This textbook, now in its Second Edition, continues to provide an easy and accessible introduction to the import-export and logistics management. With the globalization, international trade procedures and documentation have undergone remarkable changes over the last decade or so. This process of change got accelerated after the enactment of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999. This, coupled with the thrust given to the liberalization process by the Government, has brought to fore the importance of export procedures and documentation and international logistics management. This comprehensive and revised book includes a new chapter on Foreign Exchange Risk Management and elaborates the procedures for availing different export incentives. Divided into eight parts, the text discusses the export-import environment, the procedures for obtaining finance by the exporter, convertibility of rupee, liberalization and its impact, the foreign exchange market, export-import procedures and documentation. Finally, the book also dwells upon the essentials of imports and logistics management including distribution channels and international marketing.
This book, dealing with the principles and practice of the management of exports, imports and logistics, should be of a great benefit to the postgraduate students of business management (MBA), and inter-national business management (MIB). Besides, the book would prove to be useful as a handy reference for exporters, importers, managers and entrepreneurs.About the AuthorUSHA KIRAN RAI, Ph.D., is Professor in the Marketing Area in the Faculty of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University. A graduate in economics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, she obtained her master’s degree in Management, and doctorate in Marketing from Banaras Hindu University. Her teaching experience spans over twenty-two years after a short stint in the industry. She was the Joint Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies and Development, Banaras Hindu University, and has also been an Associate in the UGC Inter-university Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
She has edited a book on Women in Management, Potentials Problems and Future Prospects sponsored by the Ministry of Small Scale Industries, New Delhi, and authored a book titled Export Management and Logistics.
Her present areas of interest are Logistics, Advertising and Women Studies. She is also a trainer in the UGC Programme of Capacity Building of Women Managers in Higher Education.
