FOREIGN COMMERCE A PRACTICAL manufacturers, HANDBOOK A NEW COMPREHENSIVE book of references, enabling you to see at a glance the best ways to turn for organizational services and up-to-date published information on all important phases of export and import procedures, practices, and techniques. IN FOUR SEPARATE but complementary parts, the HANDBOOK 1. The functions and activities of many U. S. Government agencies, private foreign trade organizations, and international organizations which provide service and information to foreign traders or operate to promote sound foreign trade and trading principles. . Organizational services and numerous publications which furnish the “‘know-how’’ of exporting and importing, classified under 60 alphabetically-arranged subjects of major significance in foreign trading. Listings of hundreds of carefully selected reference works, books, periodicals, and other aids pertaining to one or more aspects of foreign trading and related international matters, most of which are classified by subjects in the foregoing part, with notation as to source, content, size, and price. An appendix containing extensive listings of organizations serving the foreign trade field, and a guide to foreign government information services in the United States. EFFICIENTLY the HANDBOOK ORGANIZED and thoroughly cross-referenced, makes possible quick assembly of information sources same on the FOR PRACTICAL of companies experience in importing, and by manufacturing companies other producers who contemplate starting export business. or related subjects from all of its parts. or EQUALLY SERVICEABLE to employees of foreign trading concerns or the industries serving foreign trade, students pursuing courses in foreign commerce, and all others who need a practical well-rounded treatise on the elements of foreign trading. NUMEROUS gives you: introductory guide intended primarily for use by wholesalers, or retailers, without previous under SUBJECTS the following discussed major chapter in the booklet are arranged heads: Part I - Importing Part II - Exporting Role of Imports in United States Economy Methods of Importing Organizing for Direct Import Export Trade of the U. S. Methods of Exporting Analyzing Export Opportunities The Handling Import Order Import Financing Customs Procedure WIDE POPULAR printings. made To an Export Order Financing Exports Export Advertising Foreign Trade Restrictions DEMAND assure for this booklet has necessitated delivery without delay, orders two should be promptly. THE FOREIGN COMMERCE HANDBOOK, described on the first page of the leaflet, serves as a valuable adjunct to DOING IMPORT AND EXPORT BUSINESS, furnishing in detail references to sources from which additional information on all major points raised may be obtained. 142 pages 2nd Printing 1948 $1.00 a copy USE by executives in foreign trade or officials beginning new export or import programs, as well as by employees of foreign trading concerns or the foreign trade Service industries, students, and all others who need a wellorganized, comprehensive guide to the best sources of information. 169 pages Published January 1950 $1.00 a copy DOING IMPORT AND EXPORT BUSINESS THE IT EMPHASIZES and analyzes the fundamental considerations which must be taken into account in organizing and conducting foreign business both importing and exporting. WORLD THIS FACTUAL STUDY reports some of the proposals to modify the present structure of the United Nations or to replace it by a world AN INSTRUCTIVE BOOKLET whichdiscusses systematically and clearly the principles, practices, techniques, and problems of trading in foreign countries. UNITED NATIONS AND GOVERNMENT government, standing of some It is of the intended current to promote international a clearer under- problems and the practicability of proposed solutions. The present international situation makes this booklet exception- ally timely as the problems it discusses are those vital to world security. 52 pages Published 1950 25 cents a copy