trade balance

  1. WI: 1911 trade reciprocity treaty between the U.S. and Canada is ratified?

    In 1911, the Liberal government in Canada negotiated a reciprocal trade treaty with the United States that ultimately brought down said Liberal government. Suppose the deal had been ratified by both countries?
  2. Skallagrim

    Could Rome have forbidden trade with the east?

    Every so often, we see things like "what if Rome had imported paper-making tech from China" or "suppose Rome had gotten the heavy plough from China"-- things like that. It's very true that for all of antiquity (and I'd say right up to the early modern age) the East was the developed world, and...
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