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大众化报纸的头几版报道着宇宙飞船和卫星的消息,而金融报纸的头几版却刊登着关于国际贸易中物物交换趋势的发展的文章。随着交通运输业的惊人进展,国际贸易竟倒退到最原始的形式,这种现象实在令人感到矛盾。举个例子来说吧。加拿大霍克·西德利公司在最近一笔贸易中,据说向印度尼西亚出售了379节火车车厢,但是必须回购(或者为印度尼西亚找到一个买主来购买)价值1,700万美元的天然橡胶。在印度尼西亚橡胶换加拿大火车车厢的同时,伊朗石油换新西兰冻羊
The first few editions of popular newspapers reported the news of spacecraft and satellites, while the first few editions of financial newspapers published articles on the development of trends in the exchange of goods in international trade. With the astonishing progress in the transport industry, international trade has actually gone back to its most primitive form. This phenomenon is indeed contradictory. Let me give you an example. In a recent trade, Hawker Sidley of Canada reportedly sold 379 train cars to Indonesia but had to repurchase (or find a buyer for Indonesia) worth 17 million U.S. dollars worth of natural rubber. At the same time as Indonesian rubber exchanges for Canadian trains, Iranian oil exchanges for New Zealand sheep