Import and export trade in several ways, which are the following

1, general trade; 2, compensation trade; 3, processing and assembly trade; 4, processing trade; 5, consignment, consignment trade; 6, border trade; 7, processing trade imported equipment; 8, foreign contracted projects to export goods; 9, leasing trade; 10, foreign-invested enterprises as an investment in imported equipment, goods; 11, processing trade; 12, barter trade. 13, bonded warehouse inbound and outbound goods; 14, bonded warehouse re-export goods; 15, processing trade; 16, overseas trade processing; 13, bonded warehouse goods in and out of the country; 14, bonded zone warehousing re-export goods; 15, processing trade; 16, overseas trade processing.

Expanded :

1, processing trade, refers to the business enterprise imports all or part of the raw and auxiliary materials, parts and components, components, packaging materials, processed or assembled, the finished product re-export of business activities, including processing and import processing.

2, from the historical point of view, the rise of Dongguan, from the processing trade production mode. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, no technology, no capital in Dongguan, with the favorable conditions of geography and human relations, the first to introduce Hong Kong capital, set up the first processing enterprises. Since then, Dongguan set up many small workshops, in addition to absorbing the local 300,000 surplus labor force, but also completed the accumulation of funds.

3, from a realistic point of view, Dongguan enterprises engaged in processing trade has developed from the past purely labor-intensive to "labor, capital, technology, three-intensive" as the main form. Processing trade has not only made an important contribution to the rapid development of Dongguan, but also created 8% of the country's import and export volume and more than 8 million jobs.

4, as of June this year, Dongguan engaged in processing trade enterprises amounted to more than 11,700, processing trade absorbed more than 60 billion U.S. dollars in foreign investment, and less than three ten thousandths of the country's land to create the country's import and export of processing trade of eight percent.

5丶 "However，the rough development of processing trade has also brought pressure on Dongguan in terms of land，energy，population and environment. We y feel that it is unrealistic not to do processing trade at this stage, but it is also unsustainable to continue to do processing trade in a crude way." Dongguan Vice Mayor Jiang Ling confessed. Around the transformation and upgrading of processing trade enterprises, Dongguan began a series of effective exploration.

China Economic Net--Dongguan: "not stopping the transformation" mode to explore the transformation and upgrading of the processing trade