It isn't the money that makes e-commerce important.
High-technology industries such as communications, computer software, and Internet commerce became important in the late 20th century.
Not because he is a big fan of pot, but because he thinks that it is a big stretch to say that growing it in your backyard to ease the pain of terminal cancer affects inter-state commerce.The important fact about Mr Thomas is not that he is conservative, but that he is the strictest of the "strict constructionists".
Mobile e-commerce is important to Alibaba's future because it allows the company to reach more consumers who in turn shop more frequently and can be served more targeted search results than on its websites.
The online sale of imported goods, called cross-border e-commerce, is an important growth segment for Chinese e-commerce companies like Alibaba and rival JD.com, thanks to an increase in disposable income and the perception that products, especially toiletries and food, made overseas are safer.
Today many countries have chambers of commerce abroad, in important cities throughout the world.
The pact is intended to lower tariffs and other barriers to commerce, a vitally important economic goal.
But, standing in his studio recently, surveying buckets filled with thousands of glass shards, he suggested that there are times when commerce is more important than art.
The Ohio is navigable, and, despite seasonal fluctuations that occasionally reach flood proportions, its fairly uniform flow has supported important commerce since settlement first began.
They are part of the first wave of a business and cultural revolution that will change how we think about the internet, commerce and, most important, ourselves.
A cellphone tower underscored this as a place of important commerce, as did a store in which a Chinese merchant sold unlocked BlackBerrys and bottles of Borgoe 82 rum.
