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PRONETLINK.COM TO HOLD LIVE DISCUSSIONS DURING U.S. TRADE MISSION IN LATIN AMERICA
-For release Feb 14, 2000
Live Reports from Latin America at 8:30pm EST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 14, 2000, New York, NY – ProNetLink.com®, the Global Trade Internetwork™ that provides B2B E-commerce export/import solutions, today announced that company Chairman Mr. Glenn Zagoren, who is currently on the U.S. Department of Commerce Trade Mission to Latin America with Secretary of Commerce William Daley, will host live chats on the ProNetLink.com site at the end of each day's events. The mission will include meetings with each President, ministers and key business associations in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
The Global Trade Chats will take place each evening starting at approximately 8:30pm EST on pronetlink.com">www.pronetlink.com in the Import/Export Discussion Room. All members and guests are invited to participate in the discussion.
The mission schedule is as follows:
Sun, February 13, Brasilia
Mon, February 14, Brasilia, Sao Paulo
Tues, February 15, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires
Wed, February 16, Buenos Aires
Thurs, February 17, Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Santiago
Fri, February 18, Santiago
Due to the fact that the Trade delegation will be attending many meetings and moving through many locations and time zones, ProNetLink can not guarantee that Mr. Zagoren will available exactly at 8:30 in order to log on. All efforts will be made to maintain this schedule. Confimed times will appear daily in the On-Line Events section of the initial ProNetLink.com page.
Overview
The Latin America mission is focused on three key growth sectors -- information and communications technology, environment and energy. Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, together with Paraguay, form Mercosur, the acronym in Spanish for the Southern Common Market, the world's fourth largest economic area, a customs union with a population in excess of 200 million people and a combined GDP of approximately $1 trillion. Chile, along with Bolivia, is an associate member of Mercosur.
The mission will further both U.S. commercial policy objectives and advance specific business interests. It is aimed at:
- Introducing American companies to Mercosur and promoting expanded commercial opportunities in Mercosur;
- Advocating on behalf of U.S. firms already active in Mercosur;
- Resolving market access issues for U.S. companies in Mercosur, particularly in light of Mercosur's integration efforts, both internally and with other markets; and
- Advancing U.S. economic/commercial policy objectives in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, particularly as it will allow the Secretary to engage Argentine officials in a timely discussion of their FTAA goals, as they will have the Chairmanship of the FTAA process.
The Secretary and participating U.S. companies will be among the first high-level U.S. officials to interact with the newly elected governments in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.
In October 1999, ProNetLink.com traveled to the Middle East with the Secretary and had the honor of being the first ‘Dot.com” company to participate in a Presidential Trade Mission. During that mission ProNetLink.com was introduced to key government and business leaders in Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. That mission was directly responsible for the successful expansion of ProNetLink.com into the Middle East marketplace.
About ProNetLink.com
ProNetLink.com, The Global Trade Internetwork, is a comprehensive business-to-business E-commerce portal designed specifically for the international trade community. The site features procurement, logistics, finance, insurance, certification, compliance, seminars and other tools critical to businesses looking to expand into the global marketplace, particularly SME's. In addition to locating potential markets and trade partners, ProNetLink.com members may conduct business functions online, participate in live trade event netcasts, communicate in real-time with trading partners and receive the critical information and resources necessary for the continued growth of their businesses. ProNetLink.com currently has member companies from 106 countries.
ProNetLink.com also features PNL-TV, the Internet's first trade news broadcast network. PNL-TV broadcasts a live newscast Monday through Friday at 11:00AM EST featuring current global trade news, interviews with government and international business leaders and reports from correspondents from around the world. PNL-TV can be accessed through the ProNetLink.com home page or directly by visiting www.PNLTV.com.
Headquartered in New York City, ProNetLink.com maintains sales throughout the world. For more information, please contact ProNetLink.com at (212) 688-8838, email: info@pronetlink.com. ProNetLink can be reached online at pronetlink.com.
ProNetLink.com is publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange OTC Bulletin Board: PNLK (PNLK.OB).
This release contains, in addition to historical information, forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect ProNetLink.com's current judgments of those issues. However, because those statements are forward-looking and apply to future events, they are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause the Company's results to differ materially. |
