ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Trade in services

Okay, so you know how you sometimes ask someone to do something for you, like maybe you ask your friend to help you with your coloring book or you ask your mom to make you a sandwich? Well, trade in services is like when grown-ups ask other grown-ups to do things for them, but instead of just doing them as a favor, they pay money for the service.

For example, you know how your parents take you to the doctor when you're sick? The doctor is providing a service by taking care of you and making you better. But your parents have to pay money for that service. That's an example of trade in services.

Trade in services can be all sorts of things, like hiring a lawyer to help with a legal problem, getting your hair cut at a salon, or even using a website to order food or clothes online. When people pay for these services, they are helping the person or company providing the service make money, and they are also getting something they need or want.

Trade in services can happen between people and companies in different countries too. So if someone in one country wants to use a service provided by someone in another country, they can pay money to get it. This is like when you buy a toy that was made in a different country, except instead of a physical thing, it's a service that someone is providing.

So, that's trade in services in a nutshell. It's when people need or want to get something done, and they pay money to have someone else do it for them. And it can happen between people and companies in the same country or even in different countries.
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