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 an Exporter - An Introduction to U.S. Exporting - This publication introduces you to the details and complexities of exporting from the United States and provides a roadmap for developing your company’s export program. Please Note: This eBook does not allow you to print the book.

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: A Practical Guide to Regulation, Documentation & Procedures - This publication is intended as a teaching tool to help businesses understand the NAFTA and to develop practical business processes for participating in the free trade agreement. The book was designed predominantly with U.S. exporters and importers in mind.

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.

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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.

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Export 101: The Basics of Exporting
If you are new to exporting or just looking for a good overview of the entire export process, this two-hour webinar is for you. We'll identify significant data elements, profile key parties to an export transaction, review the entire export process from beginning to end, and give you a great introduction to the more detailed topics covered during the rest of the week.

Complying With the Export Administration Regulations
The majority of U.S. exports fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce's Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This two-hour webinar will review those regulations and give you an understanding of your responsibilities and potential liabilities under the EAR such as screening for Restricted Parties. You'll learn the importance of determining if any of your products fall on the Commerce Control List and where and how to check whether or not your exports require an export license.

Mandatory AES: Complying With the Foreign Trade Regulations
On June 2, 2008, the U.S. Census Bureau published the long-anticipated final rule that updated the Bureau’s Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR), which among other things eliminated the paper version of the Shipper’s Export Declaration and required all exporters to either file their export information electronically through the Automated Export System (AES) or include an AES Exemption Statement on their export paperwork. This two-hour webinar will review the new rule and detail U.S. exporters’ responsibilities.

Determining Your Correct Schedule B Code Number
One of the fundamental aspects of international trade is the proper classification of your products. It's the basis of U.S. trade statistics and used for determining the correct duty rates of your goods in the destination country. This two-hour webinar provides you with an overview of the U.S. Schedule B Code book, the process you should follow to select the correct codes for your exports, and best practices for maintaining a Schedule B Code database.

Creating an Export Management and Compliance Program
As much as your sales department might hate to admit it, exporting can be a complicated process. Get it wrong and your goods could be seized by Customs in the U.S. or at destination, and one or more government agencies could penalize you for violating a myriad of export regulations with fines, bans on exporting or even jail time. This two-hour webinar will outline the elements of an effective written export management plan that successful exporters use to make sure all their employees work to avoid the pitfalls of exporting.

Incoterms 2000: The Language of International Trade
When companies first enter the international trade arena, they often become confused by the various trade terms that are bandied about by their international suppliers or customers. After years of dealing with U.S. trade terms like FOB, they can be overwhelmed by a new set of terms. This two-hour webinar provides you with an overview of the 13 Incoterms used in international trade, when the responsibilities and liabilities for the goods transfer from the buyer to the seller under each of the terms, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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

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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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