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International Trade
Move goods, contracts and trust across borders.
- Entry level
- Bachelor's degree
- Award
- Bachelor's degree
- Duration
- 2 years
- Actual work
- 20 h/week
- Pace
- Compatible with a job
- Tuition
- 5 000 000 GNF per year
A programme geared towards import-export and international logistics, suited to the strategic position of Guinea and the sub-region. It covers structuring deals, incoterms, financing and customs clearance, with intensive negotiation practice.
Learning objectives
- Structure an import-export operation end to end
- Handle incoterms, transport and trade documentation
- Secure an international transaction and its financing
- Conduct a cross-cultural commercial negotiation
Curriculum
1200 hours · 120 credits
Year 1400 hours
The global trade environment
160 hours · 16 credits
International organisations, AfCFTA, ECOWAS, trade agreements, customs policy
Foreign trade techniques
240 hours · 24 credits
Incoterms, quotations, document sets, international sales contracts, transport insurance
Year 2580 hours
Transport and logistics
220 hours · 22 credits
Transport modes, chartering, warehousing, cold chain, traceability, total logistics cost
Customs and regulation
200 hours · 20 credits
Customs regimes, customs value, tariff classification, procedures, disputes
International financing
160 hours · 16 credits
Documentary credit, documentary collection, guarantees, currency risk, trade finance
Cross-curricular, throughout220 hours
Cross-curricular base
120 hours · 12 credits
Business English, OHADA law, statistics, written expression
Simulation, project and placement
100 hours · 10 credits
A full export operation simulated on a real file · ten-week placement · dissertation
Real prerequisite
What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.
No technical prerequisite. Reading English is necessary: some transport documents exist only in English.
Entry requirements
- High school diploma or professional experience in trade
- Good level of French; business English is an asset
- Motivation interview
Career outcomes
- Import-export manager
- Customs declarant
- International logistics officer
- International buyer
- Export account manager
Skills acquired
- Incoterms
- Customs
- Logistics
- Documentary credit
- Negotiation
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