(20 ILCS 605/605-620) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.24)
Sec. 605-620.
Exports of professional services and agricultural and
manufactured products. In cooperation with the Department of
Agriculture and the
International
Trade and Port Promotion Advisory Committee, to (i) provide
assistance to
those manufacturing and service companies that desire to export
agricultural
machinery, implements, equipment, other manufactured products, and
professional services; (ii) encourage Illinois companies to
initiate
exporting or increase their export sales of agricultural and manufactured
products; (iii) cooperate with agencies and instrumentalities of
the federal
government in trade development activities in overseas markets; (iv) conduct
the necessary research within Illinois and in overseas markets in order to
assist exporting companies; (v) promote the State of Illinois as a
source
of agricultural and manufactured products through information and promotion
campaigns overseas; and (vi) conduct an information program for
foreign
buyers of Illinois agricultural and manufactured products.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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