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ECI (Export Consignment Identifier)
Composed of the CRN plus a commercial reference number, which could be the commercial invoice number.

Embargo
In international trade, government actions limiting or prohibiting imports and/or exports of goods and/or services from or to a country. Such limitations may be applied by the embargoing country against its own nationals, such as the United States embargo against trade from Cuba, or in concert with other countries against a third country, such as the 1990 United Nations embargo against trade in any form with Iraq or the earlier UN embargo against trade with South Africa. Embargoes may also be applied just against trade in certain products regardless of origin, such as the ban on trade in ivory.

ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival)

ETD (Estimated Time of Dispatch)

Excise Tax
A selective tax — sometimes called a consumption tax — on certain goods produced within or imported into a country.

Export Merchants
Export Merchants buy goods direct from an exporter in their own home market for sale abroad.  For the manufacturer the transaction is almost the same as selling in the home market as the export merchants are responsible for promoting the goods to overseas buyers.

ECGF (Export Credit Guarantee Facility)
A scheme developed in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that would enable developing country exporters to refinance their export credits extended to importers in other countries under an international guarantee.

Export Credit Insurance
Insurance designed to guarantee that an exporter will be paid for his/her goods after delivery. If the exporter has such insurance, responsibility for collecting payment from the company that imports the goods in another country, or the company's agent, rests with the underwriter of the export credit insurance

Export Quotas
A specific restrictions or ceilings imposed by an exporting country on the value or volume of certain exports to protect domestic producers and consumers from temporary shortages of the goods affected or to bolster their prices in world markets. Some international commodity agreements explicitly indicate when producers should apply such restraints. Export quotas are also often applied in orderly marketing agreements and voluntary restraint agreements, and to promote domestic processing of raw materials in countries that produce them

Export Restraints
A quantitative restrictions imposed by exporting countries to limit exports to specified foreign markets, usually pursuant to a formal or informal agreement concluded at the request of the importing countries.

EXW (Ex Works)
An international commercial term that is used in international sales contracts to signify a seller's obligation to make the goods available to a buyer only at the seller's premises (that is, works, factory, warehouse, and the like). Thus, the seller is not responsible for loading, shipping, export clearance, etc. unless otherwise agreed. All costs, risks, and obligations incurred from moving the goods from the seller's premises to the buyer's destination are borne by the buyer.