Английский язык для бакалавров (товароведение во внешнеторговой деятельности) в 3 частях. Ч.1. Учебное пособие

behalf. Depending on how your goods are classified will affect how much will be charged for Duty, VAT, Quotas, Preferences, Suspensions, Common Agricultural Policy, excise and Intrastat.

Classifying your goods correctly ensure that:

•The amount you pay for duty and VAT is the correct amount.

•If there is any duty suspended to be applied to your goods.

•If there is any preferential duty rates to be applied.

•If you need an import or export license for specific goods.

•Whether excise or anti-dumping duties are applied.

•You do not pay the wrong interests on back-payments.

•Your goods are not seized or delayed.

The UK Trade Tariff is based on the EU TARIC and is daily updated from the TARIC so that importers or exporters can access accurate information.

The TARIC code (Integrated Tariff of the European Communities) contents commodity tariff codes for member states of the EU and the rules applied to specific products when importing into EU or exporting goods from the EU. This includes the provisions of the Harmonised System (HS) and the combined nomenclature but also additional provisions specified in Community legislation such as tariff suspensions, tariff quotas and tariff preferences, which exist for the majority of the Community’s trading partners. The TARIC code is used by the customs to declare goods and calculate duties as well as for statistical declaration.

Classifications of goods are composed of the heading numbers. The first six digits are built upon the Harmonised System and they specify the product. Within the HS digit, the first two digits are known as the chapter numbers (HS chapter), which is the name for the chapter of the Trade Tariff. For example chapter 1 is Live Animals and chapter 2 is Meat and Edible Meat Offal. After the six HS digits, the next two digits are the Combined Nomenclature (CN) Subheading. If more details are required, there are an Additional TARIC code of four numbers.

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to answer them.

Task 8. Summarize the definitions:

– an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole;

– an official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports;

–a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc;

–any of the Arabic figures of 1 through 9 and 0.

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Task 9. Unscramble the words.

PEANOURE

NOMMOCO

REFENCEREP

TAUQO

CYLIPO

DERAT

RIFFTA

ZENIMONRAH

METSYS

BERMUN

CATINOFICLASSI

SIVIONROP

Task 10. Translate from Russian into English.

Метрология ‒ наука, которая изучает измерения и методы, гарантирующие их единообразие, и средства, обеспечивающие их максимальную точность. Специалисты разных областей используют в своей практической деятельности метрологические стандарты для получения точных количественных параметров. Ни одна техническая отрасль не может обойтись без принятой системы измерений. Они позволяют определить

иуправлять технологическим процессом, контролировать качество готовой продукции. Процесс, во время которого происходит сопоставление параметров продукции с существующими параметрами и нормативами называется сертификацией. Она абсолютно необходима для гарантии производства качественного продукта и защиты прав потребителей. Сертификация вести контроль изделий и услуг на отечественном рынке. Она, как правило, проводится независимой стороной. Цель сертификации ‒ подтвердить соответствие исследуемого объекта или услуги действующим нормативам.

Необходимость вступления в ВТО диктует обязательную гармонизацию отечественных стандартов с международными и европейскими стандартами и участие России в международных сертификационных системах. Помимо этого, в России действуют национальные системы обязательной

идобровольной сертификации.

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Task 11. Grammar. Open the brackets using proper forms of the verbs.

Five tonnes of suspected illicit tobacco seized in HMRC raids

About five tonnes of suspected illicit tobacco (seize) in a series of raids in Glasgow.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) (say) the tobacco (be) worth an estimated £1.5m in lost duty and taxes.

Authorities (believe) they (find) two illicit tobacco factories as part of their searches.

Three women ‒aged 37, 38 and 42 ‒and a man, 25, (be) charged with excise duty fraud in connection with the find.

The two tobacco factories (find) during searches of five households, a commercial property, two self-storage containers and three vehicles on 21 February.

A total of £4,000 in cash also (seize).

Joe Hendry, of HMRC’s fraud investigation service (say): “The trade in illicit tobacco (be) unregulated and (make) cheaper tobacco more readily available to the young and vulnerable.”

“The sale of illegal tobacco not (be) tolerated by us or our partner agencies. Disrupting criminal trade (be) at the heart of our strategy to clampdown on the illicit tobacco market, which (cost) the UK around £2.5bn a year.”

“This (be) theft from the taxpayer and (undermine) legitimate traders.”

Task 12. Summarize the basic facts of the Unit in writing in at least 5 sentences.

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UNIT 2. COMMODITY EXPERT PROFESSION

Task 1. Read and translate the following text to fulfill the tasks below.

Commodity expert is a difficult but interesting post

At each trading enterprise, there is a specialist who is in charge of controlling the movement of goods, identifying consumer needs and preferences, which monitors the shipment and delivery, as well as the storage of goods. Makes plans and reports, monitors compliance with quality requirements for the goods. In large enterprises of commodity experts there are several: in each department there is one and the main one throughout the store.

The position of a commodity expert is very interesting, but complicated and tense. The commodity expert should know everything about the goods and track, monitor the progress of it from delivery to the counter. Commodore is the heart and brain of the store. Without it, the trading enterprise will not work at the proper level.

Commodity studies

Commodity is a science that deals with the study of consumer properties and classification of goods, the factors necessary to preserve the quality of products, the conditions that affect the formation of the range of trading enterprises, as well as its structure, the full movement of goods.

Commodity studies the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of commodity properties, as well as the conditions under which they change, such as transportation or storage. The main goal of commodity science is the study of those properties of goods that determine its value, changes in the product and its manifestation in the process of commodity circulation.

Position Commodity expert

A commodity expert is an old term, which means a “connoisseur of goods.” A professional commodity expert is able literally in a few minutes to distinguish high-quality goods from substandard goods. By the way, the quality of goods is determined with the help of a number of indicators: organoleptic and chemicalbiological.

Commodity expert is a specialist in a wide range of trades. He follows all the processes in the store. Evaluates the quality of the goods and confirms it with

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the help of regulatory documents. It will agree on the delivery, monitor the implementation of all standards for the storage and transportation of goods, and also conduct measures to identify the buyers’ focus and take the necessary actions to fully meet them.

Today the profession of commodity expert is rapidly gaining popularity. This position is used not only in trade enterprises, but also in enterprises that produce products, as well as those involved in standardization, etc. A commodity expert is engaged in conducting examinations aimed at identifying the quality of goods or raw materials. The person holding this position should be well versed in all product groups, as well as marketing, merchandising, logistics and the rest. A commodity expert is a specialist who must constantly improve his professionalism.

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Task 2. Answer the following questions.

1.Does the modern society need such a profession as commodity expert?

2.What are the commodity expert responsibilities?

3.What are the relations in pair consumer-commodity expert like?

4.Why is the profession of commodity expert tough and complicated?

5.What kinds of skills are required to be a commodity expert?

Task 3. Summarize the definitions:

–a project undertaken or to be undertaken, especially one that is important or difficult or that requires boldness or energy;

–a person or organization that uses a commodity or services;

–the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients;

–an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo;

–an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute;

–the act of storing; state or fact of being stored.

Task 4. Unscramble the words.

PRISERETEN

GERCHA

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PERTEX

MENTARTPED

GENRA

MINEDETRE

VULAE

CATORINDI

VERYLIDE

DARTSTAN

DITYMMOCO

ENCESCI

Task 5. Translate from Russian into English.

Товароведение как наука изучает потребительские свойства товаров. Предметомтовароведенияявляетсяпотребительскаястоимостьтоваровиуслуг. Благодаря потребительской стоимости продукция становится товаром, таккакудовлетворяютсяопределенныенуждыипотребностипотребителя.

ВРоссии товароведение как самостоятельная дисциплина возникла

в16 в. «Торговая книга», опубликованная в 1575 г., описывала не только товары, производимые в России (меха, мед, зерно, воск и проч.), но и товары, ввозимые из других стран. Так как основным методом исследования было описание, этот период развития товароведения называют то- вароведно-описательным.

В17−19 вв. товароведениеразвиваетсявтеснойсвязисдругиминауками: физикой, химией, биологиейидр. Развитиепромышленностииторговливедет к совершенствованию естественнонаучных знаний. Поскольку большое внимание в описании товаров уделялось технологии их производства, этот период развития товароведения называют товароведно-технологическим.

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Task 6. Read and translate the following text to fulfill the tasks below.

What are the duties of the official commodity manager

The duties of a commodity expert include the following:

–to check the conformity of the quality of goods with normative documents;

–to monitor the implementation of the rules for the sale of goods, storage conditions, as well as the receipt of goods in the trading enterprise;

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–to draw up the necessary documents for delivery, as well as claims or answers to them;

–to keep track of the constant supply of goods in the store;

–to make a plan for the delivery of goods and monitor the correctness of its implementation;

–to develop storage rules for different product groups;

–to keep records of the sale and receipt of goods;

– to conduct an inventory and eliminate the causes of the formation of illiquid goods;

–to take measures to prepare goods for sale;

–prepare quarterly reports on the movement of goods.

Job descriptions

The job description of the commodity expert consists of four main chapters. The first chapter is called “Basic Provisions.” This chapter specifies who can be accepted for the position of commodity expert and what requirements are imposed on candidates. And also what a commodity expert should know. The second chapter is called “Official duties of a commodity expert”, and it describes everything what a specialist in an enterprise should do: checking the quality of the goods and meeting their regulatory documents, concluding contracts for supply and monitoring their implementation, organizing conditions for storing goods, and much more. The third chapter describes what a commodity expert has the right to do.

The fourth chapter is responsibility. Here it is said what the commodity expert is in charge of. The material responsibility of the commodity expert is great, and in his work he must closely monitor all the processes of commodity circulation in the store.

When entering a store and selling low-quality or overdue goods, all responsibility falls on the specialist who allowed such a sale, that is, on a commodity expert.

So who is the commodity expert? This is the expert, who holds the main processes in the trading facility. The commodity expert controls the movement of goods and identifies which goods demand is greater and which should be replaced, negotiates the delivery and monitors compliance with the agreements, checks the quality of the goods and creates conditions for maintaining it.

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Work in pairs and role-play it.

Task 8. Summarize the definitions:

–something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model;

–an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods;

–the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business;

–a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field specialist; authority.

Task 9. Unscramble the words.

DITYMMOCO

ENCESCI

IMPELNEMT

TORNIMO

RENTDIFF

RECTCOR

NATEMILIE

PORTER

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