The Turkish American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TACCI) is a
non-profit membership organization located in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

. It was founded
in 2002.

Vision

TACCI's vision is establishing infrastructure

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...

 and strategy necessary to
increase and foster bilateral trade and investment opportunities between
U.S.

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

.

Mission

TACCI's mission is ensuring attainment of targeted trade

International trade

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories. In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of gross domestic product...

 and investment

Investment

Investment has different meanings in finance and economics. Finance investment is putting money into something with the expectation of gain, that upon thorough analysis, has a high degree of security for the principal amount, as well as security of return, within an expected period of time...

objectives between U.S. and Turkey and ensuring selection of qualified
Turkish industries / firms with potential to become global brands and
facilitating their global expansion efforts in the U.S..

Operations

TACCI's operations are made up of three core areas: membership, events, and business services. As a membership organization TACCI is based around its members. The member companies are both from both Turkey and the U.S. and represent large as well as small companies. TACCI regularly organizes a large selection of events. Events are mainly for the members, but are often open for anyone to join. They include seminars, luncheons, conferences, and galas. TACCI's consulting practice is known as Business Services.

Services

TACCI services include business development programs, industry and trend reports, export consulting and training, business relations and speaker engagements. Business Services also publishes Information on the web that covers fundamentals of transatlantic business.