Trade

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### Background

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services.

#### Export

Export in international trade is a good produced in one country that is sold into another country or a service provided in one country for a national or resident of another country. The seller of such goods or the service provider is an exporter; the foreign buyer is an importer. Services that figure in international trade include financial, accounting and other professional services, tourism, education as well as intellectual property rights.

Exportation of goods often requires the involvement of customs authorities.

#### Import

An import is the receiving country in an export from the sending country. Importation and exportation are the defining financial transactions of international trade.

In international trade, the importation and exportation of goods are limited by import quotas and mandates from the customs authority. The importing and exporting jurisdictions may impose a tariff (tax) on the goods. In addition, the importation and exportation of goods are subject to trade agreements between the importing and exporting jurisdictions.

#### Customs

A custom house or customs house was traditionally a building housing the offices for a jurisdictional government whose officials oversaw the functions associated with importing and exporting goods into and out of a country, such as collecting customs duty on imported goods. A custom house was typically located in a seaport or in a city on a major river, with access to an ocean. These cities acted as ports of entry into a country.

## Trade

### Gameplay

The player can trade resources and vehicles with the NATO or Soviet Bloc in *Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic*. The player can import resources but also export produced resources from the republic. The player can import or export resources and vehicles via customs houses. The payment for importing or exporting these resources depends on to which bloc the resources are imported or exported. When importing or exporting to the NATO bloc the payment is done in Dollars, while for the Soviet bloc, Rubles is the valid currency for payments.

#### Customs house

Customs houses are the connection with the outside world. The customs houses are placed at the border, recognizable as a white dashed/dotted line, and connects to NATO as to Soviet bloc. There are different kind of customs houses. Some with only a road connection and others with multiple road and railway track connections. The player is not able to build customs houses in the world by himself, customs houses are provided by the map maker or placed randomly when a random map is generated.

All resources can be imported or exported via the customs houses, except for electricity. Electricity can be imported or exported via electrical connections which are provided at the border. This electrical connection can only import or export electricity. The player has manually to select to import or export electricity.

Customs house control buttons, visible when a customs house is selected:

* Demolish - Destroy the customs house is not possible.
* Buy new vehicle or mechanisme - Buy vehicle and pay in Dollars.
* Buy new vehicle or mechanisme - Buy vehicle and pay in Rubles.
* Sell vehicle - This button is by default disabled, enabled when a vehicle is selected.
* View buildings that can be reached on foot
* Rename building
* Sell all vehicles - Hidden, only visible when vehicles are in the customs house.
* Change workplace/depot for all vehicles - Hidden, only visible when vehicles are in the customs house, send the vehicle to another depot or workplace.

Customs house sections visible when a customs house is selected:

* Tourists - Are people from abroad which would like to visit the player's republic. They can be picked up by bus or train and transported to hotels for a stay in the republic. Main article: Tourism
* Foreign workers - A workforce which can be hired by the player to do work in the player's republic. They can be picked up by bus or train and transported to jobs in the republic. Main article: Foreign worker
* Purchased vehicles - Overview of purchased vehicles ready to send away into the republic or ready to be picked up if the vehicle can't drive on it's own.
* Space for vehicles/containers - ?