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The Tax Break Exporters Need to Know About
Utilizing An IC-DISC to Unlock Greater Export Revenue Firms exporting overseas may be unaware of an incentive in the U.S. tax code that can noticeably reduce tax liability and free up more revenue. An Interest Charge-Domestic International Sales Corporation (IC-DISC)...
A Guide to Trade Credit Insurance
What is Trade Credit Insurance? Trade Credit Insurance, sometimes called Accounts Receivable Insurance, is a method of protecting a company’s accounts receivable against the risk that one or more key customers will fail to pay for goods and services. This type of...
Top 5 Geopolitical Events Impacting Global Trade Credit and Cross-border Investments
Top Five Areas of Geopolitical Risk Assessing country or regional risk is a crucial part of a trade risk strategy and is necessary for conducting international trade. Understanding laws, customs, and regulations of any country are paramount but it’s also prudent to...
Securitas Partner Matthew Stewart Named to EXIM Bank 2019 Africa Advisory Committee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) yesterday announced the appointment of Securitas Partner Matthew Stewart to its 2019 Sub-Saharan Advisory Committee. Stewart joins 10 other appointees on the committee, which is tasked with...
Bipartisan Decision to Combine OPIC and USAID Promises to Better Support U.S. Business Interests in the Global Economy
In 2019, the United States will launch a streamlined and stronger development finance institution, called the International Development Finance Corporation (IDFC). The new agency will consolidate the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and the U.S. Agency...
Securitas’ Pamela Bates U.S. Senate Nomination Hearing for Ambassador to the OECD
Full hearing can be found on the U.S. Senate website: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/nominations-052119
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Pandemic Invokes Force Majeure
In mid-February, during the height of the Coronavirus crisis in China, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), a state-run organization, reported that it had issued over 1,600 “force majeure” certificates, in an effort to protect Chinese...
Reshaping Global Trade
The rapid and continuing spread of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to have a significant social impact as well as a profound hit to the global economy. At the time of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration of a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, the...
Is Global Trade in Quarantine?
The outbreak and spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has stoked global fear of a pandemic. Disruptions to business in China and other affected countries are rising as are worldwide disruptions to travel and trade as countries scramble to put safeguards in...
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