目录

  • 1 第一单元 Introduction to the Course
    • 1.1 Introduction to the Course
    • 1.2 English Business Letters
  • 2 第二单元Presentation of Letters,   Faxes, Emails
    • 2.1 Presentation of Letters  Faxes, Emails
    • 2.2 Guide to Writing about presentation of Letters, Faxes, Emails
  • 3 第三单元 Making (Business) Contact
    • 3.1 Making (Business) Contact
    • 3.2 Useful Expressions
  • 4 第四单元Enquiries and Replies
    • 4.1 Enquiries and Replies
    • 4.2 Useful Expressions
  • 5 第五单元 Quotations, Offers and Counter-Offers
    • 5.1 Quotations, Offers and Counter-Offers
    • 5.2 Guide to Writing
  • 6 第六单元 Placing orders, Acknowledging/Accepting,
    • 6.1 Placing orders, Acknowledging/Accepting,
    • 6.2 Exercises
  • 7 第七单元  Payment
    • 7.1 Payment
    • 7.2 Useful Expressions
  • 8 第八单元Packing
    • 8.1 Packing
    • 8.2 Useful Expressions
  • 9 Chapter 9   Insurance:
    • 9.1 Insurance
    • 9.2 Useful Expressions
  • 10 Chapter 10   Transport
    • 10.1 Transport
    • 10.2 Shipping agent’s enquiry for multimodal transport
  • 11 Chapter 11 Complaints and Adjustments
    • 11.1 Complaints and Adjustments
    • 11.2 Specimen 5-10
  • 12 Chapter 12 Agency Agreements:Proposal, Negotiation and Closure
    • 12.1 Agency Agreements:Proposal, Negotiation and Closure
    • 12.2 Useful Expressions
  • 13 Chapter 13 Other Modes of Trade
    • 13.1 ​Other Modes of Trade
    • 13.2 Specimen6-10
  • 14 Chapter 14 Goodwill Messages
    • 14.1 Goodwill Messages
    • 14.2 Specimen9-13
  • 15 Chapter 16 Business Reports
    • 15.1 Business Reports
    • 15.2 Specimen 3-6
  • 16 专题1
    • 16.1 Enquiries,Offer,Counter offer,Reaction to counter offer
  • 17 专题2
    • 17.1 2.Offer
  • 18 专题3
    • 18.1 Counter offer
  • 19 专题4
    • 19.1 Reaction to counter offer
  • 20 专题5
    • 20.1 ​Payment
  • 21 专题6
    • 21.1 ​package
  • 22 专题7
    • 22.1 The packing must be in line with local market preference.
  • 23 专题8
    • 23.1 Model Essay
  • 24 专题9
    • 24.1 ​Letter of credit
  • 25 专题10
    • 25.1 Insurance
  • 26 专题11
    • 26.1 Common expressions of international business correspondence
  • 27 专题12
    • 27.1 Amendment to L/C
  • 28 专题13
    • 28.1 ​Excercises
  • 29 专题14
    • 29.1 Establish Business Relations
  • 30 专题15
    • 30.1 Establish business relationship
  • 31 专题16
    • 31.1 Usefull expressions Asking for a discount
  • 32 专题17
    • 32.1 Usefull expressions: Order and confirmation
  • 33 专题18
    • 33.1 Usefull expressions: Response to agent request
Usefull expressions Asking for a discount


Usefull expressions


Asking for a discount
All your quotations are on FOB Vancouver basis, may I ask if you allow any discount?
Isn’t it possible to give us a little more discount?
If you are prepared to give me some allowance, I will consider placing an order for 10,000 dozens.
Should you be prepared to reduce your price? we might come to terms.
If I show you an offer lower than yours ,would you be able to conclude transaction at that price ?


If the order is a substantial one, how much would you come down?
May we suggest that you make some allowance on your quoted prices ?
If we place an order for 2,000 dozen up, can you give us a special discount?
If our order is more than 10,000 MT, would you give us a additional 6% commission ?
We hope you will allowance us some discount on our purchase of 6,000 dozens.


We’d like to ask for reduction in price because of the large size of our order.
Since the present market is so weak, you have to lower your price if you want us to increase sales.
We hope to get your best offer for bicycles.
We invite quotation of the lowest price.
May we suggest that you perhaps make some allowance on your quoted prices?
If you reduce the price by 2%, I think we can do twenty metric tons.
If possible, we’d like to ask for reduction of 5.50 Per MT.


If you are will to give me a 5% reduction, I will order 5,000 dozens.
The sugar of French-made has been sold at level 98$ per long ton ,if you can reduce your limit by say 8%, we might come to terms.
We would very much like to place further order with you if you could bring down your price by 15% ,otherwise we can only switch our requirement to other suppliers.
No one can do business at such a unreasonably high prices, you have to cut them down by 10% I am afraid.
We should book a trial order with you,and you will give us 5% commission.


Only by cutting the price by more than 10%, can more customers be lured to buy your products?
We would like to ask for 10% off your offer if our offer is more than 2,500 unit per season.
We hope that you will give us a special discount of 2%, if we order more than10,000 sets.
Please make a discount of 5% off the prices in the catalog.


We hope that you will make  at least 5% reduction on your quotation ,or business is not possible.
We can accept the goods only at a reduction of 20% at the contract price.
If you can lower your limit by 5% , business is hopeful.
We will place our order with you if you can lower your price to 1200 pounds per MT.


Give preferential treatment
On order for 100 pieces or more, we allow a special discount for 1.5%.
A discount of 5% maybe allowed if the quantity for each specification is more than 1000 cents.
For quantities if 500 units ,we can offer a discount of 15% on our price list.
We are glad to make a 5% discount for an order of 100 dozen or more.
We should be pleased to allow you the requested discount of 5% ,if you will  raise your order to 50,000 pieces.

We would entitle you to 10% discount during July on any thing you buy.
You can receive a special 15% discount on orders placed before the end of December.
If your order is large enough, we are ready to reduce our prices by 5%.
There is a 10% discount if your order in volume.
If an order is exceptional large, we are prepared to increase the discount.

If you are willing to buy the whole lot once and for all ,we can grant you a discount of 8% on the price.
To help you sell our product as an exception, we will give you a special discount of 5% .
We will bring our price down by 5% for a good start for business relationships.
In order to close this deal, we shall further reduce our price by 5%.

For the sake of our long-term friendship ,we are going to accept the price reduction on the radios. How about 6% off?
In order to help you to develop business in this line, we are prepared to offer you a discount of 5%.
In order to wind up this transaction with you, we are ready to take 3% off this original quotation.
After careful consideration ,we decide to bring the price down to 420$/ unit.
We are prepared to offer our computers to you at the special discount rate of 15%.
Our quotation is subject to 5% commission.


 Both sides made concessions
In view of our good cooperation over the past few years, we are prepared to accept your price.
As a gesture of friendship , we accept the price of 50,000 $ for 10,000 pairs of leather shoes.
It’s seams there is nothing more I can do but to accept this price.
How about meeting each other half way and each of us make further concession ,so that business can be concluded.


I think that we should come to a compromise with each other in order to get the deal done.
Business is quite possible if each size makes some concessions.
If it is really so, we have to agree to your payment terms.
We’d like to reduce the original offer slightly as a compromise.
We may consider making some concessions in our price.
In order to encourage business, we are prepared to make reduction.
We find we can make a step further provided that quantities will be no less 1,000,000 tons.

To show our sincerity ,we are prepared to make you a special concession of 6%.
After serious consideration we can accept your counter bid.
Considering your substantial order, we can give you this exceptionally treatment.
Since it is the case,we would exceptionally comply with your request by reducing our price to 500$/piece.


We are pleased to grant you a 7% discount from the original offer since you agree to increase the order.
To get business under way ,we are agree to take this as an exceptional case.
We are prepared to reducing the price to 7.21$ .
10% is out the question, but we are prepared to offer you 8%.
As a special accommodation we are agree your D/P payment terms, but only for once.