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Volume 1/Issue 1                                                               June/July 2007    
Greetings from the North Dakota Trade Office! 

We hope you enjoy the first edition of Global Connections, a newsletter designed to provide you with the latest international trade news, information about Trade Office services, programs and events, helpful links and tools and to facilitate networking among the state's exporters and the international business professionals that serve them.

 

Expect to receive Global Connections on a bimonthly basis. We encourage you to share the newsletter with business associates and we welcome your suggestions for content that can help move your business forward.

Featured Exporter
SK Food Photo
 
Jennifer Tesch, marketing and sales director for SK Food International Inc. of Fargo, N.D., is in the business of providing buyers around the world with high quality and completely traceable grains, oilseeds and other ingredients.
 
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Fredrikson & Byron Expands
 
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., a law firm dedicated to North Dakota's exporters, has opened a Bismarck office that will focus on servicing the state's energy industry.
 
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Foreign Service Officer to speak in ND

Ben DilleMark your calendar to attend a Trade Talk seminar featuring Foreign Service Officer Benjamin Dille. 

Dille, a Moorhead native and career Foreign Service Officer, will share his expertise in international business relations during a Trade Talk presentation in Bismarck on June 27 and again in Fargo on June 28.

 

International Visitors come to Big Irom

BI LogoNorth Dakota's Big Iron Farm Show and Exposition will be bigger than ever in 2007 with the addition of its International Visitors Program.

 

The North Dakota Trade Office, U.S. Commercial Service and farm show organizers are offering international visitors a host of benefits while attending Big Iron and taking part in the Big Iron International Visitors Program Sept. 10-13, 2007.

 

Southeast Asia buyers to visit ND

The North Dakota Trade Office and local companies that produce and market food-grade soybeans will host a group of soybean buyers from Southeast Asia Sept. 13-19.

 

The reverse mission will help company officials build on existing relationships and forge new business ties with major processors of tofu and soymilk.

 
North Dakota among nation's best in export expansion 
North Dakota exporters had a banner year in 2006, increasing the state's export sales by 27 percent - nearly twice the national average of 15 percent. Only six other states enjoyed greater export growth last year.