This is based on the commodity content of foreign trade to divide foreign trade.
Trade in goods refers to the transnational exchange of tangible goods. There are many kinds of international trade in goods. In order to facilitate statistics, after the Second World War, the Statistical Committee under the United Nations Economic and Social Council revised the Concise Catalogue of International Trade Statistics made by the League of Nations before the war and adapted it into the Standard International Trade Classification, which was revised in 1960 and 1977 respectively. The Standard Classification classifies international trade commodities into 10, 63 chapters, 233 groups, 786 groups and 1924 basic items.
This 10 category of goods is:
Food and live animals mainly used as food are (0);
Drinks and cigarettes (1);
Non-edible raw materials other than fuel are (2);
Raw materials related to fossil fuels and lubricating oils are (3);
Animal and vegetable fats and oils are (4);
The unlisted chemicals and related products are (5);
The finished product mouth is mainly classified as (6) according to raw materials;
(7) machinery and transportation equipment;
Miscellaneous products are (8);
Other unclassified commodities are (9).
In international trade statistics, 0 to 4 categories of commodities are called primary products, and 5 to 8 categories of commodities are called finished products.
Trade in services, according to the provisions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services of the World Trade Organization, refers to: "Providing services from the territory of one member to the territory of other members (cross-border delivery); Providing services to service consumers of any other member within the territory of one member (consumption abroad); A service provider of a member provides services through a commercial presence (commercial presence) in the territory of any other member; The service provider of a member provides services in the presence of natural persons in the territory of any other member (natural person movement). " Service sectors include the following: business services, communication services, construction and related engineering services, distribution services, education services, environmental services, financial services, health and social services, tourism and related services, entertainment, cultural and sports services, transportation services and other services not included.
Intellectual property trade, according to the Agreement on Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights of the World Trade Organization, intellectual property rights include the following contents: copyright, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, patents, layout-designs of integrated circuits, undisclosed information, etc. Intellectual property trade,
In a narrow sense, it refers to the trade with intellectual property as the subject matter, which mainly includes intellectual property licensing and intellectual property transfer, that is, a trade behavior in which enterprises, economic organizations or individuals sell or purchase the right to use intellectual property according to general commercial conditions.
In a broad sense, it also includes the trade of intellectual property products, which refers to the trade of high-tech products with high added value, such as integrated circuits, computer software, multimedia products, audio-visual products, audio-visual products and literary works.