Managing Exports
Your international operations involve people, documents and responsibilities that need coordination. Clarify the stages of import-export and identify points requiring attention to better prepare your transactions. Strengthen your ability to work with partners and monitor your commitments.
- Duration
- 4 days 28 hours
- Code
- DOUAN005FR Code
Presentation
This course is essential for companies to prepare participants for the many complex export control rules, providing a reference tool to answer exporters' questions about administration.
Objectives
The aim of this course is to optimise performance by mastering import and export techniques, supported by management work using several strategies.
- Draw up an export plan
- Understand how logistics work properly
- Develop a financial plan
- Understand the legal and tax aspects of international trade and the data required for safety and security
Program
Introduction
★ Incoterms 2020: refresher
- The role: what do Incoterms specify?
- Transfer of risk: the responsibilities of the parties involved
- Allocation of costs: the exporter's costs
- Documentary obligations
- Departure-sale Incoterms: groups E, F and C
- Arrival-sale Incoterms: group D
- Criteria for selecting Incoterms
- Practical cases
Managing the transport operation
★ The different parties involved
- The transport commission agent (freight forwarder) versus the carrier: their status, responsibilities and functions; how to choose?
- The request for quotation: components, drafting advice and tips.
- Deciphering a price offer: distinguishing the different charges, understanding abbreviations (BAF/CAF/CUC, etc.) and which can be negotiated.
- Practical cases
★ Setting up the transport operation
• Booking the service: drafting, important elements, tips and advice.
• Commercial invoice and packing list: advice on mandatory information, and advice and tips for smooth customs clearance.
By sea, air and road
- What is positioning? Important points and advice.
- Loading and departure: key points in these operations.
- The sea transport document: the Bill of Lading, CMR and air waybill (LTA): presentation, sections, instructions and drafting advice, important points relating to documentary credit.
- Practical cases, freight rate calculations and drafting transport documents
★ Payment techniques without bank involvement
- Advance payment: presentation, operation, parties involved, benefits and limitations (general terms and conditions of sale)
- Payment against invoice: presentation, operation, parties involved, benefits and limitations
★ Payment techniques with bank involvement
Documentary collection
- Presentation
- Operation
- The parties involved: their roles, obligations and risks
- The role of banks
- Benefits
- Limitations
Documentary credit
★ Documentary credit: basic concepts
- Definition of documentary credit
- The parties involved in documentary credit
- Documentary credit terminology
- Documentary credit constraints
★ Documentary credit and documents
- The invoice
- The packing list
- Transport documents
- The insurance certificate
- Other documents
★ Different documentary credits: benefits and limitations
- Irrevocable documentary credit
- Irrevocable and confirmed documentary credit
- Other documentary credits
★ The documentary credit process and documents
- Key stages and dates of documentary credit
- Different methods of settling documentary credit
- Amendments
- Documentary credit discrepancies: major and minor discrepancies
- UCP 600 (RUU 600)
- The new ISBP rules on examining documents
- Waiving discrepancies
★ Practical cases
- Examples of export documentary credits
The standby letter of credit
- Presentation
- Operation
- The parties involved: their roles, obligations and risks
- Benefits and limitations
- The standby letter of credit and its documents
- Calling on the standby letter of credit
Managing customs operations
★ Customs operations
- Customs principles
- Customs fundamentals: value, origin and tariff classification
- The customs document
- How do you clear exports through customs?
- Rules of origin
International trade documents
★ Commercial and legal documents
- General terms and conditions of sale and purchase
- Purchase order
- Pro forma invoice
- Order confirmation
- Export commercial invoice
- Packing list
- Delivery note
★ Transport documents
- Letter of instructions to the freight forwarder
- Shipment notice
- FCR
- Ocean bill of lading
- Air waybill (LTA)
- CMR
- CIM
- Transport certificate
- Letter of reservations in the event of a dispute
★ Customs documents
- Customs declaration
- EUR 1
- Movement certificate
- Certificate of origin
- Statement on preferential origin
- Export licence
- Import licence
Other documents
- Control and inspection certificate
- Phytosanitary certificate
Audience
Anyone working internationally or planning to do so.
Prerequisites
This course has no prerequisites.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Quiz / multiple-choice questions
Dates and sessions
Choose the date and delivery format that suit you.
No upcoming sessions are currently available.
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