{"id":7071,"date":"2012-05-04T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=7071"},"modified":"2012-05-04T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:53:07","slug":"four-idaho-companies-report-positive-results-from-china-trade-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/05\/04\/four-idaho-companies-report-positive-results-from-china-trade-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Idaho Companies Report Positive Results From China Trade Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moxie Java was one of the 16 companies to join the state's recent trade mission to China.<\/p><\/div>\n

Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter is touting the results of last month\u2019s trade mission to China.\u00a0 Fifteen Idaho companies and organizations<\/a> joined the mission.\u00a0 Half were already doing business in China and went in hopes of expanding their current reach, while others went seeking a foothold in the market.<\/p>\n

Gov. Otter says those initial meetings are key.\u00a0 “I think any time they can build a relationship with a company in China that sees the value of their product in that marketplace,” he says, “that\u2019s obviously great potential for the future.”<\/p>\n

AMET, Inc., a Rexburg company that manufactures welding control systems, estimates its exports to China will increase by $1.5 million as a result of the mission.\u00a0 Moscow-based BioTracking LLC signed an agreement to sell testing supplies to a large Chinese dairy company called Shanghai Bright Dairy Holstan.\u00a0 BioTracking’s tests very accurately determine pregnancy in dairy herds.<\/p>\n

Idaho Falls-based DocuTech and the Idaho Potato Commission also report progress resulting from the trade trip.\u00a0 Department of Commerce spokeswoman Megan Ronk says the other participating companies chose not publicize the results of the mission.\u00a0 “Sales figures and so forth — it’s up to their discretion whether they want to talk about that,” she says.<\/p>\n

“What I can say is that, across the board, there were a number of very important relationships that were developed, relationships that we think will result in future sales.”<\/p>\n

Receiving $625.9 million in exports from Idaho last year, China is the third-largest foreign market<\/a> for Idaho goods.\u00a0 The trade mission reportedly cost the state about $18,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter is touting the results of last month\u2019s trade mission to China.\u00a0 Fifteen Idaho companies and organizations joined the mission.\u00a0 Half were already doing business in China and went in hopes of expanding their current reach, while others went seeking a foothold in the market. Gov. Otter says those initial meetings are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[68,27,35,157],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}