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World Trade Week NYC History

World Trade Week has been celebrated in New York City for many years. Every year, the international trade community in NYC offers events on topics such as:

• Market snapshots from around the world
• New and upcoming market developments and legislation
• Business opportunities in emerging markets
• Import and export "how-to's"
• Documentation, financing, insurance & transportation
• Branding your products overseas
• Technology solutions
• Government resources
• Market research resources -both online and offline
• International trade success stories

For information about 2008's World Trade Week NYC events, click here.

The non-profit international trade community is made up of a host of organizations ranging from local state and federal government agencies to local and bi-lateral chambers of commerce to NYC's educational institutions and associations.

World Trade Week has a strong tradition of celebration all over the United States. For information about other cities' activities, click their links below:

Los Angeles: http://www.worldtradeweek.com
Beverly Hills: http://www.beverlyhillschamber.com/general.asp?id=467

World Trade Week NYC Mission Statement

The mission of World Trade Week NYC is to build public awareness about the importance of international trade to our region and to educate the community about the direct and indirect benefits of international trade for our local economy. World Trade Week NYC is a program of the New York District Export Council and brings together area non-profit, government and academic institutions with the private business sector to create a series of events on World Trade-related topics annually during the week beginning the third Monday in May.

World Trade Week NYC 2008 Honorary Chair

Roy W. Hoffman
Partner, International Client Services
J.H. Cohn, LLP

World Trade Week 2008 Partner Organizations

World Trade Week NYC Partner Organizations are the non-profit organizations that create events during World Trade Week NYC, whose representatives participate in the World Trade Week NYC planning subcommittees, who provide speakers and event space for seminars, and who actively promote World Trade Week NYC through both online and offline marketing. Organizations eligible to participate in World Trade Week NYC as partners include government entities, non-profit organizations, associations, chambers of commerce and educational institutions. Additionally, Partner organizations participate in the following ways:

• Post the official World Trade Week NYC logo and website link on website;
• Promote World Trade Week NYC activities to constituents;
• Commit to the World Trade Week NYC mission insofar as is merited by organizational goals;
• Promote World Trade Week NYC activities at their events in the weeks leading up to World Trade Week NYC;
• Display the World Trade Week NYC Sponsors' logos at their events*;
• Provide World Trade Week NYC Sponsors access to their events (complimentary if possible)*; and
• Allow World Trade Week NYC Sponsors to distribute literature at their events*.

For more information and a list of partners click here

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World Trade Week 2008 Friends

Friends of World Trade Week NYC are non-profit and for-profit organizations that support World Trade Week NYC 2008 by means other than direct financial contribution.

A Friend of World Trade Week NYC agrees to provide support in the following ways:

• Post the official World Trade Week NYC logo and website link on website;
• Promote World Trade Week NYC activities to constituents; and
• Commit to the World Trade Week NYC mission insofar as is merited by organizational goals.

The following international trade organizations have provided support to World Trade Week NYC.

Friends Listing

Export-Import Bank
Federation of International Trade Associations
Global Trade & Technology Center
Mid-Atlantic Russia Business Council
The World Trade Council of Westchester

For more information about World Trade Week events, or to become involved in its planning, please contact Ms. Lene Skou at (646) 312-2074 or e-mail lene_skou@baruch.cuny.edu

The following people are part of the WTW 2008 steering committee:

Lucy Ambrosino, The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
Peter Bengston, The New York Public Library/SIBL
Dawn Bruno, U.S. Commercial Service, U.S. Department of Commerce
Jetta Denend, U.S. Commercial Service, U.S. Department of Commerce
Janet Driscoll, World Trade Centers Association
Cynthia Duncan, United States Council for International Business
KL Fredericks, U.S. Commercial Service, U.S. Department of Commerce
Barney Lehrer, FITA
Nancy Ploeger, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
Lene Skou, Weissman Center for International Business, Baruch College/CUNY