Growing businesses often look to new markets overseas to grow and expand their business, so it is important that these businesses are given the best chance to export successfully. Around one quarter of entrepreneursare currently exporting and there is appetite among that group to do more in the future. But a third of small businesses encounter legal, regulatory and financial barriers to exporting. 

The FSB provides finance and protection for exporters delivered locally through dedicated relationship managers.

Red tape is not just a concern for those firms doing business domestically. Moving goods and services and providing them in different nations will need careful consideration. More than half of small businesses would expand their business activities if they could apply a single European contract law for cross-border transactions. Government should support the creation of an optional single EU contract.