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  2. Trade - Wikipedia

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    The "fair trade" movement, also known as the "trade justice" movement, promotes the use of labour, environmental and social standards for the production of goods, particularly those exported from the Third and Second Worlds to the First World. Such ideas have also sparked a debate on whether trade itself should be codified as a human right. [89]

  3. Land Ordinance of 1785 - Wikipedia

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    After he died in 1789, responsibility for surveying was transferred to the Surveyor General. Land was to be systematically surveyed into square townships, 6 mi (9.7 km) on a side, each divided into thirty-six sections of 1 sq mi (2.6 km 2) or 640 acres (260 ha). These sections could then be subdivided for re-sale by settlers and land speculators.

  4. List of medieval land terms - Wikipedia

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    The hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham in Buckinghamshire are known as the Chiltern Hundreds. a franconian Lan used in Poland since the 13th century, consisted of 43.2 morgs = 23 to 28 hectares. The term Lan was also used to indicate a full-sized farm, as opposed to one split up into a number of smaller sections.

  5. Harmonized System - Wikipedia

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    The HS is organized into 21 Sections, which are subdivided into 96 Chapters (Chapters 1 to 97 with Chapter 77 reserved for potential future use by the HS). The 96 HS Chapters are further subdivided into 1,228 headings and 5,612 subheadings in the current 2022 edition of the HS.

  6. Polyptych - Wikipedia

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    A polyptych (/ ˈ p ɒ l ɪ p t ɪ k / POL-ip-tik; Greek: poly-"many" and ptychē "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) which is divided into sections, or panels. Some definitions restrict "polyptych" to works with more than three sections: [ 1 ] a diptych is a two-part work of art; a triptych is a three-part work; a tetraptych or ...

  7. Division of the field - Wikipedia

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    Shields may be divided this way for differencing (to avoid conflict with otherwise similar coats of arms) or for purposes of marshalling (combining two or more coats of arms into one), or simply for style. The lines that divide a shield may not always be straight, and there is a system of terminology for describing patterned lines, which is ...

  8. Run rig - Wikipedia

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    From the mid-18th century the system was steadily supplanted in Scotland as the in-bye was divided into crofts under fixed tenancy, [2] but run rig survived into the 20th century in some parts of the Hebrides. Where Crofting began to dominate in the Highlands and Isles, the Lowlands transitioned to estate arrangements of individual farms whose ...

  9. International trade - Wikipedia

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    Another difference between domestic and international trade is that factors of production such as capital and labor are often more mobile within a country than across countries. Thus, international trade is mostly restricted to trade in goods and services, and only to a lesser extent to trade in capital, labour, or other factors of production.