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ER STORY South China Business Journal

AmCham South China’s Chinese Delegation to Texas Buys
US$7.15 Billion Worth of Goods from Soup to Nuts

Chinese Cross-Border E-Commerce Initiative to create tens of thousands
of jobs in U.S.

ADELEGATION OF TOP
level Chinese companies
led by Harley Seyedin,

President of the American

Chamber of Commerce in

South China (AmCham South

China), recently completed a

visit to San Antonio, Texas.

The delegation was on a

mission to pursue investment

opportunities and to search

for consumer goods to be

exported to China. Many of

the members of the delegation

represented Cross-Border

E-Commerce companies.

The delegation met with Ivy

Taylor, Mayor of San Antonio,

and Judge Nelson Wolff,

head of Bexar County which

encompasses the City of San

Antonio and 27 other cities

in Texas. San Antonio is the

seventh largest city in the

United States.

Over an intense and

negotiation-filled seven

days, the delegation inked

MOUs valued at $7.15 billion

U.S. dollars over ten years.

This amount is expected

to increase substantially

as additional deals now

under discussion progress.

The marathon negotiation

sessions which sometimes

went into midnight hours

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