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Show WHAT IS A CHAMBER OF COMMERCE? Basically, it is the business community at work as the central agency for community development for business, industry, the professions, pro-fessions, and all civic interests doing jobs that no individual can do alone rendering many services that benefit all citizens. The Chamber of Commerce as a wholly voluntary institution in the United States is eight years older than the Declaration of Independence. Inde-pendence. The New York State Chamber, first in America, was organized or-ganized in 1768, and five years later the first local Chamber was fjrm?d in Charleston, South Carolina. Today, there are more than 4,000 Chambers of Commerce in the Unite! Stalte3. In 'these nearly 2Q0 years, Chamber of Commerce have steadily developed to a high point of efficiency and have proved vi'lal'y i-ypor'.ait in business and civic development throughout the nation. |