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Trade SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Farming p.98
▸ ▸ Governments
Trade is buying and selling. We trade raw materials, p.123
like metal, to make things, as well as trading the things ▸ ▸ Materials p.157
they are made into, like phones. Everything we eat, ▸ ▸ Money p.169

wear, and use is the result of trade. You can also buy ▸ ▸ Transportation
pp.258–259
and sell services, which are jobs people do, such as ▸ ▸ Work p.274
computer coding.

Vegetables, fruit, animals Aircraft carry Factories turn raw Products are sold
for meat, and other products some products materials, such as in stores and
are farmed to be sold. overseas quickly. iron and copper, into markets.
finished products,
such as computers.

Trucks transport things
that are ready to be sold.

At the port, containers
of goods are loaded Border controls Clothes Rice
onto ships to be check what goes
sent abroad. in and out of
the country.

Computers
Exports
Goods and raw materials that
Imports are sent overseas are known Furniture
Goods and raw materials coming into as exports. Most exports go
a country are known as imports. These by boat. Some go by plane,
are often items that cannot be made train, or road.
or grown in that country.
Spice trade
One of the oldest trades
Pineapples Cocoa beans Cars in the world is the spice
trade. Cinnamon, turmeric,
and other spices are grown
in Asia and used around
Lemons and limes Bananas Steel the world to flavor food.
When the trade began,
spices were carried by
land across Asia.
International trade
Countries all over the world send goods to one Coastguards
another. They can make money by charging the make sure that
other country tax (money) for the right to sell ships make it to
land safely.
its goods within their borders.
Cinnamon

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