11 - Intro To International Trade
11 - Intro To International Trade
Trade
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Introduction to International Trade
What is Trade?
• Trade involves transfer or exchange of
goods and services for money or money
worth.
• Trade is a basic economic concept
involving the buying and selling of goods
and services, with compensation paid by a
buyer to seller, or the exchange of goods
or services between parties.
Introduction to International Trade
Internal/Home/Domestic Trade
• Is conducted within the political and
geographical boundaries of a country
• It can be at a local level, provincial,
regional or national level
Example: Trade carried on among traders
of Benguet, Manila, Visayas, Cagayan De
Oro, etc. is called home trade.
Introduction to International Trade
Wholesale trade
• Involves buying in large quantities from
producers or manufacturers and selling in
lots to retailers for resale to consumers
Retail trade
• Involves buying in smaller lots from the
wholesalers and selling in very small
quantities to the consumers for personal
use
Introduction to International Trade
International Trade
• Every country, regardless of the
technological advantages will still find a
product that can be placed on a foreign
market.
• International trade is an extension of the
production, exchange and consumption,
which are basic elements of life.
Introduction to International Trade
International Trade
• The notion of international trade refers to
trade of goods and services between
countries.
• International trade is an exchange of
goods and services between individuals
and companies from different countries.
Introduction to International Trade
International Trade
• International trade is an economic activity
that covers trade in goods and services
abroad.
• It represents the total exchange of material
goods between countries.
• Producers and consumers included in
international trade are form different
countries.
Introduction to International Trade
International Trade
• Narrowly, foreign trade only covers trade
in goods between the economic entities
from different countries and is subject to
exchange occurring only to those goods
that cross state borders or customs lines
of one or more countries.
Introduction to International Trade
International Trade
• In broad terms, foreign trade, despite the
international exchange of goods includes
exchange of services, the turnover of
capital, movement of people (tourism) and
the transmission of news and information
(telecommunication market).
Introduction to International Trade