Access to China: Opportunities and Challenges Export Lunch & Learn Webinar

Although a challenging marketplace, China’s vast size, growing wealth, changing demographics and economic transformation continues to create opportunities for well-prepared US firms. Indiana’s exports to China have increased 164% over the past 10 years, far outpacing our state’s export growth to our other leading trade partners making China Indiana’s 3rd largest export market.

Over the past two decades, China’s middle class has experienced one of the fastest growth rates in the world, generating demand for a broad range of products – including those made in Indiana.

Join us on July 20, 2023, Noon to 1pm for an Export Lunch & Learn Webinar as we discuss current opportunities and challenges in the Chinese market. We’ll hear speakers from the US – China Business Council, the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, Cook Medical Group and Vista Nuclear Solutions. Q&A will extend until 1:15 to accommodate questions from attendees.

SPEAKERS:

Kyle Sullivan is vice president of business advisory services at the US-China Business Council based in Washington, DC, where he oversees USCBC’s research and analysis for member companies. Prior to joining USCBC, Kyle served as a vice president in the Albright Stonebridge Group’s China practice in Washington, where he advised portfolio investors on domestic policy and market trends in China.

Greg Tyler was appointed as the President & Chief Executive Officer for the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) on July 1, 2022. USAPEEC is an industry-sponsored trade organization dedicated to increasing exports of U.S. poultry and egg products in all foreign markets through marketing, trade policy, and technical programs.

Lloyd Porter, an IDEC Member, joined Bloomington-based Cook Group in 2015, and currently holds the position of Sr. Director, Global Trade Compliance. In this role, Lloyd supports Cook Group’s medical device, life sciences, services, aviation, and other group affiliates’ global operations. With over 25 years of background in international business and compliance, Lloyd’s trade career prior to joining Cook includes work in multiple manufacturing concerns.

Dennis Kelley, an IDEC Member, set up Cummins’ China office in Beijing in 1982. In 1986, Cummins established Pacific World Trade – their first Purchasing Office in China. Dennis was President of PWT which became a diversified import/export business in China for 32 years. During this time Dennis was Director of China Operations for the State of Indiana. Today, Dennis is President of Vista Nuclear Solutions, a global exporter of high-tech polymers for the solidification of radioactive liquids generated at nuclear sites.