Note A2-3-3 — Chapter III

Justi, Chimäre des Gleichgewichts der Handlung und Schiffahrt (1759), supposes a gain on both sides in all commerce between nations. Hence, no nation can attain to a flourishing trade in any way except it be to the advantage of those with which it has to do. (p. 14 ff., 43.) Here, it may be presumed, Hume's Essay, On the Jealousy of Trade, exercised an influence. Sonnenfels distinguishes, in foreign trade, five grades of advantage: 1, most advantageous, when finished commodities are exported and cash money is imported; 2, when finished commodities are exchanged for raw materials; 3, finished commodities against finished commodities; 4, raw material against raw material; 5, raw material against finished commodities. (Grundsätze, II, 202.)