Trade Finance Guide: A Quick Reference for U.S. Exporters has been written to help U.S. companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), learn 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. Twelve 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 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
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