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Export Assistance for Companies of All Sizes

Export AssistanceAccording to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, about 300,000 companies in the United States export their products.  It’s perfectly understandable why since there are so many potential customers around the world.

In order to reach these enormous new markets, however, you must learn to compete with other companies from around the world, make sure you understand the ins and outs of the export process, and ensure that you are meeting your export compliance responsibilities.  By doing so, you can tap into millions of dollars of new revenues and profits.  But failing to do so can put your business in jeopardy.

International Business Training (IBT) provides a variety of resources to help you and your company master the art of exporting. Just click on the title of the book, seminar or training tool that interests you for a more complete description of that product.

The following list of books, seminars, online training classes, compliance audits and compliance tools are all designed to make you and your company better exporters.

Reference Books & eBooks

Alternative Financing - Consider alternative ways to finance your exports, including counter track and switch trading, shifting interest rates, discounting drafts and more. This book explains how to use trade finance as a marketing tool. 

Drawback Made Easy - As an exporter, you may be exporting goods that you first imported into the United States. If you are, you may be eligible to receive a refund of the U.S. Customs duties you had to pay upon import. This book provides an overview of the process, who's eligible, and how a drawback is filed.

Doing Your Duty - Product Classification According to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States - If your company is going to succeed in international trade, one of the most basic—and important—requirements is identifying the correct classification for your products. This book will teach you how to develop those harmonized code classification skills.

Exploring International Trade Options - If you or your company are considering entering the international trade market, this basic reference book is just for you.

Export Documentation and Shipping - A step-by-step guide through the various layers of an international transaction beginning with the responsibilities and liabilities of the seller and the buyer.

Export Letters of Credit and Drafts - This manual will help you instruct your international customers in opening a letter of credit and guide you through the procedures to take when you can't comply with the stipulations of the credit or collect your money.

Export Marketing and Sales - This manual focuses on how to establish an export sales network of foreign sales agents or distributors, including step-by-step instructions for identifying, evaluating, selecting, training, motivating and managing foreign sales representatives.

Export Regulations, Documentation and Procedures - This is our most complete book on the export process including topics such as contract negotiation, Incoterms 2000, pricing, customs and tariff planning, SEDs/AES, and more.

Exporting to Canada: Documentation & Procedures - This book provides the documentation and procedures necessary to export goods to Canada.

Exporting to Mexico: Documentation & Procedures - This book provides information on the documentation and procedures necessary to export products to Mexico.

How to Become a Successful Export Agent - This eBook will help you make a realistic assessment of your strengths and weaknesses, so you can decide if you have what it takes to become a successful export agent.

IBT Guide to Incoterms 2000 - This manual fully and clearly defines each of the new Incoterms that became effective January 1, 2000, and includes a number of case studies that demonstrate the use of the different terms in real-life situations.

Incoterms 2000 - A Practical Review - This manual explains each of the 13 trade terms including the responsibilities of the seller and the buyer under each of the terms, when and how each term can be used, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

NAFTA Documentation and Procedures - This book provides a complete overview of NAFTA regulations and their implications for trade with Mexico, Canada and the United States.

Transportation, Logistics and the Law - In the current state of the global economy, corporate personnel need a quick reference guide to the fundamental regulations and laws governing their business. Transportation, Logistics and the Law was designed to fill that need… and more!

Understanding the International Supply Chain: Air & Ocean Transportation - The book features sections on transportation costs, packing, working with freight forwarders, Incoterms 2000, ocean bills of lading, common carrier obligations to shippers, ocean transportation, air waybills of lading, air freight transportation, insurance and documentation.

U.S. Domestic Terms of Sale and Incoterms 2000 - This book introduces the difference between the trade terms commonly used in U.S. domestic trade under the Uniform Commercial Code Article 2 and those used in international trade developed by the International Chamber of Commerce called Incoterms 2000.

U.S. Trade Agreements - This book will give you detailed information regarding three different trade agreements that the United States has negotiated with Singapore, Chile, and Australia. It provides an overview of the three trade agreements and detailed information on the responsibility of the importer and exporter in making a claim for preferential tariff treatment in each country.

Seminars

Air & Ocean Transportation: Logistics Management for the International Supply Chain - This one-day seminar is the perfect overview of the transportation process—whether you're shipping by ocean or air.

Export Documentation and Procedures - This popular one-day seminar teaches you about all those “little details” that help you make money on your exports and helps you become an invaluable resource for your company.

Letters of Credit and Alternative International Payment Methods - This one-day seminar teaches you how to make a sale that guarantees the seller gets paid and the buyer gets the help he or she needs to finance the deal.

NAFTA Rules of Origin - This one-day seminar will help you understand the NAFTA Rules of Origin, apply them to your company's products, and then correctly complete and maintain the proper documentation to take advantage of the reduced tariffs under NAFTA.

Tariff Classification: Using the Harmonized Tariff Schedule - This one-day session explains the process and gives you the tools to classify your own company's products. This seminar is especially important in 2007 after more than 1,600 HTS codes changed.

Online Training

Certificate of Export Management - These six online classes will teach you the essential information you need to successfully export your products.

Personalized Export Compliance Audits

Export Compliance Checkup - Want an overview of how your export procedures are working?  Our Export Compliance Checkup will survey your export department, review the results, and prepare a scorecard of your program.

Export Compliance Audit - Want a more in-depth review of your export program that examines your company’s procedures and performance using the same type of measures as the Office of Export Enforcement? With our Export Compliance Audit one of our trained and experienced auditors will spend four days at your company diving into the details of your export compliance program and examine a sample of your completed exports.

Export Compliance Tools

Export Controls - A relatively small number of products exported from the United States require an export license from either the U.S. Department of Commerce or another U.S. agency like the State Department. Do your products require an export license? It depends on their technical characteristics, the destination, the end-users and the end uses. Our Online Export Controls Tool helps you make that determination. And because this information is stored online on our secure web server, you can be sure that you are accessing the most current information available.

Product Classification Tool - Our Online Product Classification Tool provides several search methods for identifying ECCN numbers, Schedule B numbers, and Harmonized Tariff Schedule numbers. The online product classification process is faster and easier than the traditional method of pouring through volumes of printed books and regulations. And because this information is stored online on our secure web server, you can be sure that you are accessing the most current information available.

Trade Party Screening - No matter who you are, where you are located, and what you are exporting, governments prohibit you from exporting to certain people, companies, organizations and countries. In the United States, exporters must make sure they aren't shipping to anyone on one of several government lists of restricted parties or risk violating the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Rather than checking each of these lists individually, our Trade Party Screening Tool makes it easy for you to check all these lists at one time right from your computer. And because this information is stored online on our secure web server, you can be sure that you are accessing the most current information available.


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