Although exporters sometimes deal direct with foreign buyers,
the more usual practice is for transactions to take place through
agents of various kinds. For example.
1) The foreign buyer may employ a commission agent in the
exporter's country.
2) The exporter may employ an agent living in the foreign buyer's country
3) He may send the goods to a factors in the importing
country for sale "on consignment"
4) He may use the services of a shipping and forwarding agent
The exporter is known as the consignor and the importer as the consignee .
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