Make the most of the global market

ICC Publication No.641 16x24cm,350 pages Available from the Business Bookstore from April 7

Paris, 1 April 2003 - With world trade valued at more than $6 trillion a year, businesses need to know what it takes to trade on global markets with minimum hassle. A new ICC publication to be released this month has the answers.

ICC has updated its best-selling Guide to Export-Import Basics, first published in 1997 and covering the entire spectrum of international trade. The guide takes in all recent practical developments that importers and exporters should know about.

These include:

• The approval of Incoterms 2000;
• eUCP, the electronic supplement to ICC rules on documentary credits;
• Amendments to international model contracts, such as the ICC Model Distributorship contract;

A new chapter on electronic trade brings you up to date on how the world of trade is adapting to the electronic age.

Guide to Export-Import Basics may be ordered online from the ICC Business Bookstore, from ICC Publishing SA, or from ICC national committees around the world as from the 7th of April.

Written by a team of ICC experts, this is essential reference work for all involve d in international trade. It provides lucid explanations of how to conclude an export contract, how to draft agency and distributorship contracts, how to finance international transactions, how to arrange for transport and how to resolve international business disputes.