Résumé:
Through our study, which centers on financing foreign trade through documentary
credit, which we have dealt with in its first chapter, generalities about foreign trade, which is
one of the strategic sectors on which the national economy is based and depends on in
achieving development, so it has been exposed to, its definition and reasons for its
establishment , its importance, and here highlights the primary role that commercial banks
play in order to activate and facilitate the movement of foreign exchanges for both import
and export operations, through the various settlement techniques that they provided to
dealers in this field, the most prominent of which is the documentary credit technology and
we handle In this chapter, its definition, its extremities, its types, its benefits, and it is the
subject of the study
As for the field study, it is a case study in the National Bank of Algeria and the Agency of
Mostaganem 871 based on the descriptive approach, and we sought in it to highlight how
the import process works, through our exposure to an applied example, which is the import
of two ambulances through documentary credit. This technology is one of the most
prominent tools of guarantee and payment, and this is what makes it the mediator to
complete the trade operations in a good manner, as it is clearly evident that documentary
credit is an ideal technique in international trade because it aims to ensure safety for the
importer more than the supplier.
