Trade Finance Guide（贸易融资指南）.pdf

Trade Finance Guide A Quick Reference for U.S. Exporters Trade Finance Guide: A Quick Reference for U.S. Exporters is designed to help U.S. companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, learn the basic fundamentals of trade finance so that they can turn their export opportunities into actual sales and achieve the ultimate goal of getting paid–especially on time–for those sales. Concise, twochapters offer the basics of numerous financing techniques, from open accounts, to forfaiting to government assisted foreign buyer financing. TRADE FINANCE GUIDE Table of Contents Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Methods of Payment in International Trade 3 Chapter 2: Cash-in-Advance 5 Chapter 3: Letters of Credit 7 Chapter 4: Documentary Collections 9 Chapter 5: Open Account 11 Chapter 6: Export Working Capital Financing 13 Chapter 7: Government-Guaranteed Export Working Capital Loan Programs 15 Chapter 8: Export Credit Insurance 17 Chapter 9: Export Factoring 19 Chapter 10: Forfaiting 21 Chapter 11: Government-Assisted Foreign Buyer Financing 23 Chapter 12: Foreign Exchange Risk Mangement 25 Published April 2008 TRADE FINANCE GUIDE Introduction 1 Opportunities, Risks, and Trade Finance elcome to the second edition of the Trade Finance Guide: A Quick Reference for U.S. Exporters. This guide is designed to help U.S. companies, especially small Wand medium-