Welcome to The Launch Export Atlantic Educational Trade Mission to Atlanta, Georgia
Atlantic Canada is bringing a delegation of Exporters to meet potential clients, partners and create new networks in Atlanta, Georgia from May 20-24, 2024.
Canada and the United States enjoy a unique relationship. The Canada-United States partnership is forged by shared geography, similar values, common interests, deep personal connections, and powerful, multi-layered economic ties. Canada and the United States enjoy the largest trading relationship in the world.
History has shown that trade is the best way to create jobs, growth, and long-term prosperity.
- Canada is the United States’ largest customer and buys more goods from the United States than China, Japan and the United Kingdom combined
- Canada is the top trading partner in most U.S. states
- Canadian companies operating in the United States directly employ 725,000 Americans
Under the Atlantic Growth Strategy, the four Atlantic Canadian provinces and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) are offering the Launch Export Atlantic Incubator Program. This exporter readiness program builds the export capacity of small businesses in Atlantic Canada with the goal of enabling long-term economic growth in the region.
Participating companies take part in a comprehensive training and coaching program, culminating in an educational trade mission to Atlanta, Georgia.
This educational trade mission will enable companies to receive additional export training which will support the work they have completed over the course of the program. Companies will also engage in business meetings with key experts, potential buyers, the Canadian Trade Commissioners Service and other business/industry associations. At the end of this program, this new exporter cohort will be better prepared and connected in the Atlanta market; and will have a real idea of how to take their product and/or service to an international marketplace.
This trade mission seeks to further engage trade between Atlantic Canadian exporters and companies in Atlanta. Launch Export is a project of the Nova Scotia Association of Community Business Development Corporations (CBDCs) and is made possible through the support of the Atlantic Trade and Investment Growth Strategy, a partnership of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the four Atlantic Provinces.
