What is Export Finance Navigator?
Export Finance Navigator is an online tool to help you understand your export finance options, wherever you are on the path to becoming an exporter or overseas investor.
Export Finance Navigator helps cut through the confusion about how finance fits in your export journey.
The tool divides the export journey into six key stages:
- preparing for export
- finding markets
- winning contracts
- financing production
- getting paid
- expanding overseas.
At each stage, Export Finance Navigator identifies the financial challenges you’re likely to face. It then gives you information about financial solutions to those challenges and the organisations that can provide them.
Why has Export Finance Navigator been developed?
Export Finance Navigator has been developed by Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC), the Australian Government’s export credit agency. Export Finance Navigator is a response to a recommendation of the Review of Export Policies and Programs undertaken by Mr David Mortimer AO and Dr John Edwards (the Mortimer Report), published in September 2008.
The Mortimer Report commented that for new exporters and businesses investing overseas, a common problem was a lack of understanding about the financial products available and where to obtain finance. The report identified a need for ‘an independent source of advice and information on export financing, including referrals to commercial service providers as well as to other sources of government financial assistance’. Export Finance Navigator aims to help meet that need.
State, territory and national partners
The Export Finance Navigator website contains information about a wide range of financial tools, tax concessions and grants for Australian businesses which are, or are considering, exporting or investing overseas. The following organisations have approved the inclusion on Export Finance Navigator of content about tax concessions or grants that they offer or are involved in.
Commonwealth Government
- AusIndustry
- Austrade
- Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
- Australian Taxation Office
- Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
State and territory governments
- Chief Minister’s Department, ACT
- Industry & Investment NSW
- Department of the Chief Minister, NT
- Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Queensland
- Department of Trade and Economic Development, SA
- Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts, Tasmania
- Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Victoria