Resources

Online business development tools are more important than ever in a COVID-19 Age, especially for companies with international ambitions.

COVID-19 is impacting businesses everywhere – supply chains, international travel, conferences, trade shows…. Your online presence plays a vital role to make sure your business keeps up and running.

Join us as we explore how online business development tools can help mitigate the effects of COVID-19.

We have partnered with IBT Online to learn more.

Presenters:

• Susanna Hardy, Chief Content Officer

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Companies are scrambling to navigate the business uncertainty presented by COVID-19. Learn from Capstone Strategic how to re-shape your international business strategy for 2020 and be ready to identify and pursue opportunities in a post-COVID world.

 Presenters:

• David Braun, Founder & CEO, Capstone Strategic
• Matt Craft, Vice President, Capstone Strategic

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Sweeping tariffs and trade actions continue to impact the operations of Virginia manufacturers, importers and exporters. Learn how to navigate your company through the current environment of uncertainty. Topics for discussion include ways to mitigate tariff liability, how tariff exclusion processes work, and resources to help companies facilitate international trade.

The Covid-19 crisis is compelling every importer and exporter to examine the nature of their supply chains, from sourcing of raw materials and components to freight capacity needs to demand changes from existing customer bases. Most presume that the pandemic will induce drastic change, but in reality, supply chains take years, and often decades to develop and mature. Those complicated, multi-party ecosystems are not reshaped easily. And when they are, they are done at great cost. We’ll examine how and where Covid-19 might actually create substantive changes in sourcing, transportation, and distribution through strategic or technological means

 Presenters:

• Eric Johnson, Senior Editor, Technology, Journal of Commerce
• Stacy Ettinger, Partner, K&L Gates

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The Small Business Administration (SBA) works with resource partners and their clients to identify and finance export opportunities. Learn how the SBA reduces risk and enables easier access to capital as you prepare to pursue the global marketplace.

EXIM bank will discuss specific relief measures designed to assist exporters, particularly SME’s, that are encountering business interruptions presented by COVID-19. Learn how to leverage bridge financing programs and pre-export payment support for manufacturers so export transactions can continue throughout the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

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COVID-19 has added a perilous new dimension to an already complex landscape for international transactions. Adam Munitz, a partner at FH+H law firm, discusses contract measures that U.S. companies can take to mitigate the unique risk presented by the global pandemic, focusing primarily on the newly-relevant Force Majeure provision and its mechanics and limitations, the contract theories of “frustration” and “impossibility,” the adjustment of payment terms, and other legal strategies. 

Learn how companies can make sure they are working to best protect themselves in this uncertain time.

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Incoterms® establish commonly accepted definitions and rules related to the delivery of goods. Incoterms are updated every 10 years and new terms will come into force on January 1, 2020. Learn more about what is changing with the Incoterms 2020 update.