Typical Colonial Trade Relationship Primary products are commodities like bananas, tea, and copper ore that have not undergone a great deal of processing. They are the types of products that colonies once exported to their mother countries, and the types of commodities that they continue to export even though they are now sovereign states in their own right.
Secondary goods are manufactures like tools, transportation equipment, and textiles.
They are the types of products that colonies once imported from their mother country. Colonial trade relationships were profitable for the mother countries.