EDA Office of Foreign Trade • Riverside County, California • USA
November 2012
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EXPORT
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From The Office of Foreign
Trade Commissioner
EXPORT MAGAZINE
SPONSORS
W
elcome to another issue of EXPORT
Magazine! This issue illustrates what
a trade agreement can accomplish
as Riverside County EDA/ Office of
Foreign Trade and Canada work
together to export unemployed
construction workers, looking for job
opportunities, to fill construction job
vacancies in Canada. We also continue
to demonstrate the diversity of
exporters we have in Riverside County
and the level of technical expertise
being displayed by innovators who are
changing the face of manufacturing.
Headlining this issue is our recent
Job Fair in Indio, CA on December
4
th, 2012. Five hundred construction
workers descended on Indio with
hopes of landing a construction job
in Canada. This was collaboration
with Riverside County EDA/Office of
Foreign Trade and The Canada California
Business Council and the British
Columbia Construction Association.
In addition to coverage of the Job Fair
we want you to familiarize yourself with
Riverside County business owners who
are taking their products to market
all over the world and setting a great
example for companies around the
county who are interested in getting
involved in international trade.
JS Technologies/Suhr Guitars, a Lake
Elsinore company, generates about 40
percent of its sales through exports. And
with guitars that typically sell for $6,000
each, the company is doing a booming
business, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Exporting also has played a major
role in the success of Mojave Gold,
which exports about 95 percent of its
“
cluster raisins” to buyers in Japan. The
unique product – essentially a cluster
of grapes dried into raisins while still
on the vine – has developed quite a
following in high-end restaurants and
other establishments around Japan.
The product is grown and packaged
by hand in the Coachella Valley.
Masters Electric, which is developing a
product that could have far-reaching
implications for the renewable energy
industry, an industry which also holds
significant promise for Riverside County,
given our solar, wind and geothermal
resources. One problem with renewable
energy always has been what to do with
energy that is produced on sunny and
windy days, but cannot readily be fed
into the statewide power grid. Masters
Electric is developing a product that
will store that energy and communicate
with the grid to ensure that renewable
power enters the grid in a seamless way,
providing utilities with more incentive
to use solar and wind energy. This one
could be a game-changer, folks.
With warmest regards,
Tom Freeman
Commissioner, Office of Foreign Trade
