Export Practice and Management (4th Edition) (4th Edition)

Author: Branch.A.E
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Publish Date: 2004-05-12
Features: This book serves as a detailed reference manual for practitioners involved in international trade operations, as well as an invaluable classic textbook for university courses on international trade and marketing management. Students preparing for professional exams will also benefit greatly from it. Since its first edition, the book has gone through many significant stages of international trade development. In the face of rapidly evolving knowledge, the author has continuously tracked new trends in trade, expanded research areas, and enriched case studies, presenting a monumental work on international trade to you in the new century. With clear and engaging writing, the book takes you on a journey through the realm of international trade knowledge, starting from specific export practice operations. The book consists of 19 chapters, broadly divided into four parts.
Part I, consisting of the first two chapters, primarily introduces the new trends and developments in international trade, discussing fundamental issues related to international trade and export trade, such as major trade regions, organizations, and associations, as well as the basic principles of WTO agreements, export risks and rewards, and export offices.
Part II, comprising chapters 3 to 7, focuses on the characteristics of international transportation methods. One chapter is dedicated to multimodal transport, a new form in the development of transportation. The rapid growth of modern trade is inseparable from the rise of the logistics industry, and Chapter 6 emphasizes the development of logistics and globalization trends. Chapter 7 introduces freight rate issues in transportation.
Part III includes eight important chapters that thoroughly discuss the relevant content of export practice. This includes packaging, loading, marking of export goods, and the shipment of hazardous materials, as well as export customs practices, cargo insurance, credit insurance, export financing, transportation and distribution analysis, export documentation, and handling export orders. It incorporates the 2000 Incoterms (International Rules for the Interpretation of Trade Terms), providing practical and professional operational methods.
Part IV covers other important issues, including electronic data interchange (EDI), export market access, the single market and European Economic Area (EEA), as well as international logistics strategies and management—key topics in the current development of international trade.