Under early mercantilism, european nations sought to import raw materials from the americas and ship manufactured goods to their colonies. had that pattern changed in today's world ?

In todays world the third world countries or the colonies at the time are now the makers of the manufactured goods, because in 3rd world countries the cost of production is much cheaper and the labor cost is also cheaper. Then they will sell it in first world countries at very high price

austria

hugary

yugoslavia

czechoslovakia

when a country suffers, for example, a drought period, the market product is affected for a low offer, in this case, potatoes; the government has to tax to the households, which have to give more money for the potatoes which they consume, that situation make them consume substitute goods even through loans, it could increase the financial market movement and the inflationary phenomena, the business has to increase salaries in order to the employees could buy a more expensive food (potatoes) and in order to inflation tha business had to buy expensive supplies in the factor market, while the rest of the world have to gain more money to consume the same amount of potatoes.