The U.S. Commercial Service supports and organizes many overseas events throughout the year.  Below are the events we will be supporting in the upcoming months.

December 2007

Certified Trade Mission to Saudi Arabia
December 1-4, 2007
Cities to be visited: Dammam and Riyadh

The Saudi economy is booming, with the U.S. as Saudi Arabia's largest trading partner.  Total bilateral trade with the U.S. in 2006 was more than $40 billion.  As America's 17th largest export market, Saudi Arabia provides excellent growth opportunities for U.S. companies.

U.S. companies have the opportunity to increase sales and revenues in this market by joining the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council (USSABC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary and U.S. Commercial Service Director General Israel Hernandez as we lead a delegation of U.S. businesses on a Business Development Mission to Saudi Arabia.

The Mission will assist U.S. participants in the oil and gas, downstream petrochemicals, mining, construction, real estate development, and education sectors initiate or expand their market presence in Saudi Arabia through business-to-business meetings, market access information, and introductions to the business environment.

To see how to register and for more information on this event, please refer to the Mission flyer by clicking on the link below:

Flyer - Business Development Mission to Saudi Arabia

March 2008

Trade Mission to Sub-Saharan Africa
March 3-11, 2008
Cities to be visited: Accra, Ghana; Lagos, Nigeria; and Johannesburg, South Africa

The U.S. Department of Commerce is proud to announce a timely opportunity to meet business prospects in Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa.  The Assistant Secretary for Trade Promotion and Director General of the U.S. Commercial Service will lead an official U.S. delegation to Sub-Saharan Africa next March.

Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa offer strategic platforms for leveraging business in the burgeoning Sub-Saharan regional market, which encompasses a consumer base of 650 million people.  Out total trade with Sub-Saharan Africa increased 10 percent in the first half of 2007 from the same period in 2006, with U.S. exports increasing by 30 percent to $6.7 billion.  Best prospects for this region include, but are not limited to, products and services in the following sectors: Energy, Health Care, Information Technology, Safety and Security and Telecommunications.

For more information about this event and to register, please go to http://www.export.gov/africamission.

March 4-9, 2008
Hannover, Germany

CeBIT - the biggest trade show for the ICT sector worldwide - is universally regarded as the leading showcase for the global market. In Hannover you'll gain an insight into the future digital age.

As the figures demonstrate, the opportunities are international: some 6,153 exhibitors from 77 countries and 480,000 visitors from all over the world (379,000 of them professionals) attended CeBIT 2007. That's without counting the international media. Approx. 8,000 journalists from across the globe reportet on the cutting-adge developments and the future of the digital world.