Professional Course: Foreign Trade Assistant (Back Office, eLearning, 19 ECTS)The Online Professional Course “Foreign Trade Assistant” taught by EENI Global Business School is designed to provide all the necessary knowledge to successfully perform the functions of a foreign trade assistant (imports and exports) of an export or import company. The Course “Foreign Trade Assistant” is also aimed at all those people who wish to create their own company offering assistance and consulting services in foreign trade to export and import companies from anywhere in the world. The e-learning Professional Course “Foreign Trade Assistant” consists of nine modules:
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The Online Professional Course includes the Market Access Tool: Upon completion of this course, those students who wish to study the Online Master in Foreign Trade Back Office (60 ECTS) can automatically validate all the subjects of the Professional Course. Functions of a Foreign Trade Assistant A Foreign Trade Assistant, usually works in the Back Office of an exporting or importing company, providing a series of administrative activities related to the exports and imports and supporting the export department. Generally, he/she does not have a direct contact with the final customer. Some of the activities carried out by an Foreign Trade Assistant are: management of the foreign orders, control of the exports and imports, processing of the international trade documents, management of the customs procedures, making the international offers, international transport management (follow-up , analysis, freight negotiation), customer service, incident resolution, activity reports, market research, cost control and export prices... In other words, the Foreign Trade Assistant guarantees the foreign trade flows of an exporting or importing company, reporting directly to the director of the foreign trade department. Unlike a Back Office for the national market, the Foreign Trade Assistant must have a solid knowledge of the international trade: customs, Incoterms® 2020, management of the foreign trade documents, international transport, documentary credits, market research, export price calculation... In addition, the Foreign Trade Assistant must be fluent in languages. The usual thing is that the Foreign Trade Assistant will be bilingual (English and Spanish), or even knows other languages such as French or Portuguese. Therefore, the Student can study the Course in Foreign Trade Assistant in any of these four languages, under three modalities:
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