California State Trade Expansion Program (STEP)

Trade Winds ASEAN
2023-03-10 - 2023-03-16 | Bangkok, Thailand (Mission stop options: Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia)
Details: Access ASEAN: Exploring Business Opportunities in Southeast Asia and Beyond. Join this mission in Bangkok, Thailand for the largest U.S. government-led trade mission and business development forum. Organized by the U.S. Commercial Service, Trade Winds will feature meetings with U.S. commercial diplomats from over 20 countries in Southeast Asia and surrounding markets, exciting conference programming, and plenty of networking. Qualified U.S. businesses may customize their experience with optional business-to-business matchmaking meetings with pre-screened buyers, agents, distributors, or joint-venture partners in the land as well as Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
California STEP program will support up to 10 STEP-eligible small businesses to participate in this trade mission. Pre-registration with U.S Commercial Service and passed U.S Commercial Service vetting is required. Review the flyer to learn more.
Contact for the Trade Mission: Jim Mayfield Jim.Mayfield@trade.gov
Contract for the STEP program: Henan Li henan.li@gobiz.ca.gov

Japan Trade Mission & World Smart Energy Week (Waitlist Open until November 30, 2022)
2023-03-11 - 2023-03-18 | Tokyo/Osaka, Japan
The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development is planning an in-person clean energy trade mission to Japan from March 11-18, 2023. The trade mission will be co-led by California Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis and GO-Biz Director Dee Dee Myers and will anchor around the World Smart Energy Week trade show in Tokyo. The trade show exhibition cost will be subsidized by the California STEP program for eligible small businesses. Approved trade mission participants who are eligible for the STEP program may have the opportunity to co-exhibit at the California Pavilion at the trade show and promote their products and services to the Japanese market. Space is limited to eight small businesses and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please review the flyer and contact Henan Li to learn more.

Cosmoprof Bologna 2023
2023-03-16 - 2023-03-20 | Bologna, Italy
Join the California Pavilion at the 2023 Cosmoprof Bologna trade show! The California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) will provide $3,000 in funding to five (5) eligible California small businesses to exhibit at Cosmoprof Bologna. Join the California Pavilion to elevate your business with pavilion build out, trade support services, and international buyer matchmaking.
The California STEP Program will support up to five (5) STEP program-eligible California small businesses to participate in this event. Review the flyer to learn more.
Contact for the STEP program/California Pavilion: Mariana.Guevara@gobiz.ca.gov
Contact for the Exhibitor Registration: kimberly@caltradealliance.org
Please review the flyer to learn more.
To Register, visit our STEP grant registration portal. Select “STEP Event” as the application type, then select “Cosmoprof Bologna” from the list of events.
