The principal imports are grain and agricultural produce, timber and coal, and the exports cement and fish.
The imports are chiefly textiles, metals and hardware, and gin.
Imports are mainly from Germany, exports to Germany and to other West African colonies.
In essence, they would become like Japan, which exports essentially no food, imports US$44 billion in food annually, but still enjoys a high standard of living.
Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.
