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<p>Through UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) the Government has stepped up its work to encourage significantly more UK businesses to export.</p><p>UKTI is delivering an ambitious package of support designed to get more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) exporting, to help UK companies access the highest value trade opportunities and to link high-potential firms to trade finance, credit insurance and venture capital.</p><p>This means, among other things:</p><p>Doubling the number of SMEs supported on UKTI's Passport to Export scheme;</p><p>Doubling the number of companies supported at overseas exhibitions;</p><p>Increasing the number of International Trade Advisors in the English regions; and</p><p>Doubling the number of companies given financial support towards the cost of exhibiting at their first few overseas trade shows.</p><p>Over the last year, UKTI has helped over 31,000 SMEs to export and break into new high growth markets, generating over £33 billion of additional sales. In doing so, UKTI has taken its campaign across the country in order to achieve its target to double its client base to 50,000 companies per year by 2015, which it is on target to achieve.</p> |