Advantages and disadvantages of foreign trade e-commerce

1. E-commerce electronizes and digitizes traditional business processes. On the one hand, electronic flow replaces real logistics, which can greatly reduce manpower and material resources and reduce costs; On the other hand, it breaks through the limitation of time and space, so that trading activities can be carried out at any time and any place, thus greatly improving efficiency.

2. The openness and globalization of e-commerce have created more trade opportunities for enterprises.

3. E-commerce enables enterprises to enter the global electronic market at a similar cost, making it possible for small and medium-sized enterprises to have the same information resources as large enterprises and improving their competitiveness.

4. E-commerce redefines the traditional circulation mode, reduces intermediate links, and makes direct transactions between producers and consumers possible, thus changing the whole social and economic operation mode to some extent.

On the one hand, e-commerce breaks down the barriers of time and space, on the other hand, it provides abundant information resources, which provides more possibilities for the reorganization of various social and economic factors, thus affecting the economic layout and structure of society.

6. Interactivity: Through the Internet, businesses can communicate, negotiate and sign contracts directly, and consumers can also reflect their feedback suggestions on the websites of enterprises or businesses, and enterprises or businesses should timely investigate product types and service quality according to consumers' feedback to achieve benign interaction. 1, the network itself has limitations.

A consumer ordered a new type of women's backpack online. Although the quality is good, the style is not as good as that on the Internet. Many consumers report that the goods they actually get are not the goods they fancy online. What's going on here? In fact, in the process of reducing a three-dimensional object into a flat picture, some basic information of the commodity itself will be lost; Only part of the information of manually selected commodities is input into the computer, so people can't get all the information of commodities from the Internet, especially the most vivid and intuitive impression of commodities. In this mode, we can only rely on the production of websites and web designers to grasp a better web mode and show goods to consumers.

2. The search function is not perfect.

When shopping online, a big problem users face is how to find what they want in many websites and buy it at the lowest price. The search engine looks very simple: a user enters a query keyword, and the search engine searches the database according to the keyword and returns the most suitable web page link. However, according to the recent research results of NEC Research Institute and Inktomi Company, there are at least 654.38 billion pages on the Internet that need to be indexed. Existing search engines can only index 500 million web pages. Still half can't be indexed. This is mainly not because of technical reasons, but because online merchants want to protect the privacy of commodity prices. Therefore, when users shop online, they have to search from one website to another until they find products with satisfactory prices.

3. The security of the transaction cannot be guaranteed.

The security of e-commerce is still the main factor affecting the development of e-commerce. Due to the rapid popularization of the Internet, e-commerce has aroused widespread concern and is recognized as the most potential new growth point of IT industry in the future. However, how to ensure the security of data transmission has become one of the most important factors in the popularization of e-commerce when conducting transactions on the open network. The survey company conducted an online survey on the application prospect of e-commerce. When asked why they don't want to shop online, most people's problems are fear of being attacked by hackers and losing credit card information. Therefore, some people or enterprises are unwilling to use e-commerce for fear of security, and security has become the biggest obstacle to the development of e-commerce.

The security problem of e-commerce is actually the integrity problem between people. Understanding each other in real business and trade requires the cooperation and efforts of both sides. The future of e-commerce needs the cooperation of all netizens.

4. The management of e-commerce is not standardized.

The diversity of e-commerce has brought brand-new business rules and methods to the world, which requires the standardization of management. The concept of management should cover many aspects such as business management, technology management and service management, so it is impossible to achieve satisfactory standardization in these aspects at the same time. In addition, it is also important for the e-commerce platform to be consistent in front and back. The Web platform at the front desk directly faces consumers and is the facade of e-commerce. The internal management system in the background is a necessary condition to complete e-commerce, which is related to whether the business undertaken by the front desk can be realized well in the end. A perfect back-office system can better reflect the comprehensive strength of an e-commerce company, because it will ultimately decide what kind of services to provide users, whether the management of e-commerce is effective, and whether the e-commerce company can finally achieve profitability.

5. Tax issues

Taxation (including customs duties and taxes) is an important financial source of a country. Because e-commerce transactions are carried out in the environment of international information network without fixed places, it is difficult for the state to control and levy taxes on e-commerce.

6, the standard problem

Different countries have different national conditions, and there must be some differences in the trading methods and means of e-commerce. Moreover, we are facing borderless and global trade activities, so it is necessary to establish relevant and unified international standards in e-commerce transactions to solve the interoperability problem of e-commerce activities. The problem of e-commerce in China is unclear concept. Those who engage in electronics engage in commerce and those who engage in commerce engage in electronics, showing a discrete, disorderly and partial state.

7. Distribution issues

Distribution is a nerve-racking problem for both merchants and consumers. Online consumers often encounter the phenomenon of delayed delivery, and the delivery cost is very high. Insiders pointed out that there are no systematic, professional and nationwide commodity distribution enterprises in China, and the distribution and sales organizations have not formed an efficient and complete distribution management system, which undoubtedly affects people's shopping enthusiasm.

8. Intellectual property issues

Among the legal problems caused by e-commerce, the protection of intellectual property rights bears the brunt. Because the computer network carries digital information, the problem of copyright protection is particularly prominent in the field of intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets).

9. Legal issues of electronic contracts

In e-commerce, the written contract used in traditional business transactions is no longer applicable. On the one hand, electronic contracts are easy to forge, and it is difficult to prove their authenticity and validity; On the other hand, the existing laws do not regulate the legal effect of digital seals and signatures of electronic contracts.

10, identification of electronic evidence

The information in the information network is unstable or changeable, which makes it extremely difficult to lock or obtain infringement evidence when the information network infringes, and brings great obstacles to solving infringement disputes. How to ensure the stability, authenticity and validity of information under the network environment is an important factor to effectively solve infringement disputes in e-commerce.

1 1, other details

Finally, there are some irregular details, such as the uneven prices of online goods, and the biggest difference between the prices of major trading categories is 40%; The regional differences of online shop services are large; There is a problem with the online shopping invoice; The response speed of online stores to orders is uneven; The law on e-commerce does not clearly stipulate the rights and obligations of the parties to the transaction.