Über welche Kompetenzen verfügt ein Importfachmann?
What skills does an import specialist have?
Foreign trade specialists with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education (formerly import specialists) are responsible for analyzing customer requirements and ensuring that goods and services are imported and exported professionally and on time, as well as for negotiating with customers and suppliers in different languages and obtaining advantageous conditions. Foreign trade specialists are involved in the planning and organization of shipments worldwide on a wide variety of transport routes and have knowledge of the various trade barriers, rules of origin, country-specific, ecological and economic conditions as well as the special customs clearance procedures for which they prepare and initiate the necessary documents. They are also responsible for preparing quotations and checking profitability after the order has been processed, as well as for team development and training.
