The types of foreign trade documents are those?

Bills of lading, commercial invoices, bills of exchange, packing lists, certificates of origin and so on.

1, the bill of lading

as the carrier and shipper to deal with the transportation of the two sides of the rights and obligations of the basis. Although generally it is not signed by both parties *** with a contract, but on the main items constituting the contract, such as the ship's name, sailing date, route, port of call, and other related freight items, is well known; tariffs and conditions of carriage, the carrier is also stipulated in advance.

So in the shipper or his agent to the carrier to book the cabin when the contract is considered to have been established, so although the terms of the content of the carrier unilaterally, the shipper should also be considered that the two sides have been recognized, that is, to become a contract of carriage

2, commercial invoices

The seller of the goods contained in the name of the seller, the number of goods, the price of the list of the contents of the goods as the buyer and seller of goods and settlement of payments. Goods and settlement of payment of the main documents, is the importing country to determine the basis for the collection of import duties, but also the buyer and seller claims, the basis for claims.

Commercial invoices do not have a standardized format, each unit of commercial invoices have their own invoice format. Although the format is different, however, the commercial invoice fill in the same items.

3, bill of exchange

One of the most common types of instruments, China's "Bills of Exchange Law," Article 19 provides that "the bill of exchange is issued by the drawer, entrusted to the payer in the sight of the bill of exchange, or in the specified date unconditionally pay the amount determined to the payee or the bearer of the instrument."

Bill of exchange is one of the most widely used credit instruments in international settlement. It is an entrusted security with a basic legal relationship of at least three characters: the drawer, the drawee and the payee.

4, packing list

Supplementary documents of the invoice, it sets out the letter of credit (or contract) in the buyer and seller agreed on the details of the packaging matters to facilitate the foreign buyer in the arrival of the goods at the port of destination for the Customs inspection and verification of the goods, usually can be listed in the commercial invoice, but in the letter of credit has a clear requirement, must be strictly in accordance with the letter of credit agreement production.

Exporters are not only required to provide packing lists and weight lists for export declarations, but the L/C is often used as a settlement document. In fact, packing list, weight list and measurement list (Packing List, Weight List and Measurement List) is a kind of supplementary documents of commercial invoice.

It is the conditions of different packaging specifications of goods, different colors and different weights one by one, respectively, a detailed list of documents. It is the buyer receives the goods when checking the variety, color, size, specifications and customs acceptance of the main basis.

5, certificate of origin

General certificate of origin of the full name is CERTIFICATE OF ORIGIN. C.O. certificate of origin, also known as the general certificate of origin, is a certificate of origin. C.O. certificate of origin is used to certify that the export of goods manufactured by the place of a document that the goods are goods in the conduct of international trade, "origin" certificate. "Certificate of origin", in certain circumstances, the importing country according to which the imported goods to give different tariff treatment.

Baidu Encyclopedia of Foreign Trade Documents