Strategy 1.5.4: Export Promotion and Assistance

Strengthen SBA’s export promotion and assistance programs.

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Encourage small business exporting through the National Export Initiative and provide assistance through financing, export readiness training, and counseling. Increase emphasis on export promotion throughout the Field Office network. Develop and implement a communications and marketing plan to increase awareness of exporting and the export programs. Increase export technical capabilities of SBA’s resource partners. Launch new efforts, working with public and private sector partners, to support new-to-exporting small businesses as well as current exporters expanding into new markets. Increase the utilization of SBA’s export loan programs by participant lenders. Collaborate with other federal agencies and export assistance resources to tailor programs to better meet the needs of companies with high-growth potential.

Stakeholder(s):

• Small Businesses


• Resource Partners


• SBA Field Offices

Indicator(s):

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