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General Export Facility

Access trade finance facilities up to £25 million, without need of an export contract – fulfil multiple export contracts, pay for labour costs and build inventory to boost your exports.

How it works

Designed for SMEs, the General Export Facility can help you increase your export volumes when you need extra cash to take on new orders or develop your exports.

We provide a guarantee to your bank, helping you access a range of trade finance facilities to help grow your business. With maximum repayment terms of up to 5 years we can support:

  • cash facilities such as trade loans
  • contingent obligation facilities such as bonding and letter of credit lines

The General Export Facility can support facilities of up to £25 million. For larger facilities, the Export Development Guarantee may be more suitable.

Eligibility

You must be able to show that either:

  • in any one of the last three financial years, at least 20% of your annual turnover has been made up of export sales
  • in each of the last three financial years, at least 5% of your annual turnover has been made up of export sales

Participating banks can automatically provide our guarantee for applications meeting certain criteria.

How to apply

Complete our contact form to discuss an application.