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Commodities - Items of trade or commerce; things that are traded or sold. Related Terms: Commodities - commerce | commodity | goods | merchandise | products | trade | Consumer - A user of raw materials, goods, commodities, or finished products.Related Terms: Consumer - commodity | finished products | goods | raw materials | Durables - Merchandise, commodities, or supplies for sale to consumers.Related Terms: Durables - commodity | consumer | goods | merchandise | supplies | Exempt Carrier - Company which transports commodities exempted from Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) economic regulation. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Exempt Carrier - carrier | trucking | Goods - Products, merchandise, commodities, supplies, raw materials, property, stock, inventory, liquids, chemicals, wares, perishables; items of commerce; dry goods, capital goods, consumer goods, perishable goods, canned goods, liquid goods.Related Terms: Goods - durables | inventory | merchandise | products | retail | wholesale | Harmonized System - An international classification system for import and export commodities.Related Terms: Harmonized System - commodities | commodity | export | import | Standard International Trade Classification - The United Nations numerical coding system for classifying commodities for international trade. Acronym: STICRelated Terms: Standard International Trade Classification - commodity | international | trade | System of Stabilization of Export Earnings - A programme of financial assistance to Lomé Convention countries reliant upon one or a few basic commodities where their export earnings to the EC have been severely and adversely affected by world market conditions. Acronym: STABEX Reference: Professor Derek Urwin, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, U.K., http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~pol028/index.htmRelated Terms: System of Stabilization of Export Earnings - international | trade |
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