FDI Directory · SelectUSA snapshot, February 2025
American Samoa
American Samoa Department of Commerce
- Priority sectors
- 5
- Incentive programmes
- 5
- Shovel-ready sites
- 1
- Incubators
- 1
- Countries courted
- 10
Sectors it is courting
Investment it is seeking from
Site-selection services it offers
American Samoa has an Industrial Park dedicated to local and foreign business investors.
Incentive programmes
Grant
This requires public private partnership between the investor and local government to pursue a joint-project for public benefit.
Tax Credit
Both local and federal tax credits are made available to ease the startup of foreign companies in the territory.
Tax Exemption
The American Samoa Government has a Tax Exemption Board that reviews and authorizes tax exemptions as requested by incoming foreign investors to do business in the territory.
Loan/Loan Participation
The government offers low interest rate loans and lines of credit to allow businesses in the American Samoa market to startup and expand in the territory.
Equity Investment
American Samoa has an equity investment program.
Shovel-ready sites
This is an existing space for industrial business that's owned and operated by the American Samoa Government. This means an interested investor or foreign company can reach out directly to the American Samoa Department of Commerce for potential space to do business in the territory.
Site details
Programmes for international technology startups
Tax exemption is initially an important incentive for start-up companies in American Samoa. Depending on the industry, the government may consider special incentives to ensure such business is well established on island.
Incubators and accelerators
American Samoa Call Center Incubator
American Samoa has a call center incubator fully funded and supported by the government. The same can be done for data centers as American Samoa prepares to build an Innovation and Technology Park, a future space dedicated for IT workforce education, training and business in the territory. American Samoa aims to become next IT hub in the Pacific.
Additional services
American Samoa is a one-stop shop for a business license to establish a local business in American Samoa.
Who to contact
- Lina (Magdalene) PetaiaDirector of Commercelina.petaia@doc.as.gov
A.P. Lutali EOB, 2nd Floor, Pago Pago, American Samoa, 96799
What American Samoa did not submit
These headings exist in the federal questionnaire and this jurisdiction left them blank. Blank means unanswered, not zero — it is not evidence that there is nothing there.
- University programmes
- Regional partner organisations
- Clean-energy programmes
- Supply-chain projects sought
Source: SelectUSA FDI Database — U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. All profile text above is American Samoa Department of Commerce's own submission, carried verbatim. Snapshot: February 2025. Programmes close, budgets change and people move on; confirm with the organisation before acting on anything here.