Growing Our Global Opportunities Export Workshops:
Understanding and Profiting from International Trade
September 16 - October 28, 2008
Home to over 1,400 manufacturing companies, a location for more than 215 foreign-owned companies, a producer of 60 percent of all the goods shipped through the Port of Charleston from South Carolina, and a location of a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ), the entire 10-county Upstate South Carolina region has a robust and diverse foreign trade component.
With that in mind, the George Dean Johnson College of Business and Economics at the University of South Carolina Upstate has designed a seven-week series of workshops during September and October 2008 for companies new to foreign trade, as well as those needing refresher information, addressing several key areas of the import and export process.
The “Understanding and Profiting from International Trade” series will be held in the Rampey Center on the USC Upstate campus from 8:00 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays starting September 16. Led by experts in their respective fields, the series will cover:
- Export Overview
- Export Logistics
- Establishing and Maintaining a Foreign Trade Zone
- Managing the Financial Aspects of Exporting
- Effective International Business Development
- NAFTA and FTAs
- Import Overview
Each session costs $50 which includes continental breakfast and coffee. Registrants are invited to attend as many sessions as they would like.
This workshop is made possible by a grant from Advance SC, which supports education, economic growth, existing manufacturing and public assistance agencies in Duke Energy’s South Carolina service area and has awarded over $30 million since its inception. Established as a limited liability company by Duke Energy in 2004, AdvanceSC’s board of directors makes all grant decisions and awards funds to: high school, technical and community colleges and university programs that support manufacturing or economic development; economic development programs via existing partnerships, chambers of commerce and economic development organizations to attract new or expanding industries; and existing industrial customers to increase productivity, reliability, cost control, efficiency or to positively impact the environment.