RPT-INSIGHT-U.S. firms fear financing drought as deadline looms for trade bank
June 24, 2015 at 07:00 AM EDT
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - A battle in Congress that could shut down the U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank next week is already causing headaches for small exporters as they try to stop customers from defecting to foreign competitors and as export financing starts to freeze up.