Exporting to International Markets

Interested in joining the Team Toronto Trade Mission at Web Summit Vancouver from May 11 to 14? Learn more below and submit your interest.

The City of Toronto and its partners can help Toronto-based, export-ready businesses enter new and emerging markets and become successful international traders in their specific business sector.

The City’s Trade & Investment team provides support for businesses through:

  • Education and awareness
  • Missions and market access, and
  • Data and collaboration.

Email export@toronto.ca to connect with City staff.

Subscribe to the BusinessTO newsletter to receive weekly emails on funding opportunities and additional supports, including for export development and trade diversification.

The City offers a variety of foundational webinars designed to help you build your export knowledge, explore new global markets and strengthen your international trade approach. Learn more and register.

Are you a Toronto business ready to scale globally and connect with top technology innovation leaders?

Join the Team Toronto Trade Mission to Web Summit Vancouver, taking place from May 11 to 14.

Web Summit Vancouver offers a unique opportunity to:

  • Connect Toronto companies, organizations and start-ups with global partners, customers and investors.
  • Gain global visibility.
  • Generate qualified leads.
  • Position Toronto as a leading hub for technology innovation.
  • Enhance networking, learning and growth opportunities for start-ups, incubators and tech firms.

To support Toronto’s technology innovation ecosystem, the City of Toronto has secured a limited number of complimentary tickets for innovation ecosystem partners, start-ups and investors.

Interested in joining the delegation and receiving complimentary tickets? Submit your interest to join by April 15 at 4 p.m. Early submissions are encouraged.

Small and medium-sized businesses looking to build export capacity and accelerate growth in international markets can apply to the City’s Starter Company Plus Grant: Trade Accelerator stream. Recipient businesses receive targeted training and support from Canada’s top exporting advisors to help them scale up, develop and execute an export plan. Learn more.

Get access to representatives of the 10 cities with which Toronto has formal economic development relationships under the International Alliance Program, including Chongqing (China), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Quito (Ecuador), Warsaw (Poland), and Kyiv (Ukraine).

Contacts, learning sessions, mentorship and resources are also available through the World Trade Center Toronto’s Trade Accelerator Program.