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.


Great article once again. Sheds a lot of insight on the issue.
many thanks!