The U.S. Commercial Service offers a range of services, including counseling, advocacy, and trade promotion, to assist U.S. companies doing business in China.

Finding International Partners

Gold Key Matching Service (GKS)
Save time and money by letting the U.S. Commercial Service help you find a buyer, partner, agent or distributor in China. The Gold Key Service provides you with one-on-one appointments with pre-screened potential agents, distributors, sales representatives, association and government contacts, licensing or joint venture partners, and other strategic business partners in China. We also provide Video Gold Key Service via a videoconference.

Platinum Key Service (PKS)
Get long-term, comprehensive, customized support to achieve your business goals. The Platinum Key Service is custom-tailored to provide long-term, sustained support from CS China for your firm's activities in the China market. Identify sectors, launch products, develop major project opportunities, resolve market entry questions, and receive assistance on regulatory matters

Single Company Promotion (SCP)
With the United States Embassy and Consulates’ knowledgeable staff and vast network among government, media, and private industry, we can identify and make sure that the ideal audience is present at your promotional or press event, seminar, product or service launch, or reception. With our Single Company Promotion (SCP) service, we can bring all of the key players to you in a single venue.

International Company Profile (ICP)
Prevent costly mistakes with quick, low-cost credit checks or due-diligence reports on companies in China. Before you do business with a prospective agent, distributor, or partner, the International Company Profile will give you the background information you need to evaluate the company.

Business Facilitation Service (BFS)
For clients who require a solution that does not readily match any of our existing services, the Commercial Service offers a Business Facilitation Service (BFS). These tailored solutions often address a single, specific need, such as supporting a delegation visit or arranging introductions with a local company.

Quick Take (QT)
Quick Take is a fast, China-wide, coordinated counseling service for qualified American companies. Commercial Specialists at the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China review your product’s export potential in their respective markets and provide a survey that assesses current and future demand, competition, standards, partners, and next steps.

Trade Leads
Search for new, pre-qualified trade opportunities and Chinese government tender announcements that are available to U.S. exporters through our trade leads database. All of our trade leads are pre-screened by our U.S. Embassy or Consulate staff overseas and are provided as a free service for U.S. exporters.

Business Meeting Rooms
U.S. companies which wish to hold seminars, press conferences, or meetings to promote their company and products or services often need a cost effective way to rent facility space. At Consulate locations in Guangzhou and Shanghai, we rent out facility spaces and audio and visual equipment. Contact the appropriate regional location to learn more about our meeting room rates and availability.

American Trading Centers
The Commercial Service connects you directly with local, on-the-ground contacts by offering its services in 14 newly emerging markets across China; they are known as American Trading Centers (ATCs). By expanding our network, U.S. exporters can access over half of China’s import market with the same level of quality American companies have come to expect from the U.S. Commercial Service.

Directory Listings

Business Service Provider (BSP) Directory
List your business with the U.S. Commercial Service China. If your company provides a beneficial service to U.S. companies/exporters doing business in China, then apply to join our online Business Service provider Directory.

Featured U.S. Exporter (FUSE) Directory
Post a listing, in Chinese on the U.S. Commercial Service China local website. Designed for U.S. companies looking for business partners in China, such as distributors or agents. The Featured U.S. Exporter Directory enables clients to post a listing of their product or product line complete with an image.

AccessAmerica (AA) Directory
Promote the services of your U.S.-based firm to companies from China that are investing in America. AccessAmerica listings are posted in Chinese on the Commercial Service China Website and promoted as a resource for Chinese firms seeking assistance on doing business in America. This pilot initiative, which is one of our customized business facilitation services, will be offered starting in June 2009.

Business Consulting and Advocacy

Business Consulting
U.S. Commercial Service staff are available for meetings with U.S. clients to provide the counseling and information that can help you succeed in the China market. Our Consulting Sessions can inform you on a range of business issues including potential barriers, intellectual property rights protection, industrial standards, and market developments.

Business Advocacy
The U.S. Commercial Service can often provide guidance when unanticipated problems arise regarding payment issues, disputes, and regulatory hurdles. For U.S. firms bidding on Public Tenders in China, the U.S. Commercial Service Advocacy can provide a competitive edge to win contracts. Support can include government-to-government meetings by U.S. Commercial Service officers with high-level foreign government officials, in addition to direct intervention with international companies.

Market Research and Briefings

Find professional research and analysis reports made available to you by our Commercial Service Industry Teams based in China.

Market Research Library
Accurate, up-to-date information lets you target the right opportunities. Our free market research offers industry-specific details to help you analyze market potential and size, foreign competitors, and market strategies for your product or service in China.

Customized Market Research
Our knowledgeable U.S. Commercial Service staff can provide tailored market research that highlights current industry trends in the China market while addressing your company’s individual concerns and needs about entering the market.

Market Briefings
Our U.S. Commercial Officers are available to provide briefings on market entry and doing business in China for visiting delegations and groups. Arranged as part of our Business Facilitation Service, the rates for these services vary and can be arranged by contacting the appropriate regional location

Video Market Briefings
Offered to American exporters through our Export Assistance Centers in the U.S, these briefings help you gain customized market information as well as identify and evaluate key dynamics within the Chinese market prior to formal entry. An important objective of the Video Market Briefing is to help you recognize the opportunities and challenges of the Chinese market.

Trade Shows

International trade shows are an excellent opportunity to access potential buyers. Promote your product or service to different trade shows and targeted, pre-screened buyers. The U.S. Commercial Service is focused on addressing trade show needs in several different ways.

Trade Fair Certification
Exhibiting at a trade show abroad can lead to tremendous export opportunities for U.S. companies. This is why the Trade Fair Certification Program was created. This program is focused on helping U.S. companies make important exhibiting decisions and free you of many of the concerns you may have about exhibiting overseas. Each year the Commercial Service in China supports a number of certified trade shows.

Catalog Exhibitions
Looking for an affordable, low-risk way to promote your products and services in China? These events display a U.S. firm's product catalogs at featured trade shows. Our Commercial Service China staff present your catalogs to hundreds of interested business prospects at the show and forward the trade leads directly to you.

U.S. Pavilions
The U.S. Pavilion is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's initiative to promote American goods and services in key Chinese markets. Developed in coordination with major Chinese exhibition companies, the U.S. Pavilions provide a unique opportunity for American companies to be involved in key international exhibitions around China. Participation in U.S. Pavilions provides companies special opportunities and services including: To learn more, visit our listing of upcoming trade events in China supported by the Commercial Service.