Special interest groups, landholders, and export-import merchants (along with the British diplomatic contingent that was identified with these interests) all fell behind the new governor.
instead of 73,776 cwts., the employment of landing and warehousing it, the increase of business to the importing merchant and the Mincing-lane brokers, in passing 1,023,724l.
To lower the cost of food imports, merchant ships were declared tax-exempt.
And since most of the merchandise here -- everything from Sony stereos to Levis and Rolexes -- is stolen or imported illegally, merchants guard their stalls like watchdogs.
During the Middle Ages, Italian merchants imported Oriental rugs to Europe, where they were usually hung on the walls; Europeans continued to cover their floors with rushes and straw.
Merchants importing products like shampoo would find that Taliban customs officials had gouged out the eyes of the female models on the boxes.
But in the Colonial era, Southern planters regularly purchased imported slaves, and merchants in New York and New England profited handsomely from the trade.
From the 16th century, a new way of making red appeared in Europe, from cochineal beetles imported by Spanish merchants from the new world.
Industry functions so poorly that tower blocks in Pyongyang cannot be built without the imported supplies the merchants provide.As in China, capitalism is letting in the outside world a vital change for a people fed only grotesque lies.
Also included in the trade with China and Korea were goods imported by Japanese merchants from the Ryukyu Islands, lying between Japan and Taiwan, and dye materials, pepper, and other special products from the South Seas.
