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.
Measurements are ways that we tell others how much of an item we have. There are two systems of measuring thingsâEnglish and Metric. English measurements are used only in the United States, while metric measurements are used in nearly every other country. Measurements are used to give number values to distance (length, width, and height), weight, time, volume (liquid measurements), and temperature. To get you used to these measurements, weâre providing a list of commonly used English and metric measurements, and their equivalents.