On the Legal Status of Electronic Agent in International Trade

In international business, more and more e-business personnel come to adopt the various intelligent, automated trade systems based on the Internet. This online automated trading system is named legally as e-agent. (electronic agent), which has contributed a great deal to the low cost and high efficiency of international trade by means of its technique and unique function. Meanwhile, it also brings about some legal problems due to the lack of legislation in this realm in China. In order to better guarantee its greater advantage in international business, this paper ventures to point out some relevant legal regulations of E-agent in those of the UN, America and Canada; analyze three representative views of scholars; finally, put forward some suggestions concerning legislation in e-commerce.