• conduct marketing research
• establish and monitor a pricing policy
• elaborate a distribution strategy
• find suppliers and clients
• assess and monitor your trading partners' financial strength

• manage the supply chain
• find carriers

• find export subsidies and other kinds of financial support

• negotiate the contracts you will enter into with suppliers and clients
• negotiate the contracts you will enter into with the banks (loans, documentary credits, commercial letters of credit, standby letters of credit, etc...)
• negotiate the contracts you will enter into with the insurance companies
• negotiate the contracts you will enter into with carriers
• set up distribution agreements

• find export credit insurance and guarantees

• use transfer pricing mechanisms to minimize taxation
• manage indirect taxes (VAT, customs duties, energy taxes, environmental taxes, excises etc…) and devise a strategy to mitigate indirect tax costs / risks.
• take advantage of tax incentives intended to boost exports
• manage relations with taxation authorities

• manage the risks of international trade (foreign exchange risk, credit risk, country risk …)
• handle exchange control regulations
• search and find the legislation and regulations which may affect your products and services and what effect it is going to have on you as an exporter or an importer

• manage relations with customs authorities

• resort to Alternative Dispute Resolution processes and techniques.

DFGF International Trade is run by Ishem METIDJI (ESSEC Business School ; Ph. D. (University of Paris Law School); Paris Bar Exam).

On top of practicing as an international consultant, I. METIDJI teaches Business law at ESSEC. He has also taught this area of the law at the University of Paris Law School and at the Sorbonne.

The thesis of I. METIDJI, which has earned him his Ph.D with the highest distinction (Summa cum laude), deals with documentary credits, commercial letters of credit, and standby letters of credit. If you wish to order a copy of I. METIDJI's thesis, log on to DFGF Publishing.