Export Business: the library
Incoterms, HS codes and export filing, getting paid abroad, trade agreements, export controls, pricing an export quote, finding buyers and an export glossary.
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- 🚢 Incoterms® 2020: who pays for what, and where the risk changes handsIn 30 seconds: An Incoterm is a three-letter code in your quote, like “FCA Memphis, Incoterms® 2020”. It settles three questions: where you hand the goods…
- 🏷️ HS codes, Schedule B numbers and filing your export in AESDirectIn 30 seconds: Every product you ship has a number. The first six digits (the HS code) are the same in nearly every country and drive the duty your buyer…
- 🧮 Pricing an export order and writing the pro forma invoiceIn 30 seconds: An export price is your domestic price plus every cost between your door and the handover point in your Incoterm. Build it as a ladder, one…
- 💵 Getting paid abroad: payment terms, credit insurance and export loansIn 30 seconds: There are four common ways a foreign buyer pays you, and they sit on a ladder. The safer a method is for you, the less the buyer likes it.…
- 🛂 Export controls and sanctions: EAR99, ECCNs, OFAC and screening buyersIn 30 seconds: Most ordinary products are “EAR99” and ship without a license to most places. A license question comes from four things together: what the…
- 🤝 Free trade agreements: rules of origin and cutting your buyer’s dutyIn 30 seconds: The US has free trade agreements (FTAs) with 20 countries. If your product “originates” under the agreement’s rules, your buyer in one of…
- 🔎 Finding foreign buyers: Commercial Service, STEP grants, marketplaces and trade showsIn 30 seconds: The US Commercial Service has staff in US embassies whose job is finding buyers for American companies. Its matchmaking services cost a few…
- 📖 Export glossary: 46 terms from AES to Schedule BIn 30 seconds: Export paperwork uses a lot of shorthand. Here are 46 terms you will see on quotes, invoices, bank forms and forwarder emails, each in a…