1. International Trade Practices A
Bilingual Teaching
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The course concerns international trade practices and trains the students’ ability of understanding the detailed concept concerning international import and export and get familiar with those practices so as to meet the demand of international business. It is mostly a practical course and may offer students concrete knowledge about international trade and enlarge their structure of knowledge.
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3. The features of the book:
1. Broad and detailed subjects regarding international import and export, including terms of delivery, transport, foreign exchange, payment terms and insurance and so on.
2. International trade feature, subject of each chapter is similar to that of International Trade Major.
3. Language feature, up-to-date and typical business English language.
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4. Chapter One: Introduction to International Trade
What is International Trade?
The fair and deliberate exchange of goods and services across national boundaries
International trade is the exchange of goods and services produced in one country with those produced in another country.
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Some basic concepts:
1 visible trade, invisible trade,
2 direct trade, indirect trade
3 import trade, export trade
4 free trade, protective trade
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6. Relationships between Customs Territory and Territory
１　订有关税同盟的情况下，关境大于国境
２　在设有自由港、自由贸易区的国家，关境小于国境
３　前２种情况都没有，两者相等
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7. Absolute Advantage –Adam Smith
The theory holds a commodity will be produced in the country where it costs least in terms of resources.
Assumption:
There are two countries producing two same commodities under perfect competition.
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Conclusion:
Gains from trade will occur even in a country that has absolute advantage in all products because the country must give up less efficient output to produce more efficient output.
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9. Comparative Advantage-David Ricardo
The theory holds that even if a country is less than another in the production of both commodities, there is still a basis for mutually beneficial trade.
The first country should specialize in the production and export of the commodity in which its absolute disadvantage is smaller and import those its absolute disadvantage is greater.
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Comparative advantage and factor proportions theory are the corner-stone of modern thinking on international trade.
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E-Commerce is doing business through electronic media. It means using simple, fast and low-cost electronic communications to transact, without face-to-face meeting between the two parties.
Business-to-Business (B2B)
Business-to-Consumer（B2C）
Consumer-to-Consumer（C2C）
Government to Citizen（G2C）
Business-to-Government（B2G）
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Term Translation
self-sufficient economic resource
import and export
FDI (foreign direct investment)
international payment
commodity exchangecapital dumping currency
host country balance of trade trade surplus/deficit
European union
a favorable/unfavorable balance of payment visible trade
invisible trade trade in goods trade in services
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