Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part four. The field of consumption

Collection:: Economics Books

Foreign Countries and World Markets 305 Fig. 182. The main street of a town in Guatemala illustrates a more advanced kind of marketing than the open market place. Here the shops are in the front part of the houses. The vendor has become a shopkeeper, a middleman who buys what other people produce and sells it to the consumer. CANADA AS A MARKET Canada is an important market for foreign manufactured goods, for the Canadians are largely engaged in primary production, and are extremely prosperous and progressive. These nine million competent people want strong, high-grade woolen clothing, to withstand the low winter temperatures, and to last under the hard wear of rough out- door work. The farmers require elaborate machinery ranging from traction plows to great harvesters. A variety of mining machinery is needed in Canada, because many different minerals and metals are mined. Railroad equipment is constantly required, not only to meet the growing needs of the existing lines, but to build and operate new ones. Since the United States is separated from Canada neither by geo- graphical barriers nor by those of race and language, it is in an ex- cellent position to supply the Canadian market. Hence this country furnishes two thirds of the Canadian imports. In 1928, in spite of a heavy tariff and the fact that American manufactures are taxed a third more than British, Canada consumed almost a billion dollars’ worth of our goods, or nearly the same amount as from Great Britain. Table IV (page 308) shows that the balance of trade with Canada is in our favor.

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