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Trade Finance

Instruments that fund and de-risk international trade, including letters of credit, documentary collections, and export credit insurance

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Foreign Trade Zones for Small Importers: Defer Duties, File Weekly, and Fix Inverted Tariffs

A Foreign Trade Zone defers duties until goods enter U.S. commerce, consolidates a week of shipments into a single Merchandise Processing Fee (capped at $651.50 for FY 2026 rather than charged per entry), and — with FTZ Board authorization — lets you elect the lower finished-good rate when component tariffs are inverted. Small importers reach all three as users of a 3PL magnet site, without activating a zone of their own.

mike

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EU CBAM 2026: The Carbon Border Tax Guide for Small Steel, Aluminum, and Fertilizer Exporters

The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism entered its definitive phase on January 1, 2026, requiring EU importers of steel, aluminum, cement, fertilizer, hydrogen, and electricity to buy CBAM certificates priced to the roughly €60-€95 per tonne EU ETS carbon rate, with costs and paperwork increasingly passed back to small US exporters who can't supply verified emissions data.

mike

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Dynamic Discounting for Small Suppliers: How C2FO and Taulia Early Payments Work — and When the Math Favors You

Dynamic discounting lets a small supplier trade a sliding, per-invoice discount for immediate payment from the buyer's own cash — no loan, no bank middleman — on platforms like C2FO and SAP Taulia. This guide explains how it differs from supply chain finance, why a 2/10 net 30 discount annualizes to roughly 36%, and how to record the discount as its own expense account in a plain-text ledger.

mike

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B2B Buy Now, Pay Later Comes for Wholesale: How Embedded Net Terms Change Your Books

The US B2B BNPL market is projected to grow from $40.4 billion in 2025 to $48.4 billion in 2026 as Stripe, Amazon Business, Resolve, and TreviPay embed instant Net 30–90 terms into checkout. Here's how wholesalers and suppliers should book the provider fee (typically 1–5% of invoice value), distinguish recourse from non-recourse risk, and reconcile payouts that no longer match invoice timing.

mike

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B2B Buy Now, Pay Later: How Embedded Net Terms Are Changing Cash Flow for Small Business Suppliers

B2B BNPL providers pay suppliers 100% of invoice value up front while buyers keep their net-30 to net-90 terms, moving default risk off the supplier's books. With bad debt averaging ~8% of credit sales and the market projected to grow from $204 billion in 2025 to $466 billion by 2030, here's how the model works, what it costs, and how to record financed invoices correctly.

mike

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