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Trans-Atlantic trade is different from
Trans-Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. Europeans est ...
it simply means the integration of African, Asian and Latin American economies to European economy through the medium of
transnational corporations in the 19th and 20th century. In many parts of the world this trade has considerably weakened many historic long-distance trade like the famous
Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of Asian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over , it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the ...
trade in Asia trade or
Trans-Sahara trade routes in Africa. Most of the products traded in
Trans-Atlantic were made in Europe. The
transnational corporations based in developing countries created distribution channels of finished products. Trans-Atlantic trade also include export of raw material to Europe for manufacturing purposes.
History of international trade