A Decade's Effort Pays Off for One Small Business Exporter

By Ward, John

Book Id: WPLBN0000674950
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 240.08 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	A Decade's Effort Pays Off for One Small Business Exporter
Author:	Ward, John
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Language:	English
Subject:	Trade, Import and export controls, Export controls--United States
Collections:	Export and Trade Collection
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Publisher:	Federal Trade Commissionn (FTC)


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Excerpt: To those accustomed to thinking of the Pittsburgh area as an economic dynamo ? with its tech-oriented universities such as Duquesne and Carnegie- Mellon, and a we l l - established industrial base ? it may come as a surprise that the area is a comparative laggard in exports. But it?s true: according to export statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Commerce, just 17.5 percent of the region?s companies exported in 1999 (the latest year available for complete numbers), compared to 20 percent of companies in comparable metropolitan regions, such as Cleveland, Miami, or Seattle. But over the past 10 years, at least one company, Thar Technologies, Inc., has been showing small companies in the Pittsburgh area that exporting is an achievable, attractive option for them. And in recognition of this, the U.S. Small Business Administration this year named Thar?s president and founder, Dr. Lalit Chordia, as the 2002 Small Business Exporter of the Year.