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*FOR WEBINAR REGISTRATION ONLY* JUNE 7 • ITCC IMPORT/EXPORT WORKSHOP SERIES: Initial Implementation of Export Control Reform: The New Regulations 
JUNE 7 • ITCC IMPORT/EXPORT WORKSHOP SERIES: Initial Implementation of Export Control Reform: The New Regulations 
MAY 17 • 8th Annual Silk Road Conference 
MAY 15 • Symposium on Asia-Pacific Economic Integration and the Role of the United States and Japan 
May 7 • "Spain, a Land of Opportunities" 
MAY 6 • European Drinks Festival 2013  
MAY 1 • Go Global VI 2013 Conference - Optimize Your Global Supply Chain 
APRIL 26 • ITCC IMPORT/EXPORT WORKSHOP SERIES: ICE/Office of Homeland Security Investigations: Investigations, Seizures and Penalties  
APRIL 16 • Recent Developments in EU Law: What Lawyers Need to Know - CLE Lunch & Learn Program (JMLS) 
APRIL 11 • Canada/312 AM Briefing: Canada in the Midwest: What's Next? (CUSBC) 
APRIL 3 • Frauds, Fakes and Pharmaceuticals: Global IPR Enforcement in the 21st Century - CLE Lunch & Learn Program (JMLS) 
MARCH 22 • ITCC IMPORT WORKSHOP SERIES: Current Issues Affecting Importers into Canada 
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New Data Shows 29 States Hit Record Export Levels In 2012
by Press Release - U.S. Department of Commerce 
Contributed to record-setting $2.2 trillion year for U.S. exports. Nationally, jobs supported by exports increased to 9.8 million in 2012.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank today announced new state export data that shows 29 states set new records for export sales in 2012. In total, 35 states achieved merchandise export growth in 2012, and 20 of those states experienced growth of at least five percent or more.

Total merchandise exports from all 50 states helped contri...full article 
 
Global Issues to Watch - March 2013
by ISA - International Strategic Analysis 
The Challenges Facing China's New President (2013-03-20)
Xi Jinping has officially become China’s new president and as he prepares to lead to the world’s most-populous country for the next ten years, he will find that he faces a myriad of challenges that threaten China’s rise to superpower status. As the head of a government focused on maintaining its grip on power, it will be the internal challenges facing President Xi that will garner the most of his attention. However, as China’s glob...full article 
 
Egypt: Challenge or opportunity
by Economist Intelligence Unit 
A big, youthful population should promise growth, but political instability holds the Nile nation back

Where there are political upheaval, risk and uncertainty, there are opportunities worth grasping. This may well be the thinking that Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi will be clinging to as he beats a trail east and west to drum up much needed foreign direct investment (FDI). Since 2008/9, FDI in Egypt has slumped from $8.1bn to $2.1bn in 2011/12 and the country’s near-term macroeconom...full article 
 
The State of the World: Explaining U.S. Strategy
by George Friedman, Stratfor 
The fall of the Soviet Union ended the European epoch, the period in which European power dominated the world. It left the United States as the only global power, something for which it was culturally and institutionally unprepared. Since the end of World War II, the United States had defined its foreign policy in terms of its confrontation with the Soviet Union. Virtually everything it did around the world in some fashion related to this confrontation. The fall of the Soviet Union simultaneousl...full article 
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