# trade (economic)

when people give products to others and receive products or money

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: trade

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [transferred](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-transferred.exchange), [products](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-products.goods), [money](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic)

**Through:** the giving of products and the receiving of products or money together create a transfer

**Novel properties:**
- mutual benefit
- value equivalence
- reciprocal obligation

## Examples
- In 2023, Vietnam exported $77 billion in electronics to the United States in exchange for soybeans and machinery. *(economics)*
- The Silk Road linked Chang'an and Rome, moving silk, spices, and jade across 4,000 miles by 130 BCE. *(institutions)*
- Steam engines in 1830s Manchester factories ran on coal traded from South Wales pits for cotton textiles. *(engineering)*

## Used by
- [commercial](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-commercial.economic) (L18)

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