AboutDavide Andrew Papa Expertise All matters pertaining to assisting Private import export INTERMEDIARIES, AGENTS and BROKERS Regarding International trade Laws and procedures,Letters of credits, as per UCP 600,Presentation, Commissions,International Rules of agency, and Incoterms 2000. All matters pertaining to shipping documents relating to the Import and export of products from one country to another.All matter for buyers and sellers of commodity products relating to the import and export industry.FTN with the introduction of UCP 600 will release the publication "The world is yours"(2004) made specifically for Intermediaries.Current inhouse tra ining manual is "Follow the Yellow Brick Road"(2008) Our advice website is www.ftnexporting.com
Experience FTN exporting founder Davide Papa has been trading for over 20 years- and has dealt with a huge variety of corporate entities including Gold and crude oil suppliers. FTN appeared in a major controversial Newspaper editorial in 1994. FTN Exporting official publication "International Trade and the Successful Intermediary"(ITSI) is about to be released world wide (December 2009) by the prestigious U.K publishing firm Gower's (U.K) and is listed on Amazon.com (Keyword: International Trade Intermediary) ITSI is ostensibly the first uniform intermediary trading doctrine of its kind, and will become the standard intermediary practice world wide in years to come. FTN exporting has created the said doctrine and supporting rules of trade defined as "URPIB" (Uniform Rules and Practice for Intermediaries and Brokers), which will (has?) become the most successful set of private intermediary rules ever created.
Publications The World is Yours and "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" www.ftnexporting.com . Author of "International Trade and the Successful Intermediary " (ITSI) 2009 excepts on http://www.gowerpub.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=11177&edition_id=12138
Education/Credentials Let school early. Became a master chef . Took up business management and later studied "international Trade at Stott's college Melbourne, Australia.
Question In my ceaseless quest for ostensible authority on an eventual real supply i was able to secure one from a Chemical Company.
Would wish you please look into it as a Buyer/Seller. I was given quotes for the following products namely: Lithopone 28%, Lithopone 30%, Titanimum Dioxide Rutitle, Titanium Dioxide Anatase, Glacial Acetic Acid 99.5% (food grade), Glacial Acetic Acid 99.5% (tech grade), Zinc Oxide 99%, Zinc Oxide 99.5%, Zinc Oxide 99.7%, Carbon Black ( grain), Carbon Black (grain), Carbon Black ( pigment), Carbon Black (pigment), Caustic Soda 96% (Solid), Caustic Soda 96% (flake), Soda Ash Light 99.2%, Soda Ash Dense 99.8%, Chrome Green 99.2%, Aluminium Sulphate (no iron) 17% --grain, Aluminum Sulphate (no iron) 17% ---powder on FOB incoterms Tianjin China Port.
Kindly respond promptly as usual.
Regards,
Luqman.
Pls Note that am still in an aggressive search for the HSFO 180 supply.Many thanks in advance.
Answer
Dear Luqman
Again wrong place, wrong question- Let me give you some insight-
I have 20 tons of frozen chicken wings- Tell me? Do you think there is a huge Buyers market for chicken wings?
Securing goods that requires months or years to find active markets is not what we mean when we say "Find Supplier" - When we say find supplier or secure supplier - We mean; secure supplier to much wanted goods- We have all those goods that we don't even list - We get such goods and many other such goods from suppliers without even asking. Chemicals, shoes, concrete blocks are not the same as securing UREA, ,Raw Leather ,or Cement.
Further more gains are very small on such goods you have sourced because usually buyers only purchase small container loads- A FCL of sugar is around 20 MT such cost around $500 FOB per MT . If you add 50 dollars per MT commission for reselling you will not get buyers-Price is too high- if you add 5 dollars per MT you might get buyers-
You'll make 100 dollars profit and will still need to work as hard as securing a Large carrier load .
A large carrier load of 100,000 MT at $350 dollar per MT purchase price where only 1 dollar is added to the selling price will make you 100,000 Dollars-
I have much wanted goods on the FTNX -all from suppliers ,yet is difficult to close such deals even if extraordinary prices are secured- Why? Because it takes great effort to close a d such deals- Great effort deserves great reward- If a end buyer usually buys sugar at 400 dollars per MT directly from a refinery and you can secure it for $380 per MT from elsewhere and add 4.00 dollars per MT for yourself- you could sell 100,000 MT to such an end buyer that YOU found- for 384 per MT FOB- 400,000 dollars is made because of great effort and skill- if it takes you tens years to finally close two such deals in one year - You've would have earned more in one year than most could earn in a lifetime of working for wages-
Get the big difference?Big deals big effort , big experience = Great rewards-
You set up an office you specialize in chemicals , then sure in time you may get an order for markets you have secured and in time your business might increase or fail altogether-
