(1) To coordinate the efforts of the corporation with programs and goals of the United States Export-Import Bank, the International Trade Administration of the United States Department of Commerce, the Foreign Credit Insurance Association, Enterprise Florida, Inc., and other private and public programs and organizations, domestic and foreign, designed to provide export assistance and export-related financing.
(2) To establish a network of contacts among those domestic and foreign public and private organizations which provide information, technical assistance, and financial support of exporting.
(3) To assemble, publish, and disseminate information on export opportunities, techniques of exporting, sources of public and private export assistance, and sources of export-related financing.
(4) To organize, host, and participate in seminars and other forums designed to disseminate information and technical assistance on exporting and export-related financing.
(5) To insure, coinsure, lend, and guarantee loans, and to originate for sale direct export-related loans, extended to small and medium-sized businesses in this state pursuant to criteria, bylaws, rules, and policies adopted by the board.
History.—s. 49, ch. 93-187; s. 69, ch. 96-320; s. 178, ch. 2011-142.
Structure Florida Statutes
Chapter 288 - Commercial Development and Capital Improvements
Part V - Export Finance (Ss. 288.770-288.778)
288.771 - Legislative findings and intent.
288.773 - Florida Export Finance Corporation.
288.774 - Powers and limitations.
288.775 - Florida Export Finance Corporation Guarantee Account.
288.776 - Board of directors; powers and duties.
288.777 - President of the corporation.
288.7771 - Annual report of Florida Export Finance Corporation.
288.778 - Office of Financial Institutions and Securities Regulation.