Connecting Exporters: 2024 Mid-America Trade Summit

Each fall, the MU International Trade Center, along with trade assistance partners from across the region, hosts the Mid-America Trade Summit.  The summit provides a unique opportunity to bring together top exporters, global trade leaders and trade assistance providers from across Mid-America. Outstanding exporters are invited to share their export stories — highlighting best practices and lessons learned that have contributed to their export success. The event also provides opportunity to recognize the companies who are achieving export success via the annual Outstanding Exporter Honoree recognitions.

The 2024 Mid-America Trade Summit attracted its largest attendee audience yet, bringing together 80 company representatives and trade assistance providers and a 100+ MU Trulaske College of Business students. Topics addressed by presenters and panel members included:

• AI for Global Business Operations
• Future Trends in Global E-Commerce
• The Nuts & Bolts of Cross Border E-Commerce
• Insight Into Export Success, and 
• Tips to Navigating a Dynamic Global Trade Environment

Delivery of the Trade Summit each year provides us with an opportunity to recognize the global business successes of small-to-medium sized companies from across the nine-date Mid-America region. In 2024 we had the opportunity to recognize the achievements of six (6) Outstanding Exporter Honorees:

• Cornsilk Company & Cornsilk World Parts – Oklahoma
• Crease Beast – Kansas
• Hyalogic, LLC – Missouri
• Mercer Valve – Oklahoma
• Mills Machine Company – Oklahoma
• Scinomix - Missouri
    

Mark your calendar and make plans to attend the 2025 Mid-America Trade Summit – Wednesday, October 8, 2025.