eCommerce
A digital strategy is the starting point for cross border ecommerce
Learn more about how implementing a business digital strategy can help you focus your business technology to achieve your overseas ecommerce goals. The US Commercial Service’s Trade Specialists provide counseling and guidance to businesses selling online that wish to find more overseas consumers.
Focus your online business overseas:
Cross-border ecommerce focuses online sales to overseas consumers and includes promoting your brand awareness in addition to generating sales.
eCommerce is B2B and B2C online sales:
eCommerce has become a term that covers everything a business does online to sell to consumers, both domestically and overseas. It includes:
- the sale through a website
- the online advertising that leads to a sale
- the brand building that helps tie it all together as a narrative for consumers.
Business eCommerce Resources
STEP Grant
STEP provides financial awards to state and territory governments to assist small businesses with export development.
MBDA Tech Initiative
The Minority Business and Technology Initiative (Tech Initiative) seeks to accelerate the inclusion of minority owned businesses (MBEs) in ecommerce and to improve the use of digital technology for domestic and global sales.
Rural Business eCommerce Assistance
Start your digital export journey with customized research and training from the Rural Export Center!
Market Diversification Tool
The Market Diversification Tool can help identify potential new export markets using your current trade patterns.
FTA Tariff Tool
The Tariff Tool not only provides information on current tariff lines, but also provides transparency on future tariffs and the year in which those products become duty free.