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 mar 1500 ano – 12 jun 1800 ano)