LAS VEGAS -- On a sweltering Las Vegas afternoon, hundreds of U.S. small business owners and their Chinese suppliers packed into a hotel conference room to hear from a rising force in the trade between the world's two largest economies -- Mexico.
Hosted by Alibaba.com, the international e-commerce arm of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group, the Co-Create conference at the Paris Hotel in September is an annual gathering for U.S. businesses to learn about sourcing on the platform, which has more than 8 million U.S. buyers and sellers.
