The Dictionary of International Business Terms

Abandonment

Abrogation

Absolute Advantage

Absolute Quota

Absorption Costing

Absorption of Charges 1

Abuses

Accelerated Tariff Elimination

Acceleration Clause

Acceptance 1

Acceptance Advice

Acceptance Facility

Acceptance Financing

Accession

Accessorial Service

Accidental Exports

Accommodating Transaction

Account

Accountant's International Study Group (AISG)

Accounting Exposure

Accounting System

Accounts Receivable (A/R) Management

Achievement Motivation

Across the Board

Act of State Doctrine

Active Market

Actual Value 1

Actuals

ACU

ADB

Adaptation

ADF

Adjudication

Adjustable Peg

Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM)

Adjustment Approach

Administrative Exception

Administrative Pricing Rule

Administrator Ad Colligendum

Adoption Notice

ADR

Ad Valorem

Ad Valorem Duty

Advance Against Documents

Advance Bill 1

Advance Determination Ruling (ADR)

Advanced Charge

Advertising

Advisory Capacity

AFDB

Affidavit

Affiliate

Affirmative Dumping Decision

Affreightment

Afloat

African Development Bank (AfDB)

African Development Fund (ADF)

After Date

After Market 1

After Sight

Against All Risk

Agency Costs 1

Agency/Distributor Service

Agency for International Development (AID)

Agent 1

Aggregate Limit of Liability

Aggregated Shipment

Agreed Weight and Valuation

Agreement

Agreement Corporation

Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)

AICPA

AID

Airway Bill

Aisg

Aleatory Contract

Alien

Alien Corporation

Alienation

All-Equity Discount Rate

All In

Allocate

All Or None 1

All Risk Insurance Coverage

Alongside

Alternative Rates

Always Accessible

Amend

Amendment

American Accounting Association (AAA)

American Basis

American Depositary Receipts (ADR)

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

American Quote

American Selling Price (ASP)

American Shares

American Stock Exchange (Amex)

American Term

Amex

Amortization 1

Ams

Analysis

Anchorage 1

Annual Percentage Rate. Define

Andean Pact

Annuity

Annuity Due

Antidumping Restrictions

Antitrust

Antitrust Laws

A/P

Appreciation

Appreciation of the Dollar

Appropriate 1

Appropriate Technology

A/R

Arbitrage

Arbitrageur

Arbitration 1

Arbitration of Exchange

Arm

Arrangement for Supported Export Credits

Arm's Length Price

Arm's Length Transaction

Arrival Draft

Ascribed Group

Asean

Asian Currency Unit (ACU)

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Asian-Dollars

Ask Price

Asp

Assembly Service A Carrier

Assessment 1

Assignment 1

Assists

Association Agreement

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)

Astray Freight

At Best

At or Better

At Risk

At Sight

Attachment

Autarky

Authority 1

Authority to Pay 1

Authority To Purchase

Automatic Adjustment Mechanism

Automation

Autonomous

Average

Average Exchange Rate

Average Haul

Average Load

Average Tax Rate

Away

Back Draft

Background Notes

Backspread

Back-to-Back Financing

Back-to-Back Letter of Credit

Back-to-Back Loans

Backwardation

Baht

Bailee Receipt

Bailment

Balance 1

Balance of Payments (Bop)

Balance of Payments (Bop) Accounting

Balance of Payments (Bop) Adjustment

Balance of Trade

Balance on Current Account

Balance Sheet

Balance Sheet Exposure

Balance Sheet Hedging

Balanced Economy

Balloon

Baltic Freight Index (Bfi)

Band

Bank Clearing

Bank Draft A Draft

Bank Guarantee

Bank Loan Swap

Bank Release

Bank Swap a Swap

Banker's Acceptance

Banker's Bill

Bargaining Unit

Barriers to Entry

Barter

Base Currency

Base Money

Basic Balance

Basis

Basis Point

Basket Pegger

B/E

Bear Squeeze

Bearer Bond 1

Bearer Securities

Beggar-My-Neighbor Policies

Benchmark Country

Beneficiary 1

Berth Terms

Best Efforts

Beta Coefficients

BFI

BID

Bid-Ask Spread

Big Bang 1

Bilateral Agreement 1

Bilateral Monopoly

Bilateral Trade

Bill of Credit

Bill of Exchange (B/E)

Bill of Lading (B/L)

Bill of Sale

Bind 1

Binder 1

B/L

Black Market 1

Blacklisted 1

Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model (OPM)

Blanket Certificate

Blanket Rate

Block

Block Exchange

Blocked Currency

Blocked Funds

Board of Supervision

Boilerplate

Bolivar

Boliviano

Bona Fide

Bona Fide Resident

Bonded 1

Bonded Exemption

Book Value 1

Booking Number

Boom

Boomerang Effect 1

Border Barriers

Border Tax Adjustments

Bottom-Fishing

Boycott

Branch 1

Brand Loyalty

Brand Name

Breach

Break 1

Break Bulk

Breakout

Bretton Woods Agreement

Bretton Woods Conference

Brief

Broadline Global Competition

Broker

Brokerage Fee

Brokers' Market

Brown Item 1

Brussels Tariff Nomenclature

Budgeting

Bulk Shipment

Bulldogs

Bullet

Bundesbank

Business

Business America

Business Cycle

Business Environment Risk Index

Business Interruption Insurance

Business Unionism

Buy American Policy

Buy at Best

Buyback

Buyback Agreement

Buyer's Market

Cable Transfer

Calendar Spreading

Cad

Call 1

Call Loan

Call Money 1

Call Option

Call Price

Call Provisions

Callable Bond

Calvo Doctrine

Cambism

Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants

Cap

Capacity 1

Capacity Utilization

Capital Account

Capital Asset Pricing Model (Capm)

Capital Budgeting

Capital Controls

Capital Exports

Capital Flight

Capital Goods

Capital Inflow/Outflow

Capital Intensive

Capital Markets

Capital Outflow

Capital Stock

Capitalism

Capitalistic Economic System

Capm

Cargo

Cargo Insurance

Cargo Tonnage

Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)

Caribbean Common Market (Caricom)

Caricom

Carnet

Carriage Character

Carrier 1

Carrier's Certificate

Carry 1

Cartage

Cartel

Cash Against Documents

Cash Delivery

Cash in Advance

Cash Pooling

Cash Position 1

Cash With Order (Cwo)

Catalog Exhibits

Cause of Action

CBI

CCC

CCCN

Cease and Desist Order

Central Banks

Central bank Swaps

Centralization

Centralized Cash Management

Certificate

Certificate of Analysis

Certificate of Health

Certificate of Manufacture

Certificate of Origin

Certificate of Weight

GET

C&F

CFC

Chamber of Commerce

Channel Manager 1

Channel of Distribution

Charges Forward

Chartering Agent

Cheap Dollar

Check Rate

Chips

Cif

Cip

Ckd

Claim 1

Classification (Freight)

Clean Bill of Lading

Clean Collection

Clean Float

Clean Letter of Credit

Clean Report of Findings

Clear Customs

Clear Record

Clearance 1

Clearing 1

Clearinghouse Interbank Payment System (Chips)

Close 1

Closed Economy

Cmea

Code of Subsidies and Countervailing Duties

Collateral

Cocom

Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations

Codetermination

Coinsurance

Collar Option

Collusion

Column Rates

Combination Rate

Combined Transport Document

Combo

Comecon

Comity Principle

Command Economic System

Command Economy

Commerce 1

Commercial Activity Report

Commercial Bill

Commercial Controls

Commercial Invoice

Commercial Law

Commercial Paper

Commercial Policies

Commercial Risk 1

Commercial Treaty

Commingling 1

Commission 1

Commission Agent

Commission Fee

Commitment

Commitment Fee

Commodities Futures

Commodities Futures Contract

Commodity

Commodity Groupings

Commodity Import Program (Cip)

Commodity Terms of Trade

Common External Tariff (Cet)

Common Fund for Commodities (CFC)

Common Market

Common Stock

Common-Size Analysis

Comparability

Comparative Advantage

Comparative Cost Theory

Compensation Deal

Compensation

Compensatory Suspension

Competitive Advantage

Competitive Devaluation

Competitive Strategy

Complementary Goods

Completely Knocked Down (Ckd)

Compound Duty

Concentration Policy

Concession 1

Concession Agreement 1

Conciliation

Condition Precedent

Condition Subsequent

Conditional Contract

Confirmed Letter of Credit

Conformance Reporting

Conglomerate

Conscious Parallelism

Consensus Rates

Consideration

Consignment

Consolidated Report

Consolidated Shipment

Consolidated Statement

Consolidation 1

Consortium

Conspiracy

Constituent Company

Constructed Value (Cv)

Constructive Delivery

Constructive Loss

Consul

Consumer Goods

Consumption Effect

Content Appraisal 1

Continental Basis

Contingent Liability 1

Continuous R&D

Contract

Contract Demurrage

Contracts In Foreign Currency

Control 1

Controlled Economy

Controlled Facility

Controlled Foreign Corporation (Cfc)

Convergence 1

Conversion 1

Conversion Loss

Convertible Currency

Coordinating Committee On Multilateral Export Controls (Cocom)

Copyright

Cornering The Market

Corporate Culture

Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Stocks

Corporation

Correlation

Correspondent Bank

Cost And Freight (C&F)

Cost Differential 1

Cost, Insurance, And Freight (Cif)

Cost Minimization

Cost of Capital

Cost of Production

Cost Plus Profit Contract

Council For Mutual Economic Assistance (Cmea Or Comecon)

Count Certificate

Counterclaim

Counterpurchase

Countertrade

Countervailing Duty

Country of Destination

Country of Origin

Country Risk

Country Similarity

Coupon 1

Covenant

Covenant Not To Compete

Cover 1

Covered Interest Arbitrage

Crawling Peg

Credit 1

Credit Designation Period

Credit Protocol

Credit Risk Insurance

Credit Swap

Cross-Border Lease

Cross Culture

Cross-Default Clause

Cross-Hauling

Cross Investment Foreign Direct Investments

Cross Rate

Cross Subsidization

Cta

Cultural Assimilation And Analysis

Cultural Risk

Culture

Culture-Based Products

Cum Coupon

Cumulative Translation Adjustment (Cta) Account

Currency

Currency Arbitrate

Currency Basket

Currency Call Option

Currency Clause

Currency Cocktail

Currency Controls

Currency Devaluation

Currency Diversification

Currency Futures Contract

Currency Indices

Currency of Denomination

Currency of Determination

Currency Option Clause

Currency Put Option

Currency Revaluation

Currency Risk

Currency Risk Sharing

Currency Swap

Current Account Balance of Payments

Current Account Balance

Current Rate Method

Current/Noncurrent Method

Customers Clearing Agent

Customized Sales Service

Customs 1

Customs Broker

Customs Classification

Customs Cooperation Council (Ccc)

Customs Cooperation Council Nomenclature (Cccn

Customs Facilities

Customs Import Value

Customs Rate

Customs Union

Customs Valuation Method

Cutoff Rate

Cv

Cwo

Cyber Investing

Cyberspace

Danger Pay

Dangerous Shipment

Day Loan

Dat Order

Day-To-Day Money

De Facto Protectionism

Deadspace

Dealer 1

Debenture

Debits 1

Debt 1

Debt Overhang

Debt Relief

Debt Restructuring

Debt Swap

Debt/Equity Ratio

Debt/Equity Swap

Debtor Nation

Decentralization

Deceptive Advertising

Deceptive Packaging

Deceptive Practices

Decision Support System

Declaration 1

Declaration Forms (Single and Multiple)

Dedomiciling

Deemed-Paid Credit

Default 1

Default Risk

Defeasance 1

Defective 1

Defective Title 1

Deferral of Tax

Deferred Payment

Deficit 1

Deficit Spending

Deflation 1

Degression

Delegate 1

Delivered At Frontier

Delivered Cost

Delivered Pricing

Deliver

Demand Charge

Demand Money

Demand Patterns

Demarketing

Demographics

Demonetization

Denomination 1

Dependency 1

Dependent Nation

Depletion

Depletion Expense

Depreciation 1

Depreciation of The Dollar

Depreciation Tax Shield

Depression

Depth of Market

Derivatives

Destabilization Speculation

Determination 1

Deutsche Mark

Devaluation

Differential Advantage

Differential Pricing

Differential Tariff

Differentiation of Product or Service

Differentiation Strategy

Diffusion Process

Diminishing Returns

Dinar

Diplomacy 1

Direct Costing

Direct Foreign Investment (Dfi)

Direct Intercompany Loan

Direct Marketing

Direct Quote

Direct Response Promotion

Direct Selling

Dirham

Dirty Float

Disaffirm

Disc

Discharge 1

Disclaimer 1

Disclosure 1

Discount 1

Discount Period

Discount Rate 1