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Trading Overseas

If you are looking to unleash your organisation's potential, then you could benefit from doing business overseas.  Exporting has proven to increase productivity and profitability and could open your business to a marketplace of millions.

UK Trade and Investment (UK T&I) offer new, novice and experienced exporters tailored, impartial and expert advice on winning business overseas. They combine the skills of 38 private sector, International Trade Advisers with the national resources of the Department of Trade & Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Moreover, their global network of local experts, based at British Embassies, Consulates and High Commissions, ensure you can tap into an unrivalled depth of business knowledge and expertise.

UKT&I provide access to: 

• Tailored market research reports from their global network of embassy-based trade development officers;
• Highly experienced International Trade Advisers, based throughout the South East, providing local one-to-one advice and support;
• Organised market visits to improve your knowledge of overseas markets and ensure you meet the suitable customers across the world; 
• Subsidised assistance, including the Passport to Export initiative, offering practical and financial help to enable you to understand and develop your overseas potential;
• Skills development through focused training, covering  a variety of subjects ranging from managing agents and distributors through to the latest market information and intellectual property rights;
• A unique website which combines current business opportunities, market information and events that can be sent to your desktop by registering on the UK T&I website.

For further information on how your business can grow through trading overseas, contact the UK T&I South East Team, call 08457 35 45 55, or visit the UK T&I South East website.

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