Managing Exports: Navigating the Complex Rules, Controls, Barriers, and Laws
It goes without saying that the defining feature of any international transaction is that the buyer and seller are located in different countries. And yet it is precisely this phenomenon that exporters fail to fully appreciate, thereby needlessly hampering and complicating their business. Managing Exports: Navigating the Complex Rules, Controls, Barriers, and Laws meticulously examines every dimension of international trade, delivering a reader-friendly, comprehensive survey of the global regulations and entities that drive the international marketplace.Exporters confront a myriad of procedural complications. Even neighboring trading partners with similar cultures, such as the United States and Canada, have different regulations, authorities, national holidays, and procedures for settling disputes. More often trading partners must negotiate different languages, longer transportation to accommodate greater distances, different electric power formats, exclusive use of metrics, significant differences in times and seasons, and entirely different social and economic cultures.  These contrasts, however, need not render international trade unprofitable. Managing Exports analyzes all of these challenges, instructing exporters on how to expand international sales, automate export administration, reduce costs, streamline operations, and manage the entire export function. Among other functions, this book:Provides practical, easy-to-implement advice on how to comply with the latest rules and regulationsShows how to circumvent trade barriers in foreign countriesOffers insights into reducing export risk exposuresDevelops linkages among export-related departmentsProvides practical recommendations to ensure compliance with U.S. and foreign regulationsThe author, an experienced exporter and widely read commentator on international trade, also includes chapters on documentation, transportation, marketing, and insurance, covering every angle of the business.In a global economy, not only companies that specialize in exporting but all corporations that service the international market must efficiently export goods and services.  Credit, international sales, logistics, and compliance managers, as well as corporate treasurers, will find Managing Exports an essential resource to this vital function.