Chinese Vocabulary about Business Negotiation

When you are doing business negotiation, these two aspects are the key points to talk about: ordering products and negotiating price. So how do we ask for and introduce product information and order products, as well as negotiate price? Take a look at the following useful expressions!

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1. Ordering products.

We are able to produce different types of monitors.
Wǒmen kěyǐ shēngchǎn bútóng xínghào de xiǎnshìqì.
我们可以生产不同型号的显示器。

Do you have these two types of monitors?
Zhè liǎng zhǒng xínghào de xiǎnshìqì yǒu ma?
这两种型号的显示器有吗？

These two types have their own respective advantages.
Zhè jǐ zhǒng shì shìchǎng shàng shǐyòng zuì guǎng de.
这几种是市场上使用最广的。

These two types have their own advantages respectively.
Liǎng zhǒng xínghào gè yǒu gè de yōudiǎn.
两种型号各有各的优点。

This is our catalog where there is detailed information about our different types of products.
Zhè shì wǒmen de mùlù, shàngmian yǒu bútóng xínghào chǎnpǐn de xiángxì jièshào.
这是我们的目录，上面有不同型号产品的详细介绍。

This time we want a quantity of 500.
Zhè cì wǒmen xiǎng dìnggòu 500 tái.
这次我们想订购500台。

2.Negotiating prices.

Please give an offer.
Qǐng nín bàojià ba.

请您报价吧。

Your prices are much too high.
Nín de bàojià tài gāo le.
您的报价太高了。

Please make some price concessions.
qǐng nín zài jiàgé shang zuò yīxià ràngbù ba.
请您在价格上做一下让步吧。

Our production costs keep rising.
wǒmen de shēngchǎn chéngběn zài búduàn tígāo.
我们的生产成本在不断提高。

Related vocabulary:

Negotiate - shāngtán商谈

Make a concession - ràngbù 让步

Advantage - yōudiǎn 优点

Reach an agreement - dáchéng xiéyì 达成协议

Catalog - mùlù 目录

Detailed - xiángxì 详细

Quantity - shùliàng 数量

Accord - fúhé 符合

Make an offer - bàojià 报价

Requirement - yāoqiú 要求

Sincere - chéngyì 诚意

(Set a) price - dìngjià 定价

No problem - hǎoshuō 好说

When you are negotiating price or want to make a proposal, this is the sentence pattern you can use, which is more formal than your daily speech:

我们是不是该谈谈价格了？

Wǒmen shìbúshì gāi tántan jiàgé le?

Shall I call him?

我是否要打个电话给他呢？

Wǒ shìfǒu yào dǎ ge diànhuà gěi tā ne?

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