If business is now a global affair, then the export-import business is important, lucrative and necessary. An export-import agent is not a broker --- the agents are lower on the business totem pole.
Most properties are measured using a number and a unit of measurement. The unit of measurement is a standard amount. The number compares the property to that standard amount. This means a tree that is ten times as tall as a meter stick is 10 meters tall.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT. METRICS. A metric is a measurement that characterizes some aspect of an entity - be it a product, a process or a company. It's often been said that you can't manage what you can't measure, and without a metric it's difficult to set targets, monitor progress, track results and fix problems.