The department shall establish an industrial and business export trade plan, with trade related programs in the following areas:
1. Education and training programs, such as seminars and workshops, publications, and training and recruiting, directed at businesses engaged in exporting and businesses with the potential to become involved in exporting.
2. Marketing and promotion programs including market research that focuses on sectors and markets that have promising growth potentials for the state; strengthening Iowa's overseas markets in which overseas representation would be desirable; continuing overseas trade missions which emphasize advance planning and postmission assistance; and serving as a catalyst or broker to facilitate the development of joint exporting ventures between Iowa businesses.
3. Trade financing programs combining public and private sources and supporting the private sector in educating businesses as to sources of financing within and outside the state.
4. Sales programs not involving the department in direct sales but encouraging the development of the middleman structure necessary for the small and medium-sized businesses to consummate sales and support and expand overseas sales through the department's marketing functions.
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 815
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