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DATE: Wednesday, January 27

TIME: 2 - 3 p.m. (ET)

Presenter: Leslie Schweitzer, Sr. Trade Advisor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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Description:
Trade agreements and increased exports are vital to U.S. businesses, workers and farmers, as 96 percent of the world's consumers live outside the United States. Through expanded trade the United States will create new opportunities to sell products and services abroad, and consumers will benefit from lower prices and greater choices here at home. Leslie Schweitzer will address the current trade climate, focusing on how free trade agreements can help business owners and entrepreneurs here in the United States.

If you're a business that relies on or provides products or services outside the U.S., you can't afford to miss this presentation!

Participants will learn:

• What trade agreements mean to your business 
• How trade agreements impact the U.S. economy and global marketplace
• The current state of the trade climate and outlook on pending free trade agreements

Who should attend:
Any company interested in or currently conducting business across the U.S. border -- whether selling or receiving products or services from abroad -- should attend this one-time webcast! 

Presenter Bio:
As Senior Trade Advisor for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Leslie M. Schweitzer created the TradeRoots Initiative, the only sustained national grassroots international trade education program in the country. The program is designed to raise the public awareness of international trade particularly to small and medium sized companies. TradeRoots has been instrumental in gaining grassroots support for the successful passage of China PNTR, Trade Promotion Authority, and free trade agreements with Chile, Singapore, Australia, and Morocco and led the charge for grassroots support of the free trade agreement with Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua and most recently passed agreement with Peru.  TradeRoots continues to take the lead in the grassroots effort for the passage of free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea and Panama.  

Schweitzer has owned her own businesses involved in international trade for more than 30 years. She was one of the first American women to do business in China and pioneered U.S.-China trade beginning in 1977 as a co-founder of Noble Trading Company which assisted U.S.-based companies with product sales to China, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, India, South America and the Caribbean.  Clients included Pepsi World Trade and Motors Trading Company of General Motors. In 1987, Schweitzer founded a full-service offshore manufacturing and marketing company, Schweitzer & Associates, specializing in developing consumer product industries in third world and developing countries.  She continues to advise small and medium sized companies on how to prosper in the global business arena

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