Talk:Offset agreement

== Offsets are compensatory trade agreements, reciprocal trade agreements,[1] between an exporting foreign company, or possibly a government acting as intermediary, and an importing entity. Offset agreements often involve trade in military goods and services and are alternatively called: industrial compensations, industrial cooperation, offsets, industrial and regional benefits, balances, juste retour or equilibrium, to define mechanisms more complex than counter-trade. Counter-trade can also be considered one of the many forms of defense offset, to compensate a purchasing country.[2] The incentive for the exporter results from the conditioning of the core transaction to the acceptance of the offset obligation.[3] The main difference between a generic offset and counter-trade, both common practices in the international defense trade, is the involvement of money. In counter-trade, goods are paid through barters or other mechanisms without the exchange of money, while in other generic offsets money is the main medium of exchange. ==

Voice 2405:201:C00D:B233:A86B:CF7A:48AD:84A9 (talk) 09:17, 29 October 2022 (UTC)