Agribusiness

Welcome to the Agribusiness Team!

The Agribusiness Team is represented by members of the U.S. Commercial Service – U.S. Department of Commerce, Foreign Agricultural Service – U.S. Department of Agriculture, State Regional Trade Groups, and various State Departments of Agriculture.

This site provides U.S. companies involved in food processing and packaging equipment, agricultural machinery and equipment, agricultural products, processed foods, agricultural chemicals, agricultural services and hotel/restaurant equipment with up-to-date information to help your company succeed internationally. We have a worldwide network of agribusiness specialists dedicated to helping you export!

Agribusiness Team Events/Activities – 2012/2013

The Agribusiness Team is active at many trade shows all over the world, offering business matchmaking, opportunities to learn from country/industry experts, and much more. See all of the 2012/2013 events/activities in which the Agribusiness Team is involved!

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Below are links to view trade data snapshots for selected NAICS codes. Additional trade data is available through the TradeStats Express Database.

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Detailed Event Information For IBP Select: ProMat 2013 (Material Handling Industry of America) Detailed Event Information For IBP Select: ProMat 2013 (Material Handling Industry of America)
IBP Select: ProMat 2013 (Material Handling Industry of America) -- Computer Software, Furniture, Materials Handling Machinery, Packaging Eq., Robotics
Location/Date: Chicago, IL, United States 01/21/2013 - 01/24/2013
Event Summary:
ProMat is an event that combines four days of show floor exhibits and four days of world-class education and training sessions. Widely recognized as one of the world's most important material handling and logistics events, ProMat is the only international material handling show held in the United States. Exhibits cover all types of material handling and logistics equipment/systems and associated services that make up this nearly $130 billion industry. The show's Education Conference combines workshops, seminars, keynotes, on-floor theaters, case studies and plant visits to make ProMat the broadest and most comprehensive event of its kind in the world. ProMat 2011 featured 677 exhibitors in 270,000 net square feet of exhibit space, and drew 32,000 attendees from 100 countries.

Contacts:
Aditi Palli, Trade Event Programs
International Trade Specialist
Phone: 202-482-3334
Aditi.Palli@trade.gov
Gary Rand, TPP
Director
Phone: 202-482-0691
Gary.Rand@trade.gov
Thomas Carbott, Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA)

Phone: 704-714-8716
tcarbott@mhia.org