What do foreign trade salesmen do?

Lead: A foreign trade salesman refers to a salesperson engaged in foreign trade business. Especially under the premise of economic opening, many excellent foreign trade enterprises have settled in China, so there is a greater demand for foreign trade salesmen. Moreover, the salary of foreign trade salesmen is considerable, which is one of the jobs that many graduates want to engage in. So, what is the job of a foreign trade salesman? The following is a brief introduction about foreign trade salesmen.

What do foreign trade salesmen do?

Business personnel should know the basic information of customers before making inquiries and product quotations from foreign buyers. For the quotation of foreign products, in principle, the price list (export) after accounting by the company's finance department shall be implemented. In principle, foreign businessmen are required to pay for samples, and the costs and expenses of samples with a large amount are borne by the other party in principle. After the formal order is placed, the cost and sample sending fee can be deducted. In the order production stage, the business personnel should go to the production workshop with the production supervisor to supervise and inspect the production of products, and solve the problems in time when they are found. If the method of foreign exchange collection is letter of credit, the business personnel must operate carefully, handle it carefully, pay attention to the consistency of documents, and achieve safe foreign exchange collection.

What do foreign trade salesmen do?

Foreign trade personnel are sales personnel engaged in foreign trade business and are responsible for signing and fulfilling import and export contracts. Foreign trade salesmen have professional title certification examination, which is the fifth professional title certification after international business qualification (export salesman), international freight forwarder, international business voucher salesman and foreign trade merchandiser.

Foreign trade salesman examination

The examination of foreign trade salesmen is an examination of the balance of China's international trade development. In order to standardize the relevant training of foreign trade salesmen and further improve their quality and ability. According to the relevant provisions of the Administrative Licensing Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the guiding spirit of the 11th Five-Year Plan of the Ministry of Commerce, the China International Trade Association of the Ministry of Commerce has organized nationwide training, assessment and certification of foreign trade salesmen since 2006, aiming at enabling most foreign trade practitioners to obtain post qualification certificates through training, and gradually implementing the system of holding certificates nationwide, thus fundamentally promoting the healthy development of the whole international business field. In order to do this work well, the National Examination Center for Foreign Trade Salesmen has been set up, and the test center is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

Professional knowledge requirements of foreign trade salesmen

In addition to mastering the basic knowledge of English and computer, foreign trade salesmen should also be familiar with and master the basic knowledge of commodities, foreign trade business knowledge, production management knowledge, international marketing knowledge, international financial knowledge, foreign trade laws and policies, international trade practices, international economic and trade geography, foreign trade business etiquette and other professional knowledge.