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# Trade as Union and Friendship
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## Definition
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The natural role of commerce as a cooperative activity that should foster peaceful relations and mutual benefit between nations through the voluntary exchange of goods and services, rather than serving as a source of conflict and competition.
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## Source Chapter
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Book IV, Chapter 3
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## Context
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Smith laments how mercantile policies have perverted the natural character of trade, transforming what should be a bond of international friendship into a source of discord and animosity between nations.
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## Economic Domain
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Exchange
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