补偿贸易(Compensation Trade),一般是指一方在信贷的基础上,从国外的另一方买进机器、设备、技术、原材料或劳务,约定在一定期限内,用其生产的产品、其他商品或劳务,分期清偿贷款的一种贸易方式。它是从20世纪60年代末至70年代初,由前苏东国家与西方国家之间的贸易发展起来,到80年代在发展中国家得以扩展的一系列贸易行为。有统计资料显示,到80年代中期,涉及某种补偿贸易协议安排的贸易占到整个世界贸易的15-20％;改革开放以来,补偿贸易在中国的对外贸易中也占据了较为重要的地位。 Compensation Trade generally refers to the purchase of machinery, equipment, technology, raw materials or labor by one party on the basis of credit from another party abroad, and stipulates that the products, other goods or services to be produced by it within a certain period of time , A installment of the loan settlement of a trade. It is a series of trade activities developed from the trade between the former Soviet Union and the East and the West and from the late 1960s to the early 1970s and expanded in developing countries in the 1980s. Statistics show that by the mid-1980s, trade involving some arrangements for the compensation trade agreement accounted for 15-20% of the entire world trade. Since the reform and opening up, compensation trade has also taken a relatively important position in China’s foreign trade.