International Business
Trusted advice on global business management, global marketing, supply chain management, and trade finance.
Our goal is to increase the number of existing small and midsized businesses doing business internationally, improving their knowledge of global markets, minimizing risk, and diversifying their supply chain. With a collective forty-plus years of international business experience, SBTDC’s team of Certified Global Business Professionals (NASBITE CGBP Accredited since 2013) helps business owners and their managers improve their competitiveness, profitability, and sustained global success.
We Help You With
Export Strategy
- Product and market research, pricing strategy, international sales strategy, planning for and implementing distribution agreements, after-sale support, and intellectual property concerns.
Export and Import Regulations
- U.S. Export Controls and compliance responsibilities, product classification and trade restrictions, qualifying under a free trade agreement (FTA).
Shipping Your Goods
- Identifying partners like freight forwarders, choosing a mode of transport, using Incoterms, and product labeling and insurance requirements.
Export Paperwork
- Utilizing the right documents, ensuring timely delivery of goods and payment, clearing customs without unexpected fees.
Ensuring Payment for Goods
- Understanding different payment options, working with international banking partners, utilizing SBA Export financing and EXIM Bank receivables insurance programs.
Networking & Resources Referrals
- Getting connected to the vast and diversified state and federal partner programs in North Carolina to support exporting.
International Export Guides from the SBA
Trade Finance Guide: Financial Risk, Payment Methods, and Trade Finance
The guide explains the basics of trade finance so that U.S. companies, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), can evaluate appropriate financing options to help ensure they get paid for their export sales while assuring the delivery of goods and services to importers.
SBA Export Business Planner For Your Small Business
This tool is designed to serve as your roadmap for creating your Export Business Plan, exploring foreign markets, developing a Marketing Plan, exploring financing, costing your product, and more. But unlike a traditional printed manual, this Planner is a living document, ready to be customized and continually updated by you.
Did You Know?
- President’s “E” Award
- President’s “E-Star” Award
- NASBITE’s Program of Excellence Award
- NASBITE’s Advancing International Trade Award
- EXIM Bank Regional Export Promotion Partner Award
We work closely with our federal, state and local export partners to provide small and medium sized businesses with exceptional resources and professional advisory services.
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- NC District Export Council
- US Commercial Service / International Trade Administration
- US Small Business Administration
- NC Department of Agriculture – International Trade Division
- NC Economic Development Partnership STEP Grant Program
- NC World Trade Association
