International Business
How to Start Export & Import Business
ZELVU Business's structured How to Start Export & Import Business programme combines concept clarity, implementation frameworks, practical business examples, measurable action plans and AI-supported guidance for entrepreneurs and professionals.
- ✓ 9 weeks · 34 lessons
- ✓ 12-month access
- ✓ AI Business Tutor
- ✓ Activates automatically after ICICI Bank confirms payment
- ✓ Bank financing assistance
Questions first? Talk to the Business Counsellor · See all 34 lessons
What you will work on
- ✓Laying the foundation: trade model, registrations, product and market
- ✓Finding buyers and suppliers and closing your first deal
- ✓Pricing, payments and protecting your money
- ✓Shipping, clearance and running a steady trade
- ✓Applied practice, case studies and revision
Who should consider it
- •Founders, MSMEs, professionals and learners interested in the relevant business pathway
- •Programme selection should match the learner's business stage and implementation goal
Full curriculum
8 modules · 34 lessons
Every core lesson follows the same teaching flow: what you need to know, a step-by-step method, a worked Indian business example, a ready-to-use template, common mistakes, a 20-minute action task and a prompt for the AI Business Tutor.
Start here — How to get results from this programmeOrientation, key terms, your baseline, the learning method and the completion standard.7 lessons
- Start here 01 — How this programme works🔒
- Start here 02 — Key terms in plain language🔒
- Start here 03 — Your business baseline🔒
- Start here 04 — The learning method: read, apply, measure🔒
- Start here 05 — First-week action workbook🔒
- Start here 06 — Progress checklist and completion standard🔒
- Start here 07 — Keeping your knowledge current🔒
Module 1 — Laying the foundation: trade model, registrations, product and marketCore concepts, diagnosis, market logic and programme-specific strategic foundations.4 lessons
- 01 — Export, import or both: choosing a trade model that fits your capital and skillsFree preview
- 02 — Registrations before your first shipment: entity, GST, IEC, AD code, ICEGATE and RCMC🔒
- 03 — Choosing your first product: HS codes, ITC(HS) policy checks and product-specific approvals🔒
- 04 — Shortlisting your first market or source country with free trade data🔒
Module 2 — Finding buyers and suppliers and closing your first dealCustomer understanding, acquisition, conversion, channels and relationship growth applied to this programme.4 lessons
- 05 — Finding your first overseas buyers: councils, trade fairs, B2B portals and direct outreach🔒
- 06 — Sourcing and vetting suppliers: overseas factories for imports, Indian makers for merchant exports🔒
- 07 — From enquiry to firm order: samples, quotations, pro forma invoice and the sales contract🔒
- 08 — Incoterms 2020 in practice: deciding what to quote and where your risk ends🔒
Module 3 — Pricing, payments and protecting your moneyEconomics, cash discipline, metrics, operational execution, risk and compliance applied to this programme.4 lessons
- 09 — Building an export price: from ex-works cost to FOB and CIF quotation🔒
- 10 — Landed cost for importers: assessable value, customs duty, IGST and clearing charges🔒
- 11 — Getting paid safely: advance, letter of credit, documentary collection and open account🔒
- 12 — Managing trade risk: buyer checks, export credit insurance, currency movement and fraud🔒
Module 4 — Shipping, clearance and running a steady tradeSystems, automation, AI-assisted execution and a practical 30/90-day implementation roadmap.4 lessons
- 13 — Your first export shipment: forwarder, customs broker, shipping bill and bill of lading🔒
- 14 — Your first import clearance: bill of entry, duty payment, examination and delivery🔒
- 15 — After the shipment: export realisation, GST refunds under LUT and export incentives🔒
- 16 — From one shipment to a trading business: KPIs, systems and a 12-month plan🔒
Applied practice, case studies and revisionWorked scenarios, common mistakes and a timed mock3 lessons
- Starting an export-import business: worked case studies and applied scenarios🔒
- Starting an export-import business: common mistakes, misconceptions and self-check Q&A🔒
- Starting an export-import business: revision sheet and self-test with answer key🔒
Practice Lab — Launching your first trade dealDiagnostic, case analysis, implementation assignment and capstone self-evaluation.4 lessons
- Practice 01 — Trade readiness audit: model, registrations, HS code and policy check🔒
- Practice 02 — Outreach and deal-document pack: buyers or suppliers, quotation, PI and Incoterm🔒
- Practice 03 — Deal costing and protection plan: price, landed cost, payment term and risk register🔒
- Practice 04 — Capstone: your first-trade launch plan and 90-day execution calendar🔒
Programme guide — Plan, decide and reviewStudy plan, decision framework, accuracy protocol and the 30-day review.4 lessons
- Programme guide 01 — Map, outcomes and study plan🔒
- Programme guide 02 — From concepts to decisions🔒
- Programme guide 03 — Accuracy: verifying rules and figures🔒
- Programme guide 04 — 30-day review and next steps🔒
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