World Trade Week - focus of, dates and locations of activities

Business America, May 14, 1984 by William Scouton

In New York, the World Trade Club of Westchester will celebrate World Trade Day a week prior to the official observance, on May 16, with a luncheon featuring Eric Outwater, Eastern Regional Director for the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, as the speaker. The American Association of Exporters and Importers will hold their annual meeting May 23 in New York City. A conference on export trading companies is scheduled May 23 in New York City at which Charles Warner, director of the Commerce Department's Office of Export Trading Company Affairs, will speak. A seminar is planned May 24 by the Long Island Association of Commerce and Industry at the Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point on barter, countertrade, and other trade topics.

The 28th Annual Tri-Cities World Trade Conference will be sponsored by the International Business Council of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce in Rochester May 24. Milton J. Bergstein of the School of Business at Pennsylvania State University will speak.

In New Jersey, a statewide conference focusing on Canada will be conducted May 23 in Whippany by the New Jersey World Trade Association. Governor Thomas Kean will give the keynote speech. As part of the conference, exhibition booths will be operated by companies that offer services to exporters, and a counselling booth for exporters will be maintained by the Commerce Department district office in Trenton. In Princeton, Mercer County and the Mercer County Community College will sponsor an international business exchange meeting May 25.

The major World Trade Week activity in Pennsylvania is an Export Matchmaking Conference in Philadelphia May 21-22, organized by the Commerce Department in cooperation with the Small Business Administration. The conference--first of its kind in Philadelphia --will begin with a series of seminars May 21 focusing on what a firm should look for in selecting an export management company or an export trading company. On May 22, manufacturers will exhibit their products and meet representatives of export management companies and export trading companies. A variety of other World Trade Week activities are scheduled in the Philadelphia area, including the annual dinner of the City's World Trade Association May 22.

Maryland Governor Harry Hughes will keynote a World Trade Week program May 17 in Baltimore on ''Maryland's Export Development Policy.''

Deputy Secretary of Commerce Clarence J. Brown and Donald V. Earnshaw, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Service Industries, will speak at the Fifth Annual Conference on Doing Business in Greater Washington and the First Washington International Trade Fair in Washington, D.C. May 25.

Governor Jay Rockefeller will present the West Virginia Governor's Awards at a luncheon in Charleston May 22. Awards will be given to outstanding exporters of coal and industrial products and to an export service organization.

In Michigan an exposition on export services and an all-day world trade conference will be held in Detroit May 23. Export-assistance firms will maintain 50 booths to explain their services, and seminars will be held on documentation, shipping, insurance, finance, export management companies, and translation services.