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Useful Info

Everything you need to get yourself up and running!

NEW: China Business Guide

Prepared by Levant Express, this guide will help Lebanese traders buying and importing from China. Includes tips on dealing with suppliers and guidelines to verifying a Chinese factory witout travelling.

Incoterms Sheet 2010

Incoterms or international commercial terms are a series of international sales terms, published by International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and widely used in international commercial transactions. They are used to divide transaction costs and responsibilities between buyer and seller and reflect state-of-the-art transportation practices. They closely correspond to the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

Container Specs Sheet

Freight or shipping containers are reusable transport and storage unit for moving products and raw materials between locations. There are approx. 17 million intermodal containers in the world and a large proportion of the world's long distance freight is transported inside shipping containers. The containerization system developed from a design of an 8-foot (2.438 m) cube (2.44 m x 2.44 m x 2.44 m) units used by the US military and later standardised by extension to 20-foot (6.10 m) and 40-foot (12.19 m) lengths. Longer, higher and wider variants are now in general use around in various places.

Lebanon Import Requirements

We have created our Ten Commandments when it comes to Air Waybill and Bill of Lading.

Special Export Requirements

Each country has its own quirks when it comes to exports. We've compiled them all in a handy table.

European Customs

PDF Article regarding the 2011 security Measurements taken by the European Community for goods entering the EU.

Understanding Wire Transfers to Trace Lost Funds

Asset recovery investigators use many different techniques to track and trace money that has gone missing in the financial system. in this article, Kenneth Barden explains how dissecting wire transfer instructions can lead to a better understanding of where and how funds we transferred, providing valuable information to verify and locate assets.First issued on Sep 2011 by the ICC - Commercial Crime International www.icc-ccs.org

Lebanon Section

Useful info about the jewel of the Mideast

Lebanese Customs Website

Here are some information concerning importing goods into Lebanon.

Imports in Numbers

Quantities of imported goods into Lebanon, by genre, for the last 5 years.

Exports in Numbers

Quantities of exported goods from Lebanon, by genre, for the last 5 years.