Customs English

Author: Bai Shizhen
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Publishing Time: 2004-05-01
Features: Declaration English was published by China Material Press according to the aim and request of fostering students, referring to a great lot of inland and overseas special literatures of Logistics in order to adapt to colleges’ request of special English teaching of logistics management. The intention is to foster students’ reading ability of special English and interpretation ability of special English literatures. It is the key that China moves toward the world to enter World Trade Organization, though the full benefits of entering the WTO have not been totally protruding now yet, but the influence of reducing tariffs, canceling quota and license is being far-reaching day by day. The volume of trade of China’s imports and exports have reached 851.21 billion dollars in 2003, increasing by 37.1 compared with the same period of last year. The surge of import-export volume makes the great demand for talents of foreign trade and international logistics. This book provides readers a concise and comprehensive coverage of operation knowledge, international trade, finance and relevant document knowledge on customs declaration. For completeness, however, this book includes some background knowledge of trade procedures in general and a summary of shipment terms and payment. This book applies to university students whose major is customs declaration with basic English, and also to the ones whose major is international trade, international commercial business, and logistics management and the professional engaging in customs declaration and freight forward in order to improve the reading ability of special English and documentary knowledge. There are 14 lessons in the book, every part is composed by text, new words, terms, and exercise including a great deal of reading and documents. The editor-in-chief is Professor Bai Shizhen of Harbin University of Commerce (HUC), and joining compiler as following: Liu Weiqi, Shen Xin of HUC and Liu Qiao, Sun Jing of Heilongjiang Engineering College (HEC).