In terms of trade, investment and export support, the International Trade and Development programme received an increase of 14.7% and this constituted 2.7% of the budget in 2009/10. This indicates additional resource allocation for the building of links for international trade development. However, the Trade and Investment South Africa programme's budget decreased by 4.9% and this constituted 4.5% of the budget in 2009/10, which indicates a decrease in the support for increasing export capacity and for direct investment flows to South Africa. This budget reallocation may have a negative impact on the State of the Nation Address objective to improve the capacity to export.