Now, over the last century, we tend to think of commodity exchanges as the purview of Western industrialized countries, and that the reference prices for cotton, coffee, cocoa -- products produced mainly in the south -- are actually a reference price, or a price discovered in these organized commodity exchanges in the northern countries.
Acum, in ultimul secol, avem tendinţa să ne gândim la bursele de mărfuri ca un subiect de competenta tarilor industrializate vestice. Si ca pretul de referinta pentru bumbac, cafea, cacao -- produse fabricate in principal in Sud -- sunt de fapt preturi de referinta, sau un pret descoperit in aceste schimburi organizate de marfuri din tarile Nordice.