In this paper we investigate the distributional Chébli-Trimèche transforms. We use the so-called kernel method and we are inspired by the papers of Dube and Pandey [L.S. Dube, J.N. Pandey, On the Hankel transform of distributions, Tôhoku Math. J. 27 (1975) 337-354] and Koh and Zemanian [E.L. Koh, A.H. Zemanian, The complex Hankel and I-transformations of generalized functions, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 16 (1968) 945-957] about distributional Hankel transforms.We note that our procedure, supported in a representation of the elements in the corresponding dual spaces, is simpler than the methods described in the above mentioned papers. Some applications of our distributional theory are presented. 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.