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Cross-Border Trade
9 courses
Cross-Border Trade
CBT-001 - Cross-Border Trade Platform: Founder and Operator Foundations
Teach how modern international B2B trade actually works, from initial buyer demand through supplier sourcing, verification, quotation, contracting, payment, logistics, customs clearance, delivery and settlement, for people building or operating a digital cross-border trade platform linking Africa, Panama and the Caribbean. By completion the learner must understand a whole trade transaction well enough to identify its participants, terminology, documents, risks, commercial opportunities and techn
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CBT-101 - Supplier Discovery, KYB and Verification
Teach the platform team how to find, approach, onboard and verify suppliers in Africa, Panama and the Caribbean for the continuing 100-tonne Product X scenario. Cover discovery channels and trade databases, the first approach, onboarding data, Know Your Business (KYB) and beneficial-ownership checks, company registration and sanctions screening, product capability and certifications, minimum order quantities, production capacity, export experience, references, site or third-party inspection, ver
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CBT-102 - Incoterms and International Commercial Contracts
Give the platform team a working command of the Incoterms 2020 rules and of the commercial contract behind a cross-border B2B sale. Cover every Incoterm with emphasis on EXW, FCA, FOB, CFR, CIF, DAP and DDP: where cost, risk and responsibility transfer, what each party must arrange, and which terms suit sea versus multimodal transport. Then cover the contract: offer and acceptance, proforma invoice, purchase order, sales contract clauses (specification, quantity tolerance, price and currency, pa
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CBT-103 - Ocean Freight, Containers and Logistics Operations
Follow one container of Product X from a supplier in Ghana or South Africa to a distributor in Trinidad and Tobago, with a Panama consolidation option. Cover ports and shipping lines, the freight forwarder's and customs broker's roles, booking, FCL versus LCL, container types, TEU and CBM, consolidation and transshipment, bills of lading and telex release, cut-offs, sailing schedules, transit times on Africa-Caribbean and Panama-Caribbean routes, warehousing, cargo insurance, demurrage and deten
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CBT-104 - Customs, HS Codes and Trade Compliance
Teach the platform team how goods clear customs at export and at import, with the Product X scenario landing in Trinidad and Tobago. Cover the Harmonized System and how HS classification drives duty, tariff schedules and preferential origin, customs declarations, valuation, certificates of origin, permits and licences, inspections and holds, restricted and prohibited goods, product standards and labelling, CARICOM common external tariff concepts, AfCFTA rules of origin at a conceptual level, and
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CBT-105 - Landed Cost and Trade Economics
Make the platform team fluent in landed cost and the economics of a cross-border deal. Teach the full build-up: product cost, origin transport, export costs, freight, insurance, duties and taxes, port and terminal charges, brokerage, destination transport, financing and FX, and how each Incoterm moves items between buyer and seller. Include worked calculations for the Product X scenario from Ghana, South Africa and Panama, sensitivity to freight and FX, per-unit and per-tonne views, margin and b
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CBT-106 - International Payments and Trade Finance
Teach how money moves in a cross-border B2B transaction and how risk is shared between buyer and supplier. Cover deposits and balance payments, wire transfers and correspondent banking, open account, documentary collections, letters of credit (including confirmed and sight versus usance), escrow and milestone payments, FX exposure and hedging basics, trade credit, purchase-order financing, invoice financing and credit insurance. Explain buyer risk versus supplier risk for each method and which m
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CBT-107 - Trade Fraud, Risk and Cargo Insurance
Teach the platform team what goes wrong in cross-border trade and how to prevent, detect and recover from it. Cover supplier fraud and fake suppliers, buyer fraud and non-payment, document fraud, quality and specification failures, short shipment, delays, customs holds, damaged and lost cargo, FX movements, disputes and arbitration, and mitigation through verification, inspection, payment structuring, contract clauses, cargo insurance (types of cover, insurable interest, claims) and credit insur
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CBT-108 - Panama and Colon Free Zone Operations
Explain Panama's role as a trade node for the platform: the Colon Free Zone, its re-export model, who operates there, sourcing from Panama-based distributors, consolidation and warehousing, regional distribution into the Caribbean and Latin America, the Panama Canal and port system, logistics versus supplier-market roles, and how African goods could use Panama to reach the Americas. Work the Product X scenario through a Panama consolidation option and compare it with direct routing. Include a ch