Essentials of Exporting and Importing: U.S. Trade Policies, Procedures, and Practices

Essentials of Exporting and Importing provides the merchandising, marketing, or business student a practical, basic guide for importing and exporting products, services, or technology in a global economy. This fashion industry focused text will help readers learn what is necessary to carefully and thoroughly analyze a company's internal and external resources in order to grown and generate profits in a global marketplace. Fully updated with information on recent changes in U.S. exportimport trade policies and procedures, current trade trends, and key trade relationships, this edition discusses how to identify and enter emerging markets and covers how global trade issuessuch as cultural political, and economic climatesaffect the textile and apparel industry.


New to this Edition:
~New chapter opening vignettes provide real life examples from the fashion industry
~Brief case studies of companies and entrepreneurs highlight chapter content in practice. Examples include: "Hall & Madden: Providing Customers with Bespoke Shirts at Department Store Prices" (Ch 2), "Basics of Exporting: Health and Beauty Aids for Africa" (Ch 4), and "Patagonia's Support of Growth and Sustainability" (Ch 9)
~New Chapter 10 provides four longer case studies relevant to exporting and importing

Harvey R. Shoemack is an international business and marketing specialist and adjunct faculty at three Chicago-area colleges. For more than 30 years, he has helped American firms access foreign markets, while also assisting international firms and organizations seeking business in the United States. Shoemack founded The International Marketing Center, Ltd. in 1976 and has represented or provided training for such major clients as: Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Dai-Ichi Kangyo and Sanyo banks, Banque Nationale de Paris, Petersen Manufacturing Co., Inc., The China Exhibition Corp., The Trade, Technology and Transfer Corporation (Russia), PHH Fantus Corp., Mardel Laboratories, Inc., Val-Test Distributors and Komatsu-Dresser Co. He is active in many professional and international trade organizations.

Patricia Mink Rath, MS, is a consultant in marketing education in Winnetka, Illinois. Her fashion merchandising experience includes work as a retail executive in the fashion departments of specialty and department stores in the Chicago area, Boston, and San Francisco. She has taught college level courses in fashion marketing and merchandising, consumer behavior, retail buying and management, French culture and language for over three decades. Fluent in French, she has led fashion merchandising classes in Paris and Provence. Mink Rath has traveled in Europe, Central America, and Asia and gives illustrated lectures on fashion in both English and French. She is a lifetime member of the Alliance Francaise du North Shore, Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) and the Marketing Education Association (MEA). She is co-author of a number of texts and other educational materials for students and teachers. Mink Rath is co-author of Marketing Fashion: A Global Perspective (Fairchild Books, 2012), Essentials of Exporting and Importing: U.S.Trade Policies, Procedures and Practices (Fairchild Books, 2010) and The Why of the Buy: Consumer Behavior and Fashion (Fairchild Books, 2008).