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Trans-Atlantic trade is different from
Trans-Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and i ...
it simply means the integration of African, Asian and Latin American economies to European economy through the medium of
transnational corporations
A multinational company (MNC), also referred to as a multinational enterprise (MNE), a transnational enterprise (TNE), a transnational corporation (TNC), an international corporation or a stateless corporation with subtle but contrasting senses, i ...
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 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
A multinational company (MNC), also referred to as a multinational enterprise (MNE), a transnational enterprise (TNE), a transnational corporation (TNC), an international corporation or a stateless corporation with subtle but contrasting senses, i ...
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