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# Exportation Trade
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## Definition
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The commercial activity of selling domestic goods to foreign buyers,
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typically encouraged by government policies like bounties that make
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exporting more profitable than domestic sales.
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## Source Chapter
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Book IV, Chapter 5
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## Context
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Smith criticizes exportation trade promoted by bounties as forcing capital
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into less advantageous channels, arguing that it often comes at the expense
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of the more important home market.
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## Economic Domain
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Exchange
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