HiSTEP 2025 Kickoff – Maui

Funded in part through a grant with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the Hawaii State Trade Expansion Program, known as HiSTEP, is a comprehensive program designed to assist Hawaii small businesses with their export development. The goal is to increase...

HiSTEP 2024: Exporting of Agricultural Products from Hawaii

Agricultural products–including beverages and processed foods–are a growing export of the Hawaii economy. This webinar will introduce you to several federal, state, and county resources that are available to agricultural exporters, as well as discuss...

HiSTEP 2023: Export University 101

Our annual event. Learn from experts the fundamentals of core export courses, including finance, marketing, legal, information technology, logistics, and cultural issues. This course is designed to provide broad, high level insights to these topics and give the...

HiSTEP 2023 is here!

Thanks to SBA and DBEDT, HPEC is helping coordinate the HiSTEP 2023 program by running a series of export seminars/webinars and performing one-on-one company mentoring. The first two events are scheduled for January 26 (Exporting of Agricultural Products from Hawaii)...