Oct 19 2010
USA Export: volunteer experts
I recently needed some international trade help specifically in the area of legal advice in order to create an international distribution agreement. In there I wanted to know how to terminate the distributor. Although some countries will side with the local distributor. Their law specifies that unless there are specific clauses in the agreement “Once a distirbutor, always a distributor”. Thanks to the great help of the volunteers at the North Texas District Export Council, I understood that including performance requirements in the contract helps with that issue a lot. Otherwise, a manufacturer in the U.S. subjects himself to lawsuits in foreign countries by distributors who find themselves cut off from the vendor, but who still want to do business.
