1: Getting Started

• Getting started on importing
• Looking for a supplier? Where can I find one?
• Thinking of assembling your products overseas?
• What is "reasonable care"? How does this affect me?

2: Working with overseas suppliers

• What questions need to be asked, what details to be discussed with suppliers?
• Working with product samples
• Developing fully landed costs - what are the supplier's shipping and payment terms? What other expenses should I consider?
• Protecting your intellectual property?
• Do I have to pay duty - what is the Harmonized Code for your product?

3: Import logistics and documentation

• How will you ship the goods - international modes of transportation
• Understanding international shipping terms - INCOTERMS
• Customs brokers - what they do and why you should use them
• What are the typical import documents?
• Using Foreign Trade Zones

4: Paying for your imported goods

• How does your supplier want to be paid? Understanding international methods of payment
• Payment in foreign currency - what, why and how?

5: Entering your goods into the U.S. - working with U.S. Customs

• Entry into the U.S. - what is it? Who can do it? How is it done?
• Informed compliance/reasonable care - what does this mean for me?
• Some other issues - wood packaging, hazardous materials, food and drug imports, textiles, quotas, international trade agreements
• Internet purchases

6: Post 9/11 security issues

• Security and your supply chain - what you need to know
• C-TPAT
• CSI - Container Security Initiative
• Advance Manifest Regulations