Form ITA-725P Application for the President's "E" and "E" Star Awards

OMB Control No. 0625-0065

Expiration: 8/31/2011

Application for the President’s
E and E Star Awards
Applicants should complete the application and the IRS waiver form and submit one signed electronic copy of each to the U.S. and Foreign
Commercial Service (herein U.S. Commercial Service). Except where required by law, no information or data will be disclosed to persons not involved
in processing this application without the applicant’s prior written consent.
For further details about the E Award program or to locate a U.S. Commercial Service office near you, call 800-USA-TRADE or visit export.gov/exportawards.

1. Application Information: Type of Application
To be eligible for an E Star Award, applicant must be a prior E Award recipient.

q E Award for Exports
q E Star Award for Exports

q E Award for Export Service
q E Star Award for Export Service

E Star Applicants: Year of previous E Award receipt:________________

3. Operations
Business or organization type (Manufacturer, Distributor, Trade Association, etc.):
________________________________________________________________
Description of product or service exported:________________________________
________________________________________________________________

2. Contact Information

________________________________________________________________

Company/organization name:__________________________________
Division or subsidiary of:______________________________________
Company or organization name on certificate (if selected):
________________________________________________________
Street Address:_____________________________________________
City/State/Zip:_____________________________________________
Website:__________________________________________________
Point of contact name:_______________________________________
Point of contact phone:_______________________________________
Point of contact e-mail:_______________________________________

________________________________________________________________
Does your company file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission?
q Yes q No
Number of U.S. employees:____________________________________________
Total number of countries currently exporting to:___________________________
Top three countries of export for the previous four years:
1._______________________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________________
3._______________________________________________________________

4. E Award for Exports or E Star Award for Exports Applicants: U.S. Export Statistics
Provide figures for each of the past four (4) years (either calendar or corporate fiscal), plus your most recent quarterly data. Data should include shipments to Canada and Mexico, but not
Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands. Do not include income from licensing agreements in sales figures; list licensing income separately. E Star applicants may list figures for three (3) years.

Year

Total Sales

Export Sales

International Licensing Sales

1. ________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________
2. ________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________
3. ________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________
4. ________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________
5. Justification for Award
In a separate document, use
the applicable following outline
to describe your organization’s
contribution to U.S. Export
Expansion.
Applicants for the E Star Award
must meet the criteria of the
E Award and exceed the level
of export achievement of the
original E Award period. The most
recent three-year period of export
operations or export service will
be considered for the E Star Award
and should not overlap any
portion of the period covered by
the previously-awarded E Award.

5a. E Award for Exports or E Star Award for Exports Applicants
In no more than five pages, describe how you have increased exports. Address all questions below.
E Star Applicants: Address all items below and describe how marketing activities have increased since receiving the E Award. If available, also
attach a copy of the previously-successful E Award application.
Educational institutions: In addition to the following export-related activities, please provide statistical increases in attendance.

1. What market research do you conduct?
2. What is your international sales model? (E.g. direct sales, distributors/agents)
3. What government and private sector export promotion events do you participate in?
4. Describe any instances in which you had to retrofit or redesign products or services to sell them in an international market.
5. What exporting-related training have you conducted for your employees and/or international customers?
6. How do you overcome language obstacles with your international customers?
7. Describe any trade barriers your organization has faced and how they were overcome.
8. If applicable, describe how you have developed a market abroad for products not previously exported.
9. If applicable, describe how you have opened a new market previously closed or extremely limited to American companies.
10. Describe any other strategies you employ for increasing international sales.
11. Describe how increased exports have affected employment for your organization.

5b. E Award for Export Service or E Star Award for Export Service Applicants
In no more than eight pages, address all items related to export services provided to others. For each item, please include a description of the results achieved by your claims.
E Star Applicants: Address all items below and describe how services to exporters have increased since receiving the E Award. If available, also attach a copy of the previously-successful
E Award application.
Port Authorities: In addition to completing the items below, please provide data on increased exports and export tonnage during the four-year period.
Financial Institutions: In addition to completing the items below, please provide the actual amounts of the various types of export financing extended to exporters for the
four-year period, including: (A) Total Lending Activities: Domestic and International (export loans, import loans, Euro-dollar loans, and loans to foreign banks, corporate entities
and individuals); (B) Deposits: Demand, Time (including savings), Deposits in your own foreign branches; (C) Other: Acceptances.

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What seminars, workshops, or conferences has your organization conducted?
How have you notified exporters of trade opportunities?
What documentation assistance have you provided to exporters?
Describe any overseas trade missions that you have sponsored.
Describe any programs you provided for overseas businesses.
Describe any other export services that you provide.
Provide three cases studies describing exporters that have increased exports as a result of your help, being sure to describe the ways in which your activities
helped; alternately, describe how the organization’s activities have resulted in community-wide export expansion.

6. E Star Award for Exports and E Star Award for Export Service Applicants
Applicants for the E Star Award must meet the same criteria as for the E Award and exceed the level of export achievement of the E Award period. The most recent three-year period of
export operations or export service will be considered for the E Star and should not overlap any portion of the period covered by the E Award.

• Follow the outline for exporter or export servicer (Section V), entering information as required for the Award with an emphasis on how marketing activities or
services to exporters have increased since receiving the E Award.
• Attach a copy of the previously-successful E Award application to this application, if available.

Grant of License: Award recipients are hereby granted a license to use their respective award logos on their publications, websites, advertising, flags, pendants,
and pins within the context of being an award recipient. This use is limited to branding the award recipients as an E or E Star Award winner. Recipients may not use
the logo to claim that the Department of Commerce promotes or endorses their company, products, and/or services.
Quality Control: The Department of Commerce shall have the right, at all reasonable times, to inspect the award recipient’s goods, services, and promotional
activities employing the award logo to ensure that such use is of proper quality and otherwise consistent with this Agreement, and may terminate the license
should it determine that the use is inconsistent with this Agreement.
Duration and Termination: This license is granted in perpetuity.
Assignments and Sub-Licenses: This License is not assignable. Award winners may not share the use of the logo with any other persons, organization, or
company, nor may it transfer or assign its license to use the logos if its company is sold, merged, or reconfigured. Notwithstanding this provision, the award winner
may hire subcontractors to perform manufacturing and distribution activities under this Agreement.
By submitting this application, the applicant authorizes federal agencies and commissions to provide the U.S. Department of Commerce with information
pertaining to the application for purposes of determining the applicant’s eligibility and fitness to receive the award for which it is applying.

Applicant: I have reviewed the information provided in this application and certify that, to the best of my knowledge, all the information provided is true
and correct. I understand that this application will be reviewed by an Interagency Review Committee.

Senior Executive Name_________________________________________________________ Date_______________
Title_________________________________________________ Signature_________________________________
U.S. Commercial Service Nominating Employee: I certify that, to the best of my knowledge, this applicant meets the Service Eligibility Guidelines
of the U.S. Commercial Service.

Name ________________________________ Signature_____________________________ Date_______________
U.S. Commercial Service Network Director:

Name ________________________________ Signature_____________________________ Date_______________

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