We are working hard to improve things ourselves, as the answer to the following question illustrates. We understand the U.S. Embassy in Singapore is considering a pilot program to improve assistance to small and medium size U.S. companies desiring to export to Singapore. This program, SesaME, has been in operation since early this year. It is designed to inform and encourage American SME's to look at exporting to Singapore and through Singapore to the rest of Southeast Asia. SesaME will keep SME's current on market opportunities and link them to services that can find them agents, distributors or joint venture partners.
SesaME is supported by major Singapore and American public and private business organizations.
Actually almost any field is open to American SME's. A better question is what fields are not open to American companies. There are very few if any. There are literally thousand's of Singapore SME's already representing American products in the Singapore and regional markets. We know they are eager indeed to handle more product lines and business.