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The difference between PI and Ci in foreign trade
to put it simply, PI = Proforma Invoice, valuation invoice, trial invoice, and pro forma invoice

Commercial Invoice is a certificate issued by the seller to the buyer stating the quality, quantity, packaging and price of the goods, on which the payment can be claimed. In international trade, the commercial invoice is equivalent to the value-added tax invoice of our domestic trade, and the amount and quantity listed must be exactly the same as the reality.

trade dependence

trade dependence is also called "foreign trade dependence rate" and "foreign trade coefficient". The degree of a country's dependence on trade is generally expressed by the proportion of total import and export value of foreign trade in gross national product or gross domestic product. That is, trade dependence = total foreign trade/gross national product. The change of proportion means the change of the position of foreign trade in the national economy. Trade dependence can also be expressed by the proportion of total trade in national income. Dependence on trade = total trade/total national income. Dependence on foreign trade can be divided into export dependence and import dependence. Export dependence = total exports/gross national product; Dependence on imports = total imports/gross national product.

price competition

price competition is a form of competition that relies on low prices to win sales, occupy the market and defeat competitors. When the products produced by one country or enterprise are the same or not different from those produced by another country or enterprise in performance, utility, style, decoration, services provided, reputation of producers, advertising and other aspects, only when the country or enterprise sells products at a price lower than that of its competitors can it attract customers and make its products have a market. The difference in function or appearance of products can offset the effect of this competition to some extent. In fact, plagiarism often occurs in foreign trade enterprises in China, which undoubtedly causes enterprises to fall into vicious price competition.

Non-price competition

Non-price competition refers to a form of competition in which products are sold in non-price forms and participate in market competition by means of tangible and intangible differences of products, sales services, advertising and other sales promotion means, etc. under the condition that the price of products is not changed or the sales price remains unchanged. Due to the rapid development of social economy and the shortening of commodity life cycle, it is difficult to obtain excess profits by price competition alone. At the same time, with the improvement of productivity, the consumption structure has changed significantly. Therefore, non-price competition has become an important means to expand commodity sales. The main methods are: ① adopting new technology, improving management level, improving product quality, performance, packaging and appearance style, etc. ② Provide preferential after-sales service. (3) psychological differences among the public caused by advertising, trademarks and sales promotion. Non-price competition is an important form of monopoly competition