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Welcome to the Minority Chamber of Commerce’s Web site, your portal to quick and comprehensive information about our programs, services and other important functions in our community for local and international economic development. Our Spanish and Portuguese section will be shortly online.

The Economic Development Department is Minority Chamber's lead section for economic, community, workforce and relocation development. Through our regulatory area, we also work to safeguard the businesses interest by ensuring just and reasonable services in their interest to capitalize opportunities and resources.

Our immediately mission will be to supporting Economic Vitality through Supplier Diversity Initiatives: The Chamber is committed to providing women-, minority-, and service-disabled-veteran-owned business enterprises with the economic opportunities to supply products and services required by governments and companies in the state of Florida. This is our priority in this moment.

As your partner for progress, we are eager to strengthen the public/private partnerships that have always united our great state – the partnerships that are critical in our efforts to move Florida forward as a leading state in the 21 st century, it’s our main commitment. Furthermore, as director I am committed to improving the chamber’s business climate in support of economic and entrepreneurial growth, most to those with interest to start up a business.

Welcome to Minority Chamber Of Commerce, your gateway to a world of resources, events, histories and programs.

Our goal is to help keep you informed as a good tool and knowledgeable business center.

Its official the Chamber is moving South America! And here is the information about our new international satellite, Colombia. We have been in Colombia for just a week and completely finish our report, investigation and conclusion about how to do business with Colombia. We need to forget all the bad things you have seen, read or heard about this huge country for we have had nothing but a great opportunity to do business for U.S Minority Companies. There are parts of the Colombia that are completely off bounds for us, but our experience has been simply fantastic and sure about our commitment to support U.S Companies to facility in our office here , “an easy way to do business with Colombia”.

Colombia had the largest overall improvement of any country in the hemisphere, and was the sixth best reformer globally. Colombia is now the 12th best place to “do business” out of the 31 countries in the hemisphere. It ranks 4th in the hemisphere in Protecting Investors. According to the report, Colombia, the region’s top reformer, made great strides in easing trade. The Government extended port operating hours and adopted more selective customs inspections, which reduced the time for port and terminal handling activities by ten days. Additionally, Colombia strengthened investor protections by increasing disclosure requirements for related-party transactions, and cut the average time burden of tax compliance by 41 percent.

It's only the beginning to present and support U.S Companies with contacts, laws and a description and security in Colombia. It’s necessary to reconsider to be approving the Free Trade Agreement; our chamber of commerce is making an appeal for our economy. If you need to do business in Colombia, just contact me. The Minority Chamber of Commerce is very proud to announce our offices in Cali and Bogota, Colombia. Our director for the country is Dr. Carlos Canencio.

Recently, we had the opportunity to travel to Cali and Bogotá, Colombia to document some of the amazing advances going on in the businesses movement there. We spent an entire week getting resource, making interview and visualize all aspect of the Colombian marketplace. This is the time to do business with Colombia.

This is such a busy time for the Chamber. We will be having our Planning Conference July 11 & 12

The Event of the Year: International Trade Days Summit Miami 2008

Coming up July 11 & 12, 2008: The Miami International Trade Days Summit 2008 will be uniquely showcased with hundreds of Exhibitors in Beverage, Food, Construction, Apparel, Furniture, Textile and others items from international Small-Micro companies , and sponsored by the Corporate Members of the Minority chamber of Commerce. The co-location of the two days event will feature more than 100 leading suppliers of food, beverage, construction, furniture, textiles and others commodities to create a one-stop shopping experience for industry professional seeking the latest to promote in U.S marketplace. Exhibiting companies will converge from nearly 12 countries from Central-South American & the Caribbean, and attendance at the event is expected to reach 500 retail, foodservice business professionals, warehousing, supermarkets, wholesalers, distributors, and construction and decision makers from U.S Minority Companies. For more information: http://www.export-import-expo.org/