ITS PROGRAMME2026 UPDATE
International Trade Specialist Accreditation
Build your business as well as your career profile.
Combine practical international trade training with tools that help you research markets, find potential business partners, prepare export prices and plan shipments.
The 2026 International Trade Specialist experience brings together structured online learning, AI powered tutoring and the business resources of the eBSI Global Learning Network. Develop your knowledge, then put it to work on your own product, business idea or professional responsibilities.
What the updated experience brings together
Learn the trade. Apply it to real business decisions.
International Trade Specialists need to understand how the whole transaction fits together, from attracting an overseas customer to moving the goods and arranging payment. The programme connects those subjects with practical ways to investigate and prepare your next step.
A broad foundation in international trade
- Export marketing and international market development
- Trade and customs practice, documentation and Incoterms®
- International transport and logistics
- Trade finance and international payments
- eBusiness and digital marketing
Support for learning and practical application
AI powered tutoring supports your online studies. Alongside the programme, the Global Learning Network brings together trade tools, Learning Spaces, professional networking and a Jobs Hub.
Use your own product, target market or business challenge as the context for applying what you learn.
The eBSI Global Learning Network
Business tools for each stage of your next opportunity.
These five screenshots show tools already available on the Network. Follow the links to explore each tool, or open a screenshot to see it at full size.
Choose where to focus your export effort.
The Personalised Export Report helps you compare potential destination markets for your products. Use the product's HS code to focus your research and review the reported trade evidence.
Our Personalised Import Report supports the reverse decision: comparing potential supplier countries for one importing market.
Explore export market reports →
Find suppliers. Discover your next buyer.
The Find Suppliers & Buyers hub turns a product, HS code and country into a focused starting point for discovery using public sources.
Move from finding sources to comparing potential partners and asking clearer questions about specifications, quantities, delivery and payment. The hub supports your checks; it does not certify the companies you find.
Explore supplier and buyer discovery →
Understand the costs behind your quotation.
The Export Pricing & Landed Cost Calculator helps you build export prices, compare quotations and examine margins using the figures you enter.
Work through your assumptions before making an offer, and connect your understanding of Incoterms® with the commercial numbers.
Explore export pricing and landed cost →
Get a clearer picture before requesting freight quotes.
Freight Search & Trade Preparation brings shipment details, public freight estimates, provider discovery and a quotation workspace together.
Use indicative estimates to inform your planning, then obtain a provider's quotation for the shipment you intend to book.
Explore freight preparation →
Turn the transaction into a document plan.
The Export Documentation Checklist helps you plan documents around your origin, destination, product, transport mode and chosen Incoterms® rule.
It gives you an organised starting point for checking what your transaction needs and links your documentation studies to a practical shipment.
Explore the documentation checklist →
Keep discovering, checking and connecting.
Explore trade opportunities
Search EU public procurement notices with the Trade Opportunities tool. An office furniture exporter, for example, can look for relevant tenders and review their requirements and deadlines.
Follow markets and review counterparties
Use the Trade Monitor to follow topics and markets, and explore Sanctions & Counterparty Screening as part of your initial research into a prospective trading partner.
Support beyond the course screen
Grow your knowledge and your professional network.
Connect with fellow learners and professionals through the Learning Spaces and Member Directory. Explore career opportunities through the Jobs Hub and bring your learning into conversations about real business challenges.
The Global Learning Network is a practical companion to your studies and a resource for your continuing business and career development.
Choose your study route
The same trade focus. A pace that suits you.
ITSAFT / FAST TRACK
Progress at your own pace.
Receive all 42 course units immediately and work through them in your own time. A practical option if you have more time available, existing trade experience or want to study intensively.
Explore the Fast Track programmeITSA / STANDARD
Follow a structured 42-week programme.
Spread your studies over 42 weeks with a structured approach to your professional development. Explore the programme page for the current enrolment and payment options.
Explore the Standard programmeDevelop the skills behind your next international opportunity.
Whether you are building an export business, supporting international customers or strengthening your professional profile, combine the ITS programme with practical tools you can use to research, prepare and make better-informed decisions.