If the results of the recent Atlanta Metro Export Challenge pitch session are any indication, it pays to sell products and services overseas from the Georgia capital. A November event hosted in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood brought the culmination of a year-long competition that had already seen 30 companies use grants of $5,000 to grow […]
Atlanta Helicopter Parts Exporter to Bring Voice of Small Business to U.S. Trade Appointment
Atlanta’s Rotorcorp LLC as a small company has seen steady growth in its export profile, with about 60 percent of revenues now coming from international sales. But with a new appointment to a federal trade council, President Sean Casey is hoping to make sure his success is the rule, not the exception. Mr. Casey has […]
GLOBE Export Award Applications Open
The Georgia Department of Economic Development has opened applications for its yearly celebration of export achievement. GLOBE Awards — Georgians Leveraging Opportunities By Exporting — are given to companies based in the state that have expanded into a new country in a given year. Applications are being accepted through Nov. 1, with companies needing to […]
Ambassador: Indonesia Can Provide U.S. With a China Alternative
Rattle off the fundamentals, and Indonesia’s potential seems impressive. The country has some 270 million consumers with a median age of 29, steady growth rate eclipsing 5 percent, a burgeoning digital economy and status as one of the world’s top producers of palm oil, industrial metals, rubber and other commodities. But for too long, the Southeast […]
Georgia’s Senators Want India’s Pecan Tariffs Removed in Trade Talks
As President Trump meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi twice this week, Georgia’s senators are urging his administration not to forget the plight of the pecan. Georgia’s signature tree nut faces a 36 percent tariff in the Indian market, “one of the most dynamic and fastest growing in the world,” according to a letter […]
Atlanta Fed, IMF Partner to Decode China’s Economy Amid Uncertainty
In an era where economic policy on China can change with a tweet, a group of scholars at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta this week are taking a deeper look at what some call the world’s most consequential trading relationship. The Atlanta Fed in 2016 launched a collaborative research workshop with the International Monetary […]
Trade Summit Aims to Reframe Africa for American Investors
A summit on U.S.-Africa trade slated for later this month in Atlanta aims to reframe investors’ thinking about opportunities on the continent of more than 1 billion people. Headlined by keynote speaker Ambassador Andrew Young, the U.S.-Africa Trade and Investment Global Summit Sept. 26-28 is set to bring in speakers from across the continent with […]
Atlanta Sets Metro Area Export Record in New Commerce Department Figures
A new report from the U.S. Commerce Department shows metro Atlanta exports surging in 2018 in the face of concerns that a multi-front trade war could stifle broader global economic growth. Companies within the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta metropolitan statistical area exported about $24.1 billion worth of products last year, about 60 percent of the overall export […]
Korean Firms Break Into U.S. Government Sales Through Atlanta
Korean investment and trade may be going strong in Georgia, but there’s one sales channel that can always be problematic when you’re crossing the world to enter a new market: procurement. Even the closest trading partners of the U.S. like Canada and Mexico face challenges netting lucrative federal or state contracts. “The biggest hurdle is […]
Japan-Backed Factory in South Georgia Aims to Offset Glass Bottle Imports
Arglass Yamamura LLC, a joint venture between a New York investment firm and a Japanese glass manufacturer, is investing $123 million to build a new plant in south Georgia with the goal of hiring 150 people, Gov. Brian Kemp’s office announced Thursday. Site work on the plant in Valdosta is already under way with the startup of the […]
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