Due to the USA’s vital significance as a partner of German Business, the Bureau of the Representative of German Industry and Trade (RGIT) was founded in 1988 as a joint organization of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour. The set-up and tasks of the RGIT are unique in the German promotion of foreign trade and are a result of the special importance of both the economic and the economic-policy ties between the Federal Republic and the USA, as well as the USA’s significance in the multilateral context, in relation to the EU and within the framework of the WTO.
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