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The United States is currently experiencing one of the strongest export and import environments of the last 20 years. Nonetheless, most international trade pros are still targeting areas in which to further streamline costs, improve operating efficiencies and cope with ever expanding customs rules and regulations.

But with so much to do, how can you be certain about where to focus your energies?

IOMA's Best Practices for Improving Export & Import Operations gives you the answers, recommending no-nonsense, practical strategies used by your peers. At last, you won’t waste time and money using strategies based on “soft” intuition, guesses or the latest management fad.

Using survey responses from hundreds of export and import professionals, this new IOMA Special Report offers you benchmarks and best practices to help you bring your operations in line with the best from across the country.

In it, you’ll find coverage of key topics, such as:

• Top cost-control strategies for imports and exports: From exclusive IOMA surveys, respondents rank strategies by the results at their own companies, and also weigh in on how they were implemented.
• Are C-TPAT importers seeing tangible member benefits? Learn the surprising results of a recent IOMA survey that checks up on promised benefits to C-PTAT members.
• Export strategies: Using credit applications to safely extend credit to more international customers with less risk... how to qualify for FSC/ETI replacement for significant tax savings... and more.
• Automation solutions: How to plan for future budgets with increased export security costs... Data and analysis of survey results shows where and how top exporters are cutting costs through automation.
• Import strategies: Experts detail internal controls for import valuation and penalty avoidance... How to apply country of origin rules in out-of-the-ordinary cases.
• Import and export case studies: How Tyson Foods created export sale profits with a new global trade strategy... How International Truck gained efficiencies and savings by outsourcing global trade management.
• And much more.

The report includes an extensive list of additional resources for importers and exporters, including recommendations of key websites, reports, subscriptions, books and more.

Best Practices for Improving Export & Import Operations is written by Christopher Horner, editor of IOMA’s Report on Managing Exports & Imports newsletter, with contributions from Thomas Cook, American River International; Frank Reynolds, International Projects, Inc.; Jeffrey P. Graham, JPG Consulting; and David Greenberg, ABC-Amega Inc.

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Preview this report's Table of Contents.