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  • Trade                                                 
  • Trade: Buying and selling of goods articles is called trade.
  • Barter trade: Some people or tribes having articles more than their needs were used to exchange them and get those goods which they needed. This type of trade is called barter trade.
  • The exchange of goods and services within the boundaries of a country is called domestic trade.
  • The exchange of capital and services across international borders is called international trade.
  • Import: All such items which we buy from other countries of the world.
  • Pakistan imports include petroleum, fertilizer, scientific apparatus, chemicals, steel and iron, railway engine, automobile, and tea etc.
  • Export: All such items that we sell to the other counties.
  • Pakistan exports rice, cotton and fruits.
  • Basmati rice of Pakistan is famous all over the world.
  • Pakistan is famous for cotton and woolen cloth in all over the world.
  • Pakistan is famous for the cotton thread and exports most of its cotton thread to many countries.
  • Pakistan exports most of its cotton to Bangladesh, China, Thailand and Vietnam.
  • The sports goods made in Sialkot are famous all over the world.
  • In Sialkot, and Wazirabad, surgical Instruments and Beautiful knives, forks, spoons etc. are made and exported.


MCQs                                                                       


The exchange of capital , goods, and services across international borders is called……
a) trade           

b) international trade
c) domestic trade        

d) all of these

b

…means “bringing goods from other countries”.
a) Trade

b) Export        

c) Import

d) EXIM

c

Import of which item is high in Pakistan?
a) paper  

b) paint           

c) silk  

d) petroleum

d

Pakistan imports most of tea from Bangladesh?
a) Iran

b) India           

c) USA

d) Sri Lanka

d