Although 95 percent of the world's market for products exists outside the U.S., many small firms do not have the resources and personnel to take advantage of these opportunities.
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While other countries have been securing large export deals, American companies have been placed at a competitive disadvantage - forced to compete globally with one hand tied behind their back.
Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses.
The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.
We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.
Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.
Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
Small businesses are more nimble and innovative than large corporations, and as a result are much more likely to develop the breakthrough ideas we need for global competitiveness.
When Ex-Im gives companies the resources they need to sell their products abroad, their employees, suppliers and communities succeed at home.
The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.