Export credit agency
A body set up to provide credit to export customers or guarantees of credit granted by exporters. Where the interest charged for credits or the premiums charged for guarantees are below what is available in the market, state subsidies for export credit agencies are a form of export subsidy.
Reference: Oxford Press Dictonary of Economics, 5th edt.
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