Trading With the Far East

Excerpt from Trading With the Far East: How to Sell in the Orient; Policies; Methods; Advertising; Credits; Financing; Documents; Deliveries Trade with the Far East involves problems of magnitude. Dis tance, strange customs, different characteristics, unfamiliar points of view, new languages and dialects - ~these are among the features creating the background against which all commercial activity must be carried on. The machinery of business and commerce is unusual, often complicated, and the conditions and factors in market-making are constantly changing. It was to acquaint the busy manufacturer and merchant with the more outstanding among these conditions that Trading with the Far East was published. Now it comes forth, revised, with more recent infor mation and a larger store of facts. In preparing the material standard sources have been drawn upon. In addition practical suggestions from prominent exporters have been incorporated, analyzing situations and outlining effective solutions. The countries and islands included are: Japan, Chosen, Formosa; the Philippine Islands; Siberia; China, Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, Hong Kong; French indo-china; India, Burma, Ceylon, Afghanistan, Baluchistan; Siam; the Malay Peninsula, and the Dutch East Indies, including Java and Sumatra. The book undertakes to provide an interpretation for commercial purposes, of conditions in these countries, with a general analysis of trade opportunities and possibilities for development of the Orient's resources. In short, it endeavors to do for the Far East what has been accomplished for our neighbors to the south in Trading with latin-america, also published by the Irving. Together the books cover fields which offer exceptional markets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.