Search Contents

Browse Contents
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
Absolute Advantage
Absorption
Acceptance
Accession
Accounting
Acquisition
Ad valorem tariff
Administrative protection order
Administrative Trade policy
Advanced technology products
Advising bank
Advisory committee on Export policy
Advisory committee on Trade policy and negotiations
Affiliate
Agency for International development
Air way bill (AWB)
Alliance for mutual growth
Alongside
Andean pact
Anticipatory counterTrade
Anti-dumping
Anti-trust law
APEC
Arab cooperation council/arab maghreb union
Arab Monetary Fund
Arab Trade Financing Program
Arbitrage
ASEAN
Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Automated Broker Interface (ABI)
Automated Commercial System

B
Backward vertical FDI
Balance of Payments 
Balance of Payments accounts
Balance of Trade
Bank advisory committee
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Banker's draft
Barriers to entry
Barter
Basel Convention
Benelux Economic Union
Best Information Available (BIA)
Big Emerging Markets (BEM)
Bilateral clearing agreement
Bilateral investment treaty
Bill of Exchange
Bill of lading
Bill of Materials
Bi-national Commission
Blocked currency
Bond
Bonded warehouse
Boundaryless Organization
Bretton Woods
British Overseas Trade Board
Build/operate transfer (BOT)
Business Council for International Understanding
Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS)
Buy-American Restrictions (BAR)

C
Cabotage
Calvo doctrine
Capital account
Capital controls
Capital development initiative
Capital flight
Capital lease
Caribbean Basin Initiative
Caribbean Common Market
CARICOM
Carnets
Carriage and Insurance Paid (CIP)
Carriage Paid To (CPT)
Cartel
Cash Against Documents
Cash in Advance (CIA)
Central African Customs and Economic Union
Central African States Development Bank
Central American Bank for Economic Integration
Central American Common Market
Central Bank
Centre for Trade and Investment Services
Certificate of inspection/manufacture/origin
Certified Trade mission
Collectivism
Colombo Plan
COMECON
Command Economy
Commercial invoice
Committee on Trade and Development
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Common Market
Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Communautés Européenes
Comparative Advantage
Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility (CCFF)
Competition policy
Competitive Advantage
COMPRO
Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications (CEPT)
Confirming
Consignée
Consignment
Consignor
Consolidation
Constant returns to specialisation
Containerization
Controlling interest
Convention on Contacts for the International Sale of Goods
Cooperative contract
Co-production
Copyright
Core Competence
Core List
Cost and Freight (CFR)
Cost Insurance and Freight (CIF)
Cost of Capital
Council of Europe
Counterpurchase
CounterTrade
Countervailing duties
Court of International Trade
Credit Risk Insurance
Credit Tranches
Cross-cultural Literacy
Cross-licensing Agreement
Culture
Currency Board
Currency crisis
Currency speculation
Currency swap
Currency translation
Current account
Current account deficit/surplus
Current cost accounting
Current rate method
Customs cooperation council
Customs house broker
Customs union

D
D'amato Act
Deed of assignment
Deed of protest
Deferral principle
Deficit
Delivered at Frontier
Delivered/duty paid
Demurrage
Depreciation
Depression
Deregulation
Derivatives
Devaluation
Development Bank
Diminishing returns on specialisation
Directly unproductive profit seeking activities
Dirty float system
Discount rate
Disequilibrium
Dispute settlement/dispute settlement mechanism
Distributor
Dollarization
Downstream dumping
Draft bill of Exchange
Drawee
Drawer
Dumping
Dutch Disease
Duty
Duty Free
Dynamic Gains from Trade

E
E-business
Eclectic Paradigm
Eco-label
E-commerce
Economic and Social Council
Economic exposure
Economic risk
Economic sanction
Economic support fund
Economic union
Economic zone
Economies of scale
Eco-tourism
ECU
EFTA
Emerging Market
Enabling clause
Escape clause
Escrow
Ethnocentric behaviour
Ethnocentric staffing
Ethnocentrism
Euro
Euro-12
Eurobonds
Eurocreep
Eurocurrency
Eurodollar
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Central Bank
European Commission
European Committee for Standardisation
European Community
European Development Fund
European Economic Area
European Free Trade Association
European Investment Bank (EIB)
European Monetary and Cooperation Fund
European Monetary Institute
European Monetary System
European Norm
European Organisation for Testing and Certification
European Patent Office
European Research Coordination Agency
European System of Central Banks
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
European Trade Union Confederation
European Union
Evidence account
Ex
Exchange rate
Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)
Exclusive Economic Zone
Ex-dock
Ex-factory
EXIMBANK
Expatriat cycle
Expatriat failure
Expatriat managers
Experience curve
Experience curve pricing
Export administration review board
Export broker
Export credit agency
Export credit guarantee department
Export Enhancement Act 1992
Export-Import Bank of the US
Export licence
Export management company
Export quota
Export revolving line of credit
Export Subsidy
Extended fund facility
Externalities
Externally convertible currency
Ex-quay
Ex-ship
Ex-works

F
Factor Endowments
Factoring
Factors of production
FASB
Fast track
Federal Reserve System
Final determination
Financial structure and management
First-mover advantage
Fisher effect
Fixed Exchange rate
Fixed rate bond
Floating Exchange Rate
Flow of Foreign Direct Investment
FOB (Free on board)
Foreign access zone
Foreign availability
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Foreign debt crisis
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
Foreign Exchange Exposure
Foreign Exchange Market
Foreign Exchange option
Foreign Exchange risk
Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI)
Foreign Trade Zone
Forfaiting
Forward Exchange Rate
Forward vertical FDI
Framework agreement
Franchise
Free Alongside Ship
Free on Board
Free Trade
Free Trade agreement
Free Trade area
Free Trade zone
Freely convertible currency
Freight forwarder
Fronting loan
Fundamental analysis
Futures Market

G
G-5/G-7/G-8/G-10/G-11/G-15/G-20/G-24/G-77
GATS
GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
General Agreement on Trade in Services
General Arrangement to Borrow (GAB)
Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)
Geocentric staffing
Global Capital Market
Global Human Resource Management
Global Manufacturing
Global Marketing
Global matrix structure
Global strategy
Globalisation
Globalisation of Marketing
Globalisation of Markets
Globalisation of production
Gold par value
Gold Standard
Grandfather clause
Green-field investment
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Gross fixed capital formation
Gross National Product (GNP)
Gulf Cooperation Council

H
Hard currency
Harmonised system
Heckscher-Ohlin Theory
Hedge fund
Helmes-Burton Act
Helsinki Accord
Historical cost principle
Home country
Horizontal differentiation
Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment
Host Country

I
Import quota
Import restriction
Import Substitution
Importer
Incoturns
Incumbent Advantage
Independent European Programme Group
Inefficient Market
Infant Industry
Inflow of FDI
Initial negotiating right
Initial rate
Inland bill of lading
Insurance
Integrating Mechanisms
Intellectual Property Rights
Internal forward rate
Internalisation
International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC)
International Agreements
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
International Banking Act
International Business
International Business Opportunities Service
International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes
International Chamber of Commerce
International Commodity Agreement
International Competitive Bidding
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures
International Court of Justice
International Database
International Finance Corporation
International Fisher Effect 
International Labour Organisation
International Marketing
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Monetary System
International Organisation for Standardisation
International Petroleum Exchange
International Strategy
International Trade
International Trade Administration
International Trade Commission
Invisibles
Islamic Development Bank
ISO 9000
ISO 9002
ISO 14001

J
J curve
Joint Venture
Jurisdiction
Just-In-Time (JIT)

K
Keidanren
Keiretsu
Kyoto Convention

L
Lag Strategy
Late-mover Advantage
Law of one price
Lead Market
Lead Strategy
Lean Production
Learning Effects
Legal Risk
Leontief Paradox
Lesser Developed Country
Letter of Credit
Leveraged buy-out
Levitt, Theodore
Licensing
Limited International Bidding
Link Contract
Lloyds of London
Local competitive bidding
Local content requirement
Location economies
Location-specific advantages
Logistics
Lomé Convention
London Club
London International Financial Patures and Options Exchange

M
Maastricht Treaty
Maker
Managed-float System
Management Network
Market
Market economy
Market makers
Market power
Market segmentation
Market share
Marketing mix
Mass customisation
Materials management
McDonaldization
Mercantilism
MERCOSUR
Minimum efficient scale
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
Mixed Economy
Monetarism
Monetary Policy
Monopoly
Moore's Law
Most Favoured Nation Treatment
Multidomestic Strategy
Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
Multilateral netting
Multinational Enterprise (MNE)
Multipoint competition
Multipoint pricing
Mutual recognition agreement

N
NAFTA
National member body
National Trade Databank
Nationalization
Natural Resource Based Products (NRBP)
Net Foreign Investment
Net Present Value
New Trade Theory
Newly independent state
Newly industrialised economy
Nonconvertible currency
Nontarrif barrier
Nontarrif measure
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

O
Ocean bill of lading
Off Balance Sheet Financing
Office of International Cooperation and Development
Official Development Assistance
Offsets
Offshore 
Offshore Banking Unit
Ohmae, Kenichi
Oligopoly
OPEC
Optimal Currency Area
Options
Ordinary Course of Business
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Organisation of African Unity
Organisation of American States
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Organisational Architecture
Organisational Culture
Organisational Structure
Outflows of FDI
Output controls
Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund

P
Pacific Rim
Paris Club
Paris Convention 
Patent
Patent Cooperation Treaty
Pegged Exchange Rate
Petrodollar
Pioneering costs
Policy framework paper
Political economy
Political risk
Politics and International Trade
Polycentric staffing
Porter, Michael
Porter's Diamond
Positive sum game
Power distance
Predatory pricing
Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States
Preliminary determination
President's Export Council (PEC)
Price discrimination
Price elasticity
Privatization
Product Life Cycle Theory
Protocol
Protocol of provisional application
Purchase Power Parity

Q
Quantitative restrictions
Quotas

R
Rate of Exchange
Reciprocity
Regional Economic Integration
Rescheduling
Reserve Tranche
Retaliation
Reverse preferences
Right sizing
Rio Group
Risk Analysis
Risk Management
Rollback
Rounds
Rugman, Alan M.

S
Safeguards
Scope determination
Section 201
Section 232
Section 301
Section 337
Severly Indebted Countries 
Shippers Export Declaration
Shipping terms
Single European Act
Single Internal Market Information Service
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Soft Currency
Soft Loan
Special and differential treatment
Special drawing rights
Special 301
Specific tariff
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
Standard International Trade Classification
Standardization
Standards code
Standby arrangements
Standstill
Statistical Office of the European Community
Strategic Alliances
Structural Adjustment Facility
Structural Adjustment Programmes
Structural Impediments Initiative
Subrogation
Subsidy
Summit conference
Supplier credit
Supply access
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Swaps
Switch trading
Systematic risk

T
Tariff
Tariff anomaly
Tariff escalation
Tariff quota
Tariff schedule
Tax arbitrage
Tax haven
Tax treaty
Technology transfer
Temporal method
Terms of Trade
Third country initiative
Through bill of lading
Tiger Economy
Toronto terms
Trade Act 1974
Trade Agreements Act 1979
Trade Area
Trade barrier
Trade concordance
Trade Credit
Trade mission
Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee
Tranche
Transaction exposure
Transit zone
Translation exposure
Transnational corporation
Transparency
Treaty of Rome
Trigger price mechanism
Trinidad terms
Turnkey

U
Umbrella agreement
Unfair Trade Practice
United Nations
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Development Program
United Nations Environment Program
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
United Nations Regional Commissions
United States Trade Representative
Uruguay Round

V
Value Added
Value Added Tax
Vehicle currency
Vernon, Raymond
Visible Trade
Voluntary Export Restriction
Voluntary Restraint Agreement

W
West African Economic Community
Western European Union
World Bank
World Bank's Project Cycle
World Federation of Development Financing Institutions (WFDFI)
World Intellectual Property Organisation
World Tourism Organisation
World Trade Organisation
World Traders Data Reports (WTDR)

XYZ
X efficiency
Zero Sum Game