In order to get into the international market, you need the international connections, tools, and information to make it happen. As an item within the Annual SBDC Network Conference, in Orlando, Florida, BELTRAIDE, through its Small Business Development Centre (SBDCBelize), signed off on a Memorandum of Understanding to access SBDCGlobal.com, a powerful and free online trade platform that will link the 750,000+clients of the U.S.., Mexican, Salvadoran, and Colombian Small Business Development Center Networks for international trade opportunities. The MOU was signed by Ms. Melanie Gideon, Deputy Executive Director, BELTRAIDE, and Robert McKinley, Vice President, UTSA Institute for Economic Development. The signing was witnessed by representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA).

Belize (with only one Centre operating for less than a year) is the second country in Central America, (and the first in CARICOM) to sign off on the MOU and to access this trade platform, following El Salvador who sign off last week, after three years of operating a SBDC Network.

Feel free to visit SBDCGlobal.com, where  BELIZE is newly being showcased along the other four countries on the platform and learn how it can be helpful to you, regardless of whether you are an experienced trader, or a start up.