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最近,世界各地的美国驻外大使馆在几乎同步地进行着一个网站——BuyUSA.com的推广活动。BuyUSA.com到底有什么背景呢?这是IBM帮助美国商务部构建的B2B电子商务交易网站,美国商务部希望该网站可以帮助他们提高效率,简化手续,从而大幅度提高美国中小企业的对外贸易数额。BuyUSA.com确实带来了收益和效率,在过去没有网站时这些可能会花费一个月之久的工作现在只需一天就能完成了。美国商务部在85个国家拥有157个办事处,有1000多个具有丰富国际贸易经验的工作人员他们致力于帮助美国的企业在全球寻找商业机会和合作伙伴,扩大出口贸易。要保证出口的持续增长,美国政府必须充分重视中小企业在这个领域中发挥的作用,有数字显示:美国1998年中小企业创造的出口贸易额占美国总的出口贸易额的30.6％。但是,中小企业的在出口贸易上的潜
Recently, the embassies of the U.S. embassies around the world have launched a website, BuyUUSA.com, almost simultaneously. What is BuyUSA.com in the end? This is IBM’s B2B e-commerce website for the U.S. Department of Commerce. The U.S. Commerce Department hopes the website will help them to be more efficient and streamline their formalities so as to substantially increase the foreign trade volume of U.S. SMEs . BuyUSA.com does come with benefits and efficiencies that could have taken only a day in the past with no web site. The U.S. Department of Commerce has 157 offices in 85 countries and more than 1,000 staff with extensive international trade experience. They are dedicated to helping U.S. businesses find business opportunities and partners around the world to expand their exports. To ensure the sustained growth of exports, the U.S. government must give full attention to the role played by SMEs in this field. Figures show that in 1998 the U.S.-based export trade created by SMEs accounted for 30.6% of the total U.S. exports. However, the potential of SMEs in export trade