The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Trade Library provides information and resources to assist your business in entering and competing in the global marketplace.
The SBA Trade Library provides information to prospective small-business exporters on the following topics:
- International Trade and Your Small Business — Transcript from Live Web Chat
- Financiamiento Comercial para Pequeñas Empresas (en español)
- Breaking into the Trade Game: A Small Business Guide to Exporting
- Export Working Capital Program: Description
- Export Working Capital Program: Loan Application
- Export Working Capital Program: Frequently Asked Questions
- SBA & Ex-Im Bank Co-Guarantee Program: Description
- SBA & Ex-Im Bank Co-Guarantee Program: Frequently Asked Questions
- Bankable Deals
- Export Financing for Small Businesses
- U.S. Export Assistance Centers: Your Partners in Exporting
- Teaming Up for Global Competitiveness: Community Banks, Trade Credit Insurers and SBA
- Ex-Im bank, SBA Broaden co-guarantee program to help small business obtain larger working capital loans
- How the SBA Helps Small Exporters
To access the full range of topics in the SBA’s Trade Library, please click here.
No small business contemplating entering the export for market for the first time can afford NOT to read the SBA publication entitled Breaking into the Trade Game: A Small Business Guide to Exporting. This is a must-read 133-page primer, produced by the U.S. Small Business Administration, for the specific pupose of teaching small businesses the ABCs of exporting.




