Are You Ready to Export? Meet the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

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Are You Ready to Export?

Do you want to export U.S. agricultural products to emerging markets, but don’t know how to deal with the risk of your buyer being unable to pay? If so, join Collin Bradley, an International Trade Specialist at USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, as he discusses two amazing programs to help you overcome these obstacles:

• The Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102), which provides credit guarantees for the export of U.S. Agricultural commodities, covering credit terms up to 18 months.
• The Facility Guarantee Program, which provides credit guarantees to for equipment sales and infrastructure improvements related to U.S. agricultural exports, covering credit terms of up to 10 years.

In this webinar, you will:

• Discover the power of GSM-102 and FGP: Learn how these programs ensure that you get paid for your exports while also helping your overseas buyers access financing.
• Hear success stories: See how small businesses like yours have leveraged these programs to expand their exports.
• Gain insider knowledge: Get an in-depth understanding of program eligibility, coverage options, and the application process.

Don’t miss this opportunity to discover how FAS and the GSM-102 and FGP programs can help you grow your export business and reach new customers around the world!

Wednesday Webinars

Wednesday Webinars with SBA Seattle is an ongoing series of free, virtual, webinars covering a variety of topics to benefit small business owners. On the fourth Wednesday of each month, we will be focusing on export assistance, featuring conversations with different members of the Washington Export Outreach Team (WEOT). Established in 2013 following a national mandate to do more to support international trade, WEOT is a collaborative team of local, state, regional, and federal export assistance agencies who provide you the tools and resources you need to sell internationally.

About the Host

John Brislin is SBA's International Trade & Finance Specialist (Export Finance Manager) for Washington State, Northern Idaho and Alaska. He has over 23 years of private-sector international banking and trade finance experience working at Bank of Boston (Bank of America) and Bank of California (U.S. Bank). John has over 12 years of public-sector export trade finance and risk mitigation experience working at Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington (EFACW), Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) and SBA Office of International Trade (SBA OIT). He looks forward to working with Small Businesses so they can turn their export opportunities into actual sales and to achieve the ultimate goal of getting paid—especially on time—for those sales.