1.4　Structure of the Textbook

The concept of international trade practice established by the textbook is: it is a specialized subject on the methods and rules of international trade in goods. Accordingly, the core issues of the textbook are trade methods of international trade in goods and legal norms of international trade in goods. The content of this textbook is set around these two issues, and the basic principles are as follows:

① The content is set with trade methods as the main line, and the content of legal norms is included in the introduction of trade methods.

② In order to illustrate the trade methods better, the basics related to the trade methods will be introduced first, such as trade terms, transportation of goods, payment, and so on. Then the trade methods will be introduced.

Accordingly, the basics of trade stated above will be introduced in chapter 1~8, chapter 9 will summarize the overall procedure of contract-centered trade method, and other trade methods will be introduce in Chapter 10. Structure of the textbook is shown in Figure 1.1.

Figure 1.1　Structure of the Textbook