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The trades people involve themselves into just started within a single community; as the world evolved, however, the trade expanded nationally; and now, trading extends internationally. A problem that arises from this trading is the fact that the prices of one good differs from one place to another; this is mainly because the costs of producing outputs and business processes also differ in cost from a place to another.

A country would only engage itself in importing products when the price of a certain good in the world market is lower that the price domestic producers offer for the same products. The reason for the importation of products is evident. This importation is also good for the welfare of the economy; however, though many people profit from this trade, the domestic producers suffer greatly in their business. When the imported goods enter the market, consumers will logically cease to buy domestically produced goods and revert to the cheaper imported goods. This will, in effect, of course, affect the businesses of domestic businessmen. To bring their customers back, the producers will then be forced to lower their price in level with the price of the imported goods. Though they will recover their customers, their profit would surely be lower because the costs of their production have not changed together with their prices.

International trade is often good for the well-being of the whole economy; however, it is not very friendly to domestic producers. This is not to say that trading outside the country is bad, in fact it is advised by many economists. This article only says that when doing business, one should be careful of what to engage himself into, what his business would all be about.