Importing and Exporting can make the World Your Oyster
Importing and Exporting opens up for you a world of great potential, a variety of possibilities and numerous opportunities.
Throughout history fortunes have been made in international trade. The discovery of new lands always brought with that discovery the opportunities for trade and commerce. And the world today, is truly a global economy.
And what’s more, there is no reason that you can’t take part in this exciting and rewarding enterprise and take a slice of the action.
Today, we are in the middle of a “Gold Rush” of international trade, and a “Gold Rush” provides immense opportunities.
However, with those great opportunities, also come, inevitably, great risks for you…
Are you on a collision course with import/export minefields- unwittingly?
Do you know what these minefields are?
Do you know how these minefields of risk can jeopardise your international trade success?
Will your import/export dreams degenerate into a nightmare of frustration and complexity?
Ask yourself, will I be negotiating on thin ice? Negotiation is the key to success in International Trade, Importing and Exporting.
Discover how to make insightful negotiation the foundation of your import/export business.
Determine the key elements required for the various contracts you will need to negotiate.
The Import Export Course deciphers the complex into simple “Nuts & Bolts” Run time: 18 seconds
Find out how simple processes from around 1000 B.C. can be combined with the latest technologies to start and build your successful, systematised trading business.
Learn how you can CONTROL 6 major areas of TRADE RISK by implementing our CASTLE Strategy.
Discover how you can select professional TEAMS so you become the master of your import/export business rather than you becoming a slave to it.
Import/Export is not “Rocket Science.”
It’s mainly common sense.
Find out HOW …
Two Day Courses
An Overview of the Basics of International Trade
This 2 day course provides and intensive introduction to the basics of Importing and Exporting.
You will be learning how to prepare for an Import/Export business by working through 3 critical steps:-
1) Researching
2) Planning
3) Implementation
Negotiating the Minefields of International Trade
Negotiation is your key to successful trading internationally. You will discover the various contracts, agreements and regulations you will need to negotiate.
Understanding simple principles of negotiation as well as the elements to consider from different perspectives will better prepare you to become an adroit negotiator.
Minimising Risk Through the CASTLE Strategy
The Castle strategy for minimising International Trade Risk will give you a simple structure for identifying 6 major areas of risk and provide you with strategies to control and mitigate International Trade Risk.
Learn how to CONTROL 6 major areas of TRADE RISK by implementing our CASTLE Strategy.
Learning to “Love” Documents and Red Tape
You’ve got be kidding? Right?
No! I’m not kidding.
Seriously, documents are key links in the chain to facilitate the transport of your products and also facilitate the clearance of your cargo (your valuable product/s) through governmental, financial and legal Red Tape.
You will come to realise that familiarising yourself with the various documents required, as well as understanding the various processes to be undertaken, will save you a lot of heartache and potential losses.
Constantina learned more in one week than the previous three months researching her project.
Run time: 31 seconds .
Bringing Together the Old and the New
Find out how simple processes from around 1000 B.C. can be combined with the latest technologies to start and build a systematised and successful trading business.
Selecting Professional TEAMS
Discover how to select professional TEAMS to leverage your time and resources so you become the master of your import/export business rather than being a slave to it.
Import/Export is not “Rocket Science.”It’s mainly common sense.
Find out how Clare O’Hara was able to apply aspects of the course with her project in China during the course. .
Run time::34 seconds
Topics include: Where to start, and get help; Terminology; Incoterms 2000; Banking procedures; Documentation; Commercial, insurance, and government requirements at origin and destination; Air freight; Sea freight; Freight Forwarders; Customs Brokers; Duties; Taxes, GST and more.
For people starting their own import/export business, extending their current business activities to the global stage or developing a career in Imports and/or Exports.
Course Facilitators – Lance Scoular and Amit Misra
Lance has been involved in Import/Export for more than 40 years.
Early in his career he worked for multi-national manufacture/traders 3M Australia and Baxter Healthcare.
Later he started and developed his own Customs and Forwarding Brokerage.
He has also had directorships with global transport and international marketing companies.
Over the last 20+ years Lance has lectured International Trade to a variety of organisations and tertiary institutions.
He has consulted on international trade matters to private industry as well as government organisations such as the Australian Taxation Office.
Lance is co-author of the book…
Exporters and Importers Survive and Prosper
John Yelland and Lance Scoular
Halstead Press for AGPS Press in association with the National Executive of Small Business Agencies
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1994
ISBN : 0 644 32430 9
Regarding the Import/Export Course, Lance explains, "I guess my greatest attribute, from the participant's perspective, is my ability to explain complex issues in an easily understood manner."
After Attending the Import-Export Course Roger Kuo Started a New Business from Scratch
Roger attended the two day course and discovered a new dimension for his life…Import/Export.
That’s taken him from his profession as an architect to that of an Importer & Distributor with a view to future exports.
Scheduled Upcoming Courses
Upcoming Courses are available at the following Venues in Sydney. New South Wales, Australia.
Mosman Rozelle Liverpool Bondi
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These popular Courses tend to fill fast
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