Attend a
series of educational sessions focused on training your
international team members for export success! The Export
Readiness Training (ERT) program provides export training to
small to medium-sized, new-to-export agricultural growers and
processors. The ERT program will prepare you for your first
export experience (i.e. a trade show, a trade mission, an
international sale), and help you develop an international
business plan. The program will teach basic exporting techniques
including marketing the product, locating interested buyers,
preparing the contract, financing the sale, and shipping the
product.
Education
topics include: International Market Planning, Transportation
and Documentation, Legal Aspects, the Art of Negotiation and
more.
Past ERT
participants are already seeing the results of the program!
Check out “Program Helps Marketers Enter International Trade”
from the
California Farm Bureau’s
AgAlert newsletter.
Program
Eligibility:
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Exportable food or agricultural product(s)
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A product available in the domestic market
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Product that is at least 50% U.S. agricultural content
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Classified as a small business
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Strong annual domestic sales
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Less than one year of active export experience
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The motivation to launch products in foreign markets
within 1 year
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Priority will be given to minority- and woman-owned
business
The fee to attend will be $325. Additional employees may
attend for $75.00 per employee.
WUSATA is
still accepting applications Hawaii,
which will begin in January 2008.