Offset Associations and Publications
The two main global organizations that deal with offsets are:
- G.O.C.A - Global Offset and Countertrade Association is a main source of information on the uses of counter-trade and offset
- DMA - Defence Manufacturers Association, based in UK but opened to many other countries.
One domestic U.S. based organization that deals with offsets is:
- DIOA - Defence Industrial Offset Association, membership is primarily open to U.S. based defense contractors.
There are many regional or national offset conferences and symposiums, but recently GOCA and DMA jointly organize global offset meetings every two years. The first global meeting on offset took place in 2004 in Sintra, Portugal; then in Athens, Greece (2006); the third in Seville, Spain, in 2008. GOCA and DIOA hold both individual and joint conferences several times per year.
Countertrade & Offset is a fortnightly magazine on the offset industry; the same publisher has also a quarterly for the industry: The Offset Guidelines Quarterly Bulletin.
Read more about this topic: Offset Agreement
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