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Trade
Trade finance, export credit, public support, and interfaces among trading companies, insurance, and finance.
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- Documentary collection vs letter of credit — trade settlement methods comparedA documentary collection is a settlement method in which banks a…
- 電子提単 (electronic bill of lading) and trade digitalization — the MLETR shift from paper to dataA bill of lading (B/L…
- フォーフェイティング・国際ファクタリング (forfaiting and international factoring) — selling trade receivables for cashWhen an exporter sells on deferred-payment terms…
- Incoterms 2020 — the ICC trade-terms frameworkWhat Incoterms do not do is equally important: they are not a co…
- 通関・関税・原産地証明 (customs clearance, tariff, certificate of origin) — the gate every cross-border shipment passesBefore any imported good can move into a country…
- FTA / EPA / RCEP utilization — preferential trade agreements and how Japanese firms actually claim themA preferential trade agreement — called an FTA (free trade agree…
- JETRO Members paid-membership system is the entry gate to B2B proposalsConfirmed via METI's Trade Policy Bureau. If you respond with an…
- JETRO is not a membership organization but an independent administrative agency under METISource: compilation of public information (JETRO official organi…
- JETRO vs NEXI vs JBIC — Japan export-promotion / insurance / financing three-pillar comparisonJETRO, NEXI, and JBIC are not interchangeable — they sit on thre…
- Letter of credit (documentary credit) — the trade-settlement mechanismA letter of credit (L/C), formally a documentary credit…
- 貿易保険 (export-credit insurance) — the NEXI trade-insurance mechanism that backstops cross-border non-paymentThe mechanism matters because most world trade settles on open a…
- サプライチェーンファイナンス (supply-chain finance) — buyer-led reverse factoring and the payables-side liquidity layerThe catch is that SCF can blur the line between a payment arrang…