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WBE.Net
Newsletter
Release
Date: 3-18-08
Roby:
High Fives for America's Exporters
Founder
and CEO Roosevelt Roby sends congratulations
to the thousands of international traders the WBE.Net
has trained during its more than 20 years of
existence. Says Mr. Roby, "Even
in the face of today's concerns about the economy
- housing, oil and tight credit - one
very big area of success is keeping the US strong:
exporting. We're
proud that WBE.Net members helped make it happen."
He adds, "The numbers are in for 2007 - and
they're good. We
had another record-breaking year, with Americans carrying
out 1.6 Trillion Dollars in exports.
That's a jump of more than 12 percent over the year
before." To illustrate the
power of US exports, Mr. Roby points out that US trade
accounted for one fourth of America's economic
growth in 2007 - and if you laid all those trade dollars
end to end, they would stretch past the Sun!
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Food!
As
a WBE.Net member, you may
stand to gain from the US's pending Free Trade Agreement
with Colombia,which
awaits final action by Congress. Keep
an eye on this measure, which is being actively promoted
by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Once finalized, it will clear exporters' paths
to send products to the South American nation.
The agreement will
eliminate tariffs on more than 80 percent of
US exports of agricultural, industrial and consumer
goods immediately and 100 percent over time.
It will provide US companies and farmers that
export to Colombia with duty-free
access to this large and growing market.
It gets rid of duties on wheat, barley, soybeans,
flour, high quality beef, bacon, almost all fruit
and vegetable products, peanuts, cotton and the vast
majority of processed products. The
US Administration is urging Congress to put it into
effect this year - preferably, right after the Easter
recess.
WBE.Net
Export Alert: Clean Coal Rocks...
American
exporters hope to make serious profits as more and
more countries adopt cleaner-emissions policies.
These nations all
need something America leads the world in:
clean coal technology. This
technology allows coal to be burned with lower carbon
pollution. The best and most immediate
export opportunity is to sell
clean coal equipment and to license the technology
to China and India, where coal-fired electricity
production is rapidly expanding. Also
offering strong US clean coal markets are Africa,
Brazil, Mexico and South Korea, which will more than
double their electricity consumption over the next
two decades. These
countries are expected to import tens of billions
of dollars worth of clean coal resources for years
to come. America's main
competitors in exporting this valuable technology
are Germany, Japan and Thailand.
Looking
for Product?
Surfing
the net, your WBE.Net Newsletter editor came upon
a
company that might be useful to the American exporter.
It is Liquidation.com,
a division of Liquidity Services Inc, a
leading online marketplace for wholesale, surplus
and salvage goods. A member of
the Nasdaq stock exchange,
the company is based in Washington, D.C. and maintains
warehouses around the country. Its
specialty is selling bulk lots of a wide variety
of products in auctions - more than 500 categories
of surplus and overstock items, starting at $100 per
lot. Included
are computers, TVs, clothing, jewelry,
toys - almost anything you can think of.
This firm prides itself on a mission statement
that promotes honesty and high ethics, and
could be a potential partner/source for your export
activities.
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