home-trade

He then goes on state that home-trade is more profitable than foreign trade of consumption, and that the latter is more profitable than the carrying trade (ie, investing in ships, rather than in their cargo).

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Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign trade of consumption should be as quick as those of the home-trade, the capital employed in it will give but one-half the encouragement to the industry or productive labour of the country.

V. Book II. Of the Different Employment of Capitals 1909

It ought, therefore, to give no preference nor superior encouragement to the foreign trade of consumption above the home-trade, nor to the carrying trade above either of the other two.

V. Book II. Of the Different Employment of Capitals 1909

In the home-trade his capital is never so long out of his sight as it frequently is in the foreign trade of consumption.

II. Book IV. Of Restraints Upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of Such Goods as Can Be Produced at Home 1909

The extent of the home-trade and of the capital which can be employed in it, is necessarily limited by the value of the surplus produce of all those distant places within the country which have occasion to exchange their respective productions with one another.

V. Book II. Of the Different Employment of Capitals 1909

But the same capital may employ as many sailors and shipping, either in the foreign trade of consumption, or even in the home-trade, when carried on by coasting vessels, as it could in the carrying trade.

V. Book II. Of the Different Employment of Capitals 1909

But the returns of the foreign trade of consumption are very seldom so quick as those of the home-trade.

V. Book II. Of the Different Employment of Capitals 1909

A capital, therefore, employed in the home-trade will sometimes make twelve operations, or be sent out and returned twelve times, before a capital employed in the foreign trade of consumption has made one.

V. Book II. Of the Different Employment of Capitals 1909

The returns of the home-trade generally come in before the end of the year, and sometimes three or four times in the year.

V. Book II. Of the Different Employment of Capitals 1909

The capital, therefore, employed in the home-trade of any country will generally give encouragement and support to a greater quantity of productive labour in that country, and increase the value of its annual produce more than an equal capital employed in the foreign trade of consumption: and the capital employed in this latter trade has in both these respects a still greater advantage over an equal capital employed in the carrying trade.

V. Book II. Of the Different Employment of Capitals 1909