We’ve all heard the announcements from our state’s department of commerce when a big international company relocates or builds a new plant in South Carolina. But what we don’t hear a lot about is the work going on behind the scenes to help grown and develop our existing small and medium-sized companies. One area, in particular, involves assisting businesses with the ABCs of exporting: everything from filling out the necessary paperwork to cost-benefit analyses to organizing foreign trade mission trips to countries like Canada and India.
Mike Switzer interviews Anita Patel, an international trade specialist with the South Carolina Department of Commerce in Columbia.
