Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XX. Foreign trade with Latin America and how it developed

Collection:: Economics Books

TRADE WITH LATIN AMERICA 217 from England’s manufacturers, on this line of goods, was combated with the unanswerable argument that the seller would be pleased to bill the order at eight months if desired. Samples of native-made articles that sold well were also purchased by the wide-awake representatives and sent home with full and complete data as to price, cost of manufacture, quantities consumed, and any other useful hint that practical observation might suggest, so that those in Germany might have an oppor tunity to experiment with a view to reducing the cost of the article and thereby obtain com mercial control of this particular line. In a word, no stone was left unturned to accom plish the object always in view, namely—the complete capture of these markets. As orders began to come in and were ready for exportation Germany suddenly realized that she was confronted with a problem which she had not seriously considered before—that of a national merchant marine. Without ships this vast business, now practically ac quired, was at the mercy of the foreigner who

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