1, entrepot trade, also known as intermediate trade, refers to the import and export business of goods in international trade, which is not directly carried out between producing countries and consuming countries, but is changed hands through a third country. This trade is entrepot trade for transit countries.

2. The traded goods can be transported by the exporting country to a third country, and then sold to the consuming country in the third country without processing (no processing theory such as changing packaging, sorting, selecting and packaging); It can also be transported directly from the producing country to the consuming country without going through a third country, but there is no trade link between the producing country and the consuming country, and the transit country trades with the producing country and the consuming country respectively.

3. As China is the country that suffers the most anti-dumping in the world, this form of trade has almost become one of the special ways to evade trade sanctions.

Extended data:

Entrepot trade generally has two conditions for the country where the middleman is located:

(1) Natural conditions, that is, the port of the transit country must be a deep-water port with large throughput and superior geographical location, which is located in the transportation hub between countries or on major international routes;

② Artificial conditions: transit countries are required to adopt special preferential tariff policies and trade policies, such as free ports and free trade zones, so that transit costs will not be too high. At the same time, it is required that the infrastructure, transportation, finance and information service systems in this area are well developed to facilitate entrepot trade.

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