What are the ways of international technology trade?

Legal analysis: mainly including licensing trade, technical services and consulting, franchising, cooperative production, etc.

1. Licensing trade refers to the technology trade behavior that the owner of intellectual property or proprietary technology, as the licensor, signs a licensing contract with the licensee (importer), grants the technology he owns to the licensee, allows the licensee to use the technology according to the conditions agreed in the contract, manufactures or sells the contract products, and the licensee pays a certain amount of technology use fee.

2. Technical service and consultation refers to the knowledge service provided by the entrusted party to the entrusting party by using its professional technical skills according to the requirements of the entrusting party.

3. Franchising refers to a technology transfer contract in which a successful and proven enterprise transfers its trademark, trade name, service mark, patent, proprietary technology and management method or experience to another enterprise, and the latter has the right to use the former trademark, trade name, patent, service mark, proprietary technology and management experience, but it must pay a certain franchise fee to the former.

4. Cooperative production means that enterprises in two or more countries jointly produce a certain product by giving full play to the advantages of each partner in the production process in the form of cooperative operation.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Foreign Trade Law.

Article 52 The State shall, according to the needs of foreign trade development, establish and improve financial institutions serving foreign trade, and set up foreign trade development funds and risk funds.

Article 53 The state develops foreign trade through import and export credit, export credit insurance, export tax rebate and other ways to promote foreign trade.

Article 54 The State establishes a public information service system for foreign trade to provide information services for foreign trade operators and other members of the public.