易货贸易是对外贸易的一种方式,实质上就是物物交换,即拿一种商品与另一种或几种商品交换。物物交换是人类商品交换最原始的形式。随着商品生产的发展,物物交换日益不能适应需要,逐渐被以货币为媒介的商品交换所替代。按理说,时至二十世纪八十年代的今天,物物交换(或易货贸易)应当 Barter trade is a form of foreign trade. It is essentially the exchange of goods, that is, the exchange of one commodity with another or several commodities. Material exchange is the most primitive form of human commodity exchange. With the development of commodity production, the exchange of goods can not meet the needs of the day, and it is gradually being replaced by the exchange of goods with currency as the medium. It stands to reason that from the 1980s to the present, the exchange of goods (or barter) should be