Incorporated in the state of New York in 1966, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. (Mitsui USA) is engaged in business investment, project development and management, and capital goods leasing and technology transfer, in addition to traditional businesses of a Sogo Shosha (general trading company) such as import, export, off-shore trade and domestic wholesale.

Mitsui USA has 12 operating divisions including: Iron & Steel Products, Mineral & Metal Resources, Infrastructure Projects, Machinery, Information Business, Organic Chemicals, Plastics & Inorganic Chemicals, Energy, Foods & Retail, Consumer Service & Business Development, Transportation Logistics, and Financial Markets Business. The Company maintains 8 offices, with a head office in New York City and others in Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., and has nearly 70 subsidiaries and affiliated companies in various industries across the U.S.

Mitsui USA’s strategy is to create and operate platform subsidiaries and affiliated companies in specific industries to expand existent and new core businesses, efficiently supported by in-house service capabilities in information and research, financial arrangements, risk management, and transportation logistics.

With a distinct strength of comprehensive business engineering, Mitsui USA, “Your Global Business Partner®,” tailors innovative value-chain business models to best support its clients’ current and future needs, such as domestic and global marketing, trade facilitation, project development and management, and planning and implementation of SCM (Supply Chain Management and DCM (Demand Chain Management).

Mitsui USA is committed to sustainable growth and good corporate citizenship. Reflecting Mitsui & Co. ’s management philosophy, the Company’s operations are guided by its distinctive CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy, which emphasizes environmental and social accountability, and respect for stakeholders and the community.

Mitsui USA is the largest wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., a diversified global trading, investment, and service enterprise headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Mitsui & Co. maintains a global network of 160 offices in 69 countries, and has 565 subsidiaries and associated companies worldwide.

As of January 2008