MERCANTILISM - Guaranteed Birt's suppl of trop prod and their profit off processing/ re-exporting - =/= buy finished goods elsewhere, colonies we're allowed to sell raw materials to anyone but the mother country, - Protects planters and factory owners from foreign prod of ff/ finished goods - v position of planter classes after they ^ of power - ^ position of industrial capitalists - System started to jepodise domestic supply (4 März 1500 Jahr