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So my name is Dr. Rao Murukurthy. We design, develop, build and supply the equipment so that they could manufacture and make millions and millions, uh, of, of, of parts they need. When things were hard here, we had money coming in from exporting our machines to the outside, like Mexico, Nigeria and, and so on. Uh, about maybe for the last 20 years Ex-Im Bank helped us enormously because our main competition is Germany. And they have a very strong, um--their own Ex-Im Bank. And they are very, very creative and aggressive. And to be on the same, uh, level grounds, Ex-Im Bank helps us a lot. Some countries like from India, uh, are, are--like in Mexico, we only have to get the, the, the financial document so that the Ex-Im Bank will finance. And, and from countries like Nigeria, our customers have to get the bank guarantee. We always work with them. It is because of Ex-Im Bank, I would say we are still alive today. You know, when the business is domestically slow, we're still, uh, employing people. We have now about 35. And we have several projects in the pipeline. We're working with the Ex-Im Bank. - - the approvals come, and now we'll go back to at least 95 hopefully in the next three or four months there. The, the project I was talking about, the Ex-Im Bank gave the approval for, uh, a big business man in Asaba. It is the capital of Delta state, - - state in Nigeria. Now our customer is getting a guarantee from the Diamond Bank. The Diamond Bank is a very, very nice bank. And Ex-Im Bank likes them. And they are in good standing with the Ex-Im Bank. We had our final meetings yesterday in a matter of days I had the guarantee. And now the new bank is a known entity. Hopefully I'll get the approval very shortly. That will give me $16 million; the new, new life to grow back to 95 people.