The general objective of this project is to produce a series of studies and instruments of analysis that could directly or indirectly support the Government of the State of São Paulo to formulate strategies of international trade. In many countries, such as the EUA, Canada, Mexico, India among others, subnational units, especially those detaining larger and significant economic weight within the federation, are endowed with strategic trade policies to minimize risks and enlarge opportunities in a context of growing economic internationalization. Despite the existing constraints put in place by the Brazilian federation model, which imposes restrictions on/to the organization of a genuinely sub-federal trade policy, the state of São Paulo cannot abdicate from a strategic planning of an international trade policy compatible with its weight. Contributing so the state of São Paulo, together with its Secretary for Development, enhances existing tools and creates new mechanisms of subnational trade policy is the main goal of this project.