Below are just a few of the ways our office assists U.S. exporters.
If you require assistance with any of the following, please feel free to contact any of our specialized industry staff.
- Addressing market access barriers imposed by foreign governments
- Answering questions about export licensing, export compliance, or export regulations
- Assistance with export-related agreements and contracts
- Collecting payment from an overseas buyer
- Completing export-related paperwork, such as the Shippers Export Declaration (SED), and others
- Complying with foreign customs or shipping regulations, including taxes and tariff rates
- Complying with foreign standards, regulations, testing procedures, product marking, packaging, or labeling requirements (for example RoHS, CCC, China RoHS, etc)
- Conducting background checks on potential overseas buyers, agents or distributors
- Conducting foreign market research
- Determining my Schedule B number or ECCN
- Establishing an overseas office
- Finding and screening international trade leads
- Identifying and vetting new overseas agents or distributors
- Intellectual property protection and piracy protection abroad
- Learning about additional U.S. government programs to assist exporters
- Learning about US government advocacy programs to help win international tenders
- Learning more about export financing and insurance options
- Participating in U.S. government-supported trade shows, trade missions and matchmaking events
- Promoting my company’s products or services via U.S. government websites or print publications
- Promoting my product internationally through a U.S.embassy-supported event or reception
- Using Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) such as NAFTA, CAFTA-DR, and others