Mastering Import & Export Management
2nd Edition
Published on 16. March 2012
Book
Hardback
608 pages
978-0-8144-2026-3 (ISBN)
Description
With billions of dollars generated annually, importing and exporting is a potentially lucrative arena for growth-and a bewildering tangle of rules and regulations. Packed with hundreds of cost-effective strategies, ready-to-use forms, and valuable checklists, the second edition of Mastering Import & Export Management explains how to efficiently-and legally-navigate the complex world of international trade.
From the big picture of pinpointing the best markets to the nitty-gritty of packing a container, this sweeping guide examines how to spot potential risks, apply quality control procedures, prepare documentation accurately, and more. This revised and updated edition addresses how best to handle recent crises like the earthquakes and tsunami in Japan, the economic downturn, or political instability in countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, and Libya. It also covers every new compliance and security regulation, as well as evolving best practices, including:
* C-TPAT guidelines
* Incoterms
* In-house compliance programs
* Freight cost-reduction tips
* Beefed-up TSA regulations
* Improved technology options
* President Obama's new export initiatives.
It's an indispensable resource for today's complex and changing global marketplace.
From the big picture of pinpointing the best markets to the nitty-gritty of packing a container, this sweeping guide examines how to spot potential risks, apply quality control procedures, prepare documentation accurately, and more. This revised and updated edition addresses how best to handle recent crises like the earthquakes and tsunami in Japan, the economic downturn, or political instability in countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, and Libya. It also covers every new compliance and security regulation, as well as evolving best practices, including:
* C-TPAT guidelines
* Incoterms
* In-house compliance programs
* Freight cost-reduction tips
* Beefed-up TSA regulations
* Improved technology options
* President Obama's new export initiatives.
It's an indispensable resource for today's complex and changing global marketplace.
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Persons
THOMAS A. COOK has over three decades of experience in global logistics and international business, and two decades teaching with the American Management Association, Global Training Centers, and the District Export Councils.
Content
Contents
1 Major Issues in Global Supply Chain Management
Today
Section One: The Global Supply Chain
2 Purchasing Management Skill Sets in Foreign Markets
3 Freight, Logistics, and Specialized Transportation Issues
for Import/Export Managers
4 Risk Management in International Business
5 Technology in Global Trade
6 Global Personnel Deployment and Structure
7 Developing Resources in the Import/Export Supply
Chain Management
8 Essential Overview of Import/Export Compliance and
Security Management: Post 9/11
Section Two: Export Operations
9 Export Issues0 Export Management: Incoterms, Documentation,
Compliance, Operations, and Export Supply Chain Skill
Sets
Section Three: Import Operations
11 Future Import Issues
12 The Import Supply Chain: Purchasing, Operations,
Documentation, and Compliance Management
13 Import Strategies in Maintaining a ``Compliant and
Secure'' Inbound Supply Chain
14 Bureau of Customs and Border Protection: Compliance
and Security Expectations: Post 9/11
15 Getting on Top of the Regulatory Challenges of the
Future
16 Concluding Remark
Appendix
Index
1 Major Issues in Global Supply Chain Management
Today
Section One: The Global Supply Chain
2 Purchasing Management Skill Sets in Foreign Markets
3 Freight, Logistics, and Specialized Transportation Issues
for Import/Export Managers
4 Risk Management in International Business
5 Technology in Global Trade
6 Global Personnel Deployment and Structure
7 Developing Resources in the Import/Export Supply
Chain Management
8 Essential Overview of Import/Export Compliance and
Security Management: Post 9/11
Section Two: Export Operations
9 Export Issues0 Export Management: Incoterms, Documentation,
Compliance, Operations, and Export Supply Chain Skill
Sets
Section Three: Import Operations
11 Future Import Issues
12 The Import Supply Chain: Purchasing, Operations,
Documentation, and Compliance Management
13 Import Strategies in Maintaining a ``Compliant and
Secure'' Inbound Supply Chain
14 Bureau of Customs and Border Protection: Compliance
and Security Expectations: Post 9/11
15 Getting on Top of the Regulatory Challenges of the
Future
16 Concluding Remark
Appendix
Index