The Access Eastern Med Program is an innovative, regional export promotion program offered by the U.S. Commercial Service in Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and West Bank/Gaza. The program offers U.S. exporters of IT and telecommunications equipment, products, services and related disciplines at a low cost, yet very effective way to simultaneously explore market opportunities in all seven markets via a single, unified service in September and October, 2005.

How the AEM Program Works:
Embassy Commercial Specialists will proactively promote your products and services to hundreds of local contacts, identifying potential agents and distributors in each of their respective market. During the month-long outreach effort, your company and product descriptions will also be posted on our regional AEM website. We will follow up with all interested companies and you will receive a single combined results report listing those that would like to have further discussions with you about distributing or representing your product or service in their market.

Advantages to U.S. Exporters

• One time, on-line registration to explore sales opportunities in all seven markets!
• Partner/customer search by 7 Commercial Specialists, tailored to your objectives, to hundreds of local contacts!
• Regional exposure on our AEM Website!
• Additional promotion at CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia, International Trade Fair for Information Technology, Telecommunications, Software and Services in Istanbul, Turkey, September 6-11, 2005, the leading show in this region.
• Additional promotion at Made in America trade fair in Lebanon, August 31 – September 2, 2005.
• You receive a single, combined Results Report of vetted local contacts and trade leads
• Follow-on Gold Keys and International Company Profiles within 6 months at 50% normal fee.

The ICT market in the region is estimated to be $25 billion and presents outstanding opportunities for U.S. exporters of computer and telecommunications material, equipment and services. There are approximately 40 million mobile customers, 33 million fixed line connections and 10 million Internet subscribers in the region.

Participation fee: basic fee for the AEM ICT Program is $1,400 , and it includes the basic promotion in each country plus both Embassy Catalog Shows.

For additional information, please contact Commercial Specialist and AEM Team Leader (Ms.) Sigal Mendelovich in Israel: Tel: 972-3-5197491; E-mail: sigal.mendelovich@mail.doc.gov

The 2005 AEM ICT Team Members
Assad Barsoum, CS Jerusalem (for West Bank/Gaza)
Hend El-Sineity, CS Cairo (Egypt)
Ihsan Muderrisoglu, CS Ankara (Turkey)
Muna Farkouh, CS Amman (Jordan)
Naaman Tayyar, CS Beirut (Lebanon)
Najia Tourougui, CS Rabat (Morocco)
Serdar Cetinkaya, CS Ankara (Turkey)
Sigal Mendelovich, CS Tel Aviv – Team Leader (Israel)