Chapter 15 Cross-Border E-Commerce 第十五章 跨境电商
Learning Objectives:
◆An overview of cross-border e-commerce
◆Basics about cross-border e-commerce for import
◆Basics about cross-border e-commerce for export
Cross-border e-commerce(CBEC)is online trade that crosses national or customs borders.It is becoming a new development trend in international trade and China is the driving force.Over the past two decades,China’s CBEC has emerged and evolved into a new accelerator of economy,particularly at a time when the wide adoption of online consumption patterns during the Covid-19 pandemic has fueled the rapid growth of worldwide e-commerce.According to China Customs Statistics,from 2016 to 2020,China’s CBEC import and export scale has increased nearly 10 times,reaching 1.92 trillion yuan in 2020.And an average annual growth rate of transaction value at about 20% is much higher than that of traditional international trade.The landscape of international business has never been the same.No practitioner of import and export could afford to turn a blind eye to the development in this field.