Commerce Announces New 'Expedited Trade Missions' With Short Recruitment Deadlines

The Commerce Department is setting new procedures for “Expedited Trade Missions” with shorter recruitment timelines (here). Under the expedited procedures, recruitment and selection for export promotion missions will take place over two to three weeks, with deadlines “extremely compressed” for making arrangements to participate, said Commerce. Rather than issue a Federal Register notice for expedited trade missions, Commerce will post a notice on its website (here). Given the short timelines, Commerce is also creating a “Ready Applicant Pool” of companies ready “to send a high-level representative to participate on an expedited trade mission to any location, at any time, on very short notice,” it said (here).