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# Exportation Trade

## Definition

The commercial activity of selling domestic goods to foreign buyers,
typically encouraged by government policies like bounties that make
exporting more profitable than domestic sales.

## Source Chapter

Book IV, Chapter 5

## Context

Smith criticizes exportation trade promoted by bounties as forcing capital
into less advantageous channels, arguing that it often comes at the expense
of the more important home market.

## Economic Domain

Exchange

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