5 sentences with 'middlemen'
Example sentences and phrases with the word middlemen and other words derived from it.
• « The Italians were also the middlemen who linked Asia and Europe via the Middle East: Italy was the European terminus of the Silk Road. »
• « Europeans had also long traded with Muslim merchants in North Africa for gold, ivory and spices, and wanted to cut out the middlemen and reach sources further south. »
• « The Dutch served as middlemen in European trade, shipping and selling such things as timber from Russia, textiles from England, and wine from Germany, and also increasingly as bankers in Europe. »
• « The Tea Act of 1773 gave the British East India Company the ability to export its tea directly to the colonies without paying import or export duties and without using middlemen in either Britain or the colonies. »