Financing International Trade

This book examines the U.S. international trade finance system, including the banks that finance trade; the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which guarantees and insures those trade credits; the Foreign Credit Insurance Association, which insures trade credits; the Public Export Funding Corporation, which makes loans to foreign buyers of U.S. exports; and the federal, state, and local agencies and private institutions that facilitate U.S. trade. Major foreign export credit agencies are discussed and compared with the American system, which is the most comprehensive in the world in its facilitation of financing U.S. export trade.

Presents an in-depth examination of the U.S. international trade finance system.

JAMES C. BAKER is Professor of Finance and International Business at Kent State University. He is the author of several books on international trade and finance, including two published by Quorum Books, a former imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group: Foreign Direct Investment in Less Developed Countries: The Role of ICSID and MIGA (1999) and The Bank for International Settlements: Evolution and Evaluation (2002).