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My name is Leanne Spees. I am the International Trade Finance Manager at Goss International Americas Inc. We're located in Durham, New Hampshire, where we manufacture, uh, large printing presses. Uh, Goss has used primarily the Medium Term Credit Insurance product from Ex-Im Bank. It's been absolutely critical to us in the last several years in opening up the Latin American markets. Since 2005, with the support of Ex-Im Bank, we've had over $60 million in sales, uh, which would probably not have otherwise occurred, which has been, uh, instrumental in keeping manufacturing jobs, uh, in the United States and, uh, on our plant floor in, uh, New Hampshire. Uh, we've done a number of those deals in the Latin American markets, in particular in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. And it's been very helpful with the recent economic downturn when demand, uh, declined in the U.S. and some of the European markets. It's, uh, been very helpful for us to open up these new markets in Latin America. As well, it's helped us tremendously. Our two largest competitors are located in Germany, and without Ex-Im Bank support we would not be able to compete against some of the financing they can obtain from, uh, from their home government. The additional $60 million in sales that we've had over recent years has been extremely helpful in maintaining, uh, a large number of jobs at our plant, uh, in New Hampshire that otherwise might not have been able to, uh, have been maintained through the economic downturn. So it's been very, uh, instrumental in, uh, in keeping jobs, uh, in, in, uh, in the U.S.