Export Finance

Export financing can be a deal maker or breaker. Proper use of payment terms and
export financing tools can help your company win orders and get paid. The AITC helps with payment and finance strategies, and works closely with the banking and insurance industry to secure a solution.

Need a Trade Finance Consultant at No Cost?
 If you want to take advantage of SBA or ExIm Bank’s financial support and speak directly with a trade-finance specialist, simply call us toll free at 800-747-2482, or complete our trade finance consultation form.
Hot Topic: Alabama Export Success Stories

New: ExIm Bank Webinars now available in our online training section.

 The AITC’s flagship Export Trade (EXTRA) Financing Program promotes the entire family of SBA loan guarantees, especially SBA’s export working capital and trade loan programs. Center consultants are familiar with many public and private sector programs and their various qualifications, allowing us to mix and match what works best for your firm. Others include EXIM Bank, U.S. Department of Agriculture, multilateral development banks, and state and local programs.

SBA’s financing programs are some of the most valuable, yet most under-utilized, government programs available to small businesses. Call now to learn more about the programs for which you qualify and let AITC step you through the application process.

“The AITC was instrumental in helping IBML grow and flourish.”
Trip Summersell, CFO
Imaging Business Machines, LLC
Winner of SBA’s Regional Exporter of the Year Award


Ex-Im Bank has helped finance over $300 million in Alabama exports over the last five years. Twenty-seven companies have already taken advantage of Ex-Im’s programs. AITC can guide you through the process.

SBA’s Patriot Express Loan Offers Ownership
In less than a year, the new Patriot Express program has produced over 1300 guaranteed loans amounting to more than $135 million, with an average loan amount of nearly $104,000. Patriot Express is available to military community members and their spouses and builds on the more than $1 billion in loans that the SBA guarantees annually for veteran-owned businesses, and the counseling and support it provides to more than 100,000 veterans, service-disabled veterans and Reserve members each year.
Source: SBA News Release Number 08-53 on May 8, 2008, www.sba.gov/news and www.sba.gov/patriotexpress