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Looking to grow your business across Canada or internationally? Trade missions are a cost-effective way to explore new opportunities, find new customers and partners, and attract investment and capital.

For a nominal fee, we’ll take you into a market and provide you with an itinerary including:

  • In-market matchmaking
  • Dedicated booth space at the trade show
  • Individual support by an export development executive
  • Ground transportation to and from sales calls
  • Networking opportunities

Trade mission benefits

By joining a trade mission, your company benefits in one or more of the following ways:

  • Learn about or accessing a new market
  • Gain an understanding of your company’s opportunities abroad
  • Assess your competition
  • Introduce new products or services
  • Identify new innovations or technology to improve your product/production process
  • Identify a possible broker, distributor, agent, shipper, or freight forwarder
  • new sales
  • Identify new investors into your company
  • Identify new investment opportunities abroad

We have export development executives with expertise in different sectors and regions of the world. Contact our team of export experts. See our Calendar for a list of upcoming trade missions. 

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Contact

Contact a Regional Business Development Advisor near you:

Ashley Collicutt
SOUTH SHORE REGION: Lunenburg, Queens, Shelburne
Dan Surette
WESTERN REGION: Yarmouth, Digby
Sean Cochrane
VALLEY REGION: Annapolis, Kings, Hants
Matthew Berrigan
NORTHERN REGION: Cumberland, Colchester
David Hachey
NORTHEASTERN REGION: Pictou, Antigonish, Guysborough
Kyle Burton
CAPE BRETON REGION: Cape Breton, Richmond, Inverness, Victoria
Hector Fraser
HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY: Halifax & West
Jean-Marie James
HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY: Dartmouth & East