US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Monday said he believes it is “pretty clear that Prime Minister Mitsotakis’s government has exceeded expectations in its first 120 days, and has done a tremendous amount of work to advance the reform agenda,” while speaking at the 4th annual ExportUSA Forum, in a central Athens hotel, ANA reports.
Greece’s trade with the United States rose up to 1.42 billion dollars through the first half of 2019, up 22.6 pct from the same period last year, Pyatt observed, while Greece’s exports to the U.S. increased 56.5 pct.
The US ambassador then referred to the agri-food sector as being the main topic at this year’s forum and noted that “one-third of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s 25 million euro donation to the Rutgers University-led ‘New Agriculture for a New Generation’ program will go toward the development of a Food Innovation and Cultivation Center designed to help Greek agri-food businesses with new product development, market analysis, and exports. Initial architectural and engineering design studies for the center will be completed next summer,” he asserted.
Meanwhile, President of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Nikolaos Bakatselos said that current Greek-US relations are at their strongest apex, while commercial relations between the two countries in the framework of the Strategic Dialogue are constantly gaining momentum, also speaking at the ExportUSA Forum on Monday.
Bakatselos added how Greek exports to the US increased by 7.17 pct in the first half of 2019, compared to the same period last year, reaching a value of 673.06 million euros and he estimated that figures can improve even more with broader business plans, more targeting and deeper specialization.
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