Global Business Solutions (GBS) by Dennis R. Chrisbaum
U.S. Global Business Solutions is an interagency initiative to expand the reach of federal export assistance and add 50,000 small businesses to the nation’s exporter base by 2017. The pilot program will also aim at expanding the base of financial institutions and service providers that facilitate exports, adding an anticipated 250 trade-finance sources by December 2015.
U.S. Global Business Solutions will ‘bundle’ U.S. government trade-finance products for lenders and exporters. The programs and products will be combined into a single menu of options that will be tailored to the stage of the exporter’s development and the capacity of the financial institution or service provider. The initiative will be designed to make it easier and more cost-effective for exporters to use the programs and products of multiple agencies. Six federal agencies will be participating: Ex-Im Bank, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Commerce/International Trade Administration, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
