Trans-Atlantic trade

{{unreferenced, date=June 2013 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 The Silk Road () was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and reli ...

trade in Asia trade or

Trans-Sahara Trans-Saharan trade requires travel across the Sahara between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. While existing from prehistoric times, the peak of trade extended from the 8th century until the early 17th century. The Sahara once had a very d ...

trade routes in Africa. Most of the products traded in Trans-Atlantic were made in Europe. The

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