The Turkish American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TACCI) is a non-profit membership organization located in New York City. It was founded in 2002. Vision TACCI's vision is establishing infrastructure and strategy necessary to increase and foster bilateral trade and investment opportunities between U.S. and Turkey. Mission TACCI's mission is ensuring attainment of targeted trade and investment objectives between U.S. and Turkey and ensuring selection of qualified Turkish industries / firms with potential to become global brands and facilitating their global expansion efforts in the U.S.. Operations TACCI's operations are made up of three core areas: membership, events, and business services. As a membership organization TACCI is based around its members. The member companies are both from both Turkey and the U.S. and represent large as well as small companies. TACCI regularly organizes a large selection of events. Events are mainly for the members, but are often open for anyone to join. They include seminars, luncheons, conferences, and galas. TACCI's consulting practice is known as Business Services. Services TACCI services include business development programs, industry and trend reports, export consulting and training, business relations and speaker engagements. Business Services also publishes Information on the web that covers fundamentals of transatlantic business.