国际贸易中主要的支付方式
在国际贸易中，有三种主要的支付方式，即江付（亦称汇款（Remittance）、托收（Collection）和信用证（Letter of Credit, L/C）。汇付和托收属于商业信用，而信用证支付则属于银行信用，其中信用证支付在国际贸易中被普遍采用。
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.
谈论付款方式
甲：请你报一份伦敦到岸价好吗？ 乙：好的。
甲：对于贵公司发票的付款方式，以承兑交单六十天付款，我想大概没有异议吧？
乙：有关此事，我们得请你同意本公司的“付款交单”条件。
甲：那我得和我们在纽约的公司联系，一从他们那里得到消息，我会立刻给你打电话的。 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：即期汇票、定期汇票、远期汇票和信用证这些专用术语，足以表现各种不同的付款方式吗？
乙：不，这些用语尚不能完全说明。
甲：如果以即期汇票的方式销售，那将如何？
乙：那么，得随附装船单据。当事人双方都会确认配合签约条件而附上汇票和证明装船的单据。
甲：这样说来我们得十分小心使用清楚的用语，并使双方有完全的了解。
乙：对，这很重要。
