Learn international trade, the way professionals practise it

Incoterms, trade documents, letters of credit, logistics, customs and export strategy — explained clearly, with real examples, by people who build export software every day.

Foundations of International Trade

Before you choose an Incoterm or open a letter of credit, you need a clear picture of how an export deal works from first enquiry to final payment. This course gives you that picture: the steps, the people involved, how to classify your products, where to sell, how to find and check buyers, and which risks to manage at each stage.

Incoterms® 2020

Incoterms® 2020 are the eleven three-letter rules that tell a seller and a buyer who arranges and pays for each step of a shipment and when the risk of loss passes from one to the other. This course takes each rule in turn with figures, tables and real export cases, then shows you how to choose the right rule for each deal and avoid the mistakes that cost exporters money.

Trade Documents

An export is paid, cleared and delivered on the strength of its documents. This course explains each document of an export shipment — what it proves, who issues it, what it must contain and how it must agree with the others — so that customs, carriers, banks and buyers accept your file the first time.

International Payments & Trade Finance

Getting paid is the part of an export deal that decides whether it was worth doing. This course explains every international payment method, from cash in advance to letters of credit under UCP 600, with the risk each one leaves to the seller and the buyer, what it costs and how long it takes. It then covers the tools that protect and finance your receivables: bank guarantees, currency hedging, export credit insurance, factoring and forfaiting.

Logistics & Transport

Logistics decides whether your goods arrive on time, intact and at the cost you priced. This course takes you through the practical side of moving export cargo: choosing the mode and the container, reading a freight quote line by line, insuring, packing and marking the goods, and handling perishables, dangerous goods and delays.

Customs & Compliance

Customs decides how fast your goods move, how much your buyer pays and whether a shipment is legal at all. This course explains the three pillars every declaration rests on (classification, value and origin), how to claim preferential duties, how to calculate a landed cost, and how to stay on the right side of export controls and sanctions.

Export Strategy & Sales

Shipping goods is only half of exporting; the other half is deciding where to sell, at what price, on which terms and through which partners. This course takes you from the export business plan to the price build-up, the quotation, the negotiation and the contract, then to finding buyers and checking that every shipment really makes money.

Exporting from Algeria

Algeria has its own export rules: every sale must be domiciled with an Algerian bank, the proceeds must come home within a set deadline, and preferential access depends on the right proof of origin. This course explains the framework as it stands in 2026, attributes each rule to its source, and walks you through real procedures, documents and examples, so you can ship with confidence and stay compliant.