Business English Pod BEP 422 English for Logistics 3: Duty, Tariffs and Costs
Business English Pod BEP 422 English for Logistics 3: Duty, Tariffs and Costs is an audio lesson from Business English Pod, a publisher of Business English podcast lessons for working professionals. The lesson presents the language of duties, tariffs, customs and landed costs through a conversation between a production manager at a clothing company and a logistics manager handling shipments from Eastern Europe to the United States.
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How It Helps Your Business English
A streaming audio player and an MP3 download carry the lesson. Written sections introduce duties and tariffs as taxes on imported goods, explain why costs are hard to control across modern supply chains, and set out the dialogue between Cam and Anna. Three listening questions follow, with links to the other lessons in the logistics series.
Read the three listening questions before you play the lesson, then listen and answer them as the conversation unfolds. Download the MP3 to review the dialogue away from a screen. Replay the exchange to hear how duties, tariffs, compliance and risk are raised between a client and a logistics provider, and follow the series links to meet the same vocabulary in routing and transport situations.
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