market penetration?

[Jamitar]

i often see this and now just saw it manual. how do you sell your product directly to other countries people? and what are benefits?

[yellow ribbon]

as a player... BY EXPORT.

if they havent invented a new system:

the market for your country is in F4 described as a net value.

the maximum amount of goods you can sell to your people is the number shown there.

if you steal market share by technology or by setting high tariff the maximum number will increase.
imagine they have already bought from other countries or intend to do so. you can only make it somewhat harder for them.
by erecting market and tradepost in colonies you can also increase the number of sold goods before bet value of export-import

i remember for US a jump from about 50 to over 70 when i experimented with it first... so high tariffs, given high enough production / import capacity are the booster of economics and thus i always advice, if you need money, equally what kind of...TARIFF TO THE UPPER LIMIT.

so, text is misleading a bit, its the FOREIGN MARKET PENETRATION on your domestic market (someone will correct me, if i am wrong)

[Jamitar]

am I misunderstanding or is it when I buy stuff? so technically its all approved of by me? if I buy 10 cereals thats internal market penetration? doesnt feel right and hardly feels like something that must be evaded but again Im just beginer in economics

[yellow ribbon]

you are wrong, again...

you dont have any possibility to avoid that people buy from another country. you just can make it harder for them by the two ways i described above.

its like following:

ship comes to Antwerp unloading goods produced in a foreign country, a trader is aboard and offers it to marketeers in your country, he has his money before you can do anything and your people can buy from the marketeer.

now, at the same time you decide to buy from the ship either, you put it in your depot and from there it is distributed to traders in your country.

however, if people already bought the same good, they do not again.

What can you do?

either make the customers loving you, make them loyal. this is represented by the technologies more or less.
OR, make it extraordinary expensive for foreigners to sell in your country. set high tariffs.
now the people have to pay the price plus the tariff and its more expensive than your own goods/goods in store, people buy from you to save money.
the trader however will not accept to pay the tariff from his own purse, he will sell elsewhere for the normal price.

so, techs and tariffs make it possible to have a higher rate of sells from own production or stocks in F4....

just go to Hessenhuis