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Promoting Growth and Innovation for Women Entrepreneurs through E-Commerce
Finding the 95%: How ‘Going Global’ Can Accelerate Your Startup
Fireside Chat: “My Global Startup Story”: Hear from Baltimore-area startups that have...
Empowering Small Business Resilience with Digital Transformations
Digital technologies and global markets can be key ingredients for the resilience and...
IPEF Digital Trade Breakfast
The National Foreign Trade Council Foundation’s Global Innovation Forum hosted a working...
Trade & Gender Scaling Knowledge and Collaboration into Action and Impact
Trade can play a powerful role in fostering equitable, sustainable growth around the...
Meeting with SBA Office of Advocacy
The Global Innovation Forum organized a conversation with Rosalyn Steward, Assistant...
Startup Global Women
The case for ambitious services market access commitments as part of the JSI on e-commerce
During the pandemic, digitalization and automation accelerated across 85 percent of...
Encouraging Globally-Engaged Women Entrepreneurs
How digitally-enabled networks, tools and trade policies can be gender-transformative
A Conversation with the U.S. Private Sector on Why Accelerating Implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement is a Game Changer
Join the Office of the United States Trade Representative and representatives of the U.S. private sector for a timely conversation about the importance of accelerating the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement.

From Platforms to Payments
Promoting Growth and Innovation for Women Entrepreneurs through E-Commerce

Finding the 95%: How ‘Going Global’ Can Accelerate Your Startup
Fireside Chat: “My Global Startup Story”: Hear from Baltimore-area startups that have successfully gone global. Panelists will share their experiences and advice about how they balanced the challenge of entering new markets while accelerating their startup businesses....

Empowering Small Business Resilience with Digital Transformations
Digital technologies and global markets can be key ingredients for the resilience and prosperity of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Enabled by digital tools, platforms, and services, MSMEs are reaching and selling to new customers across their borders...
IPEF Digital Trade Breakfast
The National Foreign Trade Council Foundation’s Global Innovation Forum hosted a working breakfast on the sidelines of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) Ministerial to exchange views between government officials and business leaders to discuss the role of...
Trade & Gender Scaling Knowledge and Collaboration into Action and Impact
Trade can play a powerful role in fostering equitable, sustainable growth around the world. More than ever before, efforts to bolster women’s economic empowerment through trade policies are being considered and implemented by governments, industry, and academics...
Meeting with SBA Office of Advocacy
The Global Innovation Forum organized a conversation with Rosalyn Steward, Assistant Chief Counsel, Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy to discuss the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), SBA's international trade work, and opportunities for...

Startup Global Women

The case for ambitious services market access commitments as part of the JSI on e-commerce
During the pandemic, digitalization and automation accelerated across 85 percent of companies and one in three MSMEs reported that their business would not have survived without access to digital tools. Still, in 2020, twice as many restrictive policy changes were...

Encouraging Globally-Engaged Women Entrepreneurs
How digitally-enabled networks, tools and trade policies can be gender-transformative

A Conversation with the U.S. Private Sector on Why Accelerating Implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement is a Game Changer
Join the Office of the United States Trade Representative and representatives of the U.S. private sector for a timely conversation about the importance of accelerating the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement.
Hua Wang to Lead the NFTC Foundation’s Global Innovation Forum
Washington D.C. – National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) President Jake Colvin today...
New Report Details How Digital Trade Empowers Small Businesses in the Indo-Pacific
Los Angeles — The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) Foundation’s Global Innovation...
Civil Society Support for the Moratorium on Customs Duties on Electric Transmissions
An open letter to WTO Trade Ministers: As organizations representing workers, small...
Global Innovation Forum submits ITC comments on the distributional effects of U.S. trade & trade policy on U.S. small businesses
Written submission of the Global Innovation Forum Comments Regarding the Distributional...
Global Innovation Forum Applauds U.S.-EU TTC Progress on Advancing SME Access to Digital Tools, Outlines Ongoing Priorities
The NFTC’s Global Innovation Forum commends the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council’s...
Global Innovation Forum Comments on Indo Pacific Economic Framework Digital & Small Business Priorities
These comments regarding the Indo Pacific Economic Framework were submitted by the...
Jamaica Gayle Appointed Global Innovation Forum Executive Director
Washington D.C. – National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) President Jake Colvin today...
A Roadmap to Trade & Gender Outcomes at MC12
Private sector recommendations on key actions to deliver an ambitious ministerial outcome on trade and gender for mc12 and beyond. To be considered by the Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender.
Encouraging Globally-Engaged Women Entrepreneurs
Encouraging Globally-Engaged Women Entrepreneurs How digitally-enabled networks, tools...
Global Innovation Forum, Allied for Startups, release transatlantic recommendations for promoting small business access to digital technologies
WASHINGTON D.C. — The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) Foundation’s Global...
Hua Wang to Lead the NFTC Foundation’s Global Innovation Forum
Washington D.C. – National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) President Jake Colvin today...
New Report Details How Digital Trade Empowers Small Businesses in the Indo-Pacific
Los Angeles — The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) Foundation’s Global Innovation...
Civil Society Support for the Moratorium on Customs Duties on Electric Transmissions
An open letter to WTO Trade Ministers: As organizations representing workers, small...
Global Innovation Forum submits ITC comments on the distributional effects of U.S. trade & trade policy on U.S. small businesses
Written submission of the Global Innovation Forum Comments Regarding the Distributional...
Global Innovation Forum Applauds U.S.-EU TTC Progress on Advancing SME Access to Digital Tools, Outlines Ongoing Priorities
The NFTC’s Global Innovation Forum commends the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council’s...
Global Innovation Forum Comments on Indo Pacific Economic Framework Digital & Small Business Priorities
These comments regarding the Indo Pacific Economic Framework were submitted by the...
Jamaica Gayle Appointed Global Innovation Forum Executive Director
Washington D.C. – National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) President Jake Colvin today...
A Roadmap to Trade & Gender Outcomes at MC12
Private sector recommendations on key actions to deliver an ambitious ministerial outcome on trade and gender for mc12 and beyond. To be considered by the Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender.
Encouraging Globally-Engaged Women Entrepreneurs
Encouraging Globally-Engaged Women Entrepreneurs How digitally-enabled networks, tools...
Global Innovation Forum, Allied for Startups, release transatlantic recommendations for promoting small business access to digital technologies
WASHINGTON D.C. — The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) Foundation’s Global...