Featured S.A. Trade Shows

Are you interested in promoting your company at South African Trade Shows in 2005, have a look at our Featured S.A. Trade Shows.

Appointment service... planning a business trip to South Africa?

The "Gold Key" appointment service, provides visiting American firms with prequalified and prescreened meetings with potential overseas agents, distributors, sales representatives and strategic business partners. The program features appointments with Australian firms, background and contact information on each potential partner, product or service lines, after-sales service capability, market research and a market briefing and debriefing with U.S. Commercial Service staff.

Cost: $500 first day; $400 subsequent
Delivery: Please allow 3 weeks to prepare

To discuss this service for South Africa or as a multi-stop in Durban, Cape Town and Johannebsurg, please contact Bheki.Ndimande@N0SPAM.mail.doc.gov.

For a list of interesting South African Trade Shows click here

New! Find the latest South African Government Tender Opportunity documents at: http://www.gov.za/tenders/

Promoting your Company to South African Clients by Videoconference

Are you interested in the South African market? Would you like to be ahead of the crowd, before the US-Southern African Customs Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is concluded in 2005? Did you know that the Commercial Service in South Africa is able to facilitate your business in all 14 neighboring countries?

Cost: $125 per hour per appointment - including line charges.
Delivery: Allow 3 weeks to arrange.

Don't miss out on this great opportunity to discover what Southern Africa has to offer you!

Accessing the South African market is a cost-effective means of gaining entry to the SACU (Southern African Customs Union, i.e. South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland) as well as the SADC region (Southern African Development Community includes Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe).

For more information, please contact Commercial Officer Wanda Barquin by email Wanda.Barquin@N0SPAM.mail.doc.gov or by telephone (27-11-778-4803).

Partner Search... next best thing to traveling to South Africa

The "International Partner Search" helps you find potential agents, distributors or other partners without leaving the U.S. We will contact potential South African partners using the marketing materials you provide, and identify the companies that are interested and capable of becoming a viable representative for you in South Africa. Our report on these companies includes: contact information and profiles, local market product evaluation, competition from local or third-country firms and more! Please contact Bheki.Ndimande@N0SPAM.mail.doc.gov CS South Africa for more information.

Cost: $400
Delivery: 30 days

International Company Profile Service...find out all you need to know about a potential South African partner

, request a complete company background including credit history, directors details, a third party assesment of company's payment analysis reports from Trade References. Invest in piece of mind, in depth due dilligence reports on South African partners also available. For more information on this product contact Estelle.Welgens@N0SPAM.mail.doc.gov

Cost: $350
Delivery: 10 days

Flexible Market Research

The primary value of this research is to answer your questions about the South African market and enable you to make a go/no go decision. Research can include contact lists of potential distributors, competition, market entry issues, a quick take on a specific industry sector, market size, market trends, or regulatory issues, etc. For more information, contact us at Johan.van.Rensburg@N0SPAM.mail.doc.gov CS South Africa.

Cost: $3,000 per report
Delivery: Approximately 60 days after order and subject to confirmation

BuyUSA.com... E-matchmaking

BuyUSA.com is a new electronic marketplace service brought to you by the U.S. Commercial Service. It'a "one-stop" export assistance web site that brings U.S. and international companies together to export U.S. products and services. Buyers and sellers alike are pre-screened by U.S. Commercial Service specialists to bring an added element of confidence into the business transaction.

U.S. companies can place catalogs of their products on the site, enter trade leads, search for international buyers and access market research. Why not browse the site and see what it can offer you? Please click on http://www.BuyUSA.com

Don't forget - US-owned companies located outside the USA can register as international buyers and support US exports too!