trade, exchange
貿 centers on the movement of goods or value between parties: trading and exchanging. The idea is a two-way transfer, not just giving or receiving.
貿 combines 貝 (shell, used as currency) with a phonetic element that also suggests exchange. The historical development of the upper part is uncertain, but the character is associated with trade and barter.
The bottom is 貝 (shell money), and the top looks like a person handing something over. Picture shells changing hands in a trade.
For ボウ, imagine a bow (as in bow and arrow) being traded for shells: bow -> ボウ, and the exchange is made.
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(foreign) trade; (international) commerce; importing and exporting
LT Trade Agreement (1962); Memorandum Concerning Sino-Japanese Long-Term Comprehensive Trade
General Agreement on Trade in Services; GATS
switch trade
Japan Association for Trade with Russia & Central-Eastern Europe (ROTOBO)
trilateral trade
World Trade Organization (Organisation); WTO
transit trade; entrepôt trade
reciprocal trade
barter system
intermediary trade; trade conducted via an agency
protective trade
protectionism
domestic commerce; internal trade
processing trade
licensed trade between Japan and Ming dynasty China during the Muromachi period
Nanban trade; Japanese trade with Spain and Portugal (1543-1641)
antitrade winds
domestic commerce; internal trade
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)