Given the benefits of engaging with the international economy through goods and services exports, this form of trade facilitation focuses on transparency, as firms are supported in navigating complex processes associated with international market access. Evidence may should help target this support where there exist market failures.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
India is the UK's most important trading partner within the Commonwealth, accounting for nearly a quarter of Commonwealth imports. Yet as a proportion of either country's total trade, UK-India trade is small. For instanc...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: King's College London
The project investigates the role of credit for export-oriented small Indian manufacturing firms and the role of UK-India diasporic networks in shaping UK-India supply chains and trade, which directly relates to the question about the use of trade finance and credit insurance by UK businesses compared to non-UK businesses.
The Open Trade Finance Platform (OTFP) de-risks the provision of trade finance to SMEs first, by enabling low cost legal support and insurance against international invoices and contracts and second, by matching those ex...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: CORIOLIS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED