In traditional international trade transactions, the costs mainly refer to the costs of information search, contract signing and execution, after-sales service, etc. required in the process of buying and selling. The most important thing about cross-border e-commerce is that it changes the expenditure structure of information costs. Conducting international trade through cross-border e-commerce can not only save a lot of document processing costs, but also shorten the time for delivery and settlement of foreign exchange, speed up capital turnover, and save interest expenses. The cost advantage is very obvious. In addition, there are now many cross-border e-commerce platforms that directly integrate the supply and demand information of Chinese manufacturers and foreign importers on the Internet, reducing a large number of intermediate links. Buyers and sellers can conduct business activities directly through the Internet, and transaction costs have been significantly reduced, which benefits both parties.
However, in addition to traditional trade costs, the transaction form of cross-border e-commerce has also seen new changes in technical costs, security costs, and legal costs. The use of cross-border e-commerce will definitely increase inputs including software and hardware costs, learning costs, and maintenance costs, and the virtual characteristics of the network have created new risks and security costs for cross-border e-commerce.