Call to reopen state trade missions abroad

November 15, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle
Robert Collier, Chronicle Staff Writer

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The state's formerly grand network of 12 trade offices, shuttered in 2003 amid a budget crisis, is reduced to a small outpost -- an office in Yerevan, capital of the former Soviet republic of Armenia, that is funded by California's politically powerful Armenian American community.
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Augustine testified that Schwarzenegger supports creation of two offices in East Asia and one in Mexico -- with the exact locations to be determined -- but funded primarily by private firms rather than by the state. He called the Armenia office "a model for what we support."
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