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The Role of Innovations in Global Trade: The Shipping Container


Abstract: A simple trade innovation—the use of shipping containers—may have contributed to the rapid expansion of global trade over the past 50 years.

Keywords: trade; exports; imports; trade balance; trade deficits; trade surplus; innovation;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Source: On the Economy

Publication Date: 2020-12-28