Lugano Commodity Trading Association (LCTA)

October 25, 2021, from 3.00pm to 6.45pm

Venue: Villa Sassa Hotel, Lugano

Admission
details below

Registration
registration at this link

Program

1. Introduction to Incoterms
2. The 2020 revision – key differences from 2010
3. Why use them – risk, costs, responsibilities, and functions
4. The terms – difference between conventional maritime and other modes
5. The terms in detail (EXW, FCA, FOB, FAS etc.)
6. Incoterms and e-commerce
7. Which term to use
8. Topical issues – Incoterms and payments

Lecturer

Jon Walden has been involved in international trade for more than 30 years as a practitioner, author, commentator, trainer, and consultant. He has authored three books on international trade procedures and provides training and consultancy to organisations, trade associations, companies, including multi-nationals, on a global basis. He is retained by the International Steel Trade Association UK, and the Institute of Credit Management, as a training provider and is an examiner for the UK Institute of Export & International Trade.  Jon is an adviser to the International Chamber of Commerce and is on the UNCEFACT and UNCTAD Roster of Experts. He was involved in the 2010 revision of Incoterms and is currently involved in the 2020 review process.. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Export and a Fellow of the Institute of Freight Professionals.  Jon is retained to provide training on international trade procedures, shipping / logistics, contracting, customs, insurance, trade finance, supply chain management, export credit control and documentation tor organisations in UK and in over 20 countries. Jon is a regular speaker at high profile international trade related conferences, globally.  He was awarded MBE in 2005.

If a participant cannot attend the course, it is possible to be substituted by another person. If the absence is not notified within 5 days from the course, 30% of the fee will be withheld as part of administration costs. No notification at all will imply that the course fee will remain due to full payment, despite the non-attendance of the delegate.

What you need to know about Covid-measures

Our priority is to keep you safe during the current Covid-19 situation. Considering this, Green Pass or negative tampone within 48 hours of the course date is mandatory.

For more information please contact our secretariat: info@lcta.ch

During the webinar Dr. Pietro Poretti will deepen the questions related to the “EITI guidelines principle”. Moreover, he wrote for LCTA an interesting article that you can find on our website. Dr. Pietro Poretti currently serves as Head, Economic Development Division, Città di Lugano. In 2019-2020 he consulted for the EITI Secretariat and assisted in the development of the transparency Guidelines.

Lecturer profile

Pietro Poretti is an independent consultant specializing in international trade and investment law and policy as well as natural resources law and management. Pietro served as senior legal officer of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), where he was involved with the negotiations of over a dozen free trade agreements and declarations on co-operation with non-EU countries worldwide. Before joining EFTA, he was active as counsel for a Geneva-based law firm, advising private and sovereign entities on international trade and investment issues, in particular in the areas of energy and logistic services. Pietro holds a PhD from the World Trade Institute (Bern), and a MAS in oil and gas from the Graduate Institute (Geneva) and the French Institute of Petroleum (Paris). He studied law at the University of Fribourg and at the Europa Institut (Saarbruecken, Germany), and was a fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (Georgetown University, Washington D.C.). Pietro regularly appears as speaker and lecturer on international economic law and natural resources law and management, good governance and transparency. He has published extensively on the same topics. He is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN).

Zug Commodity Association
Online Event

24 June 2020, 17.00

Venue: Online via Zoom
The weblink will be sent a few days before

Admission
Free of charge

Registration
Please register on ZCA Website 
or send an e-mail to
info@zugcommodity.ch
until 23 June 2020.

Anyone who thought it couldn’t get any crazier on the oil market was disappointed: For the first time in history, the price of oil on a futures exchange has turned negative. There was a technical peculiarity
behind it. But it is also clear that the “historic” deal between Saudi Arabia and Russia has no effect. Gerold Hosp will tell us about the background.

Speaker
Gerald Hosp, NZZ
Gerald Hosp was born in Bludenz (Austria) in 1973. He studied economics in Freiburg (Switzerland) and completed a study visit at the University of California in Berkeley. In addition to his doctoral studies, he worked as an assistant at the Department of Finance. In 2004, he completed a dissertation on “Media Economics” at the University of Fribourg. In 2005 he joined the economics editorial staff of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. From mid-2007 he was the economic correspondent of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for Russia, Central Asia and the South Caucasus in Moscow. After a stopover at the editorial office in Zurich, he moved to London as business correspondent for the United Kingdom. Since the beginning of 2018 he has been working again in the business editorial department in Zurich.