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Trade Finance Guide 2008


Trade finance guide imageThe "Trade Finance Guide:A Quick Reference for U.S. Exporters is designed to help U.S. companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, learn the basics of trade finance so that they can turn their export opportunities into actual sales and achieve the ultimate goal of getting paid�especially on time�for those sales. Concise, two-page chapters offer the basics of numerous financing techniques, from open accounts, to forfaiting, to government assisted foreign-buyer financing.

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Printed copies are also available from the Trade Information Center at 1-800-USA-TRADE or tic@ita.doc.gov