A foreign trade company refers to a trading company with foreign trade business qualifications. The focus of foreign trade companies' business dealings is abroad. Through market research, they import foreign goods to China for sale, or buy domestic goods and sell them abroad to earn the difference.

Foreign trade companies do some import and export agents without import and export rights and charge agency fees. This series of trade activities can only be carried out under the premise of import and export rights, and the whole process generally goes through customs, commodity inspection, banks, safe, tax refund departments, national tax, government departments and so on.