SCORE/ACE Programs Individual assistance and training is available through the dedicated Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) whose members include more than 600 former exporters. The Active Corps of Executives (ACE) is a volunteer organization of more than 2,600 executives and provides a similar service. Many of these executives have had international trade experience...
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SBDC/SBI Programs Business counseling and assistance are offered through Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) and to some extent any of them may be capable of providing export business information and counsel. However, some SBDCs are now being organized specifically around an export orientation. SBDCs are most often found in colleges and universities, but not...
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Agency for International Development (AID) Procurement Assistance SBA offers special help and performance guarantees through their 8(a) program to assist in procurement of AID contracts for overseas sales and services. This is accomplished within AID’s OSDBU/MRC office and is detailed in Exporters-sources.com – index page – 13 under “The Agency for International Development” subheading.
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Financial assistance The SBA offers direct loan and loan guarantee programs to assist small businesses. In recent years Congress has increasingly mandated that SBA provide special attention to business support in the export area as the trade imbalance worsens. As a result, there are now parallel financial programs for export and for domestic business....
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Conclusion Besides the federal programs it is apparent the various states, counties, cities, world trade centers, trade associations, ports, universities and colleges, all have something to offer in the quest for sources of information and assistance to expand profits and sales through exports. And yet, there are still more sources, including national or international...
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