This section of our website is dedicated to providing U.S. exporters with a variety of important information, including the following topics:

Standards & Certifications
This section includes articles related to regulatory issues in the United States, the European Union, and Asia.

Exporting on eBay
Shipping expensive items to an international buyer on eBay? Learn how to ensure compliance with the law, and learn how to make sure you get paid.

Trade Finance Guide 2007
We've developed the TFG to help U.S. exporters - specifically small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - gain practical knowledge of trade finance. The TFG, which was released at Ex-Im Bank's Annual Conference in April 2007, makes a complicated topic easy to understand and helps SMEs learn how to manage the risks associated with doing business overseas. More specifically, the TFG is designed to help SMEs learn quickly the fundamentals of trade finance to turn their export opportunities into actual sales and to achieve the ultimate goal: to get paid for their export sales. Eleven concise, two-page chapters offer the basics of numerous financing techniques, from open accounts, to export credit insurance, to government assisted foreign buyer financing.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Methods of Payment in International Trade
• Chapter 2: Cash-in-Advance
• Chapter 3: Letters of Credit
• Chapter 4: Documentary Collections
• Chapter 5: Open Account
• Chapter 6: Export Working Capital Financing
• Chapter 7: Government-Guaranteed Export Working Capital Programs
• Chapter 8: Export Credit Insurance
• Chapter 9: Export Factoring
• Chapter 10: Forfaiting
• Chapter 11: Government Assisted Foreign Buyer Financing

Other Publications & Resources
This section contains press releases, announcements, and other important information about international trade.