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Trade Finance Guide, 2008 edition
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.
(April 2008, 32 pages)
Availability
Online: The Trade Finance Guide is available in PDF format as a complete document and as individual chapters.
- Complete Guide
- 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 Loan 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
- Reprint: National Technical Information Service
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