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COVID-19 RESOURCES

The IACCSE wants to help you navigate through the overwhelming
information that is out there, by saving you time and guiding you
through what is most useful to your business right now.
 

We have created a dedicated space for relief options and
other available resources on important matters related to Covid-19 crisis:

  • U.S. Small Business Administration – DISASTER ASSISTANCE
    Read here
  • US Chamber of Commerce – SMALL BUSINESSES RESOURCES TO FACE THE EMERGENCY
    Read here
  • Internal Revenue Service – CORONAVIRUS TAX RELIEF AND IMPACT PAYMENTS
    Read here
  • The Beacon Council – COVID-19 UPDATES AND RESOURCES
    Read here
  • NRA – BUSINESS CONTINUITY BASICS FOR RESTAURANT OWNERS
    Read here
  • FIU Chaplin School – HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY RELIEF FUND 
  • Deloitte – RESILIENT PODCAST: HOW BUSINESSES CAN CONFRONT THE COVID-19 CRISIS
    Read here
  • Harvard Business School – MANAGING THROUGH CRISIS RESOURCES
    Read here
  • Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico – ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR COMPANIES IN ITALY (in Italian)
    Read here
  • Consulate of Italy – COVID-19: CONTACTS FOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE (in Italian)
    Read here 

 

Feel free to share this information and help the community together with us!

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For our businesses. For our community.

“This moment humanity is going through can be seen as a portal and as a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is up to you. If they repent of the problem and consume the news 24 hours a day, with little energy, nervous all the time, with pessimism, they will fall into the hole. But if you take this opportunity to look at yourself, rethink life and death, take care of yourself and others, you will cross the portal.”
 
-White Eagle, indigenous Hopi elder, March 2020
 
 
Dear IACCSE Members and Friends,
 
As the spread of coronavirus has touched just about every aspect of our daily lives, we at the IACCSE fully understand our responsibility to keep doing what we do best: support our Members and our business community through information, collaboration, and innovation.
 
During this time of social distancing, to ensure business continuity, we are working harder than ever on new forms of online engagement and virtual tools available to you: webinars, virtual business breakfasts, the business expert channel (a valuable video marketing tool soon available to you), to keep maximizing your exposure and promotion in the market.
 
We are going through this only if we stay together, day by day, doing our part in working to make a positive impact on our community in a moment in time when it is vital to stay united.
 
Being aware of what you can share in terms of expertise and being connected with other entrepreneurs, is what matters the most today.
 
It is crucial to support one another and stick together by sharing ideas, and leveraging the IACCSE’s assets available to each one of you (website, social media pages, newsletter and other), in order to stay responsive and resilient in the midst of  the current COVID-19 crisis and to plan a new growth once the emergency is over.
 
The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce mission is to act as your beacon.
 
In times like this one, the Membership to the Chamber becomes an even more powerful ally, making you feel part of a group, a community in which no one stands alone, yet is part of a robust business network defined by creativity and integrity. 
 
We therefore encourage you to keep supporting each other, stay connected with the Chamber, taking an active role and participating whenever possible to our initiatives, especially in these unprecedented times.
 
We are deeply grateful for those of you that have showed continued support and partnership and for being with us, as we work through this emergency.
 
We are here for you.
 

Tommaso Cardana
President
Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast
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The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on contractual obligations

By EXP Legal

 

The spread of Covid-19 pandemic is having a strong impact on contractual relationships, as it poses the question of the legitimacy of a delayed or a missed fulfillment of the obligations undertaken by the parties under the contract.
The Cura Italia Decree explicitly provides that the compliance with the containment measures is always assessed for the purposes of excluding the liability of the obliged party pursuant to and for the purposes of Articles 1218 and 1223 of the Italian Civil Code. Such provisions exclude the liability for damages compensation when the obliged party proves that the failure or delay was caused by the impossibility of the performance deriving from cause not attributable to him.
It follows that, as long as the objective possibility of the performance remains, the obliged party is always liable. Only when the impossibility of the performance occurred, and this may depend also on prohibitions arising from legislative or administrative measures (i.e. factum principis), the obliged person is admitted to the release proof aimed at demonstrating that the impossibility is absolute, objective and unsurpassed, related to force majeure or to unforeseeable circumstances.
It seems reasonable to conclude, therefore, that the extraordinary and unpredictable nature of the spread of the epidemic from Covid-19 can be interpreted as a force majeure cause, like, for example, cyclones, floods, earthquakes, wars, etc., that would exclude the liability on the assumption that the obliged party proves that the performance has become objectively impossible due to the containment measures imposed by the extraordinary legislation (factum principis).
Should the performance not be objectively impossible, the obliged party may invoke the excessive burdensome of his performance asking for the termination of the contract or the reduction of his obligation, pursuant to Articles 1467 of the Italian Civil Code.
Contact info@explegal.it for more details and information.
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The impact of COVID-19 on Transfer Pricing Policies

By BGSM & Partners 

 

The Covid-19 outbreak has led many companies to adopt new strategies aimed at optimizing their business and their financial management. In particular, multinational companies are advised to review their business models by which they operate globally, and it is also advisable, consequently to the first operation, to adapt the transfer pricing policies to the changed economic scenario through special means (as reasonable arrangements), in compliance with the arm’s length principles.
 
In this context, the importance given by an appropriate documentation, that allows to support the applied transfer pricing policies, is enhanced.

 
The economic crisis has also had important consequences on cash flow, on EBIT (E
arnings Before Interest and Tax), on sales made and on multinational groups’ value chain.
 
Therefore, this economic uncertainty should lead companies to consider the possibility of using means aimed at establishing the most appropriate transfer pricing adjustments.
 
Economic crisis could also have an impact on those companies that have drawn up Advance Pricing Agreements (APA) with terms and conditions that are currently difficult to fulfill.
 
Therefore, these companies may not be able to fulfill the provisions agreed with the financial administration for the determination of transfer prices.
 
In this case, it will be necessary to re-define the agreement’s terms in order to include critical assumptions’ clauses that allow to make a more flexible choice about pricing methods or, in any case, it will be necessary to include clauses that provide for an express flexibility of the agreements.
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TREND Group response to COVID-19 to support the community

by Trend Transformations 

 

TREND Group and TREND Transformations are doing their part to fight the spread of Corona Virus by way of manufacturing and delivering lightweight tables covered with etherium™ by E-Stone surfaces, to be used as a safe and effective workstation surface for COVID-19 treatment check-in and administrative workspaces.

These tables are made of engineered stone materials (quartz) which are then treated with an antimicrobial finish to increase emergency response personnel and patient safety.
Finished tables to be used at critical care sites as front-line workstations and check-in points, information station, command center workspaces.
Tables are being distributed to:
  • Hospitals – outdoor testing, reception and assessment points, mobile command centers
  • Fire stations – outdoor testing, reception and assessment points, mobile command centers
  • Community – converted public and private facilities set up as testing centers
TREND Group and TREND Transformations are playing an essential role in our community by protecting front-line and first respondersservicing patients and coworkers at critical touchpoints to help reduce the spread of the virus.

If you know of entities or places that can benefit from the use of these safe tables, please contact them at: (954)296-0085 or ricardow@trend-transformations.com.
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Programmi di sostegno economico USA per le piccole e medie imprese – Sintesi in lingua italiana

La Italy-America Chamber of Commerce è in prima linea per orientare le proprie aziende associate, in questo momento di emergenza.

Ora più che mai, la nostra missione è quella di far sì che la business community italiana negli USA usufruisca della nostra rete di contatti e siano continuamente aggiornata sulle misure di aiuto messe in campo dal governo americano.

Abbiamo dunque preparato un riassunto in lingua italiana delle principali linee di finanziamento e prestiti a basso interesse erogati dalla U.S. Small Business Administration come risposta all’emergenza sanitaria COVID-19.

L’informativa comprende una lista di programmi di prestito disponibili da subito per le piccole e medie imprese e delinea quali sono i requisiti minimi, i termini, le modalità, e le scadenze relative.

Il pacchetto informativo è disponibile qui:

PACCHETTO INFORMATIVO

 

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WEBINAR: Emergency Loans for Small Businesses

Presented by Diana Londono
Vice President, International Economic Development
at Miami-Dade Beacon Council

WHEN

Thursday, March 26, 2020
3:00-3:45pm

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

FREE – Open to IACCSE Members only

Register HERE

Deadline for registration: Thursday, March 26 at 10am

About Emergency Loans for Small Businesses

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is offering
designated states and territories low-interest federal disaster loans for working capital to small businesses suffering substantial economic injury as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). 
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A few things to HELP LOCAL BUSINESSES from the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast

 

In these unprecedented difficult times for Italy and for the US, we encourage all businesses to support one another.

Here are a few ideas:

  • Purchase a gift card to use at a later date (retail, restaurant, grocery store, etc.).
  • Take advantage of takeout curbside service and free delivery offers from local Italian restaurants.
  • Don’t cancel your event –postpone it! #dontcancelpostpone
  • Shop local for the next 30 days for all daily needs, even if on-line only.
    This is very important: Support your local small businesses.
  • We are happy to promote all our members’ activities. Share a special offer you would like to make our membership aware of.Send us a 1 min. video presenting yourself, your business, your special offer, and how to contact you. We will share it on IACCSE social media with our own networks (please horizontal video only, keep your phone steady while recording, 1min. max.). Send your video to 786-271-7673.
  • Comment, engage and offer support on in IACCSE social media platforms; use the #InThisTogether and #ItalyAmericaChamberSoutheast hashtags.
  • Stay connected to the Chamber and engage through our webinars.Consider renewing your membership. If you are not a member yet consider supporting the only Italian business community organization in the US Southeast. Find here more information on how to become a member: https://www.iaccse.com/members/become-a-member/
  • …And please remember: Made in Italy products are safe and available on the market.
    Italy took the hardest hit due to Coronavirus. Purchasing Italian products is an act of love and care for our friends and families.

 

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THE IACCSE LAUNCHES A NEW WEBINAR SERIES

 

In this time of uncertainty the IACCSE’s effort is focused on offering its Members a new set of services to continue its initiatives and the promotion of their businesses by leveraging reliable online technologies.

As the current emergency has compromised face-to-face interactions and meetings, the IACCSE is offering a new WEBINAR service, an online event, which allows our trusted Members to connect with other members and business owners and to share their expertise.

Relevant business subjects may include, but are not limited to:

  • Smart Working: Best Practices for Working in Digital, Mobile, and Secure Environments
  • Corona Virus impact on businesses: check your insurance policy options
  • HR management: best practices in times of economic crisis
  • Covid-19: Medium term economic and financial scenario for the USA
  • Time to ask a commercial lease relief: how to deal with your landlord

Organized with the support of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce, this easy-to-use service consists of a live online presentation held by the Member in real-time, who opens up a forum-like informative discussion through a business webinar platform (Zoom), targeting an audience of local and Italian entrepreneurs.

 

WHAT IT INCLUDES

  • Webinar platform for your online presentation, including the possibility of sharing a PowerPoint presentation;
  • E-blast communication to 300+ existing IACCSE Members and 3,000+ IACCSE business contact list of Entrepreneurs and Managers in the Southeast;
  • Post on IACCSE’s social media platforms about the webinar;
  • Member’s logo across overall communications;
  • Final webinar attendee list;
  • Option to send PowerPoint Presentation to final attendee list after webinar is over

PARTICIPATION FEE

  • $450 per webinar (IACCSE members only)

 


FIVE REASONS WHY
YOU SHOULD
TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF THIS INITIATIVE

 

 

  • Be proactive and reassure your audiences by addressing their concerns and demonstrating your expertise and added value as an Expert in your field
  • Communicate simultaneously with entrepreneurs from Italy and U.S.A and gain immediate exposure
  • Expand your business connections and get a chance to e-meet Italian and local Entrepreneurs and Managers
  • Smart investment where you can deliver tremendous value at an affordable price
  • Leverage the IACCSE’s reputation and extensive network to confirm your professional firm’s authority

 

SIGN UP

If you are interested in taking advantage of this profitable initiative,
please fill out the application form
and send it to

DOWNLOAD THE
APPLICATION FORM HERE

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AMALFI COAST CONVENTION BUREAU WANTS TO CONNECT WITH U.S. MICE TOUR OPERATORS

 

Last year over 14 million US citizens visited Italy. USA is the second top country in number of visitors to Italy, after Germany.

The Italian Chambers of Commerce network is often in the forefront in the promotion of Italy as a destination.

Our Chamber in Miami has confirmed a partnership with the Amalfi Coast Convention Bureau (www.altacostiera.com) to promote MICE tourism to iconic destinations such as Ravello, Positano or Sorrento.

If you are an American MICE tour operator with a special interest on this destination, please contact us at info@iacc-miami.com to learn more about this project and to participate to our fam trips to Amalfi Coast planned by the end of 2020.

Whether you are looking to organize a conference, seminar, team-building or any other corporate event, we would be delighted to assist.

The Amalfi Coast Convention Bureau formula is simple: a passion for hospitality and service, painstaking attention to detail and an ongoing requirement for quality. They are continually on hand to assist their customers.

The Amalfi Coast Convention Bureau design, develop and deliver corporate events, collaborating with multi-professional teams to manage every aspect of the services selected.

Get in touch and give to your customers a taste of Southern Italy: the unforgettable Amalfi Coast.

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Within the project, starting from December 2019, the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce carried out the following activities:

  • Dedicated desk within the office of the Chamber of Commerce in Miami for a period of 12 months for the distribution to visitors of information material.
  • Dedicated senior resource of the Italy – America Chamber of Commerce Southeast (IACCSE) to follow the promotion on behalf of Rete Alta Costiera.
  • Creation of a verified database of about 50 US operators in the MICE tourism sector, including all contact details.
  • Promotional mailing to the aforementioned tour operators on the opportunity to get to know the MICE offer of the Rete Alta Costiera and to participate in the Fam Trip.
  • Follow-up by phone to selected tour operators.
  • Meetings with selected tour operators in Florida to illustrate the project and the MICE offer of Rete Alta Costiera.
  • Collection of declarations of interest by US tour operators to participate in the Fam trip.
  • Promotion of the project on the communication tools of the Chamber of Commerce, such as monthly newsletter, website, Facebook page.
  • Promotion of the tourist offer of Rete Alta Costiera Network during 2 events with the Italian-American business community of Miami (business breakfasts).

 

POR Campania FESR 2014/2020
ASSE III – OBIETTIVO SPECIFICO 3.4 – AZIONE 3.4.2.
AVVISO PUBBLICO PER LA CONCESSIONE DI CONTRIBUTI FINALIZZATI AL FINANZIAMENTO DI PROGRAMMI DI INTERNAZIONALIZZAZIONE DELLE MICRO E PMI CAMPANE
CUP B25F19000800007

Programma di Internazionalizzazione rivolto all’apertura verso i mercati target USA, Russia, EAU, UK, Argentina

Progetto cofinanziato dal Fondo europeo di sviluppo regionale

 

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