Machinery, and the importation of foreign commodities, certainly produce effects.
But I admit that there are certain circumstances in which a tax may be laid on foreign commodities, provided it is not protective, but fiscal.
The same thing holds of the importation of foreign commodities.
Machine-breaking--prohibition of foreign commodities--are two acts founded on the same doctrine.
If more of the produce of the land and labour of England be employed in the purchase of foreign commodities, less can be employed in the purchase of other things, and therefore fewer hats, shoes, &c.
In the purchase of foreign commodities, either the same, a larger, or a less portion of the produce of the land and labour of England will be employed.
The like is sometimes done by English merchants for the paying of debts or providing of foreign commodities, for the saving of custom outward being also great.
They say that they gain little by return of foreign commodities.
An ordinance to nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws laying duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities.
In other words, the values of foreign commodities depend on the terms of international exchange.
The values of foreign commodities depend, not upon Cost of Production, but upon Reciprocal Demand and Supply.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreign commodities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
