Academic year: 2024-2025


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:

12.09.2024 Introduction; Theoretical framework
17.09.2024 Trade balance and trade limitations
19.09.2024 Index of competitiveness; trade policies
24.09.2024 NO CLASS (Bank Holiday)
26.09.2024 Trade policies
01.10.2024 NO CLASS (Comunitaria)
02.10.2024
(Extra meeting)
Trade policies and trade practices
03.10.2024 Trade practices
08.10.2024 Executing the transactions
10.10.2024 Applied tools: tutorial in computer lab
(TARIC + Custom data) – AULA 25 -
15.10.2024 Payment terms and import procedures
17.10.2024 Payment terms and import procedures
22.10.2024 Export strategy
24.10.2024 Tutorial INCOTERMS
28.10.2024 MIDTERM EXAM (8:30- 10:00)
29.10.2024 NO CLASS (Fall break)
31.10.2024 NO CLASS (Fall break)
05.11.2024 Tutorial: INCOTERMS
07.11.2024 NO CLASS
12.11.2024 Tutorial: INCOTERMS
14.11.2024 NO CLASS
19.11.2024 Tutorial: Custom value and TVA
21.11.2024 Tutorial: Custom value and TVA
26.11.2024 Tutorial: Managing custom duties
27.11.2024
(Extra meeting)
Tutorial: Managing custom duties
28.11.2024 Tutorial: Export tax incentives (Delivery group essay: moodle platform)
03.12.2024 Tutorial: Export tax incentives
05.12.2024 Group presentations
10.12.2024 Group presentations (Delivery individual report: moodle platform)
12.12.2024 (Elective ) EXAM (II part)
17.12.2024 Group presentations
19.12.2024 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 10th 2024) 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 2024 (slides1; slides2)

- Slides class on Sept 17th 2024

- Slides class on Sept 26th 2024


Past exams:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

 

Example 4: Midterm exam

Example 5: Midterm exam

Example 6: Midterm exam (with solutions)

Example 7: Midterm exam (with solutions)

Example 8: Midterm exam (with solutions)

 

Example 9: Second part exam SOLUTIONS

Example 10: Second part exam

Example 11: Second part exam (with solutions)

Example 12: Second Part exam (with solutions)

Example 13: Second Part exam (with solutions)

 

 

Last update: July 6th 2024