Panama Canal | Credit: Shutterstock – Chris JennerFlorida’s much-traveled governor is expected to focus on Asia for at least one trade mission in 2013.
With trade missions to Spain and Colombia, along with a summer trade exhibition planned for England in the works for this year, Gov. Rick Scott may be the state’s first governor to visit Japan and South Korea since former Gov. Lawton Chiles in 1997.
“You can rest assured that Florida will become much more active in Korea in the years to come,” Manny Mencia, Enterprise Florida’s senior vice president of international business development, said Tuesday.
Mencia was appearing as part of a panel discussion during the opening day of the two-day Florida Chamber of Commerce’s International Day at Florida State University.
“I can tell you this, Governor Scott has directed us to look at 2013 for very aggressive incursions into the Asian market,” Mencia added.
Florida already exports approximately $500 million a year, mostly in agricultural products, to South Korea.
Scott, addressing the conference earlier in the day, said growing international trade will depend on the effort the state puts into it.
“If we are the ones traveling the globe and saying ‘we want to do more business with you,’ people are
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