Financing International Trade

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This book examines the U.S. international trade finance system, including the banks that finance trade; the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which guarantees and insures those trade credits; the Foreign Credit Insurance Association, which insures trade credits; the Public Export Funding Corporation, which makes loans to foreign buyers of U.S. exports; and the federal, state, and local agencies and private institutions that facilitate U.S. trade. Major foreign export credit agencies are discussed and compared with the American system, which is the most comprehensive in the world in its facilitation of financing U.S. export trade.

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"Financing International Trade reflects Jim's experience and scholarly contributions to the field. It is precise, easy to read and provides an in-depth guide to every aspect of international trade financing. Not only should it be read by all those seiously involved in international trade financing, it also serves as an important reference to global financing."-Philip R. Cateora Fellow, Academy of International Business Professor Emeritus University of Colorado-Boulder
"This book represents a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of international trade financing. It should be useful for practitioners as well as in the classroom. It deals with a subject that will be increasingly important in the 21st century."-Vern Terpstra Professor Emeritus School of Business Administration University of Michigan

Author Bio

JAMES C. BAKER is Professor of Finance and International Business at Kent State University. He is the author of several books on international trade and finance, including two published by Quorum Books, a former imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group: Foreign Direct Investment in Less Developed Countries: The Role of ICSID and MIGA (1999) and The Bank for International Settlements: Evolution and Evaluation (2002).