About exporting
About exporting
Whether your business is big or small, you can find new customers beyond our borders.
Big or small, you can find new customers beyond our borders.
Whether you’re exporting products, services or experiences, discover the next step for your business. Click the timeline below to locate where you are now, and see what you might want to do next.
You may be exporting already. Join Canadian businesses of all sizes that are finding success by growing their customer base and finding new opportunities internationally.
Want the latest? The TradeInsights tab on the EDC website will bring you leading-edge articles, commentary, webinars, and other tools designed to keep you up to date. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find there to help Canadian exporters navigate the global market.
If you’re a small online service provider, you may not even think of yourself as an exporter. Here’s why you should, and how you can further expand your business internationally.
Dragon’s Den’s Arlene Dickinson says entrepreneurs need to take risks to be successful.
Find out what 1,000 Canadian exporters experienced in the last half of 2018, plus what their plans are for the future.
Find answers to your intercultural questions from a Canadian and a local point of view.
Discover our articles, tips and free resources designed to help you put together a solid business plan.
Insights to guide smart export decisions.
Learn how to accurately assess your company’s current ability to grow internationally and conduct the right research, efficiently and cost effectively. This workshop will help you determine whether you’re ready to expand, and which markets will work best for you.
Your export plan is an extension of your business plan. Discover how to map a strategy to find new customers and partners internationally, be competitive and access the skilled talent you need to grow your business.
Want the latest? The TradeInsights tab on the EDC website will bring you leading-edge articles, commentary, webinars, and other tools designed to keep you up to date. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find there to help Canadian exporters navigate the global market.
Find out what exporting skills and trade knowledge you need to succeed internationally.
Is your business ready to expand internationally? Read our 3 conditions for success.
Nearly 1,000 exporters told us what they’re expecting for 2019 in our Trade Confidence survey. Benefit from their insight and see if you agree – register for our webinar today.
Find answers to your intercultural questions from a Canadian and a local point of view.
Give yourself an edge over your competition by adapting your products and services to local regulatory, cultural, pricing and packaging requirements for sale in international markets.
The organizations that succeed in new international trade ventures are usually those that carefully plan their market entry strategies. By choosing the right market entry strategy for your industry and needs, analyzing market entry opportunities, and creating a new international business plan, you will be able to play to your strengths better than ever and establish the best possible strategy for your short-term and long-term future.
The Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program is a commercial clearance program designed to ensure safety and security while expediting legitimate trade across the Canada–U.S. border.
Conduct market research to pinpoint the best country for your business by identifying opportunities, highlighting trade barriers and understanding where your product or service is in demand.
Want the latest? The TradeInsights tab on the EDC website will bring you leading-edge articles, commentary, webinars, and other tools designed to keep you up to date. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find there to help Canadian exporters navigate the global market.
Exporters should look at the U.S. as a series of regional markets with different opportunities and different strategies required for getting started in each one.
Find out how research into new markets will give you an edge over the competition.
Latin America offers a wealth of opportunity for Canadian exporters.
Find answers to your intercultural questions from a Canadian and a local point of view.
Decide whether new international trade opportunities are viable, assess your company’s readiness to take advantage of them and determine whether the potential benefits outweigh the risks and costs.
Information for businesses on tax and tariff requirements, permits and regulations, intellectual property and copyright, and how to fund or incorporate a business, hire employees or sell to government.
Make the web work for Canadian exporters.
Consult with government agencies, trade associations, subject matter experts, brokers and other exporters to help you determine what your international customers need.
Want the latest? The TradeInsights tab on the EDC website will bring you leading-edge articles, commentary, webinars, and other tools designed to keep you up to date. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find there to help Canadian exporters navigate the global market.
The most successful companies in global trade have strong networks and know how to leverage them.
In 2017, for the first time, the proportion of service exporters was greater than goods exporters. Here are just some of the key takeaways from the webinar, Selling Your Services to the World.
Learn how to get in touch with the business connections you need to stay competitive and succeed in a global marketplace.
Find answers to your intercultural questions from a Canadian and a local point of view.
Information for businesses on tax and tariff requirements, permits and regulations, intellectual property and copyright, and how to fund or incorporate a business, hire employees or sell to government.
The Office of Protocol helps you find the most accurate information on foreign missions and international organizations accredited to Canada, and on their staff members.
When you communicate clearly with your customers, negotiate or conduct your transactions clearly and provide the service they want, they’ll keep coming back again and again. Set up the right sales channels to give your customers access to your products or services, discover whether using agents, wholesalers or retailers should be part of your strategy, and find how acting upon customer information you’ve gathered can lead to increases in satisfaction rates.
Finding your place in a new market is about selecting the best timing and the right partners. Determine the best market-entry options for your business. Should you sell directly, use a distribution network or set up an international office?
Want the latest? The TradeInsights tab on the EDC website will bring you leading-edge articles, commentary, webinars, and other tools designed to keep you up to date. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find there to help Canadian exporters navigate the global market.
For small businesses, the complications of exporting over our southern border can feel overwhelming.
In this guide, we look at each of Canada’s free trade agreements and explain when and how you can use them to do business globally.
In only four years, Sera4 has grown from a small two-person operation to a multimillion-dollar enterprise—all due to export sales.
Find answers to your intercultural questions from a Canadian and a local point of view.
When you communicate clearly with your customers, negotiate or conduct your transactions clearly and provide the service they want, they’ll keep coming back again and again. Set up the right sales channels to give your customers access to your products or services, discover whether using agents, wholesalers or retailers should be part of your strategy, and find how acting upon customer information you’ve gathered can lead to increases in satisfaction rates.
Find answers to your intercultural questions from a Canadian and a local point of view.
EDC’s Country Info page is a country-by-country portal outlining our trade relationships, potential buyers, economic and political trends, as well as sector and commodity information.
Financial products fuel your international growth. Discover how to find government loans and grants, get financial information on partners, negotiate competitive payment terms with new customers, and why leveraging your accounts receivable and insuring your sales can put you in a more competitive position.
Want the latest? The TradeInsights tab on the EDC website will bring you leading-edge articles, commentary, webinars, and other tools designed to keep you up to date. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find there to help Canadian exporters navigate the global market.
Do you insure your property? Your employees? How about liabilities and data breaches? The answer is likely yes, yet many companies don’t insure what’s probably the biggest asset on their balance sheet–the money owed by their customers. Learn how credit insurance can protect your business and create opportunities.
Canadian banks won’t typically count overseas assets as collateral, but with EDC’s Export Guarantee Program, you can leverage assets outside of Canada and get more access to financing.
Banks have changed. Here’s how to change your strategy and get the financing you need to grow your sales internationally.
Find answers to your intercultural questions from a Canadian and a local point of view.
The Export Guarantee Program shares the financial risk with your bank so you can get the financing you need to break into new markets.
In the International Trade Finance course, you’ll learn everything an importer or exporter needs to know about payment, risk mitigation and financing, the financial flow and the flow of goods and services in global trade.
Most start-ups and existing for-profit small businesses in Canada with gross revenues of $10 million or less are eligible to apply for loans under this program. Such businesses can be corporations, sole proprietors, partnerships or co-operatives.
Get insights into political, financial, economic and business risk so you can take steps to protect yourself from non-payment and create a robust risk management strategy.
Want the latest? The TradeInsights tab on the EDC website will bring you leading-edge articles, commentary, webinars, and other tools designed to keep you up to date. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find there to help Canadian exporters navigate the global market.
Managing political risks is critical to your company can survive and thrive in new markets.
Learn how to develop a global intellectual property strategy, as part of your business strategy before you start exporting.
Find answers to your intercultural questions from a Canadian and a local point of view.
What tolerance does your business have for risks, and are you prepared for them? By using standard tools and strategies, you can estimate the likelihood of different types of risk and prepare contingency plans for dealing with them. With these in hand, even if risk becomes reality, you’ll be able to reduce its impact on your business and maintain a trajectory towards long-term stability and success.
Foreign exchange risk management is easier with our FOREX Guarantee. Purchase foreign exchange contracts without the need for collateral.
EDC Credit Insurance is a type of commercial export insurance that protects your accounts receivable against losses when a customer cannot pay.
Understand how you can build on your exporting success to grow your business through direct investment, establish an in-market presence and develop a solid international network.
Want the latest? The TradeInsights tab on the EDC website will bring you leading-edge articles, commentary, webinars, and other tools designed to keep you up to date. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find there to help Canadian exporters navigate the global market.
Innovation is a competitive advantage all businesses need these days, but it’s especially important when you’re selling outside of Canada
Accounts receivable insurance can be an important tool for helping your business succeed and grow when you begin exporting.
Logistics are rapidly evolving, and companies that don’t adapt will be left behind.
Find answers to your intercultural questions from a Canadian and a local point of view.
Manage your company’s supply chain and logistics to mitigate risks, reduce costs and improve efficiency throughout every stage of your global value chain.
Information for businesses on tax and tariff requirements, permits and regulations, intellectual property and copyright, and how to fund or incorporate a business, hire employees or sell to government.
Get expert insight from a top economist on the current trends influencing global trade and Canadian exporting, in a user-friendly, twice-annual report.
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