Practical support for businesses ready to export

Guides, templates, and step-by-step resources to help you form an export-capable business, prepare for your first foreign customer, and grow in international markets.

Where are you in the export journey?

Starting a business

Form your business with export in mind from day one — structure, ownership of intellectual property, banking, naming, and the founders' agreement.

Preparing to export

Understand what export means in practice, who can help, and what to do when your first foreign customer gets in touch.

Exporting and growing

Market entry, pricing, trade finance, logistics, IP protection, and the operating playbook for cross-border sales.

Templates and tools

Downloadable founders' agreements, capability statements, pricing worksheets, checklists, and a plain-language glossary of trade terms.

Popular tasks

Package a service for sale Use the export-ready founders' agreement Build a one-page capability statement Your first foreign customer — what to do today Trade terms, plainly explained Find the trade office that can help you

Who we support

Nish Trade supports businesses whose products, services, or intellectual property can plausibly be sold across borders — software and digital goods, clean technology, design and cultural products, manufactured goods, and professional services among them.

If you are forming a business and want to do so in a way that keeps export open as a path from the start, our guides are written for you. They cover the structural decisions — ownership, banking, pricing, naming, record-keeping — that are easy to get right at week one and costly to fix at year three.

For general small-business support not tied to export, including local retail, hospitality, and personal services, our colleagues at provincial and federal business development offices are well placed to help. See our map of business support organizations to find the right contact for your situation.