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Why a trading house sets up in Mauritius
Position on the Asia–Africa axis, simultaneous membership of several regional integration blocs, a hybrid commercial law: the reasons are not only fiscal.
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Method notes on international trade, written by the SELA INTERNATIONAL LTD team: Incoterms, export documentation, quality control, fit-out projects, the Mauritian environment.
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Hotel furniture: structuring a multi-factory FF&E tender
An FF&E package brings together dozens of references from different factories that must arrive together. The difficulty is not unit price: it is synchronisation.
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Pre-shipment inspection: how to read an AQL sampling plan
Sampling inspection is not a random look at the goods: it is a standardised statistical method whose result only means something if the thresholds were set in the contract.
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Food imports: the six documents that gate customs clearance
A detained food container is almost always held for a documentary reason, not a sanitary one. A review of the paperwork to secure before loading.
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Incoterms 2020: choosing between FOB, CFR and DAP
Three rules cover most containerised trading operations. What separates them is not price but the point where risk transfers and who bears the burden of arranging carriage.