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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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A revised and updated edition of our successful import/export guide for entrepreneurs. Now includes chapters on doing business in specific regions of the world. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (17)

This book was an excellent source of information!! -- A must have!
I thought Mr. Nelson did a wonderful job covering the myriad topics involving Importing / Exporting.He did a WONDERFUL job covering the topic of "How to Obtain Financing"!I never knew there were sooo many sources out there to help.He also did a GREAT job covering and diagramming banking processes like Bankers Acceptances.

I could not believe some of the bad reviews--- did those people read the same book??!!No one person is going to be a panacia for any topic--- but Mr. Nelson comes close!Hats off to him for all the effort, research, and expereice that went into this book..........

Great book
I have bought and read the book. And I can say that this book provides great insights to the reader. I recommend it to everybody who wants to gen involved in international business.

A Good Starting Point
I ordered this book knowing absolutely nothing about import/export.This book is great for novices.It does a fine job explaining the many facets of import and export.However, before attempting to start your own import/export business, you will need to do a lot more research. This book attempts to cover a great deal of info in just a few pages.Nelson's book is a great place to start your quest for import/export knowledge.

eeehhh!
It has alot of info and facts. But doesn't help you make any decisions.Read: "The Maui CEO" by John Tennant instead.

Good starter book
This is a very good starter book for anyone who is thinking about international trade. ... Read more

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This important new book deals with the formation and regulation of regional trade agreements in the context of the WTO legal regime and Eastern and Southern African countries, specifically those nations that make up the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Despite a poor track record, regional integration has for a long time been, and remains, the preferred path to economic development and poverty alleviation among developing countries in Africa. Regional integration undoubtedly holds great promise for developing nations in Africa. Many African countries stand to gain from pooling their meager resources and thus being able to participate more meaningfully in the international arena. However, the rhetoric surrounding integration has not been matched by actions and the record of trade liberalization has been weak. Substantive action appears to be taking a back seat to formal statements and declarations. This book consequently addresses four related critical issues: (1) compliance with rules and regime design, (2) the relationship between regionalism and multilateralism, (3) the legal regime created by Article XXIV and the Enabling Clause of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and (4) the COMESA legal regime.

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• Provides readers with expert perspective on regional trade agreements, an area of growing concern to practitioners, academics, and government officials.
• Will squarely address a current lack of actionable analysis, applying an international relations perspective to the analysis of regional trade integration.

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The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remainsone of the great challenges for the international development community. Eliminating hunger andpromoting widespread growth in the region inevitably involves agriculture, given its central rolein the region's economies.Over the past 20 years, most African governments have carried outreforms to deregulate agricultural markets and reduce the role of state enterprises.How muchhas the state actually withdrawn from agricultural markets? Have well-functioning privatemarkets emerged? How successful were these reforms in boosting agricultural production,economic growth, and the incomes of the rural poor?What lessons can we learn from the reformprocess?

The authors of this book address these questions through an analysis based on an extensivereview of experiences with reform, focusing on three major agricultural markets: fertilizer, foodcrops, and export crops. They examine the historical rationales for intervention, the factorscontributing to reform, the process of implementation, and the impact of the reforms on farmersand consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The authors find that reforms have had many favorable results, but that the impact has beenmuted by partial implementation and structural constraints.They propose a new agenda forpromoting the development of agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, identifying areaswhere governments can play a supportive role.They argue that appropriate agriculturalmarketing policies and investments can improve livelihoods and the economic health of theregion. ... Read more

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Over the past decade, four major developments in global economicintegration have shaped trade policy and the economic performance ofcountries within the Middle East and North Africa region: the emergenceof global supply chains, the growth of trade in services, the rise ofChina and India as major international trading powers, and regionalintegration. These developments, along with the labor and naturalresource endowments of particular countries (some are resource-poor butlabor-abundant, some resource-rich and labor-abundant, and someresource-rich and labor-importing), have influenced exportdiversification outcomes across the region. Yet these countries may notbe taking full advantage of all of the opportunities the four newtrends offer to them.

Trade Competitiveness of the Middle East and North Africa:Policies for Export Diversification examines the region's tradepolicy agendas and their results by focusing on the countries'response to these four key developments in international trade. As theregion recovers from the global financial and economic crises, the bookidentifies reforms that could allow countries to further strengthenglobal production networks, benefit more from trade in services, bettercompete in external markets to face the rise of China and India, andreach the full potential of regional integration. If thoroughlyimplemented, especially by oil exporters, all of these reforms couldhelp boost growth and job creation in the region.

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This book arises out of papers delivered at the World Congress of the International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) held in Cape Town in 2008. There are two sections. First, a number of key papers provide an insight into global business, wealth creation and welfare issues with particular reference to the African continent - appropriate for a Congress that was based in South Africa and drew wide participation from African scholars. Second, it provides the output from a global research project on "Fairness in International Trade" which ran over the two years prior to the Congress. This project drew together the work of scholars in five regions across the globe and is the first time that such a global perspective has been attempted.

This book is aimed at academics working in the area of international trade or development economics particularly those who have an interest in the ethical dimensions of trade. It will also be of interest to students of development economics and business ethics particularly at Masters and Doctoral level.

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This publication, with nearly 700 pages, provides a survey of the requirements for doing business and investing in Africa. The reports are prepared by local business practitioners and offer practical insights into issues relating to selection of form for doing business, incentives, taxation, labor and employment, liabilities, and dispute resolution. The publication is replaced by an updated volume annually. Purchase of print version includes CD version and 24/7 online access. A 10% discount applies to a subscription for next year's update. A 25% discount applies to a subscription for three years of updates. Discounts are applied after purchase by rebate from publisher. ... Read more