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            Trade Links Overview.

 

 

Liverpool's trade with North America (USA & Canada) began in the 1660s (about 40 years before the slave trade began) bringing back tobacco and sugar.

 

As the continent developed, and ships became larger and faster, trade grew and Liverpool exported manufactured items such as cloth and pottery, and imported raw materials and foodstuffs’

 

The  best known examples of Liverpool’s transatlantic trade would be Shipping, Cotton, Slave Trade, Emigration and the Transatlantic passenger trade.

 

 

Of these only shipping is still active which serves to export  & import products stored in containers from all over the UK

 

In the 21^st century almost all trading from Liverpool to the USA is from the giant container base at Seaforth Docks.