Import-Export steps
1. To make a commercial offer (or a call for tenders) and to be able to use the IncotermsYou have to master the run risks as soon as you have begun an international sale or purchase. You have also to use the incoterms to ensure a good freight. The Incoterms define responsibilities and obligations of a seller and a buyer in the framework of international commercial contracts. 2. To understand the importance of logistics and to adopt a strategyDo not uderestimate the importance of each component of logistics to have a negotiation power with your partners. Then, thanks to these information, establish a logistic plan with the best proportion cost/efficiency to ensure a good freight of goods. 3. Master of transport operationsYou have to be familiar with different means of transport and to choose the most appropriate one for the carried merchandise and its destination. You also have to be familiar with costs of transport auxiliaries or intermediaries to get some services executed or to do it yourself. 4. Customs and warehousingYou have to know procedures and customs formalities to make or to control yourself customs clearance. You have chosen the possibility of warehousing your stocks in warehouses (make enquiries before). 5. Other elements to masterYou have to adapt your packaging that is to say to choose it according to the product and its mean of transport. Source : www.sourcing-en-chine.com |