(1) International trade documents are the necessary means to fulfill contracts.

(B) international trade documents is an important tool for foreign trade management.

(3) international trade documents is an important guarantee for import and export enterprises to improve their economic benefits.

(D) international trade documents is an important connotation of the image of import and export enterprises.

Classification of international trade documents:

Classification of international trade documents

(1) Classification of Uniform Rules for Collection (URC 522)

Article 2 (b) of URC 522 general principles and definitions divides documents into two categories: financial documents and commercial documents.

(II) Uniform Customs Classification for Documentary Credits (UCP 600) Documents under letters of credit are divided into four categories.

1. Transport document

2. Insurance documents (insurance documents)

3. Trade invoice for official visa

4. Other documents (other documents)

(3) Classification of UN/EDIFACT

The UN/EDIFACT standard divides international trade documents into nine categories:

(1) production document

(2) Order documents

(3) Sales documents

(4) bank documents

(5) Insurance documents

(6) Freight Forwarding Service Documents

(7) Transport documents

(8) Export documents

(9) Import and transit documents

(4) According to the document form.

According to the form of documents, international trade documents can be divided into paper documents and electronic documents. According to INCOTERMS20 10 of the International Chamber of Commerce, paper documents and electronic documents have the same effect. In practical business, exporters can provide both paper documents and electronic documents.

Basic requirements for document preparation:

All kinds of import and export documents should be correct, complete, timely, concise and neat in principle.

The basis of document preparation:

The main basis for compiling and reviewing international trade documents is sales contracts, letters of credit, raw materials of relevant commodities, relevant international practices, relevant domestic management regulations, requirements of relevant foreign customers, etc.

Country and region name code:

"Country and region name code" adopts two-letter code. For example: CN in China, US in the United States, DE in Germany, FR in France, GB in Britain, RU in Russia and JP in Japan.

Standardization of international trade documents;

International trade documents standardization mainly refers to the standardization of document content and format.