December 09, 2022
**Shaheen helped create the State Trade Expansion Program as a pilot program in 2010 to assist small businesses with entering new markets, accessing export financing and attending trade missions.**
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, introduced legislation that would reauthorize the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) for four years. Shaheen has led action in the U.S. Senate in support of STEP and helped create it as a pilot program in 2010.
“Since I worked to create STEP as a pilot program in 2010, small businesses have utilized its resources to develop export and e-commerce capabilities necessary to compete in international markets. STEP has been particularly important to Granite State small businesses, many of which I’ve had the…
