What is trade? What did the trading company mainly do?

Trade refers to buying, selling or trading. Usually refers to all exchange activities or behaviors with money as the medium.

Trading companies are not companies that produce goods, but companies that deal in goods and services.

Its business scope includes business activities such as buying and selling, and it can also engage in activities as a broker or agent. However, no matter how a trading company engages in business activities, its function is only to issue invoices.

Extended data:

The core of trade is exchange.

Exchange is the unity of the two opposing processes of delivery and payment. Between the normal subjects of freedom and equality, the exchange follows the principle of reciprocity and synchronization. Synchronous exchange means that delivery and payment are mutually conditional and are the guarantee of equivalent exchange.

The exchange process is divided into exchange protocol stage and target transfer stage. The subject matter includes goods, services, labor services, technology, information, etc. An exchange protocol is the so-called equivalence, which can be accepted and recognized by both sides.

References:

Trade _ Baidu Encyclopedia

Trading Company _ Baidu Encyclopedia