How Did Exports to China and the Asia-Pacific Region Just Get Easier?
The U.S. Commercial Service has multiplied opportunities for U.S. companies in the Asia Pacific region and China through two innovative initiatives: Asia Now and the ATC Virtual Network in China.
“Asia Now” Offers One-Stop Shopping to U.S. Companies in Asia !
http://www.buyusa.gov/asianow/enews.html
The Asia Now program brings together the resources of U.S. Commercial Service offices in 14 Asia-Pacific markets and our Export Assistance Centers throughout the U.S., providing your company with a single point of access to exporting to Asia-Pacific. To find out more about Asia Now, please visit our dedicated web site, http://www.buyusa.gov/asianow/.
Asia Now Industry Teams are groups of U.S. Commercial Service trade professionals around Asia who work together to provide targeted trade promotion, customized business solutions, and enhanced support to U.S. Commercial Service clients. Teams currently exist for the following industry sectors:
Coming soon are the Education, Environmental, and ICT teams.
Find out how the Asia Now Industry Teams can help you grow in multiple Asian markets at http://www.buyusa.gov/asianow/asianindustryteams.html!
Leading Secorts by Industry in East Asia/Pacific Region
The Commercial Service Spreads Its Wings Across China !
The U.S. Commercial Service in China recently launched its American Trading Center (ATC) initiative. The ATC is a virtual network linking the U.S. Commercial Service offices in the five U.S. diplomatic missions in China with the resources of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT).
The Commercial Service has hired American contractors, called Commercial Representatives (CRs), one at each of the five U.S. diplomatic missions, who travel to the 14 designated ATC cities*/ to introduce U.S. companies to local and regional officials and businesspeople, including decision makers for major project procurement and trade-event organizers. In the 14 designated ATC cities, CCPIT’s international trade professionals serve as ATC points of contact. These professionals are counterparts to the CRs. The Commercial Service has provided training to CCPIT staff, whose work is reviewed by the CRs.
The ATC initiative enables the Commercial Service to offer U.S. companies far greater access to more China markets than was previously the case, including:
- Jointly prepared and shared prepared targeted market research and trade lead information;
- High-quality business match-making services for American exporters in 14 major business centers across China;
- Mutually-beneficial trade exhibitions and trade missions in the 14 major Chinese business centers; and
- Dissemination of market opportunity information to American and Chinese business representatives to facilitate U.S.-China trade.
For more information on the ATC initiative, visit http://www.export.gov/china.
*/ The 14 designated ATC cities are: Dalian, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Harbin, Kunming, Nanjing & Jiangsu Province, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xi’an & Shaanxi Province, and Zhuhai .