INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW
International Trade Law Articles
Customs classification, export controls, sanctions, and the compliance work that keeps cross-border business moving.
426 articles
Export Documentation: The Forms Every Shipment Needs
Exporting legally means filing the right paperwork before your goods leave the country — at minimum a commercial invoice, a packing list, and a transport …
Export Insurance Certificate: What It Is
An insurance certificate is a document issued by an insurer or broker confirming that a specific shipment is covered by a marine cargo insurance policy. It …
Export Insurance: Protecting Your Global Shipments
Export insurance protects an exporter against two very different risks: physical loss or damage to goods in transit, and a foreign buyer who does not pay. Those …
Export Labeling Requirements: Who Sets the Rules
Most export labeling requirements are set by the destination country, not the United States. With narrow exceptions — chiefly hazardous-materials marking under …
Export Marketing Strategy: Plan and Compliance
An export marketing strategy is your plan for choosing foreign markets, reaching buyers in them, and structuring the relationships that follow — and it has to …
Export Payment Methods: Prepayment to Open Account
Exporters get paid through one of five methods, and the choice is always a trade between how secure you are and how competitive your offer looks to the buyer. …
Export Restrictions and Quotas: A Compliance Guide
Export restrictions are government limits on what you may ship, to whom, and to which country — and in the United States they are enforced mainly through …
Exporting Chemicals: A U.S. Export Controls Guide
To export chemicals legally from the United States, you have to classify each chemical against the Commerce Control List, check whether it is restricted under …
Exporting Electronics: Export Controls and Licenses
Exporting electronics legally starts with one question: is the item controlled? Most consumer electronics are uncontrolled — designated EAR99 — and ship freely, …
Exporting From a Customs Bonded Warehouse
A customs bonded warehouse lets you store imported goods under CBP supervision without paying import duty until you withdraw them — and if you re-export them …
Exporting Medical Devices: FDA Export Rules
Whether you can export a medical device from the U.S. — and what paperwork you need — depends almost entirely on one question: can the device be legally …
Exporting Pharmaceuticals: FDA and Trade Rules
Exporting drugs from the United States is governed by two layers of rules: the FDA’s drug-export provisions in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, …
Exporting Software & Technology: U.S. Controls
To export software or technology from the U.S. legally, you must first classify it under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), then confirm whether your …
Freight Forwarder vs Customs Broker for Imports
New importers often use “freight forwarder” and “customs broker” interchangeably — but they do different jobs, and knowing which is …
Gray Market Goods & Parallel Imports: A Legal Guide
Parallel export — the “gray market” — means buying genuine, branded goods in one market and reselling them into another outside the channels the …
How to Build a Risk-Based Sanctions Compliance Program
A risk-based sanctions compliance program scales your controls to your actual exposure — heavy where the risk is real, light where it is not — instead of …
How to Build a Sanctions Compliance Program
A sanctions compliance program (SCP) is a documented set of policies, controls, and training that keeps your company from doing business with parties the U.S. …
How to Build an Export Compliance Program
An export compliance program is a written system that builds export-control checks into the way your company takes orders and ships goods — and the cleanest …
How to Build an Export Compliance Program (EMCP)
An Export Management and Compliance Program (EMCP) is the written system a company uses to make sure every shipment is classified, screened, licensed, and …
How to Classify Your Goods for Export
Classifying a product for export means answering three separate questions, not one: which Schedule B commodity code applies, whether the item is …
