WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What did China trade on the Silk Road? China exported tea, silk, porcelain, ornate bronze mirrors, lacquerware, medicines, and paper. In return, China received many kinds of products ranging from precious metals to horses, weapons, woolen goods, glassware, gold and silver, and precious stones and jewels.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Song set up supervised markets along the border to encourage this trade. Chinese goods that flowed north in large quantities included tea, silk, copper coins (widely used as a currency outside of China), paper and printed books, porcelain, lacquerware, jewelry, rice and other grains, ginger and other spices.

Detailed explanation-3: -China trade refers to trade with China which the British carried out from India. We may here refer to the triangular trade which was the trade carried out between India, China and the Britain. The trade involved exporting opium from India to China . And from China, it involved buying tea which was taken to England.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 2021, 8.6% of total U.S. exports of $1.8 trillion to the World were exported to China and 17.9% of total U.S. Imports of $2.8 trillion were imported from China. Mechanical Appliances, Sound Recorders and TV sets are the most traded commodity sectors.