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2. Grain trade - Wikipedia

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   The grain trade refers to the local and international trade in cereals such as wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and other food grains.Grain is an important trade item because it is easily stored and transported with limited spoilage, unlike other agricultural products.

3. Embargo Act of 1807 - Wikipedia

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   The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general trade embargo on all foreign nations that was enacted by the United States Congress.As a successor or replacement law for the 1806 Non-importation Act and passed as the Napoleonic Wars continued, it represented an escalation of attempts to persuade Britain to stop any impressment of American sailors and to respect American sovereignty and neutrality but ...

4. John Holt (businessman) - Wikipedia

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   John Holt (31 October 1841 – 22 June 1915) was an English merchant, who founded a shipping line operating between Liverpool and West Africa, and a number of businesses in Nigeria, which are now incorporated in John Holt plc.

5. Scottish trade in the early modern era - Wikipedia

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   John Campbell of the Bank, cashier of the Royal Bank of Scotland, c. 1749.A banknote can be seen on the table. Scottish trade in the early modern era includes all forms of economic exchange within Scotland and between the country and locations outwith its boundaries, between the early sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth.

6. Radhanite - Wikipedia

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   Their trade network covered much of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of India and China. Only a limited number of primary sources use the term, and it remains unclear whether they referred to a specific guild, to a clan, or generically to Jewish merchants in the trans-Eurasian trade network.

7. Trade - Wikipedia

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   Free trade advanced further in the late 20th century and early 2000s: 1992 European Union lifted barriers to internal trade in goods and labour. January 1, 1994 the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect. 1994 The GATT Marrakech Agreement specified formation of the WTO.

8. Ancient Egyptian trade - Wikipedia

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   Epipaleolithic Natufians carried parthenocarpic figs from Africa to the southeastern corner of the Fertile Crescent, c. 10,000 BCE. [1] Later migrations out of the Fertile Crescent would carry early agricultural practices to neighboring regions—westward to Europe and North Africa, northward to Crimea, and eastward to Mongolia.

9. Maritime transport - Wikipedia

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   2005 registration of merchant ships (1,000 gross tonnage (GT) and over) per country [2] A nation's shipping fleet (variously called merchant navy, merchant marine, or merchant fleet) consists of the ships operated by civilian crews to transport passengers or cargo from one place to another. Merchant shipping also includes water transport over ...