Expert Commentaries
TFR LOOKS AT TRADING WITH CHINA

TFR LOOKS AT TRADING WITH CHINA

|Export Academy Faculty
When the Chinese import and export growth slowed up, reflecting lower demand for Chinese exports overseas and slower domestic demand, one would be forgiven for assuming this would affect growth...
Are you being served?

Are you being served?

|Export Academy Faculty
International trade is dependent upon a broad range of high risk supply chain activity, whilst cultural differences can influence the overall perceptions and expectations of customers. It is important for...
The Power of Global Networking

The Power of Global Networking

|Export Academy Faculty
WebPort Global is a new and exciting online trade network created for companies and members of World Trade Centers, Chambers of Commerce, Professional Associations, and any organization that participates in...
Supply Chain Finance – a case study

Supply Chain Finance – a case study

|Export Academy Faculty
The article by Carlos Bacigalupe in the last edition of Trade Brief highlighted the advantages of Supply Chain Finance (SCF) and in particular how new methods of funding trade via...
Pumping Private Money into Trade Activities

Pumping Private Money into Trade Activities

|Export Academy Admin
Traditionally, trade finance has been provided to import/export companies by banks and/or other financial institutions. Such dependency of the financial sector adversely affects to both importers and exporters in their...
Getting Ready to Trade at SME level

Getting Ready to Trade at SME level

|Export Academy Faculty
SMEs have high expectations when they start to develop export strategies and define foreign market entry models. This might be influenced by different criteria varying from country to country. The...
Does Globalization create the Need for Cultural Understanding?

Does Globalization create the Need for Cultural Understanding?

|Export Academy Faculty
It seems like just a short time ago we lived in a world in which contact with other cultures was incidental and peripheral. Sure, there used to be immigrants from...
Achieving Export Competitiveness

Achieving Export Competitiveness

|Export Academy Faculty
This article summarizes a paper on “Applying the Four Gears of National Export Strategy to Achieve Export Competitiveness that I wrote back in May 2012.
The Practicalities of Customs Bonded Warehouses

The Practicalities of Customs Bonded Warehouses

|Export Academy Faculty
As more customs bonded warehouses spring up around the globe, exporters are in a good position to benefit from this counterparty performance and credit risk management tool.
Muddying the export waters

Muddying the export waters

|Export Academy Faculty
Muddying the export waters The row boiling up in Washington over the „no‟ vote on America‟s ExIm Bank charter and lending cap extension has made headlines in a debate that...
TFR LOOKS AT TRADING WITH CHINA

TFR LOOKS AT TRADING WITH CHINA

|Export Academy Faculty
When the Chinese import and export growth slowed up, reflecting lower demand for Chinese exports overseas and slower domestic demand, one would be forgiven for assuming this would affect growth...