Going all the way back to ancient Sumeria, branding is how merchant houses distinguished their wares and allowed them to start trading goods beyond the local marketplace.
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In his early accounts he mentions the potential confound that trading gold for goods would create.
To the original family name Go, John added "kongwei" (Chinese for "bright") and began trading in small goods.
That opens up Cashman's trade to suspicions that the Mariners were trading the Yankees damaged goods when they dealt Pineda.
Scale would help in everything from trading cars to farm goods.
Over the past 12 months Norfolk Trading Standards has seized counterfeit goods worth tens of thousands of pounds.
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Via Trading buys merchandise and stores goods at its own warehouse in Vernon, an industrial area just outside Los Angeles.
While in Makhachkala, Tamerlan proposed to his father that they start a trading business, importing Chinese goods, Anzor Tsarnaev said.
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By taking the higher-risk strategy of owning the goods and reselling them rather than acting as a fee-based broker, Via Trading is positioned to benefit from high markups on goods such as tools, electronics and clothing.
Demand for electrical goods at Christmas spurred trading at Comet where like-for-like sales were up 6.2%, helped by strong television sales.
To doubt that is to assume that our trading partners will forever exchange real goods and services for pieces of paper, so to speak.
Seven runners-up will be offered a variety of prizes, which may include trading on a market or showcasing goods, such as having their products available in another trader's store.
More than half of its revenues come from trading and marketing other people's goods.
The site covers 130, 000 sq ft of trading space and sells a variety of goods from bridal wear to soft furnishings.
The Interpol secretary general said some militant groups dealt directly in counterfeit goods, such as paramilitaries trading cigarettes in Northern Ireland.
Ian Bretman of the Fairtrade Foundation thinks there are other reasons too why British shoppers are buying into fair trade goods, such as historic trading links with Commonwealth countries.
Final consumption expenditures of households include outlays for purchasing consumer goods and services from all trading enterprises and city markets, non-organised trade (street vendors), from public service, passenger transport, communications establishments, hotels, commercial Institutions of culture, health care and education.
The value of goods sold in December was 0.1% lower than November, and 0.7% higher than a year ago, indicating that the price rises faced by shoppers came to a halt at the end of the year - although this could also reflect consumers trading down for cheaper versions of the goods they want.
The trading route will increasingly bypass Europe and take goods from China to Africa.
Beyond mere physical goods, we are more importantly trading intangibles our skills, our ideas, our knowledge with one another.
China is now our third-largest export market for goods, behind only our NAFTA trading partners, Canada and Mexico.
Among the Western industrial powers, no country is more enthusiastic than Germany about trading with Iran and supplying it with the advanced goods crucial to its economy.
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China's data on exports have been under scrutiny since some analysts pointed out last year that they failed to match up with its trading partners' lower figures for their purchases of Chinese goods.
Meanwhile, trading up is the name of the game for hard-line goods like computers, television sets and appliances, according to industry consultant Levin.
Almost all the Japanese firms are wholesalers (323 or 53%), including trading firms (the Chinese need Japanese retail networks to distribute their goods).
As technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners, other people become more valuable alive than dead.
If a country has much higher inflation than its trading partners, its exchange rate needs to be flexible to prevent its goods from becoming uncompetitive in world markets.
Devaluation not only exports wealth elsewhere, but by virtue of impoverishing the American exporter, we ultimately impoverish our trading partners who lack a robust market in which to send their own goods.
The Office of Fair Trading is appealing to shoppers to think carefully before taking out extended warranties on goods they buy.
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