International trade financing can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. In a narrow sense, international trade refers to the short-term and long-term financing facilities provided by foreign exchange banks to importers and exporters when they handle remittance collection and settlement under letters of credit.

Its basic methods include: loan guarantee, bill negotiation and bill discount; Import: draft, trust receipt, delivery guarantee, etc.

International trade financing in a broad sense refers to all financing activities related to import and export trade settlement provided by foreign exchange banks to importers and exporters, including not only the above-mentioned conventional trade financing in a narrow sense, but also various innovations based on it, such as structural trade financing.