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New Zealand Labor Unveils $1.56 Billion Small Business Package — With a Significant Trade-Off at Its Core New Zealand’s Labor Party has released a small business policy package — costed at $1.56 billion over four years — as part of its 2026 general election platform, reports Business Desk.Read More → Two Mexican Banks Direct Capital Toward Renewable Energy and Nuevo León’s Small Businesses Two of Mexico’s active commercial lenders announced financing initiatives in the final days of July targeting distinct but strategically significant sectors of the economy — renewable energy infrastructure and small business growth in the country’s leading industrial state, reports Mexico Business News.Read More → Bali Removes 18 Business Categories from Licensing System to Limit Foreign Ownership in Small Enterprise Sectors Bali’s provincial government has removed 18 business categories from Indonesia’s Online Single Submission licensing system, effectively preventing new operators in those sectors from obtaining licenses through the platform, reports Asia News Network.Read More → US Small Businesses Return to Court Within Hours of Trump’s Latest Tariffs Taking Effect Two groups of small businesses filed separate lawsuits in the U.S. Court of International Trade on July 25, challenging a new wave of tariffs announced by the Trump administration that impose double-digit levies on goods from 60 trading partners, reports NBC News.Read More → Password Sharing and Weak Access Controls Putting Bangladesh’s Small Business Owners at Risk of Cyber Fraud, Experts Warn Small business owners who share passwords, circulate one-time passwords, and maintain poor digital access controls are leaving themselves vulnerable to cybercriminals, experts said at a roundtable on MSME cyber resilience held in Dhaka on July 14, reports The Daily Star.Read More → Canadian Small Business Owners Not Feeling Impact of Internal Trade Reforms Despite High Government Grades, CFIB Report Finds Most Canadian small business owners say they have yet to see practical improvement in trading across provincial lines, despite governments achieving their highest marks in years for internal trade reform, according to a report card released by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business on July 15, states an article in Kenora Miner & News.Read More → Domestic Tourism Shift Delivers Summer Boost for Small Business Owners Across the U.S. Small business owners in tourist-dependent communities across the United States are reporting stronger-than-expected summer trading as cost-conscious Americans opt for road trips, day excursions, and nearby destinations over international or long-haul travel, reports News Nation.Read More → As Costs Rise in Indonesia, Small Businesses Take Different Approaches to Pricing As Indonesia’s currency weakens and global energy prices climb, small business owners across the country are facing a common pressure: rising costs. According to reporting by Channel News Asia (CNA), they’re responding in different ways — some holding prices steady, others raising them to stay afloat.Read More → Small Businesses in Russia Feel the Financial Pressures of the War in Ukraine Amidst Russia’s slowing economy as its war in Ukraine continues, local small businesses are being increasingly impacted by the country’s military spending, tax increases, consistent inflation, and hesitant customers, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).Read More → Canada Moves to Simplify Federal Procurement Rules to Widen Access for Smaller Businesses The federal government announced on July 6 that it is simplifying the Buy Canadian procurement process to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to access government contracts, reports Global News.Read More → WTO Small Business Group Names 2026 Champions and Turns Its Attention to AI and Trade Uncertainty The WTO’s Informal Working Group on Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises met on June 29 and 30 to announce the 2026 Small Business Champions, hold a thematic discussion on how AI can help small businesses participate in international trade, and convene its annual private-sector consultations — this year focused on the theme of trade uncertainty,…Read More → U.S Small Business Groups Push Congress to Permanently Scrap Beneficial Ownership Reporting Rules A coalition of more than 60 industry advocacy organizations, led by the National Federation of Independent Business, failed to attach an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 that would have permanently repealed beneficial ownership information reporting requirements for small businessesRead More → Canada Directs $3.2 Million to Black-Led Business Programs in Manitoba The federal government announced on June 24 that it will provide more than $3.2 million to three Manitoba organizations through the Black Entrepreneurship Program, administered in the Prairie provinces by Prairies Economic Development Canada, reports the Government of Canada.Read More → Ten Years After Brexit, UK Small Businesses Still Counting the Cost Ten years on from the referendum that triggered Britain’s exit from the EU, the country’s small and medium-sized businesses find themselves navigating significant paperwork burdens, rising costs, and outcomes that have not always matched expectations in either direction, reports The Taipei Times.Read More → American Small Businesses Invited to Sign the Small Business Administration’s Freedom 250 Pledge The U.S. Small Business Administration has launched the Freedom 250 Small Business Pledge, inviting small business owners nationwide to join a celebration of 250 years of American independence, entrepreneurship, and free enterprise, according to The Manila Times and Upper Cumberland Business Journal.Read More → 1 2 3 … 6 Next Page