questions:

What is Ford’s role in AMM Detroit?
Is it possible to connect with supply chain teams from companies such as Ford, FCA, Faurecia, Dakkota Integrated Systems, Johnson Controls, Delphi, Piston Group, Valeo, Denso, Eaton, UTC and more?
Is it possible to develop business relations with companies from China, Malaysia, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Mexico and Canada?
What are AMM Detroit technical spectrum and capabilities requirements?

To learn more about Automotive Manufacturing Meetings Detroit, visit their website at: export.gov

Questions? Contact Eve.Lerman@trade.gov, 248-975-9605.

Find Your Next Business Partner at Discover: The Americas!

Central America Buyer Delegation Meeting in Fort Lauderdale

Find your next business partner at Discover Global Markets: The Americas!

A Central America buyer delegation composed of restaurant and hotel owners and companies are looking to meet U.S. companies and sign new contracts!

Hospitality and its associated industries have become an increasingly significant source of economic growth in Central America. Local demand, investment in the development of attractions and resorts, and growing number of tourist arrivals are driving a greater need for hotel and restaurant products and services in the region. New construction and investment in boutique hotels will create significant opportunities for U.S. companies seeking to expand their footprint in the Central America region.

Delegates are interested in U.S. Companies offering the following:
Food Service Packaging
Restaurant Equipment &Supplies
Institutional Food Products
Sanitation Equipment & Products
Hotel & Restaurant Furniture
Hotel & Restaurant Management Software
Analog & Digital Signage
Pool Supplies & Maintenance
Food Service & Catering Equipment
Hotel/Restaurant Linens & Soft Furnishings

To connect your company with these growing opportunities, register now!

Schedule one-on-one meetings with U.S. Commercial Diplomats from:

ABCs of Starting Your Own Business

TUE, MAY 17, 2016
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (PDT)
Ovitt Family Community Library
215 East C Street, Ontario, CA 91764

Event Description

Join an interactive discussion on the role of an entrepreneur. Learn the steps you need to take when starting a business and obtain contact information for the myriad of entities needed during the start-up process. Discover the sources of funding available to existing and aspiring small business owners and guidelines on determining which legal form is right for your business.

Accessing LA: Doing Business with the City

Wednesday, May 18, 2016
9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (PDT)
Los Angeles, CA

Join LA City Councilmember David Ryu and Board of Public Works Commissioner Joel Jacinto for Accessing L.A. Doing Business with the City. Accessing L.A. will provide local Asian Pacific American and other diverse businesses in Los Angeles with the information and tools necessary to tap into the City’s contracting dollars.

Learn how to do business with the City using the Los Angeles Business Assistance Virtual Network (LABAVN)
Interact with City buyers and contracting officials ­
Hear from small Asian­Pacific American businesses who successfully do business with the City
Discover various small business academies
Connect with small business resource centers in the LA region
Meet with other contracting agencies in the LA region (Federal, State, Local)

In addition, representatives from the Los Angeles Police, Fire and Personnel Departments will announce their recruitment job opportunities.

Accelerating INDO-US Trade

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Wednesday, May 18,2016
11:30 am
Grand Ball Room, The Leela Palace
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

Invite you to an Interactive Knowledge Session & Luncheon with Mr. Arun M Kumar, Director General, US & Foreign Commercial Service and Assistant Secretary, Global Markets, US Department of Commerce International Trade Administration

RSVP:
YES BANK: Ms.Chhavi Prasad; +91-11-66569144; chhavi.prasad@yesbank.in
IACC: Mr. Nidhish Jain; + 91-9868483500; nidhish@iaccindia.com

Celebrating the Benefits of Trade

  

Stefan M. Selig is the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade.

The month of May is recognized as World Trade Month. It gives all of us an opportunity to acknowledge the importance of trade and investment as a driver of prosperity for our workers, businesses, and economy. That importance is reflected in the fact that trade is a fundamental reason for why we experienced the strongest recovery from the Great Recession and why 11.5 million American jobs today are supported by our exports.

The core of our export strength is largely our small and-medium sized enterprises. They not only make up the majority of our exporters, but they are also responsible for two-thirds of all new net jobs since 1970. So it is fitting that the first week of World Trade Month is also National Small Business Week. One of the most important ways the International Trade Administration (ITA) assists our SMEs is through our NEI/NEXT program, which directly connects SMEs to federal export resources. Those resources include commercial intelligence, online training on protecting your intellectual property, and tariff information through our FTA Tariff Tool. It is also fitting that we will be honoring many SMEs during the 54th annual “E” Awards presentation on May 16. The President’s “E” Award is given every year to American companies for their contribution to increasing American exports through selling their high-quality products and services abroad.

World Trade Month also offers an opportunity to focus on the benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI). More than six million Americans today work for U.S. subsidiaries of foreign owned firms and nearly six million additional jobs are indirectly attributed to FDI. To support efforts to attract and retain FDI in the United States, President Obama established SelectUSA in 2011 and, given the increasing importance of FDI, Secretary Pritzker has established the United States Investment Advisory Council. The IAC will serve as a key platform for input on how to best attract and retain FDI. Up to 20 members will be tasked with advising the Secretary of Commerce on ways to support the United States’s position as the world’s preeminent destination for foreign direct investment. We are currently seeking candidates through May 10th, 2016. You can find more information here.

 Our commitment to attracting FDI will be on full display during the upcoming SelectUSA summit, which will take place June 19-21 at the Washington Hilton. We expect to welcome more than 2,000 participants from roughly 70 countries. President Obama will deliver keynote remarks and attendees will hear from public and private sector leaders from all over the world who will offer their insights on doing business in the United States. Click here for registration information.

Trade agreements are another way to help promote and expand export opportunities for U.S. businesses. The Trans-Pacific Partnership will facilitate millions of export-supported jobs, drive growth for our small businesses, and foster greater connectivity with markets that are home to millions of the world’s customers. These are just a few of the reasons we are working so hard to make TPP a reality. We are making the case for TPP directly to lawmakers, businesses, and the American people. That effort included creating a series of reports explaining what opportunities exist in our 11 TPP partner markets with our new series of reports. Our reports explain precisely why TPP is a generational opportunity for our exporters and workers.

Finally, World Trade Month gives all of us an opportunity to acknowledge the client service that ITA provides to American businesses every day. The quality of that client service was recently exemplified in our work at the Hannover Messe trade fair last week. The Department of Commerce led the largest delegation of U.S. companies and Economic Development Agencies in the fair’s history, supporting more than 420 U.S. exhibitors at Hannover Messe, including some of the leading innovators in energy solutions, Internet of Things, and advanced manufacturing.  

Thanks for all you do to support American exports, businesses and workers.

Singular Love for a Dual System: A Messe Dialogue about German Apprenticeships

Earlier this week, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and German Federal Minister of Education and Research Johanna Wanka came together at the Hannover Messe for a panel discussion on how the United States and Germany can collaborate on expanding apprenticeship. Let’s unpack that mouthful of a sentence. Germany and the United States? Education and Commerce? Apprenticeships? How does it add up?

As architect and advocate for a joint agreement our governments signed last summer, I have had to answer this question frequently. The short answer is that both sides have much to learn from each other when the dialogue is open and desire for partnership is there. Germany’s apprenticeship model is a gold standard, and Minister Wanka pointed to Germany’s low unemployment rate and employer satisfaction as two metrics of success.

One panelist brought a uniquely cross-cultural view of the German dual system. Frank Sportolari, the Chicago-born managing director of UPS-Germany, was raised in the U.S. system and has several children being raised in the German system. While lauding the German dual system, he also noted the uniquely American acceptance of failure and 2nd, 3rd, and 5th chances—of starting over without starting from scratch. The German system makes this hard; the U.S. education and training system allows easier stacking of credentials such that students who earn and learn through an apprenticeship are not penalized when they learn that they prefer a different career.

At the same time, we in the United States have much to learn from the German system, and through a joint declaration of intent signed last summer, have committed to working with our German partners to expand apprenticeships in the United States. As Secretary Pritzker noted, states like Kentucky, South Carolina, and Illinois are adopting and adapting the German model. In Illinois, a consortium led by the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association Education Foundation and including the German-American Chamber of Commerce won a $3.9 million American Apprenticeship Grant to expand apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and career pathway programs. The German-American Chamber brings to the consortium a training program developed using German industry-defined competencies and requirements and that leads to an associate degree, a German industry certification, and a job for at least two years upon completing the program.

Secretary Pritzker called for German industry to make a firm, measurable commitment to expand apprenticeships in their U.S. subsidiaries. Doing so, they would follow in the footsteps of companies like UPS, which is on the way to meeting its commitment to send 2,000 people through its U.S. delivery driver apprenticeship program by 2018 and also has sent 1,000 people through its German apprenticeship program over the past decade. Together these efforts would bring us closer to meeting President Obama’s goal to double the number of apprenticeships in the United States.

In both the U.S. and Germany, the demand is there for workers. Job openings in both countries are on the rise while the unemployment rate in both countries is around 5 percent. At the same time, U.S. companies are taking longer to fill the average opening, up from 17 days at the end of the Great Recession to more than a month now. By adding apprenticeship to their recruitment and training portfolio, U.S. companies can broaden their candidate pool and build a trained workforce. 

Doing so is a considerable commitment, and now is a better time than ever to make the investment. The U.S. Department of Labor has made $265 million in new investments to expand, innovate, and diversify apprenticeships, including the $3.9 million that will deliver more German-style apprenticeships in Illinois. This funding already is catalyzing change in how our country thinks about apprenticeships. To realize the change, though, it will take partnerships like that exemplified earlier this week by Germany’s Education Minister and our Secretary of Commerce.

Guest blog post by David Langdon, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Commerce

Join the Cyber Security Business Development Mission to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

May 16-24, 2016
The United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration (ITA), is organizing an Executive-led Cyber-security Business Development Mission to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

The purpose of the mission is to introduce U.S. firms and trade associations to East Asia’s information and communication technology (ICT) security and critical infrastructure protection markets and to assist U.S. companies to find business partners and export their products and services to the region. The mission is intended to include representatives from U.S. companies and U.S. trade associations with members that provide cyber-security and critical infrastructure protection products and services. The mission will visit Japan, South Korea and Taiwan where U.S. firms will have access to business development opportunities across East Asia. Participating firms will gain market insights, make industry contacts, solidify business strategies, and advance specific projects, with the goal of increasing U.S. exports of products and services to East Asia. The mission will include customized one-on-one business appointments with pre-screened potential buyers, agents, distributors and joint venture partners; meetings with relevant government officials and industry leaders; and networking events.

Commercial Setting

The mission will help participating firms and trade associations to gain market insights, make industry contacts, solidify business strategies, and advance specific projects, with the goal of increasing U.S. exports to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. By participating in an official U.S. industry delegation, rather than traveling to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan on their own, U.S. companies will enhance their ability to secure meetings in those countries and gain greater exposure to the region.

With the ascending growth and sophistication of cyber-attacks in recent years, strict compliance and unified security packages are in demand to protect the critical data, infrastructure, and safety of governments, military, public utilities, banking, financial services, ports, hospitals, and other businesses. The damaging effects of cyber-threats can be felt on many levels from the business to the individual and can spill over across borders. Therefore, authorities in East Asia, such as Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, are currently dedicating an increasing amount of resources at the national level, as well as at the private sector level, in order to deal with these complex cyber threats. These resources have been well utilized as is evident from the innovations and demand for cyber defense equipment and service technologies. Recent events and well publicized cyber-attacks in the region have also heightened the importance of improving cyber-security protection. Governments have made cyber-security a policy priority, creating task forces and engaging with the United States Government (USG) to improve their defensive capabilities in the cyber-security area.

Trade Mission Features

Business and market briefings;

One-on-one business appointments with pre-screened potential buyers, agents, distributors and joint venture partners;

Meetings with government officials, chambers of commerce, and business groups that can address questions about policies, tariff rates, incentives, regulation, etc.;

Networking receptions and events with business leaders and government representatives.

Media Exposure

Target U.S. Products and Services

Cyber security software, services and equipment

Emergency management technology equipment and services

Critical infrastructure protection systems and management solutions

Data loss and privacy protection technologies

TRADE NUMBERS 2015

Wednesday May 11, 2016
8:00 AM to 12:00 PM PDT
Sheraton Gateway Hotel
6101 W. Century Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90045

U.S. trade with the world rose to $3.75 Trillion in 2015, according to a WorldCity analysis of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. What does this mean and who are our top trade partners? Take a closer look and learn who the players are and what is being traded around the world.

This event is sponsored by the Los Angeles World Airports and the Port of Los Angeles at No Cost to you. At this event you will learn about trends in export and import of products and the importance of Emerging Markets for your products.

FREE copy of the latest Trade Numbers will be provided.

Join the #HM16USA conversation today!

Join the #HM16USA conversation today!It has begun! Hannover Messe 2016, the world’s leading industrial technology trade show in Hannover, Germany, runs through April 29. More than 90 U.S. EDOs have joined us in Hall 3 to showcase their locations to the world.

If you aren’t there in person, you can still see, watch, and hear the action. For live updates, follow us and the International Trade Administration on Twitter and use #HM16USA to join in the conversation.

There is a lot of excitement at the show this year. On Sunday night, President Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to attend when he joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel to kick off the show. Watch his (brief) remarks here as he makes a strong pitch for the United States.

This year and for the first time in the show’s history, the United States is the official Partner Country. U.S. exhibitors, from companies to economic development organizations, are receiving unparalleled attention from potential business partners, buyers, and investors.

( SelectUSA )