Doing Business with the USA - Tauranga Event

The US Embassy/Consulate, AmCham, ExportNZ, Tauranga Business Chamber, PriorityOne and Norris Echetebu Law, invite you to our Doing Business with the USA/SelectUSA event. 

Date: 25 February 2025
Time: 3.00pm to 6.00pm, presentations follow by refreshments and networking
Venue: Ernst & Young's offices, 53 Spring Street, Tauranga
Cost: $25.00 inc gst

Trade with the US has grown strongly in recent years , and it is now New Zealand’s second-largest export market. New Zealand exports of goods and services to the US were worth over NZ$16 billion in the year to June 2024. Two-way trade was worth $27.2b in the same period. The US is also NZ’s largest export market for services, valued at over NZ$6 billion. Come along and hear from the experts who have been successful there and from those who can assist you to enter and do business in the US market.

Programme & Speakers

• Welcome by US Consul General Meliss Sweeney
• Virtual - SelectUSA presentation by Harold (Lee) Brayman, US Commercial Service, Sydney
• Virtual - Nick Persons, US Consulate presentation on visas
• Virtual - Vanessa Simsick, Global Engagement Manager, Denver Economic Development & Opportunity talking about what help is available to companies wanting to invest and set up in there.
• Ada Echetebu, Partner, Norris Echetebu Law
• "Winning Legal Strategies & Considerations for Navigating the US Markets: Market Entry, Scaling, Exiting & Leveraging your Networks."
• Kim Atwill, Partner, EY talking about profit repatriation and transfer pricing issues to consider for NZ companies with US subsidiary/branch.
• Rob Coneybeer, Co-Founder, Shasta Ventures Inc - How to raise capital in the USA

Panel of 3 exporters
Steve Saunders, CEO/Founder, Robotics Plus Ltd
Clare Bradley, CEO, AgriSea NZ Seaweed Ltd
More panellists to be confirmed 

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