The US Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) signed on 5 October a framework trade financing agreement with the Finance Ministry and Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI). The signing is a renewal of an agreement concluded late last year between Eximbank, TBI and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), in which the export credit agency approved a $500 million short-term insurance facility to support the export of US goods and services to Iraq financed by TBI. Renewal of the framework agreement allows TBI to continue to access the $500 million facility (MEED 9:1:04).