Commercial or commercial companies are companies that are formed and registered between two or more people for the purpose of obtaining profit and in compliance with the relevant regulations. These companies can be divided into several categories based on various factors. At first, these companies are divided based on the level of responsibility of the partners, and then they are divided into 7 ways based on Article 20 of the Commercial Law, which is very long and separate from the main discussion of the article.
In the rest of this article, we will discuss the activities and transactions carried out by these commercial units and companies. According to Article 2 of the Trade Law, commercial transactions are classified into the following categories:
Buying or acquiring any type of movable property for the purpose of selling or leasing
transportation by land, water or air,
brokerage or commission operations such as facilitating real estate transactions, etc.,
establishing any factory, auction operation, bank exchange operation,
setting up public exhibitions , transactions between traders or non-traders, insurance operations Marine and non-marine shipbuilding, ship trading and domestic or foreign shipping, these transactions can be classified into 4 categories based on the parties to the transaction:
Transactions between merchants, traders, money changers and banks,
all transactions to meet the commercial needs of merchants, transactions
that merchant crews do for merchant’s business affairs,
transactions in commercial companies,
in the end, perhaps from the point of view of many people, the two concepts of trade and commerce are considered similar. ; But these concepts have important differences from each other.
Trade is at the lowest or smallest level of the economy, and its focus is only on the transaction, and the parties do not have a commitment regarding the fields of forming a safe and profitable transaction, while commerce has a broader concept than trade, and in addition to trade, the fields The other includes insurance, transportation, marketing, business negotiations and correspondence, etc.