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Highly educated in economics and medicine, and with knowledge of agriculture and experience with the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation, Dr. Shah will help USAID establish priorities that are clear and correct.&#160; We hope to see no more of the dark days when, for example, USAID officials called for <u>more</u> food security as they invested <u>less</u> in agricultural development.</font></p><p id="ctrl-29024332">&#160;</p> <p id="ctrl-29024333"><b><font color="#000000" style="font-size:16px;">Anatomy of a Buyer-Seller Meet</font></b></p><p id="ctrl-29024334"><font color="#000000">&#160;</font></p><p id="ctrl-29024335"><font color="#000000">On October 21 and 22, the Interamerican Development Bank held a buyer-seller meet in Cancun, Mexico that was highly successful.&#160; Here are some of the elements that we think made it so:</font></p><ul><li><font color="#000000">Selection of specific product types, within the category of agriculture and food</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Careful selection of about 90 exporters from 10 Latin American countries</font></li><li> <font color="#000000">Extensive work to recruit U.S. importers who could import the selected products and who believed in the goal of increasing international trade</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Scheduling the meetings so each buyer could speak first with the exporters to whom he/she assigned top priority</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Establishing an informal atmosphere, with everyone in one room, so the exporters could drop in  on buyers who were temporarily free.</font></li></ul><p id="ctrl-29024342"><font color="#000000">&#160;</font></p><p id="ctrl-29024343"> <font color="#000000">An early follow-up survey showed deals expected, as a result of the meet, in the tens of millions of dollars.</font></p><p id="ctrl-29024344"><font color="#000000">&#160;</font></p><p id="ctrl-29024345"><b><font color="#000000" style="font-size:16px;">Brokerage Activities</font></b></p><p id="ctrl-29024346"><font color="#000000">&#160;</font></p><p id="ctrl-29024347"> <font color="#000000">After 13 years of consulting in international trade, Plans and Solutions is testing the idea of expanding into international brokerage. We have started working with an integrated firm in South America that expects to have a container-load of IQF mango chunks, per week for 18 weeks, begin the December 1.&#160; The first quotation, Ex-Dock / Long Beach, has just been delivered.</font></p><p id="ctrl-29024348">&#160;</p><p id="ctrl-29024349" align="center">&#160;</p><p id="ctrl-29024350" align="center"><b>Plans and Solutions, Inc.,</b> Maryland, USA</p><p id="ctrl-29024351" align="center"> <a href="http://www.plansandsolutions.com/" class="userlink">www.plansandsolutions.com</a>, <a href="http://www.mercadodestino.com/" class="userlink">www.mercadodestino.com</a></p><p id="ctrl-29024354" align="center">Phone 301-947-8150</p></div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td valign="top" width="56" bgcolor="#E1E88E"></td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" align="center" style="text-align:left;"><tr height="113"><td colspan="300" width="600"><img src="http://www.vpweb.com/em/0/3/5/0358f4e3-df55-4bb7-b56e-7dfdb01873e5/preview/9f6c2c60-181b-4dca-85fa-aeac7ee4d7c2/bg-5.jpeg" width="600" height="113" galleryimg="no" style="display:block;"></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="300" bgcolor="#adc55f" align="center"><div style="font-family: Verdana; color: #404040; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; ;margin-top: 36px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-family: Verdana; color: #404040; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><tr><td emailfooter="true" style="text-align:left;"><span id="spanFooterText">This email was sent to plansolv@aol.com by Ken Weiss, Plans and Solutions Inc. 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