BCC Press Release: The Trade Confidence Outlook
BCC’s Trade Confidence Outlook for Q3 2024 shows a dip in SME exporters already poor performance on overseas sales. Under a quarter of exporting SME firms (22%) saw their overseas sales rise in Q3, compared to 27% in Q2. More than half of all SME exporters (54%) saw no change in overseas sales, and 24% reported a decrease. BCC’s SME export sales indicator has consistently underperformed compared to domestic sales indicators since the pandemic. The Trade Confidence Outlook, conducted by the BCC’s Insights Unit, is a survey of just under 2,000 UK SME exporters.