- Start date: 12/03/2018
- Duration: 4 Months
- Lecture Hrs. / Day: 1.5 Hours
Build, Launch & Grow Your Export-Import Business
A premium business-oriented program designed for entrepreneurs, MSMEs, existing business owners, and experienced professionals who want to enter or expand in international trade with confidence, clarity, and practical guidance.
| Duration | 4 Months |
| Mode | Learn Anytime + Business Guidance Sessions |
| Program Type | Business-Oriented Export-Import Program |
| Ideal For | Entrepreneurs, MSMEs, Existing Business Owners, Traders & Experienced Professionals |
| Primary Focus | Business Readiness, Export-Import Understanding, International Trade Execution |
| Certification | IISFT Certified Export-Import Professional |
About the Program
A Practical Export-Import Program for Business Growth
ICEIP™ – IISFT Certified Export-Import Professional is a specialized business-oriented program created for individuals and organizations that want to start, structure, or scale export-import activities in a practical and commercially sensible manner.
Unlike job-oriented programs that focus primarily on employment readiness, ICEIP™ is designed for those who want to understand export-import from a business and decision-making perspective. It helps participants build clarity on product selection, country selection, pricing, risk management, documentation, payment security, international marketing, compliance, and overall execution of export-import transactions.
The current course page similarly positions the program around entrepreneurial skills, starting one’s own export-import business, handling risks, pricing, contracts, payments, and profitable business operation.
This program is ideal for people who do not just want theoretical knowledge, but practical business understanding that can support real trade decisions.
Why This Program Stands Out
Business Learning with Real Commercial Relevance
ICEIP™ is designed to help participants move beyond basic knowledge and develop practical understanding of how export-import business actually works in the real world.
The program is built for entrepreneurs, traders, MSMEs, existing business owners, and experienced professionals who want to build or strengthen cross-border business capability.
Participants gain structured understanding of export-import procedures, documentation, contracts, pricing, compliance, logistics flow, and payment risk management. The current course also emphasizes these areas as core learning outcomes.
The program covers how to start an export-import business, understand the role of regulatory and trade-related bodies, identify opportunities, and approach business execution more confidently.
The present ICEIP curriculum includes online marketing, B2B portals, website considerations, export marketing, and digital buyer search methods, which make the program particularly useful for those seeking business growth rather than only compliance understanding.
The new delivery model of Learn Anytime + Business Guidance Sessions makes the program more flexible for working professionals and business owners while preserving expert support.
On successful completion, participants receive the ICEIP™ – IISFT Certified Export-Import Professional certificate. The current page states that each participant is awarded a certificate issued by IISFT after course completion.
Who Should Join
Ideal for Business-Focused Participants
This program is suitable for:
- Entrepreneurs who want to start an export-import business
- Existing business owners planning to expand into international trade
- MSMEs seeking export growth opportunities
- Traders and merchants exploring global markets
- Experienced professionals who want business-oriented export-import knowledge
- Individuals who want practical clarity before entering cross-border trade
What You Will Learn
Core Business Outcomes
By the end of the program, participants will gain practical understanding in:
- How to start an export-import business step by step
- Types of exporters and business structures
- Key government bodies and trade ecosystem participants
- Export-import procedures and required documentation
- Risks involved in international trade and how to reduce them
- Export-import contracts and safer commercial practices
- Pricing strategy, costing, and negotiation basics
- International payment methods and payment risk management
- ECGC, bank finance, and export credit understanding
- Product, market, buyer, and supplier selection thinking
- Online marketing and B2B portal usage
- Trade trends and country-wise opportunity understanding
- Logistics flow, containerization, and customs procedures
- GST, policy, incentives, and export-import business compliance
These learning themes are drawn directly from the “Core Objectives” and curriculum areas listed on the current ICEIP page.
Curriculum Structure
Comprehensive Business-Focused Curriculum
The existing page states that the curriculum is divided into 30 sessions and covers a wide range of export-import business topics from trade environment and documentation to contracts, payments, marketing, GST, customs, and export order processing.
Understand why export matters, how international trade creates opportunities for individuals and businesses, and how India’s export environment supports growth. Build foundational clarity on the export-import ecosystem and the various institutions involved in trade operations such as DGFT, customs, banks, freight forwarders, insurance players, ports, airports, and export promotion bodies.
Develop understanding of the international trading environment, the role of GATT/WTO, tariff and non-tariff barriers, India’s trade position, major trading partners, foreign trade policy, handbook procedures, ITC(HS), and policy-driven business opportunities. The current page explicitly includes WTO, tariffs, India’s foreign trade, FTP, and classification framework in its curriculum.
Learn practical business relevance of export incentive structures, duty exemption schemes, advance authorisation, DFIA, duty drawback, export promotion systems, SEZ/EOU concepts, and net foreign exchange understanding. The present curriculum includes these schemes and related institutional frameworks.
Gain detailed understanding of export-import documents including proforma invoice, commercial invoice, packing list, certificate of origin, inspection documents, shipping bill, bill of entry, bill of lading, and related submission requirements. Also build clarity on export sales contracts, delivery terms, and INCOTERMS 2020.
Learn how export pricing decisions are made, how costs affect competitiveness, how different payment methods work, and what risks exporters and importers face under advance payment, DP, DA, LC, and open account methods. This module also includes ECGC, risk insurance, export finance, banking support, FEMA-related export issues, and practical payment security understanding.
Build understanding of international marketing, market segmentation, targeting, positioning, digital export marketing, email marketing, online advertising, SEO basics, social media as a marketing tool, B2B portal use, free vs paid listings, and practical buyer search methods.
Understand packaging, labeling, shipping marks, cargo handling symbols, ISPM-15, GST on imports and exports, zero-rated supply, LUT/Bond concepts, refund understanding, quality control basics, compulsory pre-shipment inspection, and plant product compliance-related concepts.
Learn containerization, container types, FCL/LCL understanding, shipping through sea and air, customs clearance for exports and imports, dispatch of samples, bonded cargo procedures, valuation, assessment, and final export order processing with marketing-plan understanding. The current ICEIP page includes containerization, customs clearance, import policy, baggage rules, export order processing, and export marketing planning.
Business Guidance Advantage
Learn with Practical Direction
This program is especially valuable because business-oriented learning is most effective when participants can connect concepts to real commercial decisions. Your new model of Learn Anytime + Business Guidance Sessions creates that flexibility and application focus.
What This Means for Participants:- Learn at your own pace without disrupting business responsibilities
- Build clarity gradually across trade, documentation, risk, and marketing
- Use guidance sessions to strengthen commercial understanding
- Approach export-import decisions with better structure and confidence
Study Material & Learning Support
Structured Learning for Business Users
The current page states that detailed study material is provided, written in simple English, and designed to make export-import procedures, policy, benefits, and business activities easy to understand.
Study Material: Well-structured learning material designed in simple, practical language
Business-Focused Learning Support: Content that helps participants connect theory with real business application
Guided Understanding: Business guidance sessions to support clarity on trade processes and execution thinking
Certification
IISFT Certification
After successful completion of the program, each participant becomes eligible to receive the ICEIP™ – IISFT Certified Export-Import Professional certificate issued by IISFT. This reflects the existing certification structure on the current page.
Fee Structure
Invest in Business Growth
Program Fee
₹34,999/-
(Including applicable taxes)
Support Line: Speak with our team for fee guidance and payment support.
Who Benefits Most from ICEIP™
Practical Value for Growth-Focused Participants
This program is especially relevant for:
- Business owners planning to enter export markets
- MSMEs exploring international expansion
- Traders looking to formalize export-import operations
- Professionals supporting trade activity in family or company businesses
- People who want structured guidance before taking financial and commercial decisions in cross-border trade
The emphasis on entrepreneurial skills, business setup, risk understanding, contracts, marketing, pricing, and profitable export-import business already appears strongly in the existing ICEIP page.
Why Choose IISFT
Practical Knowledge with Industry Relevance
IISFT’s ICEIP offering is built around real export-import business understanding rather than only academic theory. The current page reflects a broad, applied curriculum that includes documentation, compliance, payments, marketing, customs, logistics, business setup, and trade execution.
Designed for commercial relevance, not just theoretical awareness
Covers trade policy, documentation, pricing, contracts, risk, logistics, customs, and marketing
Suitable for busy business owners and working participants
An IISFT certificate that reflects structured export-import business learning
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