國際貿易中主要的支付方式
在國際貿易中，有三種主要的支付方式，即江付（亦稱匯款（Remittance）、托收（Collection）和信用證（Letter of Credit, L/C）。匯付和托收屬于商業信用，而信用證支付則屬于銀行信用，其中信用證支付在國際貿易中被普遍采用。
例文
Talking about Terms of Payment
A: Would you please quote a price for delivery CIF London? B: Certainly.
A: For payment of your invoice, I believe you have no objection to delivery of documents against acceptance on sixty days’ draft?
B: For that matter, we have to ask you to agree to our terms of documents against payment.
A: Then I’ll contact my office in New York and call you up as soon I get information from them.
B: That’s all right.
談論付款方式
甲：請你報一份倫敦到岸價好嗎？ 乙：好的。
甲：對于貴公司發票的付款方式，以承兌交單六十天付款，我想大概沒有異議吧？
乙：有關此事，我們得請你同意本公司的“付款交單”條件。
甲：那我得和我們在紐約的公司聯系，一從他們那里得到消息，我會立刻給你打電話的。 乙：好的。
Different Terms of Payment
A: Are the expressions of sight draft, time draft, usance draft and letter of credit adequate terms to express the different methods of payment?
B: No. These terms need to be amplified.
A:Ｗhat if the sale is made on the basis of sight draft?
B: Then the shipping documents have to be attached. That way both partied confirm the documents that will accompany the draft and constitute evidence of shipment in compliance with the contract terms.
A: Therefore we must be very careful in building up dear expressions and complete understanding on both side s of trade.
B:Ｙes, that’s very important.
不同的付款方式
甲：即期匯票、定期匯票、遠期匯票和信用證這些專用術語，足以表現各種不同的付款方式嗎？
乙：不，這些用語尚不能完全說明。
甲：如果以即期匯票的方式銷售，那將如何？
乙：那么，得隨附裝船單據。當事人雙方都會確認配合簽約條件而附上匯票和證明裝船的單據。
甲：這樣說來我們得十分小心使用清楚的用語，并使雙方有完全的了解。
乙：對，這很重要。
