📈Business & Finance
Foreign Trade Specialist
Organizes the trade of goods between countries
Organizes the export and import of goods: handles deals, documentation and logistics between countries.
What they do
- ▹Finds foreign suppliers or buyers for the company's goods
- ▹Drafts foreign trade contracts in multiple languages and checks their legal validity
- ▹Files customs declarations and certificates of origin
- ▹Calculates cross-border shipping costs, factoring in duties and exchange rates
Skills you need
- ▹Fluent foreign language for negotiation and correspondence
- ▹Knowledge of customs law in Tajikistan and partner countries
- ▹Attention to contract and Incoterms detail
- ▹Negotiating price and delivery terms
- ▹Working with currency calculations
Focus on these subjects at school
A foreign languageMathematicsGeography
Where they work
- ▹Export-import trading companies
- ▹Cotton and fruit-processing plants that export their output
- ▹Customs brokers and logistics companies
- ▹Foreign trade departments of large enterprises
Pros
- + Constant work with different countries and cultures
- + Companies trading with China, Russia and the Gulf states pay above average
Challenges
- − A delay at the border or in paperwork can derail a shipment and cost the company dearly
- − One specialist carries responsibility for contracts worth large sums
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