Author: L. C. Ford

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781331046165

Excerpt from The Foreign Trade of the United States: Its Character, Organization and Methods The youth of the United States compared to the age of other great nations has given her the advantage over them that she could profit by their experience. But in another way it has worked to her disadvantage: she has from time to time been drawn into fields of enterprise wholly new to her in competition with old nations accustomed to them from the first and participants in each stage of their development. But she has never entered one with less knowledge of principles and methods than that with which she now takes a hand in the complicated game of foreign trade. In diplomacy and in war, to mention two departments of international competition into which she has been drawn as a novice, the United States has shown a capacity for rapid learning which, with beginners' luck perhaps, has brought her out with credit. This new activity of international trading she will master too; but since time is pressing, few greater services could now be rendered her people than that of diffusing an understanding of its principles and practice. It is therefore a pleasure to introduce a book so ably designed for the purpose as The Foreign Trade of the United States. Particularly is it so designed in being simple, elementary, and complete: since international trading in this country is in its infancy, it should draw to itself a large number of beginners who must in great measure prepare themselves for the unusual opportunities it offers of rapid advancement. Indeed, only the rising generation can completely master the problems and the technic of foreign trade - and this book is primarily planned for beginners. The basic reason why we must become foreign traders in a large way resides in the irresistible action of economic law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.