Academic year: 2023-2024


External trade


Grup: 4

Professor : ROSELLA NICOLINI
Office: B3-064 Departament d’Economia Aplicada
E-mail: rosella.nicolini@uab.cat
Phone: 935814573.
Office hours: Tuesday 13:15 -14:45, Thursday: 13:15-14:45

Or upon appointment

Programme

 

Preliminary Schedule:

12.09.2023 Introduction; Theoretical framework
14.09.2023 Trade balance and trade limitations
19.09.2023 Index of competitiveness; trade policies
21.09.2023 Trade policies
26.09.2023 Trade policies+ trade practices
28.09.2023 Trade practices
03.10.2023 NO CLASS (Comunitaria)
04.10.2023
(Extra meeting)
Executing the transactions
05.10.2023 Applied tools: tutorial with personal laptop/tablets
(TARIC + Custom data) AULA 25

10.10.2023 Executing the transactions
12.10.2023 NO CLASS (Bank Holiday)
17.10.2023 Payment terms and import procedures
19.10.2023 Payment terms and import procedures
24.10.2023 NO CLASS (Fall break)
26.10.2022 NO CLASS (Fall break)
30.10.2023 MIDTERM EXAM (12:30- 14:00)
31.10.2023 Export strategy
02.11.2023 Tutorial: INCOTERMS
07.11.2023 NO CLASS
09.11.2023 Tutorial: INCOTERMS
14.11.2023 Tutorial: INCOTERMS
16.11.2023 NO CLASS
21.11.2023 Tutorial: Custom value and TVA
23.11.2023 Tutorial: Custom value and TVA
28.11.2023 Tutorial: Managing custom duties
29.11.2023
(Extra meeting)
Tutorial: Export tax incentives
30.11.2023 Tutorial: Export tax incentives (Delivery group essay: moodle platform)
05.12.2023 Group presentations
07.12.2023 NO CLASS (Bank Holiday)
12.12.2023 Group presentations (Delivery individual report: moodle platform)
14.12.2023 ( Elective ) EXAM (II part)
19.12.2023 Group presentations
21.12.2023 Group presentations

 

Complementary documents:

- Tools in applied economics

- FDI in Catalunya (Acc1Ó)

- Evaluating the trading opportunities in world countries (Global Enabling Trade Report)

- World globalization: issues on trade policy strategies (from The Economist, October 2013)

- Crossing the divide (Walmart case study) (from The Economist, October 2013)

- Becalmed (Slowdown in global trade) (from The Economist, Septemebr 2015)

- How China is battling ever more intensely in world markets (from The Economist, Septemebr 2017)

References on line:

- ICEX: documents
- Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona: documents
- Acc1ó-CIDEM-COPCA: documents
- TARIC: data
- “Doing business
- “Doing business in Catalonia

Data

- Tutorial on data analysis with computer in class (October 05th 2023) Solutions

- Data on Catalunya and Spanish export

- Data on interregional exchanges in Spain

- Data on Spanish competitiveness

 

Documents and certificates (copies) (Source: Juan Sanchis Llopis, Universitat de Valencia)

- Certificado origen comunitario

- SOIVRE

- SOIVRE import

- CITES

- INCOTERMS 2020

- Custom

- Circulación EU

- INTRASTAT

- Transport

- DUA (2011)

- TARIC

 

Guidelines for individual report and group essay

 

Documents for tutorials

- Tutorial: TARIC

- Tutorial: TARIFF

- Tutorial: INCOTERMS (preliminary)

- Tutorial: INCOTERMS II(preliminary)

- Tutorial: INCOTERMS III(preliminary)

- Tutorial: INCOTERMS

- Tutorial: Custom Value

- Tutorial: VAT

- Tutorial: Export incentives

- Tutorial: Case studies

 

Slides

- Class on Sept 12th 2023 (slides1; slides2)

- Slides class on Sept 14th 2023

- Slides class on Sept 26th 2023

 


Past final exams:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

 

Example 4: Midterm exam (2018/2019)

Example 5: Second part exam (2018/ 2019) SOLUTIONS

 

Example 6: Midterm exam (2019/2020)

Example 7: Second part exam (2019/ 2020)

 

Example 8: Midterm exam (2020/2021) (with solutions)

Example 9: Second part exam (2020/ 2021) (with solutions)

Example 10: Midterm exam ( 2021/22) (with solutions)

Example 11: Second Part exam (2021/22) (with solutions)

 

Example 12: Midterm exam ( 2022/23) (with solutions)

Example 13: Second Part exam (2022/23) (with solutions)

 

 

Last update: July 9th 2023