Int Mark Chapt 13. Exporting and Logistics

Int Mark Chapt 13. Exporting and Logistics

1. Regulations and restrictions on exporting and importing:

   • Export Controls
   • TRADE Restrictions
     • Other restrictions
       • Voluntary Agreements
         • Standards
           • Boycots
             • Import Licences
               • Quotas
                 • Exchange permits
                   • Tariffs
   • 30 basic barriers to exporting
     • 1. Import licences, quotas and other quantitative restrictions
       • 2. Currency restrictions
         • 3. Devaluation
           • 4.Prohibitive prior import deposits, prohibition of collection-basis sales and insistence on cash letters of credit
             • 5. Arbitrarily short periods in which to apply for import licences
               • 6. Delays resulting from pressure on overworked officials or from competitors’ influence on susceptible officials.
                 • etc. ....

2. Customs-privileged facilities

   • Foreign Trade Zones
     • free-trade zones), free ports and in-bond arrangements are all types of customs-privileged facilities that countries use to promote foreign trade
     • Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Shenzhen

3. Export documents

4. Terms of sale

   • Letters or credit
     • Export shipping
   • Packing and Marking
   • CIF ETC...

5. Logistics

   • the foreign freight forwarder

6. Summary