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Export
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Export is the portion of external trade that entails the delivering of goods from the home economic zone into another (foreign) one, and the services connected with this process (warehousing, dispatch, etcetera; on the details, see Trade, external).

The export of goods was subject to a range of official regulations in the early modern period, primarily prohibitions. A prohibition on export was an official ban on the export of goods regarded as strategically important, such as weapons, raw materials, foodstuffs, manufactured or luxury goods. Such pro…

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Denzel, Markus A., “Export”, in: Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online, Editors of the English edition: Graeme Dunphy, Andrew Gow. Original German Edition: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. Im Auftrag des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts (Essen) und in Verbindung mit den Fachherausgebern herausgegeben von Friedrich Jaeger. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2005–2012. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2352-0272_emho_SIM_017214>
First published online: 2015
First print edition: 20180126



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