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eCommerce Resources
Improve your online business presence to acquire new overseas consumers.
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.
Cross-border ecommerce generates sales for your B2B and B2C business
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.
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.
Digital Competition Developments in the Americas Tracker
This Official ITA Partner resource is useful for companies that may be impacted by trends and developments in antitrust and competition enforcement, new regulations and official policy statements, new legislation and recent court cases, and other relevant links.
Global trade policy monitoring initiative serving as an early warning system for policy changes by the G20 members which provides up-to-date information on developments in legislatures and the executive branch.
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.
Access to information on cybersecurity and ransomware awareness services that are available to Federal Government; State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Government; Private Industry; Academia; NGO and Non-Profit; and General Public stakeholders.
TradeStats Express (TSE) is a dashboard tool that can be used to quickly pull data on national and state-level international import/export trade trends.
Japan is the world’s fourth largest eCommerce market and in the wake of COVID, the B2C eCommerce market for consumer goods expanded and is expected to increase.
Consumer Goods
Japan
Economic Development and Investment
The eCommerce Resource Guide provides you with one convenient location to find all of the ecommerce sections from the over 140 Country Commercial Guide (CCG) publications organized by geographical region.
Learn how exporters have tapped the U.S. Commercial Service to develop a digital strategy and successfully positioned their companies to achieve their overseas eCommerce goals.
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