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Why Learning Export-Import Trade is the Key to Business Growth in 2025

In today’s interconnected world, export-import trade is no longer reserved for large corporations. With India’s exports projected to surpass $900 billion in 2025, businesses of all sizes have unprecedented opportunities to tap into global markets, increase revenue, and gain financial stability. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur or an established business owner, learning the fundamentals of foreign trade can be the game-changer that helps you start a new export business or expand your existing one.

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Who needs Dangerous Goods / HAZMAT training?

How many of you are aware of the Beirut Blast of 2020? The catastrophic Beirut explosion had 157 people fatalities. The Hazmat or Dangerous Goods was 2750 t of Ammonium Nitrate (AN) a volatile chemical compound that has emerged as a possible.
In 2015 a similar blast in Port of Tianjin in China killed 173 people with fire continuing to burn through the weekend. The source was about 800tons of Ammonium Nitrate
Without proper Dangerous Goods Training, there is a lack of knowledge in the storage of AN, a strong oxidizer becomes very volatile with contamination with oil, chemicals, or other organic materials and which can explode and become sensitive to shock.

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Pre shipment & post shipment export shipment documentation

What is Exports Documentation?

The key and the backbone to international trade is the consignment documentation. A defective document can raise many problems and lead to monetary losses and setback to the company.

The exports documents can be broadly classified as into

  • 1. Commercial Documents
  • 2. Regulatory Documents
It is very important to understand the role of export documentation & procedure involved in exports from India for efficient transportation of goods, realization of payments, compliance for availing government benefits and for customs clearance of goods.

 

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THE FUTURE OF THE EXPORT IMPORT BUSINESS POST LOCKDOWN

During the pandemic exports were noticed to have shrunk by 35% in March which was the biggest contraction seen in almost a decade. Full year shipments were also declined in 2019-2020 for the first time after 2015-2016. In order to make up for the losses suffered during the pandemic, India has begun to work on a continuity plan to improve the export import management business.

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LETTER OF DOCUMENTARY CREDIT

Letter of credit, also known as documentary credit, has been a crucial aspect of the export import business. It is said that some form of documentary credit has existed for thousands of years dating back to the Babylonian times in ancient Iraq (Mesopotamia). Historians argue that the letter of documentary credit had played a vital role in establishing Babylon as a key trade center on the ancient trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and China. Now, almost a thousand years later, the letter of documentary credit is still one of the most important payment instruments of the export and import business.

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Career opportunities in Export Import Courses

Taking the business beyond the national boundaries is the dream of every aspiring person in the industry.  The import-export courses are recommended to the businesses that want to plan on taking their businesses to the global level.Some of the career opportunities that you can get on taking up the export and import courses are:

  • Export Import Documentation Executive
  • Global Logistics Executive
  • Sea Freight Co-Ordinator
  • Export marketing manager
  • Import Export officer
  • Work for Customs House Agents etc
  • Work for shipping companies
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