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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3195340" data-attributes="member: 3448">Mahler, meanwhile, began his briefing on trade.  “Our trade is recovering, slowly, but we lost a great deal when the South Kingdoms fell and our exports have still not fully recovered.  Ten years ago, sixty percent of our exports went to the South Kingdoms.  Now, most of our exports go to the Spice Lands, with only insignificant trade with the refugees.  After the Spice Lands, Enclaves and the Eastern Trade Federation are the next most important, with the Barony of Augurt following them.  Exports to several of our trade partners in the south have also been hurt by the damage to their economies from losing the South Kingdoms trade.  Exports to Flame have remained stable over the last ten years and are significant, although a smaller amount than the others.”“What do we export to the Spice Lands, anyway?” asked Alistair.“They import all of their metals, most of their finished goods, and a good quantity of wine.  We have major stakes in all of those trades, both with goods originating here and by transshipping goods from farther north.”“You said that several countries have been importing less because of the damage from losing the South Kingdoms.  Do we have any trade partners that are taking up the slack?” asked Kit.“Yes… there were major jumps in trade with three areas between 5 and 10 years ago-- Masque, Enclaves, and Tang.  Trade with Masque alone is up 1200 percent in the last ten years.  And the trade with Masque continues to climb.  Last year alone, there was an approximately one million silver increase in the value of our exports to Masque, from about 5 million to about 6 million.”“Are there any other notable export markets we could hope to expand?” asked Alistair.“We sell a fair amount to Singing Leaves, but there’s little hope of expanding that trade.  The amounts are consistent year-to-year, down to the copper piece.  All of our trade with Singing Leaves is handled through long-term treaties, not ordinary merchant work.  We have had a major increase in trade with Tarsh, from about 140,000 silver to 500,000, but the distance will make it difficult to increase that much further.”Kit said, “That’s probably just the impact of Archduchess Amelia’s embassy.”Mahler nodded.  “Turning to imports, the first thing to know is that we’re importing substantially more than we’re exporting.  Our largest source of imports is the Spice Lands, and we import significantly more from them than we export to them.  We also import large amounts from the Barony of Augurt.  The other import statistic that leaps out is that we had a major increase in imports from Singing Leaves last year.”“I would have assumed that our imports would also be steady and based on treaty,” commented Kit.“Exactly.  And year after year, the imports were steady, but there was a jump last year.  I’ll ask around and see what caused it.”Alistair nodded.  “Sounds like a good idea.”Dame Brionna returned with Father Waters and informed the Council of the fact that the plague had infected most of the crew but had been dealt with.  Father Waters confirmed that none of the Archducal Council members had been infected.</blockquote>

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