World Trade Week NYC 2024 Partner Meeting

Today, March 21st, 2024 Inga Klimasauskiene represented the Baltic American Chamber of Commerce (BACC) at the World Trade Week NYC 2024 Partner Meeting.

Speakers included Andrea Ratay, Chair, NY District Export Council, Head of Global Trade Finance, TD Bank N. A., Lene Skou, Chair, World Trade Week NYC, Deputy Director, Weissman Center for International Business, Nathaniel Sears, Commercial Officer, Commercial Service NY, and Nancy Ploeger, Executive Director, IWEC Foundation. A guest Speaker was Nse-Abasi Esema, Senior Vice President, Green Economy New York City Economic Development Corporation.

The Baltic American Chamber of Commerce is a loyal partner of the World Trade Week NY.

We work together to:

  • Recognize the contribution of international trade to economic growth and job creation in the New York metropolitan region

  • Highlight the link between international trade and transportation and the region’s economic well‐being

  • Celebrate companies and organizations succeeding in the global marketplace and highlight their contribution to the region’s economy

  • Share knowledge, resources and ideas to facilitate small business success internationally

  • Provide scholarships to undergraduate students of international business, and support a mission of this mission this year again.

World Trade Week NYC is part of an annual nationwide celebration of international trade observed by business and trade-related organizations across the United States during May. The mission of World Trade Week NYC is to promote the importance of international trade to the New York City metropolitan area economy. New Yorkers depend heavily on international commerce for their jobs, standard of living, and the myriad goods and services available to its diverse population.

The event took place at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, next to Battery Park, downtown Manhattan. The seven-story, steel-framed U.S. Custom House is a Beaux-Arts masterpiece connected back to New York City’s history as a major international port and situated physically on a pivotal site at the southern terminus of Broadway.

World Trade Week NYC Kick-Off Event will take place on May 9th, 2024 at the Baruch College in NYC. Please register here.

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