Foreign Trade Reconstruction The Americas PDF Download

Excerpt from American Foreign Trade the United States as a World Power in the New Era of International Commerce The epoch of the Great War is the beginning of a new era in the trade relations, as in the political relations, of the world. At the outset the war was viewed merely as an interlude in the shifting drama of international commerce. But the drama proved to be tragedy. Instead of an interlude, the war became the prelude to economic events whose full significance is as yet somewhat dimly apprehended. One of its consequences is the readjustment of their industry, trade and finance by all nations. The United States in this readjustment has become the world power in international commerce. Foreign trade for the first time in their history has come to have definite meaning to the American people. They have begun to realize its place in their own economic system. It may be viewed as a phase of domestic policy or in the manifold aspects of world policy. The larger view invites. It assumes readiness to recognize that exports are only one factor in foreign trade; in other words, that this is a question of mutual markets. It presumes that the manufacturer in the United States is ready to seek the market abroad as a primary market. It involves understanding of the United States as a lending country with the opportunities and the responsibilities that belong to a creditor nation. 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.