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.
The guide begins with an introduction and then continues with 12 chapters on a variety of topics:
- 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
- Chapter 12 Foreign Exchange Risk Management
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Trade Finance Guide 2008