trading companies
Businesses exchanging goods
Trading companies are businesses that buy and sell goods, typically across borders or regions.
Historically, large trading companies like the East India Company wielded enormous power, controlling trade routes and sometimes governing territories.
Today the term usually describes firms that facilitate import-export commerce: Several Japanese trading companies dominate Pacific Rim markets.
- exportingSending goods abroad
- importingReceiving foreign goods
- joint stockPooled corporate ownership
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- customs dutiesTaxes on imports
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- merchantsmerchant, merchants, retailers, vendors, storekeeper
- Atlantic tradeslave ships, Atlantic crossings, transatlantic routes, shipping routes, sea lanes
- colonial enterprisescolonial governors, crown colonies, British Empire, British colonies, Spanish colonies
- fur tradebeaver pelts, pelts, furs, mink, sable
- historical tradebarter, Silk Road, bartering, barter system, marketplaces
- Japanese businessToyota, Honda, Sony, Nissan, Mitsubishi
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Groups aiding the needy
charitable foundations · NGOs · humanitarian organizations · aid agencies · relief organizations
trading companiesgovernments
Ruling political authorities
government agencies · state institutions · regulatory agencies · ministries · sovereign states
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