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Assess your skills and resources for importing
Finances, personnel and other resources for importing.
Review your import readiness
Import planning and strategy, product, skills and finance checklist.
Negotiate the right import deal
Negotiating the right import terms, planning ahead and reaching a clear agreement.
Are you ready to import?
Ensuring you have the right strategy and resources to benefit from importing.
Challenges of exporting
Challenges of exporting include market research, export paperwork and financing.
Choosing the right export markets
Focusing on export market opportunities that suit your strengths.
Assess your skills and resources for exporting
Exporting demands extra time, money and skills.
Manage export contracts and logistics
Understanding export contracts, delivery and payments.
Plan your export market entry strategy
Choosing the right distribution channels and ways of promoting your product in overseas markets.
Use the right export support services
Government help for exporters and other sources of information and support.
Preparing to export
Assessing whether you are ready to export and planning your approach.
Export checklist: review your export readiness
Export readiness review: planning, marketing and export procedures.
Accounting for VAT on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Information about when you can, or need to, account for VAT on your tax return if you're a UK VAT-registered business.
Review your suppliers' performance
How to manage supplier performance, and what evaluation criteria to use when conducting supplier performance reviews.
Supplier service level agreements
Importance of service level agreements in supply chain management, key clauses and best practices.
Ending supplier contracts
Possible penalties, operational barriers and other points to consider when ending a contract with a supplier.
Best practices in supplier quality management
Understand the importance of supplier quality management and learn best practices for monitoring and improving the quality of your supply chain.
Advantages and disadvantages of exporting
Advantages and disadvantages of trading outside Northern Ireland and tax considerations.
Is my product suitable for exporting?
Deciding if your product is right for selling outside Northern Ireland.
Accessing trade networks
Accessing networks for advice and support for trading outside Northern Ireland.