Commerce in Peru throughout its history (cont.)

Peru kept working under this pattern of trade and commerce throughout its whole colonial period, and didn’t get know mayor changes in its commerce and export capacity until it reached its republican and therefore independent status. It took Peru more than half a century to begin to export its natural riches on a large scale and in an organized manner, being the first of them “guano” or manure from the maritime birds, which constituted en excellent fertilizer. The British Isles became the main marketplace for this product, as they needed to import the fertilizer to improve their lands and facilitate the agricultural revolution process that had started during the end of the 18th Century. Other products that marked great export periods and the growth of commerce and the economy where: rubber, from the jungle; sugar and cotton from the coast; and fishing from the coasts of the sea of Peru, mainly represented by the fish flour production and export.

In the present, Peru is still a country recognized in Latin America and the world for its textile industry and the quality of its cotton, which we export to different parts of the world as various garments of well known worldwide trademarks, which import these garments for their distribution. Peru’s own internal textile commerce has grown a lot in the last two decades, giving birth to small industries which generate marketplaces that supply different sectors of society; starting with the popular marketplaces; up to the largest marketplaces, such as department stores, with whom they commerce on a wholesale scale. Also, Peru’s economy still rotates around the extraction and commerce, through export, of mineral resources such as gold, copper and natural gas. This last one, comes from reserves found in the jungle, at Camisea, and which will be directed for export to marketplaces such as Mexico and U.S.A.; projecting Peru, once again, as one of the mayor countries with investment and commerce possibilities, from South America as well as Latin America.

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