Also, growing numbers of consumers buy drugs from foreign countries over the Internet.
Instead of farming, the country catches fish and buys food from other countries.
"Under this policy, Japan could always buy widgets from other countries."
"At this point, I'm only going to buy things from countries that oppose the war," he said.
Because of this, Brazil does not have to buy oil from other countries.
President Obama's budget supports a plan to allow people to buy cheaper drugs from other countries.
In mercantilism, the government makes it hard to buy things from other countries.
Consumers may believe that it is not appropriate, and possibly even immoral, to buy products from other countries.
The Republicans made 'tariffs', which meant that it cost a lot of money to buy products from other countries.
And as with other components, most big manufacturers buy parts from several countries.