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ACTIVITY 2 Commercial Legislation
Commercial Legislation
ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY ON MERCHANT AND NON-MERCHANT ACTS
MERCHANTS
GERSSON ANDRES CHAVES ZULUAGA
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Gersson Chaves, Business Administration
Uniminuto University # a 35c 53, Cl. 35 Sur, Bogotá
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INTRODUCTION
The following work will address concepts of law and commerce, the applicability of the law.
commercial, the sources and principles of commercial law, topics that are considered
important and serve as a basis to delve deeper into the topic of commercial acts
and non-commercial, it is understood as commercial acts, economic activity that the law has
considered as a commercial act. The economy and society develop through
the exercise of economic activities, and that exercise is done through commercial acts,
that makes trade, economy, services, etc. flow. This will be the purpose of this
document. Mercantile acts aim to identify and monitor the relationship between
the people and the actions of commerce what kind of social acts make a person
natural or legal, may become a trader or not, which in turn will generate some
commercial obligations according to their activity. On the other hand, commercial law is
that dedicated to regulating the relationships between people, contracts, and actions of
Commerce. Commercial law is part of private law and includes all the
rules related to merchants regarding the development of their work.
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ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY ON MERCANTILE AND NON-MERCANTILE ACTS
IN COLOMBIA.
We can see decree 410 of 1970 which relates to the commercial code established in
Colombia. For each merchant where you can appreciate the principles of law.
commercial where it is considered that anyone who is a merchant must be responsible for their
obligations and regulatory bodies. Those who are considered very important, and serve as
support to delve into the topics of commercial and non-commercial acts with which
it is the main topic of this document. It is understood as commercial activities according to the
Article 20 of the Commercial Code the following activities, the acquisition of goods with
destination for the sale of these in order to obtain an economic benefit from the acquisition of
real estate with the purpose of leasing it to third parties, I receive money at interest with
guarantee or in other cases without obtaining it by acquiring business establishments,
banking operations, construction companies, and also exchange houses
as the buying and selling of all kinds of goods and the other acts and controlled and regulated
by the commercial laws in decree 410 of 1975. Commercial activities in
Colombia are those that are intended for the domestic consumption of the buyer and the
alienation of the same. In Colombia, to be a merchant one must comply with a
specific regulation which involves duties and responsibilities regarding the subject
of taxes and fiscal and financial responsibilities with the department or with the
district and especially with the Dian, according to article 20 of decree 410 we can
to have clarity regarding the requirements and characteristics to be a merchant in the article
23 of the same, among the characteristics of non-merchants in the country according to this
merchants must be registered in the commercial registry a record must be kept in the
accounting books and in the trade books and keep the documents with their
respective supports. It can currently be said that commerce is a very
important and necessary in our economy to live daily with a benefit
our families have always been witnesses consciously or unconsciously as
It has been the merchants or small traders who have been affected by the large chains.
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the supermarkets or neighborhood stores have already been in business for quite a few years on the other hand their
capital and foreign investment has been turning into foreign investment in a
lower cost and have reached the neighborhoods with a business model offering to the family
some brands like we see D1, Justo and Bueno and other chains that have arrived in our
country giving our establishments large-scale microenterprise losses
and the shopkeepers have lower sales because they can no longer compete with the big chains
that have changed with a lower price, revealing an impact on
thousands of families have been forced to close their businesses because they have no way to
compete with those big chains honestly.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Colombia. Presidency of the Republic. Decree 410 of 1971.
Serrano, L. (2015). Generalities of commercial law.
BANCOLDEX. (S. F.). basic aspects of commercial law.
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