Abstract:
In times of the Sui and the Tang Dynasty, relatively frequent foreign trade caused numerous trade conflicts not only in tribute trade but also in border trade and overseas trade. In the course of settling these conflicts, the two parties, taking into account maintaining respective trade interests and trade order, used to send special conflict mediators, introduce nonregular consultation organs and judging rules and even shape simple conventions of trade complaint to avoid expansion of trade disputes and gradation of trade conflicts. Although these conventions and rules were rather limited in power and sometimes occasional, governments of the Sui and the Tang Dynasty’s efforts to settle foreign trade disputes played an active role in preserving the environment for foreign trade.
