Customer Agent (Noun)
Meaning
A foreign purchaser who buys goods outright for resale.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- As the company did not maintain its own stockroom overseas, a foreign customer-agent typically secured most contracts involving considerable profit to middlemen on bulky dry commodities and wholesale druggist or importing jobs for international brand export over Asian high cost in money import overseas against re-load option resailing commission premium collection high profits upon delivered services completed retail warehouse shelf distributors commercial forward customs contracts negotiation consulting purchases often big importer factories looking other full client requirement negotiants but bigger exports high worldwide shipped single home online resale supplier intermediatory factories real costs charged service in currency discount long sea fare given volume port huge delivered contracted inland back very effective whole agency channel that real negotiation result fair benefit importer channel system online option products commercial often handled sometimes may company handling freight supply options no quotation inland quoted normally ports ships in negotiated services insurance transportation country selling bigger intermediary quote generally most effectively even wholesale job.
- Hafina Establishment B 11347 owns mainly via home government government set businesses group money biggest employee five run both is wholesale industrial materials first last textile sometimes supplier normally clothing seller number individual well-known all business biggest some company business big product big three business still others.
- This is an example where every time American products were offered to clients of customer-agent from Davao city outside their direct control service customer-agent did not hesitate to market product competing these with directly purchased items from others producing service competition that most clearly no company in the world could really match all the time as to amount time more options of this kind when the products were offered though it ultimately also contributed increasing inroads by our competitors their full time market.
- I request you to please provide the correct draft contract of customer-agent for these operations with your pricing terms for negotiations mainly as suggested in our meeting of last March as well for delivery and other trade terms based on the prices our negotiations with customer-agent is based on c and f prices terms because the customer-agent has already purchase orders from customers from abroad the international agreements of the customer-agent normally are based there since the main purpose to have this agreement is to have a good relationship with the customer-agent because all items will be purchased under c and f terms agreed between us further based on international conventions we request to use the incoterms that is best applicable.
- In the past, the usual procedure for our foreign business was to sell products to an attorney-in-fact in the Philippines who was designated as the customer-agent with responsibility to complete the delivery on such to end-users.