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| Founded | 11. August 1988 |
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| Website | www.rgit-usa.com |
The Representative of German Industry and Trade (RGIT) is the Washington, DC liaison office of the (BDI) and the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK). Daniel Andrich has been the Representative of German Industry and Trade since July 2016.
RGIT represents positions and concerns before the US Administration, Congress as well as international organizations in Washington, DC on behalf of the elected representatives of the German industry. The liaison office cultivates contacts to companies, trade and business associations, political foundations as well as think tanks, and reports regularly on current economic policy developments in the US. RGIT’s mission is to foster transatlantic free trade and support a favorable business environment in order to achieve sustainable economic growth, to robust employment numbers and to foster innovation in German-American business relations.
RGIT’s principals are the BDI and the DIHK. The BDI represents 37 sector associations, 15 regional offices, and approx. 100,000 companies, with a total workforce of about eight million employees. The DIHK represents the interests of the 80 German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (CCIs) and their 3.6 million member companies from industry, trade and service sectors. RGIT is supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) as part of their foreign trade promotion.
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