transatlantic trade
Cross-ocean business exchange
Transatlantic trade is commerce between countries on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean—typically between Europe and the Americas.
The term often appears in historical contexts, particularly regarding the slave trade that forcibly transported millions of Africans to the New World: the transatlantic trade in enslaved people.
In modern usage, it refers to economic exchange between the European Union and the United States: transatlantic trade agreements, transatlantic trade tensions.
- plantation economyAgricultural system exploiting enslaved workers
- cash cropsPlants grown for profit
- mercantilismTrade policy favoring exports
- merchant vesselsShips for transporting goods
- West AfricaContinent's western bulge
tobacco · sugar · Navigation Acts · colonialism · Western Europe · British colonies · freedom seekers · industrial revolution · New World · resistance movements · demographic shifts · Middle Passage · human cargo · abolition movement · silver · port cities · ports · cotton
- trade historycommerce, merchant, traders, colonial economy, trader
- Atlantic HistoryColumbus, Spanish conquest, Middle Passage, British colonies, Spanish colonies
- Black DiasporaAfrican American, African Americans, African diaspora, African heritage, African roots
- British Tradeexport markets, coal exports, financial services, import duties, customs duties
- Georgian BritainGeorge III, Walpole, Culloden, Georgian era, Regency period
- American HistoryAmerican Revolution, Revolutionary War, colonial era, founding fathers, Declaration of Independence
transatlantic tradedomestic trade
Commerce within national boundaries
local commerce · regional trade · local trade · autarky · self-sufficiency
transatlantic tradeautarky
Complete economic independence
economic isolation · trade embargo · protectionism · self-sufficiency · economic nationalism