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THE INTERMEDIARY AND TRADE 2025 

 Fresh Post : 14 July 2025

FTN EXPORTING TRADE PROCEDURES IS A DOCTRINE 

Update: 6 August 2025

The Intermediary must be a business minded person and must study the FTNX Doctrine of Trade before venturing  out into the big world of commodity trading. The Intermediary learns procedures and trades as a Buyer /Seller as a principal of their own  stringed members. Closing one larger commodity deal takes skill and knowledge in return closing one single revolving deal will serve a lifetime of wages  as earned working for others–is your aim.  This is a complex and difficult  business to enact upon; made easy thanks to the doctrine. There is no large outlay for the kind of business being developed and the gains could be great, for those who remain trading over the longer term. Those who ‘bomb out early’ the lesson learned  will still serve the entrepreneur and business minded person with great insight  to do with International business applications and agencies. Many will bomb out within the first year of taking up the study, however  being educated and then becoming  informed about the specialised field of business; is always a gain; as the lesson offered reduces years of such complex studies  to months. If you are in it for the short term ( 1 year or less) then taking up the study is a waste of time. You have to be prepared to study and start  trading  for the next 4 or 5 years before considering throwing in the towel.” This is the kind  mindset  that is needed before taking up the study. Anyone saying differently, is deceiving you.

FTN Exporting has been trading since 1988. This original website has been maintained since late 1990. When we came on board, the market places was full of clowns , false deals and risk laden unworkable and illegal  procedures bearing title as  ICPO, BCL, LOI, NCNDA, MPO,  and other strange terms  and requests bearing unsafe and often illegal procedures were common offerings at the time - many such fake and unworkable  deals emanating out of the USA. Nobody knew what they were doing-world wide. Nobody knew what current international delivery rules, banking rules  and contract laws were. “I knew something was not right with what was out there, but I had no idea on just how bad it really was for the ill-informed intermediary.’ After studying International  trade law and procedures at a college ( which did not have anything  about intermediaries - that I was looking for) , and spending years gaining experience,  I started to close on contracts. To do so I had to adopt  current international laws and trade rules  by making adaptations to such, to finally produce  a powerful  doctrine of trade that intermediaries could safely apply - using the same laws and rules that all  suppliers and end buyers were  bound  to apply as well., but seldom do. As the laws stood, I had  finally ‘discovered ‘ that the term of  ‘buyer and seller’ meant that  anyone could trade in commodities safely,  correctly and legally if a legal set of procedures were available. The PCT had to become a legally and lawfully defined buyer /seller  of commodities, in their own name,  as the position of the effective  private ill informed  export import  intermediary literally- does not exist in any financially viable form. Intermediaries are wasting their time trading in commodities if they are not prepared to seal an export import deal legally, as a principal.  We all start  as an ill-informed  intermediary, the doctrine is studied for a few months .You are now a Professional Commodity Trader, an International trade specialist and a principal in your own name. A principal who is able to buy and sell commodities. This is how  an ill informed intermediary enters the market place. The doctrine of trade for intermediaries  came online as a rudimentary publication from 2001. It didn’t take long to become inundated with  so many  queries  from intermediaries from all over the world, after a newspaper leaked information  about a  deal we had done in 1995.  The fax machine was running day and night back then.  Then came the internet , and the circus full of  clowns  that followed. FTN Exporting trading  procedures is the leading global  study for trade intermediaries wanting to buy and sell commodities internationally, or conduct business in the related field of Agency.  Our formal publication is  “International Trade and the Successful intermediary” (ITSI) remains  a first edition proofread and edited hardcopy publication as released in 2010 by leading U.K Publishers. ITSI changed the standing  perception of intermediary come entrepreneurs,  and even some aspects of current laws dating back centuries.  It’s a complex academic study  made for the first  time  PCT entering the marketplace. A lawyer and barrister from the  U.K actually assisted me on matters of editing and the law in checking and verifying the procedures and  claims being made by FTN Exporting.  FTNX  has broken down the complex aspect of trade to a straight easy to understand set of procedures that can be safely used and where no circumvention is possible. We got rid of the clowns  and the first ever doctrine of trade made for intermediaries, buyers and sellers now rules the intermediary trading market . Many home based traders as well as lawyers, bankers , doctors  have purchased our doctrine- with many compliments served as ongoing today. ITSI can be found  in libraries all over the world  including the US Library of Congress. Want to trade in commodities? Invest a small sum and take up the study. You’ll be glad you did. Well over 30 years of trading, mistakes and study is being served to you in one single exclusive and unique  beta publication which has everything you need to know as well as a document template that the applicant may use. Our Beta publication is much larger than ITSI because the formal aspects of ITSI were also broken down to its base  trading aspect. ITSI has 80,000 words to convert as much,  to a 400,000  ‘step by step’ worded aspect as we break the complex aspects of ITSI to its bare bones minimum, warts and all- took some effort.  over 20 separate editions of our in-house beta publication, we’re created from our original now outdated works “ The Work is Yours” (TWIY)  and “ Follow the Yellow Brick Road” (FYBR).  We explain things ‘as they are, no holds barred.’ The PCT must know everything there is to know to make this kind of business successful.  

THE BETA PUBLICATION  AND CURRENT MASTERWORKS 

• A legally defined  uniform world wide set of procedures is being served.
• A strict safe set of procedures is offered acceptable to all buyers and sellers world wide 
• The  FTNX import expert trade study uses international rules and laws.
• It explains everything the PCT needs to know in closing a lucrative commodity deal.
• Explained to serve first time un-informed  novice traders world wide 
• Well tested  over a period exceeding 30 years 
• No more expenses.The current beta publication serves the whole lesson
• No circumvention possible.  You pay commission to those who assisted you.
• The PCT keeps the rest of the income earned  as net profit.
• You’ll learn matters of international agency as well.
• Related  business matters  of business via  agency is the unseen aspect being learned.
• Matters  of Delivery,  banking, finance, contract, sourcing, and closing a deal is defined.
• ICC Incoterms and UCP  banking rules support doctrine intently.

Want to trade in commodities  professionally?  Many  trading aspects need to  be understood before investing your money in academic level educational matters. You have spare time, let's say 10 hours minimum or more over a 7 day week, or a weekend ( if employed during the week ) then you have time to trade as well. “When FTNX first started in this business in 1988, I was spending 14 hours per day on average–trading -  it took 20 years to finally trade  on the deals I wanted to conduct.” Today I select deals I want to conduct at my leisure. I don’t test and try every deal that comes my way, I only try and test the best potential deals as I mentor many applicants along the way. From trading to education, FTNX had no choice but to teach, once ITSI was released. The PCT has a small office environment at home or at work and you are able to produce good clean documents on a computer. You are also able to read and write in English to a reasonable level, (not perfect but reasonable) . Your understanding of basic maths  is also good and you are a person of good character. On top of all these understandings, you are prepared to last the distance and give it  ‘your best shot’  for at least 4 years ( or forever if the trading bug bites you) This aspect is important as you will complete the study within 3 months or so, and start trading in live deals thereafter as per our strict  procedures, to gain  experience, as mistakes becomes less, so will experience grow; so long as you have a continual presence in the marketplace. You need  to make mistakes to learn from, and the FTNX doctrine of trade expresses this aspect intently where the PCT can trade all the way to the contract issuance stage  and walk away from the deal without incurring consequences. This is why the doctrine is special, it protects the PCT while they trade as well. These are the special attributes of the FTNX study that most comparable academic level studies do not offer. It allows the PCT to commence trading ASAP as per procedures, ‘one step at a time’  with confidence, in knowing that no legal liabilities will be incurred in the event the PCT in the early days, makes a serious mistake. We created the doctrine  for intermediary use , by adopting the rules and laws that are already in place. FTN Exporting cannot  guarantee trading success as individual efforts and skill set plays a crucial role; what we can guarantee  is that the  trading procedures can legally and safely close deals for the informed PCT. 

If you think after reading this site page that you can do it alone without being informed, such a perspective is  defined as a fool's errand.Your chances to close a deal while remaining ill informed is ZERO no matter how long you trade for . In 2025 the world has gone ‘dumber’ the need to be informed is greater now than any time in history.FTNX is no longer concerned about ill-informed intermediaries, as the market place is full of informed USCT endorsed traders that stops  illegal trading aspects from getting traction. The problem now is to ‘teach, guide  and mentor’ suppliers and end buyers  who are now taking huge risks by taking shortcuts; while the international market place continues to grow rapidly and in where   great financial losses are being recorded often. We have fixed up the Intermediary marketplace, it now time to fix up bad and risk laden procedures often being used by suppliers and end buyers.