SBA Announces Oregon Department of Commerce Recipient of 2019 State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) Award
… SBA’s competitive State Trade Expansion Program (STEP), to support export growth among U.S. small businesses. The Oregon … on average, more productive than firms that do not export. With this data in mind, SBA STEP empowers small businesses to … exporting goods from Oregon in 2016, 5,032, or 88.7 percent, were small firms generating 21.4 percent of …