Trade factsheet

Trade is - buying and selling. When you buy a CD or a pair of trainers you are taking part in TRADE. You exchange money for goods or services.

Countries, companies, workers and consumers take part in trade. Workers make the goods e.g. clothes, or grow the crops e.g. pineapples. Companies pay the workers and sell the goods or crops. Other companies might also be involved in a more indirect way e.g. in advertising, transport, or market research.
Trade can involve more than one country - a shirt might be sewn in Mexico, have the buttons put on in the United States, then be sold in France.

To find out more, download the Trade factsheet.