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What are the differences between visible trade and invisible trade? Give a few examples of invisible trade.

What are the three major functions of the bill of lading?

What are the basic feature and major role of economic globalization?

What is counter trade?

International trade is the exchange of goods between nations. It took place for many reasons. The first is that no nation has all of the commodities that it needs. Countries that lack some resources within their own boundaries must buy from countries that export them. Second,a country often does not have enough of a particular item to meet its needs and has to import some to satisfy its requirement. Third,one nation can sell some items at a lower cost than other countries and will also buy what it needs from those countries that have a comparative advantage in the desired items. Finally,even though a country can produce enough of an item at reasonable costs to meet its own demand,it may still import some from other countries for innovation or variety of style.

Another motivation for FDI is customer mobility. When an important client of a company engages in FDI and starts a factory in a foreign market,the firm,either a parts supplier or service provider, may very likely follow its client and make FDI overseas so as not to lose the business to its competitors. The building of factories and warehouses by Japanese parts suppliers in the United States following the construction of auto assembly plants by major Japanese automakers in the country is an example of such kind of FDI. The introduction of JIT inventory management system increases the necessity of such investment, since the system is meant to minimize the inventory to increase efficiency, putting the suppliers at disadvantage to make supply from a distant foreign country.

在国际贸易中几乎不可能使付款和实际交货同时进行。

控制成本是一些企业进行对外投资的主要动机之一，而降低生产成本是其考虑的一个重要 方面。

要评估某一市场的潜力，人们往往要看其收入水平，因为它为那里居民的购买力提供了 依据。