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10-25-2007, 02:30 PM
The Center for Exports and Investments (CEI-RD) is reaching out to enlist 10-15 small to medium-sized companies that seek to export their products to the northeastern US markets, primarily the Dominican ethnic market in New York/New Jersey. The department has teamed up with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and presented its II Agro-Export Platform. IICA specialist Daniel Rodriguez said that this integrated program aimed to serve as a pilot to prove that exporting is possible, so that other companies can be encouraged to sell abroad. Participants will receive training, assistance in developing export business plans, assistance in how to close deals, market, packaging and logistics knowledge, and support. Rodriguez said that the platform has been implemented in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras, where 175 companies have undergone the training, of which 50% are now exporting to the US. The other 50% decided they were not ready to export. He said that companies could then apply the knowledge they acquire about exporting to the NY market to other markets in the US and Canada. Any companies that are interested should contact the CEI-RD offices in Santo Domingo as soon as possible to make the group.
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