Representative of German Industry and Trade

Representative
of German Industry and Trade
Founded 11. August 1988
Location
  • Washington, D.C.
Key people
  • Delegate: Thomas Zielke
  • Deputy: Kevin Heidenreich
Employees
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Website www.rgit-usa.com
Thomas Zielke, Representative of German Industry and Trade
BDI President H.-P. Keitel at a RGIT-Conference
RGIT-Conference "Skilled Labor": Thomas Zielke, Martin Wansleben (DIHK), Tony Zeiss (Central Piedmont Community College, NC), Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-5th NC), Hans-Peter Mengele (IHK Karlsruhe)

The Representative of German Industry and Trade (RGIT) is the Washington, DC liaison office of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK). Thomas Zielke has been the Representative of German Industry and Trade since January, 2011.

Mission

RGIT represents positions and concerns before the US Administration, Congress as well as international organizations in Washington, DC on behalf of the elected representatives of the German industry. The liaison office cultivates contacts to companies, trade and business associations, political foundations as well as think tanks, and reports regularly on current economic policy developments in the US. RGIT’s mission is to foster transatlantic free trade and support a favorable business environment in order to achieve sustainable economic growth, to robust employment numbers and to foster innovation in German-American business relations.

Principals: BDI and DIHK

RGIT’s principals are the BDI und DIHK. The BDI represents 37 sector associations, 15 regional offices, and approx. 100,000 companies, with a total workforce of about eight million employees. The DIHK represents the interests of the 80 German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (CCIs) and their 3.6 million member companies from industry, trade and service sectors. RGIT is supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) as part of their foreign trade promotion.

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