Author: Morris Sigmund Rosenthal

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781330533260

Excerpt from Technical Procedure in Exporting and Importing A study of manufacturing and agricultural conditions in the different countries of the world shows clearly the economic inter-dependence of nations. No one country produces within its borders all of the necessities and near-necessities essential to the welfare and happiness of its people. Each nation contributes to the vast number of raw materials and finished products consumed throughout the world, and each receives from neighbors products of the soil and of the factory which are foreign to its home industries. The United States, wealthy as it is and diversified as are its resources, also finds itself dependent on other nations for many commodities used in every day life. Coffee comes from Brazil, rubber comes from the Straits Settlements and Java, tea from China and Ceylon, hemp from Mexico and the Far East. These are only a few of the products, not indigenous to the United States, which are imported in large quantities. On the other hand, the steel products, textiles, naval stores, grain products and many other products of the United States are shipped to the four quarters of the Globe. In many instances, an article is grown or manufactured in more than one country. Competition then arises in foreign trade as it does in domestic business. Exporters must develop their foreign trade with the same care that the domestic manufacturer conducts his sales campaigns and plans to out-strip his competitors. Indeed, competition in foreign trade is in some ways even more keen than in domestic business. Although the United States has always been prominent and active in international trade, the economic chaos resulting from the World War places added responsibilities on the American manufacturer and exporter. The United States is virtually the only nation whose resources were unimpaired by the War. 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.