Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures

Erdener Kaynak, Belay Seyoum

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780789005687
• eBook ISBN: 9781134730544
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business generale
• Index: Business

Learn the ins and outs of the export-import business!Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures is a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of international trade theories and techniques. International trade professionals, researchers, students, and members of chambers of commerce will benefit from concepts and theories that explain international trade operations and give clearly defined goals and procedures for your business. This excellent text offers chapter summaries, references, World Wide Web addresses, and features learning aids such as figures, tables, vignettes, and other illustrations to help you compete in the global marketplace and better educate students in the field.With this informative text, you will explore trade agreements such as the GATT/WTO, NAFTA, and the European Economic Community (EEC), and how they affect trade. For example, you will read about the investment and intellectual property policies, as well as rules on government procurements, safeguards, and services of NAFTA. Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures examines export-import marketing and strategy concepts from setting up businesses to solving typical international logistics and transportation questions. Other areas you will examine include:

• documentation, risks, and different forms of insurance
• price setting in international trade
• export sales contracts
• documenting export-import trade
• the risks of foreign trade
• exchange rates and international trade
• methods of payment for exporting and importing goods
• the benefits and theories of countertrade
• the entry process for imports
• import relief to domestic industryExport-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures covers everything you need to know to start and run an export-import business. With over 100 tables and figures and a plethora of Web sites and Internet addresses to visit, this excellent text assists you in understanding the theories, practices, and procedures of exporting and importing to help you make informed and profitable business decisions.

Index

Page numbers followed by the letter “b” indicate boxed material; those followed by the letter “i” indicate illustrations; those followed by the letter “t” indicate tables.

Absolute quotas, import restrictions, 331, 332t

Accidental discrepancies, 209, 210, 219

Accountants, use of, 40

Accounts receivable loans, 257–258

Actionable subsidies, 374–375

Ad valorem duty, 329, 340

Administrative pricing, FSC, 317, 318b, 319t

Admission Temporaire carnet (ATA), 67, 75

Advance payments

importer financing, 257, 266

standby L/C, 216

Advertising

export potential, 53, 54

overseas markets, 69–70, 75

service exports, 7

African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO), 395, 396

Agricultural products, import requirements, 330–331, 332t

Agriculture

export incentives, 322b

import interference with, 384, 386

service sector, 10

Air cargo

insurance, 171

rate determinants, 111–112, 121

Air Cargo Tariff Guide, 155

Air transport, terms of sale, 134–135, 140

Air transportation, 109, 110–112, 111t

regulation of, 166–168, 167b, 177

Air waybill, 155, 166–167, 199

Airfreight, growth of, 110–111, 120

Alcohol, advertising restrictions on, 69

All risks policy, marine insurance, 170

“Alongside the vessel,” 133

Amazon.com, 87

American Credit Indemnity, 161–162, 162t

American Insurance Underwriters, 161–162, 162t

Amortization, start-up costs, 49

AMS Paperless Master In-Bond Participants, 369b

Ancient Greece, barter in, 223, 240–241

Andean Pact, 27t, 28

Andean Trade Preference, 336, 340

Annecy Round, GATT, 15b

Antiboycott regulation, EAA, 292, 298–302, 301b

Antidumping (AD) proceedings, 377–380, 377t, 380t

economic impact, 381b

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• Introduction: A Brief History of International Trade
• SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
• SECTION II: EXPORT MARKETING AND STRATEGY
• SECTION III: EXECUTING THE TRANSACTIONS
• SECTION IV: PAYMENT TERMS AND PROCEDURES
• SECTION V: FINANCING TECHNIQUES AND VEHICLES
• SECTION VI: EXPORT REGULATIONS AND TAX INCENTIVES
• SECTION VII: IMPORT PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES
• Appendix A: Export Sales Contract (Basic Clauses)
• Appendix B: Sample Distributorship Agreement
• Appendix C: Sample Sales Representative Agreement
• Appendix D: Sample Export Business Plan: Donga Michael Export Company
• Appendix E: Sample Import Business Plan: Otoro Import Company
• Appendix F: Tariff Rate: Selected Countries (1997-1998)
• Appendix G: Trade Profiles (1997)
• References
• Index