Managing Imports
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
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- DOUAN004FR Code
Presentation
This course aims to acquire and/or deepen knowledge of the rules and procedures essential to the development of trade and goods transactions. It also develops your knowledge of buyers' and sellers' rights and duties: Incoterms (INternational COmmercial TERMS).
Objectives
Through this course, participants will master practical know-how for the proper operation of the logistics system:
- The responsibilities and obligations of the buyer and seller
- The knowledge essential to organisation
- The sequence of customs clearance operations.
Program
Purchasing goods
★ Complying with import constraints
- Technical constraints
- Legal constraints
- Commercial constraints: sourcing and different types of purchasing
- Regulatory constraints: customs and standards
- Different purchasing risks: the supplier and the product
- Specifications
- The difference between purchasing and procurement.
★ Choosing and negotiating the right Incoterms 2010 rule for a purchase
- 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
Transporting purchases
★ Transport intermediaries
- The different intermediaries
- Specialisms
- Selecting your freight forwarder
- Requesting a quotation from a freight forwarder
- Charge items in a quotation
- Negotiating transport services
- Freight forwarders' terminology
★ Using international transport
- Sea transport: legal framework, contract of carriage, quotation, weight/volume ratio, charges and carrier liability, etc.
- Air transport: legal framework, contract of carriage, quotation, weight/volume ratio, charges and carrier liability, etc.
★ Continental transport
- Road transport: legal framework, contract of carriage, quotation, weight/volume ratio, charges and carrier liability, etc.
★ Important elements
- Packaging
- Weight/volume ratios
★ Insurance and transport
- Why take out insurance?
- What different policies are available?
- How do you insure your goods?
- What should you do in a dispute?
- How to prepare your reimbursement claim
Paying suppliers
★ International payment instruments
- The difference between instruments and techniques
- Payment instruments: framework, parties involved, process, benefits and limitations.
★ Payment techniques
- Advance payment: parties involved, process, benefits and limitations
- Documentary collection: parties involved, process, benefits and limitations
- Documentary credit: parties involved, process, benefits, limitations and different types of documentary credit
- Standby letter of credit: parties involved, process, benefits and limitations
- Protection against non-delivery risk
Customs clearance of goods
★ Customs operations
- Customs principles
- Customs fundamentals: value, origin and tariff classification
- The import customs declaration
- How do you clear imports through customs?
- Calculating customs value
- How do you clear goods through customs?
- The procedures to complete
- Where can you find information?
- Customs procedures
- VAT
- Sources of regulatory information
Mastering the documentation required for purchasing
★ Commercial and legal documents
- General purchasing terms and conditions
- 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 (loading or freight document)
- Air waybill (LTA)
- CMR
- Transport certificate
- Letter of reservations in the event of a dispute
★ Customs documents
- Import declaration
- Movement certificates: EUR 1
- Certificates of origin
- Statement on preferential origin
- Export licence
- Import licence
Other documents
- Control and inspection certificate
- Phytosanitary certificate
Audience
Anyone working internationally or considering doing 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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