A professional who exports domestic merchandise to foreign merchants and consumers and imports foreign merchandise for sale to domestic merchants or consumers. Responsibilities include:

• Arranges for purchase and transportation of imports through company representatives abroad and sells imports to local customers.
• Sells domestic goods, materials, or products to representatives of foreign companies.
• May be required to be fluent in language of country in which import or export business is conducted.
• May specialize in only one phase of foreign trade and be designated Exporter; Importer.