The paper seeks to further work on business texts that are usually translated from English, French and German into Spanish and vice versa. Its main goal is to help translator trainers design specialised courses. We briefly review the literature on business translation and genres. This review shows that these studies have partially covered this subject. This is why we conduct a survey on exporting companies in order to find out what texts they translate most frequently. The results obtained show similarities and differences with previous works, and can be used for different purposes.