Dec 20, 2025
Understanding Trade: Beyond Tariffs and Goods
A farmer blocks a highway in southern France. A factory quietly shifts from China to Vietnam. A young engineer leaves India for Germany. None of them talk about trade policy. Yet all of them are living inside it. Trade Was Never Just About Goods In ancient times, trade was tangible. Spices.Silk.Salt.Gold. The Roman Empire expanded by controlling roads.The Chola Empire by controlling…
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