Study On The International Trade Settlement Risk

International trade is a very high risk fields, there is risk in every section of the business. Settlement is the final and key section, it is very important for exporter to prevent the risks. The paper uses the risk management theory to bring forward the concept of the international trade settlement risk and the meaning of risk management, and summarize the strength and weakness of different settlement methods. On the base of case analysis, collaborates the risk performance and prevention in the different settlement methods. In the method of remittance, credit risk is the most risk, exporter should control the customers'credit and payment ratio. In the method of collection, importer's moral risk is the most risk, exporter should know importer credit well. In the method of L/C, there are hard and soft article risk and fraud risk, exporter must know the issue bank credit well and avoid malice fraud. In the method of L/G, there are credit risk and technology risk, exporter should know bank credit and understand the articles well. Beside these, paper also studies the national risk credit risk and documents risk and preventions.