Tony Corsini This is Me

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1. 1. Commerce Department: What's Next?

   www.princetoninfo.com/199807/8 - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/24/2001   Last Visited: 8/25/2002

   "This would probably work as well as a privatized division of motor vehicles," says Tony Corsini, a vice president of L/C Expeditor, a Manhattan firm that helps small and medium-sized exporters deal with letters of credit. "My perception is that this is a way to get it off the bottom line of state expenditure. If I'm a small to medium-sized company looking to export and want to use the resources of my state, where do I go? I no longer have the Department of Commerce."
   
   Corsini is on a New Jersey Technology Council panel on Tuesday, July 21, at 8:30 a.m. at Liz Claiborne in North Bergen.
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   Corsini thinks that this language is euphemistic for cost-cutting. "I have to take a very skeptical view," she says. "It's not going to be a good measure for the people who have to keep that business wheel going. It's going to derail those people who might have considered going overseas. And if they can't open up new markets, where are they going to sell? Are they going to leave New Jersey?"
   
   Corsini fears that the new commission's public/private status will force it to shift into survival mode -- to the detriment of the state's services to businesses in foreign trade.
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   Corsini, 51, has a management degree from St. Peter's College and spent 20 years in the export business and is also treasurer of the World Trade Association of New Jersey.
   
   Perhaps most offensive to Corsini is the timing of this privatization. The government, she feels, is deliberately "sliding it" past the cognizance of many small businesspersons during the midsummer lull. "And then all of a sudden we're going to come back to reality and somebody's going to say, `No we don't have this anymore.' It's going to be another change that happened when somebody wasn't watching. If I were to be an advocate for the small to medium-sized business I really don't think that this is going to be helpful. I hope I'm wrong, but I just don't see it."