An American Samoa delegation is attending, for the first time, the annual SelectUSA Investment Summit which is the highest profile event in the US for promoting foreign direct investment. KHJ News Washington DC correspondent Matt Kaye reports…
Governor Lemanu was leading the delegation as the first American Samoa Governor to attend a Select USA Investment Summit, not held in-person for three-years due to the pandemic.
American Samoa’s Director of Commerce Petti Matila, also at the Summit, highlighted some of the territory’s investment pluses in a promotional video–
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…with all the tax, labor, natural resource and new developments in American Samoa…
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Matila took part in a roundtable with US the Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, on investing in underserved communities…while Governor Lemanu was to speak on infrastructure investments with other governors. 
More than 1500 foreign firms, investors and state and territorial organizations were attending US Commerce’s SelectUSA Summit this year—an event American Samoa hopes to profit from as it seeks to broaden the local economy…
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StarKist official Faafo’i Palepua…
