We're substantially expanding the trade financing available to exporters, including small and medium-sized companies.
Non-petroleum exports are also up as trade financing has become less of a hassle.
Thai exports have picked up well in recent months -- the country now has a trade surplus -- and trade financing is again available.
Another concern: Trade financing is drying up, and exporters and importers around the world are having a harder time securing letters of credit, says Tiruchelvam.
The administration wants to give U.S. businesses--especially smaller firms--better access to trade financing, and the president says he will personally go to bat for American exporters, notably on his trip to Asia next week.
As part of the deal, these firms are given preferential treatment by the banks, including debt-for-equity swaps, lower interest rates, and access to a pool of some 2 trillion won in new loans and trade financing.
Osama bin Laden also relied on the honey trade for financing.
One solution to the inefficient payment process with manufacturers, specifically around their trade payables, is the creation of formalized trade payable financing programs, and these programs are starting to become more popular.
If this relationship with trade payable financing programs takes off and if manufacturers or the financing firms are incented by cash discounts for earlier payment then the manufacturing sector may gradually vacate the list of longest payment periods.
The first is an expansion by banks in areas such as trading currencies and financing trade.
This forces Iranian merchants and businesses into more circuitous and thus costly ways of financing their trade.
Besides financing the trade deficit, these capital inflows have also supported the dollar which, between April 1995 and late 1998, strengthened by 50% against the yen.
The meeting will address the vision, strategy and analytical framework for growth and efficiency of green initiatives and the international agenda around the following initiatives: Power system transformation, energy efficiency in industry, global water demand issues, bio-refining, trade, aviation and financing.
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The going annualized interest rate paid by those who borrowed shares in the social networking company was anywhere from 10% to 40% on the amount borrowed on Friday, compared with 0.25% to 0.5% for the typical big-company stock, according to Robert Sloan, managing partner of S3 Partners, a New York firm that advises hedge funds on counterparty risk and financing of trade.
FleetBoston's ancestor, for instance, profited from financing the slave trade when it was already illegal under American law.
And my organization, Root Capital, is financing two fair trade certified, organic cocoa enterprises, Kpeya Agricultural Enterprise and Balmed Holdings, both of which are breathing new life into the shattered countryside of Sierra Leone.
Executive Order 13534 also established the Export Promotion Cabinet to develop and coordinate the implementation of the eight priorities of the NEI, which include, but are not limited to, improving advocacy and trade promotion efforts on behalf of U.S. exporters, increasing access to export financing, and removing barriers to trade and enforcing U.S. trade laws and agreements.
Again, this was a version of the carry trade: they used their cheap financing to buy higher-yielding assets.
Also critical to the success of this choking of supplies would be stricter controls of the illicit financing that supports such trade.
Argentina has no access to outside financing (not even trade finance).
An award-winning documentary entitled "Follow the Money" produced by the Blackwell Corporation and aired nationwide on 12 July 1989 on PBS provided compelling evidence of how, for example, East Germany's Foreign Trade Bank played a key role in the financing of a terrorist attack on U.S. nationals.
It was in Swiss banks that about 85% of all Nazi gold ended up, most of it for financing Germany's war-time trade with countries such as Sweden, Portugal and Turkey.
Goldman Sachs has a long history in lower Manhattan, from Marcus Goldman providing short-term financing to the nineteenth-century rag trade on the Lower East Side to signs carried around the present occupation of a park at Broadway and Cedar Street.
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Among the issues the women will be discussing at the three-day summit are ways to bridge the technology gap, including use of the internet in business development, strategies to cope with the economic impact of Aids and war, especially in Africa, financing women's enterprises and understanding trade agreements as globalisation continues to have an adverse impact on developing societies.
Reserves need to be large enough to draw upon if foreign-currency financing suddenly dries up, and to ensure that trade flows smoothly.
Brazil has not emerged as a vocal proponent of collective financing of regional infrastructure projects that would foster more trade ties between UNASUR member countries.
The group was set up, in 2008, to sever the links between Taliban insurgents and their financing, much of which was believed to come from the drug trade.
Scottish financiers were also instrumental in financing America's frontier, bankrolling the U.S.' cotton and sugar trade, banks, cattle ranches and railroads.
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