USDBC Trade Servicing Update – Second Half 2020

Despite ongoing travel restrictions and cautions due to COVID 19, USDBC has adapted to the virtual ‘pivot’ where necessary and will have a packed schedule for the remainder of 2020 and into early 2021.  We continue to add new programming initiatives as needed and expect to offer our members three forms of export promotion in the next months:

Virtual – we will continue to offer webinars on topics of interest and impact to our industry such as food labelling and harvest reports. This will include webinars on the Mexican and US dry bean harvests in the early fall. We will be experimenting with a new format to conduct virtual trade missions in our Americas region.

Hybrid – Where possible we will attend trade shows with local staff only due to travel restrictions. For those trade shows still scheduled to take place in 2020, this is limited to Asia for now, we will continue to have a booth and will conduct meetings with buyers. We anticipate that these events will also offer a virtual marketplace so that our members can interact via web with their customers.

Limited in country travel and in person meetings – We anticipate that in places where businesses have begun to open, limited travel will also resume. In those parts of the world where this is possible, our local staff will resume their trade servicing and meeting schedule.

We will continue to keep you posted as the situation evolves and as we know the status of events in early 2021.