The mission of the Export Promotion Agency - APEX is to stimulate Brazilian exportation, especially the small companies. Therefore, partnerships with entrepreneur entities and other institutions without profit objectives were developed, for implementing trade promotion programs, strategically defined under an enlarged concept of trade promotion. Besides the classical actions of trade promotion (fairs, missions, catalogues, tasting, etc) APEX is supporting other actions to adequate the products and prepare the companies to export.

Created under Decree nr 2398, of November 21, 1997 and the exposition of objectives, APEX started to operate in April 1998, aiming the implementation of trade promotion policies of exportation established by CAMEX - International Chamber of Commerce of the President's Office.

The target established by the trade promotion policies and pursued by APEX through its projects is to increase the Brazilian exports to new and existing markets, increasing the number of exported products with a higher value added and the number of the companies involved with the international trade.