Insights on trade documentation, export processes, and tips for streamlining your global business.
IncoDocs is a capable export documentation platform. For a 1-10 person exporter who only needs the documents, here is when a simpler tool fits.
What must match between a commercial invoice and a packing list, what customs checks on each, and the mismatches that cause holds.
Spreadsheets work until one shipment has six documents and a letter of credit. Here is the line where an export-doc tool starts paying for itself.
How small exporters can replace Excel and Word templates with one tool that fills every trade document from a single master file.
seven named perils. CIP requires ICC(A) — all risks. Same Incoterms group, very different coverage.
Lost your original B/L? An LOI alone won't free your cargo. Carriers want a 200% bank guarantee — and sometimes a court order.
Most exporters assume UCP 600 grants automatic 5% tolerance on L/Cs. It doesn't. Here's when the rule fails.
CBP's proposed rule shifts vessel export manifests from post-departure paper filings to electronic submissions due 24 hours before loading.
An Air Waybill is non-negotiable by IATA design. It cannot control cargo release the way a Bill of Lading can. Here is what changes when you fly.
