About California STEP
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- The California State Trade and Export Promotion (California STEP) project leverages a statewide network of state, federal, private and non-profit trade promotion organizations to facilitate export promotion, activities, serving targeted industries, to drive exports for small businesses.
Our goals are simple:
- If you are exporting, we’d like to help your business export more.
- If you are not exporting, then we’d like to help you get started.
California STEP can help you answer:
- What opportunities are there for my firm to connect with overseas buyers in California?
- How can my firm maximize our marketing efforts through trade shows abroad?
- Who can I contact to shorten my time for export assistance?
- What opportunities exist for my firm to get specialized export training and assistance?
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The California STEP Network
This network is unparalleled in experience and success; including four (4) Presidential “E-awards” for exporting, and six (6) successful U.S. Department of Commerce, Market Development Cooperator Awards over the past decade carrying out small business export promotion programs.
Managed by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Centers for International Trade Development (CITD), the network of STEP Partners implement a range of export promotion programs serving multiple sectors, including: Information & Telecommunications Technologies, Green Technologies, Food and Agricultural Products, California Lifestyle Products, Water Technologies, Scientific Instrumentation, Transportation Equipment and Industrial Machinery.
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California STEP Partners
- California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz)
- California Department of Food & Agriculture
- California Chamber of Commerce
- California Community Colleges' Centers for International Trade Development (CITD)
- City of Los Angeles, Metropolitan Export Initiative
- Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
- Los Angeles County Business Federation (BizFed)
- University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management
- University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
- World Trade Center San Diego
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Resource Partners
Export promotion services will be integrated with our resource partners to expand market reach and leverage resources and expertise to enhance the economic outcomes for the companies served by California STEP.
Government and Public Partners- U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of International Trade
- Small Business Development Centers
- U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service
- Export Import Bank of the United States
- Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development
- California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program
Private Sector Partners- United Parcel Service (UPS)
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
PROGRAM SERVICES
- Export Assistance
- International Marketing
- Business Matchmaking
INDUSTRIES WE SERVE
- Information & communications technology
- Green technologies
- Food and agricultural producers and growers
- Industrial machinery
- Building and infrastructure products and services
- California lifestyle products
CALIFORNIA STEP FACT SHEET
SBA STEP FACT SHEET
The STEP program is funded in part through a grant award by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Funding is not an endorsement of any product, opinion, or service. No federal grant funds are being used for any entertainment costs associated with trade promotion or export marketing activities. All Federal and State funded programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Special arrangements for individuals with disability will be made if requested in advance.
