|
This
page has been specially designed for businessmen who want to make
incursions into the foreign trade for the first time. The majority
of the small Argentinian enterprises believe that the possibility
to carry out business abroad, are just for those that have a big
capital, and only think of this possibility as something hard and
difficult to get. This is not true. We will try to explain in a
few and simple words the necessary steps to import, including how
to calculate the import costs, following the way goods have to cover
since they are acquired abroad until they are put into the warehouse.
Secuence
of import
Next,
we will detail the sequence of an import operation. It goes through
the different stages:
+ |
Make contact with the foreign supplier and agree on the purchase |
+ |
Contact a custom officer |
+ |
Customs Registration |
+ |
Make effective the payment for the supplier |
+ |
Dispatch to the market place |
+ |
Contracting Transportation |
Make contact with the foreign supplier and agree on the purchase.
Once
the market is analyzed and the decision of importing the product
has been taken, you should make contact with the foreign enterprises
that may provide it. Nowadays, this kind of information is very
easily gotten via Internet and electronic mail.
Usually, the International Contract of sale is carried out through
a "Sale certificate"; this one is the acceptance of the
"prize" of the supplier.
As
regards the prices in the International trade, these may be of different
kinds. The most common ones are ExWorks, FOB y CIF. The different
prices depend on the experience in foreign trade that both parts
have (supplier and buyer).
+ |
Ex
Works: it means "in factory" and it means that goods
are delivered in the supplier's factory, and the rest of the costs
to take them to the buyer's store depend on the buyer. |
+ |
FOB: it means, "free in ship", this is to say that the price
of goods includes the costs until goods are in the ship in the
original port, the rest of the costs depend on the buyer. |
+ |
CIF: it means "Cost, Insurance and Transportation",
this is to say, the price includes the costs until the charge
is in the ship at its destination, the rest of the payment has
to do with the movements in the port (this is the price for unloading
goods from the ship and load them in a track), custom taxes (nationalizing
rights, taxes) and the transportation to the buyer's store. |
As
regards the amount, it is necessary to mention the kind of goods
transportation. The most common one is in containers; these are
big metallic boxes of different sizes. The most frequent ones are
20 feet (6 x 2 x 2,5 Mts.; 30 m3) or 40 feet (12 x 2 x 2,5 Mts.;
60 m3).
Taking this into account, you can buy enough goods to fill a container,
or part of it (the enterprises that transport goods abroad, have
containers to carry smaller volumes of different owners). In this
case, an interesting alternative for those who begin in the foreign
trade, is the possibility of getting together with some businessmen
and form a purchases pool and rent a complete container. |
