What is the difference between international trade and international economics?

International trade: the science that studies the relations of production and the development law of superstructure in the process of international exchange of goods and services. As a discipline; International trade is a kind of sectoral economics and an indispensable part of economic discipline. Its research object includes not only the basic theory of international trade, but also the specific historical process and reality of international trade policy and development.

Research task

Its task is to study the causes of the emergence and development of international trade and the restrictive factors of the distribution of trade interests between countries, and to reveal its characteristics and laws of movement.

International Economics: Based on the general theory of economics, international economics studies international economic activities and international economic relations, which is the application and extension of general economic theory in the scope of international economic activities and an organic part of the economic system. The main research objects are international trade theory and policy, balance of payments theory, exchange rate theory, international factor flow, international investment theory, open macroeconomic equilibrium and so on.