Trade and Supply Chain Resource Centre

Achieving success in international trade is not only the result of offering competitive products and negotiating good contracts. To maximise your business potential it is also important to ensure that you follow best practice and have a thorough understanding of the rules and regulations, both at home and abroad.

Our award-winning staff are available to provide you advice on any aspect of conducting trade and preparing your import or export documentation. We can also arrange training sessions and trade seminars for your staff and suppliers. To support these initiatives, we have developed a number of trade tools designed to assist you in learning more about international trade:

Trade sequences

Would you like to know more about some basic trade methods of payment? Our animated trade sequences take you through the key steps in the DC and documentary collections process.

Trade tutorial

Want to know more about how DCs work or what trade documents look like? Unsure whether you should trade using collections or DCs? Check out our trade tutorial for more information.

Trade glossary

Can you issue a back-to-back DC without a master DC? Our trade glossary helps you decipher the jargon of international trade.

Trade forms

To print copies of HSBC application / instruction forms for trade transactions select the appropriate trade forms (UK / US).