Essentials of Exporting and Importing: U.S. Trade Policies, Procedures, and Practices

About Harvey ShoemackPatricia Mink Rath

Harvey R. Shoemack is an international business and marketing specialist and adjunct faculty at three Chicago-area colleges. For more than 30 years he has helped American firms access foreign markets while also assisting international firms and organizations seeking business in the United States. Shoemack founded The International Marketing Center Ltd. in 1976 and has represented or provided training for such major clients as: Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Dai-Ichi Kangyo and Sanyo banks Banque Nationale de Paris Petersen Manufacturing Co. Inc. The China Exhibition Corp. The Trade Technology and Transfer Corporation (Russia) PHH Fantus Corp. Mardel Laboratories Inc. Val-Test Distributors and Komatsu-Dresser Co. He is active in many professional and international trade organizations. Patricia Mink Rath MS is a consultant in marketing education in Winnetka Illinois. Her fashion merchandising experience includes work as a retail executive in the fashion departments of specialty and department stores in the Chicago area Boston and San Francisco. She has taught college level courses in fashion marketing and merchandising consumer behavior retail buying and management French culture and language for over three decades. Fluent in French she has led fashion merchandising classes in Paris and Provence. Mink Rath has traveled in Europe Central America and Asia and gives illustrated lectures on fashion in both English and French. She is a lifetime member of the Alliance Francaise du North Shore Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) and the Marketing Education Association (MEA). She is co-author of a number of texts and other educational materials for students and teachers. Mink Rath is co-author of Marketing Fashion: A Global Perspective (Fairchild Books 2012) Essentials of Exporting and Importing: U.S.Trade Policies Procedures and Practices (Fairchild Books 2010) and The Why of the Buy: Consumer Behavior and Fashion (Fairchild Books 2008).