News & Resources
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Recent News and Announcements
OCC Community Developments Insights: SBA’s and Export-Import Bank’s Working Capital Loan Guarantee Programs
Posted Thursday, September 01, 2011
Read how programs from the Export-Import Bank and Small Business Administration can support community banks and their export clients.
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International Matchmaker
Posted Thursday, September 01, 2011
EFACW is featured in Washington Business Magazine, Summer 2011 Issue.
Read the article here.
Small Businesses Increase Sales, Expand Into New Markets With Ex-Im Bank's Express Insurance
Posted Thursday, September 01, 2011
This new product from the Export-Import Bank is focused on companies who are newer exporters to protect them from nonpayment risk and leverage financing.
Express Insurance
Report to the President on the National Export Initiative
Posted Thursday, September 01, 2011
The Export Promotion Cabinet’s Plan for Doubling U.S. Exports in Five Years
News and announcements last updated on Thursday, September 01, 2011.
Articles and Publications
- Washington State Global Small Business Assistance Network Reception
Join Linked:Seattle on LinkedIn and the Washington State Department of Commerce at this first-ever social media event connecting small business with global resources!
Portable Document Format (PDF) - 291.69 KB - Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington announces push to increase bank lending to small businesses
Announced November 4, 2011:
SEATTLE, WA – The Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington (EFACW) and Washington State Department of Commerce today unveiled a new initiative aimed at increasing bank lending to the state’s small export businesses.
Portable Document Format (PDF) - 362.09 KB - Financial Services for Supply Chain
UPS Capital®, a UPS company, is focused primarily on providing financial services to businesses whose supply chains span international borders, such as U.S.-based businesses that manufacture or import goods overseas for sale in the U.S.
Portable Document Format (PDF) - 143.15 KB - Xport Manager®: An ideal solution to finance your foreign sales
Article by Ralph Clumeck, featured in EFACW’s December 2009 newsletter.
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Articles and Publications last updated on Tuesday, November 22, 2011.
Links to External Resources
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- Washington State Department of Commerce
- Washington State Department of Agriculture
- Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle
- World Trade Club of Seattle
- World Trade Center Tacoma
- International Trade Alliance
- Washington State Small Business Development Center, Export Readiness
- Impact Washington
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Trade Export Data
- City of Bellevue Economic Development and International Trade
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