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Long-form pieces on Indian sourcing, textile corridors, compliance, container economics and trade-finance — written for procurement teams making real decisions, not for SEO.
- Trade·07 Jun 2026·12 min
Letters of Credit, Decoded — How Cotton Textile Exports Actually Get Paid
Procurement teams ask three questions before any export programme moves: lead time, compliance, and how this gets paid. This is the third, in full — the structures (transferable LC, confirmed LC), the drafts (sight, usance, avalized), bill discounting, SOFR-based pricing, pre- and post-shipment credit, ECGC, and recourse vs non-recourse factoring — with the worked numbers behind each.
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- Field notes·15 May 2026·18 min
Ten Days Inside India's Export Ecosystem — FIEO Karnataka Chapter
Field notes from FIEO Karnataka Chapter's ten-day virtual certificate program for entrepreneurs, start-ups and MSMEs — every session from DGFT and Customs through ECGC, banking, SGS, IIP, India Post and the trade-logistics world, broken down day by day. From buyer identification on Trademap and the Indian Trade Portal, through PVOC and BIS, GST mechanics and Incoterms 2020, to the Dak Ghar Niryat Kendra channel and the full export-order cycle.
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- Field notes·09 May 2026·7 min
Field notes from YouExport Chennai
Field notes from YouExport's Chennai physical meeting on Export Orientation, Product Identification and Product Profiling — Mr. K. Thirupathi Rajan's Product Wheel framework for honest export-readiness, Mr. Balaji Asaithambi's 7-step approach to staying on the core when global trade keeps shifting, and what British Airways Flight 009 in 1982 still teaches exporters running real container traffic in 2026.
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- Field notes·24 Apr 2026·7 min
Field notes from FIEO Hyderabad — ECGC, trade finance, and the risks most exporters underprice
Field notes from the FIEO Telangana Chapter's two-day certificate programme on export business — ECGC's buyer-underwriting scorecard, country-risk framework, Kotak Mahindra's trade-finance mechanics, and the credit risks first-generation Indian exporters most often underprice.
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- Sourcing·18 Apr 2026·9 min
Sourcing from India in 2026 — a buyer's guide for hospitality and retail procurement
How to read India's textile corridors, what compliance buyers actually require, and where the FOB / CIF math actually lands for a 4,000-piece hospitality programme.
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- Industry·12 Apr 2026·6 min
Why Indian textile corridors specialise — Solapur, Panipat, Karur, Erode
Each corridor's specialisation has roots that go back decades. The 'one big factory floor' mental model misses the reason India can deliver where other origins struggle.
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- Trade·05 Apr 2026·5 min
FOB vs CIF for hospitality procurement — what your CFO needs to know
The Incoterms decision shapes who carries freight risk, who has carrier flexibility, and what your landed-cost reporting looks like. Here's how to think about it.
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