This article deals with trade goods and their production and value before they enter the trade network or produce production income. For information about the trade network and income, see trade.

Trade goods.

A map of all of the provincial trade goods in the 1444 start

Each province produces one type of trade goods; the goods produced is the largest determinant of the province's trade value. In turn, trade value determines the province's production income and flows into the trade network.

Goods produced

The goods produced of a province is calculated as follows:

${\text{Goods produced}}=\sum {\text{Base goods produced values}}\,\cdot \,\left(100\%\,+\,\sum {\text{Local goods produced modifiers}}\,+\,\sum {\text{National goods produced modifiers}}\right)$

Various events, decisions and missions also impact goods produced in addition to the local and national goods produced values and modifiers which are mentioned in the tables below.

Base goods produced

Base goods produced	Amount
Base production	+0.2 per production development
Manufactory (except furnaces)	+1
Broker's Office trade company investment in the area	+0.15
Broker's Exchange trade company investment in the area	+0.30
native assimilation bonus in a former colony	+0.05 per 1000 native population at the time that a colony becomes a city. This can be further modified by native assimilation modifiers.

Local goods produced modifiers

Local goods produced modifier	Amount
Prosperity	+25%
Being the trade good's Production leader	+10%
Trading by nearby trade companies	the exact amount depends on the trade share of the trade company and on institutions
Trading by nearby merchant republics	+0.5% for each percentage of trade power in the local trade node controlled by a country which uses the merchant republic mechanics. This modifier does not apply to provinces which are owned by the merchant republic itself, but they can get it from the trade share of other merchant republics. This modifier is doubled for members of a trade league.
Three-Sisters Field native building	+50%
Occupied	−50%
Under siege	−25%
Devastation	−1% per percentage point
Intolerance	−10% per point of negative tolerance

National goods produced modifiers

National goods produced modifier	Amount
Golden Era	+10%
Embraced manufactories institution	+10%
Trading in coal	+10%
Per furnace built	+5%
Economic hegemon	+25% at 100% power
ruler with the Industrious trait	+10%
Ibadi faith	+10%
Hussite church aspect Bread and Wine	+5%
Fetishist countries following the cult	+10%
Norse country with Njord as personal deity	+10%
Zoroastrian nation with the active ritual 'Haoma' (only with )	+10%
The Guilds faction in power	+10%
Monastic Breweries government reform	+10%
Polish Crown age ability available for Poland and Commonwealth during the Age of Reformation	+33%
Mughals with assimilated Dravidian culture	+5%
Holding Amsterdam (97) with the great project Dutch Polders while, Culture is Dutch and Amsterdamm has the primary or an accepted culture of its owner (only with )	+5%; +10%
War exhaustion	−2% per point
Mandate	−1% for each point below 50 (-50% at 0 mandate)

National goods produced modifiers from ideas and policies

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+20%	—	Banteni idea 2: Surrounded by Stars British idea 6: Early Industrialization Imperial German idea 7: Eisen und Kohle	Pskovian ambition	Trade-Quantity: The Production Quota Act
+15%	Scandinavian traditions	American idea 5: Workshop of the World	Burgundian ambition	—
+10%	Balinese tradition Bayreuther traditions Cebu traditions Farsi traditions Flemish traditions Herzegovinian traditions Luzon traditions Malabari traditions Miao traditions Moluccan traditions Moravian traditions Mutapan traditions	Plutocratic idea 5: Free Subjects Ainu idea 2: Riches of the Sea Al-Haasa idea 3: Pearls of the Persian Gulf Amago idea 7: Iwami Ginzan Ansbach idea 6: Ansbacher Fayencemanufaktur Aq Qoyunlu idea 7: Qanun-nama-ye Hasan Asakura idea 2: Echizen Paper Asturian idea 7: Early Industrialism Ayyubid idea 7: State Economics Bengal Sultanate idea 7: Bengali Industrialization Beninese idea 5: Benin Guilds Bolognese idea 4: La Grassa Bornean idea 3: Riches of Borneo Brunswicker idea 5: Brunswicker Guilds Candarid idea 7: Kure Copper Mine Caspian idea 1: The Riches of Tabarestan Chernihiv idea 7: Tame the Grasslands Chimu idea 1: Inter-Valley Irrigation Deccani idea 7: Encourage Growth of Industries Dithmarscher idea 7: Free Farmers Garjati idea 7: Patronize Economic Growth Goslar idea 1: Goslar Mining Traditions Great Yuan idea 7: Pax Mongolica Hanoverian idea 5: Strengthen the Meiertum Hanseatic idea 5: Merchants with a State Imerina idea 3: Intensive Rice Cultivation Irish idea 5: Abundant Harvests Jaunpuri idea 5: Gangetic Plain Javan idea 5: Bi-Yearly Harvest K'iche idea 3: Wealth of the Tamub Kaffan idea 3: Kaffan Highlands Kanem Bornuan idea 3: Aluma's Reforms Khorasani idea 5: Irrigation Canals Kiwi idea 2: The Otago Gold Rush Ladakh idea 3: Wool from the Roof of the World Lan Na idea 2: A Million Rice Paddies Lanfang idea 6: Improved Mining Techniques Mahri idea 1: Lands of Frankincense & the Khareef Malayan idea 7: Spice Kings Malian idea 2: Gold of Bure Malvi idea 5: Black Soils Maratha idea 6: Reform The Bureaucracy Maravi idea 4: Maravi Ivory Trade Mindanao idea 3: Protect the Riches of Mindanao Mogadishan idea 7: Toob Benadir Montferrat idea 2: The Rich and Fertile Mountain Muiscan idea 6: Terrace Farming Mysorean idea 4: Reform the Silk Industry Neapolitan idea 1: Consolidate the Royal Domain Nivernais idea 3: Faience Production Northumbrian idea 7: Taking Coals to Newcastle Nubian (minor) idea 1: The Nile Nubian idea 5: Nile Control Oda idea 1: Rakuichi & Rakuza Orissan idea 4: Refined Cloth Production Otomo idea 2: Lord of Bungo PLC idea 1: The Folwark System Pegu idea 2: Martabans Persian idea 2: Encourage Persian Rug Production Portuguese idea 2: Afonsine Ordinance Punjabi idea 1: Breadbasket of India Québécois idea 1: Coureurs des Bois Rassid idea 2: Yemeni Highlands Saluzzo idea 2: The Rich Mountains of Saluzzo Sardinian-Piedmontese idea 6: Piedmontese Manufacturing Saxon idea 2: Meissner Porcelain Shiba idea 2: Shugo of Three Provinces Sicilian idea 7: Sicilian Silk Sinhalese idea 5: Develop the Cinnamon Trade Slovak idea 1: Rudohorie Sulu idea 7: Pearl Farming Sundanese idea 7: Bi-Yearly Harvest Swedish idea 6: Produktplakatet Takeda idea 2: Shugo of River Dams Texan idea 3: Cotton Plantations Tirhuti idea 7: Indigo & Cash Crops Toki idea 7: Flood Control Trading City idea 4: Great Artisans West African idea 2: Salt Caravans Yemeni idea 1: Al-Yaman, Felicitous Arabia Zimbabwe idea 2: Ivory Trade	Andalusian ambition Aymaran ambition Beloozero ambition Brazilian ambition Dali ambition Ito ambition Livonian ambition Shirvani ambition Trebizond ambition Tripuran ambition	Naval-Economic: The Transportation Act Religious-Trade: Religiously Sponsored Guilds
+5%	—	Byzantine idea 2: Repopulation of the Countryside LPC idea 3: New Magdeburg Laws Lithuanian idea 3: New Magdeburg Laws	—	Innovative-Divine: Ora et Labora

Trade value

A province's trade value is the price of the trade good times the amount of goods produced in the province:

${\text{trade value}}={\text{amount of goods produced}}\cdot {\text{price of the trade good}}$

Trade value then flows into the calculations for a province's production value (in ducats) and the overall trade value of a node. Note that all values listed in the province window for trade value are shown as yearly values. The production and tax value calculations in the upper part of the province screen (which determine the ducats each provinces contributes directly to the treasury) are shown as monthly values.

Gold is treated as a special case and does not have any trade value (see full treatment below). However, it does contribute to a province's production value.

Trade

Main article: Trade

The trade value produced in a province flows into the province's trade node. Eventually it will be collected and turned into trade income.

Production

Main article: Production

Local trade value also produces production income for the owner of the province directly; this income is modified by production efficiency.

List of trade goods

Prices

Main article: Price Change events

Each trade good has a universal base value (for 1 unit). This base price is subject to change through special price change events. While most of these events are not tied to a specific year, they tend to fire usually around the same timeframe in most of the campaigns. It is possible to view the price modifiers affecting a trade good by hovering over it.

The base price and the different price modifiers are summarized in the table below.

Bonuses

• Trading in bonus - Controlling at least 20% of the global trade in a trade good will give the country a modifier "Trading in (trade good)", which gives a national bonus. (The bonus is conferred when market share reaches 20% but a country will not immediately lose the bonus when its market share drops below 20%. The country will retain the bonus as long as it maintains above 15% market share.) The market share can be found in the ledger. Control is computed using the trade power share in each node times the amount of the good produced locally in that node.
• Production leader bonus - Producing the most of a particular trade good will make a country the "production leader" of that trade good, and will provide a bonus to the production of goods of this type:
  • +10% Local goods produced modifier
• Per-province bonus - A province-level bonus applied to the province based on the trade goods being produced there (requires Rights of Man).

Events

Main article: Trade goods events

Various trade goods trigger certain events when the player country owns at least one province which produces this trade good.

List

Notes:

• The years noted next to the price modifier events are there for convenience only (earliest possible approximations based on technology, institutions and ages). The events are more likely to appear at later dates during a normal playthrough.
• Since gold is handled differently from the other trade goods, it is explained in a dedicated section further below.

	Trade good	Manufactory	Base	Adjusted by Events	Historical price modifiers	"Trading in" bonus	"Per-province" bonus
	Cloth	Textile manufactory	3	4.05	+20%: New Draperies (1531) +15%: Uniform Regulations (1661)	−15% Mercenary maintenance	−10% Local development cost
	Fish	Naval equipment manufactory	2.5	2	−10%: Grand Banks Fisheries (1500) −10%: Protestants Don't Eat Fish (1515) −25%: Coldest Period of the Little Ice Age ( 10 years) (1650)	+25% Global sailors modifier	+25% Local sailors modifier
	Fur	Trade station	2	3.5	+35%: Felt Hats (1500) +40%: Depletion of the European Beaver (1570) +25%: Coldest Period of the Little Ice Age ( 10 years) (1650)	+0.5 Yearly prestige	+10% Province trade power modifier
	Grain	Farm estate	2.5	2	−20%: Columbian Exchange (1500) −75%: Eruption of Huaynaputina ( 2 years) (1600) −25%: Coldest Period of the Little Ice Age ( 10 years) (1650)	+20% Land force limit modifier	+0.5 Land force limit
	Livestock	Farm estate	2	3.4	+25%: Columbian Exchange (1500) −25%: Coldest Period of the Little Ice Age ( 10 years) (1650) +10%: Permanent Navies (1674) +35%: Selective Breeding (1700)	−10% Cavalry cost	+50% Supply limit modifier
	Naval supplies	Naval equipment manufactory	2	3	+50%: Permanent Navies (1674)	+20% Naval force limit modifier	+0.5 Naval force limit
	Salt	Naval equipment manufactory	3	3.3	+10%: Grand Banks Fisheries (1500) +25%: Coldest Period of the Little Ice Age ( 10 years) (1650)	−5% Land maintenance modifier	+15% Local defensiveness
	Wine	Farm estate	2.5	3.125	−75%: Eruption of Huaynaputina ( 2 years) (1600) −25%: Coldest Period of the Little Ice Age ( 10 years) (1650) +25%: Growth of the International Wine Trade (1648)	−1 Global unrest	−1 Local unrest
	Wool	Textile manufactory	2.5	2.875	−10%: European Cotton Imports (1500) −20%: New Draperies (1531) +10%: Uniform Regulations (1661) +35%: Selective Breeding (1700)	−5% Ship costs	+10% Friendly movement speed
	Copper	Weapons manufactory	3	3.45	+50%: Bronze Cannons (1479) −35%: Development of Ironworking (1622)	−20% Global recruitment time	−20% Local recruitment time
	Iron	Weapons manufactory	3	4.5	+50%: Development of Ironworking (1622)	−5% Regiment costs	−20% Local construction time
	Ivory	Trade station	4	5	+25%: Ivory Shortage in East Asia (1750) +25%: Trade deal results into increased ivory demand ( 25 years, needs ) +33%: High Quality Ivory from Mali ( 20 years, needs )	+2 Diplomatic reputation	−20% Local state maintenance
	Slaves	Trade station	2	2.2	+50%: The Triangle Trade (1500) −40%: Abolitionism (1710)	+25% Global tariffs	+1% Local missionary strength
	Chinaware	Mill	3	3	+50%: European Traders in China (1590) −50%: Porcelain Production in Europe (1700)	Depending on government type: +0.25 Yearly legitimacy +0.25 Yearly devotion +0.25 Yearly horde unity +0.1 Yearly meritocracy +0.12 Yearly republican tradition	−0.1 Local autonomy
	Spices	Trade station	3	3.3	+50%: Spice Trade (1500) −40%: Decline of the Spice Trade (1600)	+25% Spy offense	−0.1 Monthly devastation
	Tea	Plantation	2	3	+25%: The Way of Tea (1492) +25%: Tea and Sugar (1590)	−10% Advisor costs	+25% Garrison growth
	Cocoa	Plantation	4	5.4	+35%: Hot Chocolate Drinking (1596)	+5% Manpower recovery speed	+10% Local manpower modifier
	Coffee	Plantation	3	3.3	+50%: Coffee Boom (1550) −40%: Dissemination of the Coffee Plant (1583)	+5% Institution spread	+10% Local institution spread
	Cotton	Plantation	3	4.95	+20%: European Cotton Imports (1500) +45%: Calicoes (1674)	+20 Global settler increase	−10% Local development cost
	Sugar	Plantation	3	5.25	+25%: Tea and Sugar (1590) +50%: Popularization of Sugar (1648)	−20% Cost of reducing war exhaustion	−1 Local unrest
	Tobacco	Plantation	3	4.5	+50%: Popularization of Tobacco (1596)	+25% Spy defense	+10% Province trade power modifier
	Dyes	Textile manufactory	4	4	−25%: Increased availability of dyes (1590) +25%: Uniform Regulations (1661)	+33% Chance of new heir	+10% Province trade power modifier
	Silk	Textile manufactory	4	5	+25%: Silk fabrics in fashion (1622)	+1 Max promoted cultures	+2 Local trade power modifier
	Tropical wood	Mill	2	3	+50%: Veneered Cabinets (1544)	−5% Development cost	−20% Local construction cost
	Incense	Trade station	2.5	3	+10%: The Way of Tea (1492) −25%: Reformed and Protestant Rejection of Incense (1530) +35%: Growth of the Perfume Business (1600)	+0.5 Tolerance of the true faith	+10% Trade value modifier
	Glass	Mill	3	3.45	+25%: Bohemian Glass (1609) +25%: Modern Optics (1622) −65%: Lead Crystal (1650) +15%: Growth of the International Wine Trade (1648) +15%: Permanent Navies (1674)	−5% Diplomatic technology cost	+10% Local production efficiency
	Paper	Mill	3.5	4.725	+25%: Watermarks & Marbling (1466) +25%: Growth of Modern Printing & Publishing (1550) −50%: Beaters Replacing Hammers for Paper Production (1650) +35%: Lending Libraries and Book Clubs (1700)	−5% Administrative technology cost	−10% Local state maintenance
	Gems	Mill	4	3	+25%: Faceting (1450) −50%: New World Diamonds (1530)	+0.05% Yearly inflation reduction	+15% Local tax modifier
	Coal	Furnace	10	7	−30%: Greater availability of Coal (1760)	+10% Goods produced	−20% Local state maintenance
	Cloves	Trade station	8	8	There are no price change events for cloves	+5% Trade efficiency	+20% Province trade power modifier

Special trade goods

Gold mines

Map of gold-producing provinces in 1444.

Gold is a special "trade" good that has both advantages and disadvantages: it will give a direct boost to the economy, but also increase inflation every month. If a nation owns many gold mines, it is possible that the inflation incurred negates the increase in income received. Gold does not produce any trade value; it is instead converted directly into ducats at the rate of 40 per year per unit of goods produced. This translates to 8 per base production per year.

Income from gold does not benefit from production efficiency, and there is no manufactory for gold. Also being the production leader or trading in gold gives no bonuses.

Primitive nations convert gold to cash at a rate of only 1:4, 10 times less than non-primitives. They accordingly receive a smaller amount of inflation.

A country will suffer 0.5 inflation per year times the proportion of income from gold. For example, a country which generates 10% of their income from gold would get 0.05% inflation per year. Practically speaking, each 5.33% share of income from gold will require 1 administrative power per year to cancel out inflation if it is not removed through other means. To cancel yearly inflation from gold provinces without spending administrative power to reduce inflation manually, a country needs to have yearly inflation reduction modifiers. The amount of yearly inflation reduction needed is shown in the table below. The right column shows what percentage of total income can come from gold without gaining inflation.

Yearly	Proportion of income from gold that will not increase yearly inflation
–0.05	≤10%
–0.10	≤20%
–0.20	≤40%
–0.30	≤60%
–0.40	≤80%
–0.50	≤100%

Gold income is affected by local autonomy, with a percent of the total possible income gained equal to the local autonomy being deducted.

Gold mine depletion

Gold-producing provinces with a production development of over 1 have a yearly chance to become depleted (halving gold production). With a production development level of 2 the depletion chance is 0.01% yearly, with higher development levels having higher chances (level 3 has a 0.04% chance, level 4 has a 0.07% chance, level 5 has a 0.12% chance, etc.). Each depletion reduces the province's base production in half (unrounded, so it's possible to get fractional development!), effectively halving the produced, but reducing the depletion chance by more than four times. The player can see the current chance of depletion by hovering over the production development increase button on the province panel.

The chance of a goldmine depleting each year is presumably given as:

$0.005\cdot BaseProduction^{2}-0.005$

Rounded down to be displayed in the tooltip.

The depletion can only happen once per year and only on the first day of a month which depends on the province id of the gold mine.

Base production	Yearly depletion chance
3	0.04%
4	0.07%
5	0.12%
6	0.17%
7	0.24%
8	0.31%
9	0.40%
10	0.49%
11	0.60%
12	0.71%
13	0.84%
14	0.97%
15	1.12%
16	1.27%
17	1.44%
18	1.61%
19	1.80%

Given a gold-producing province with a production development $p$, over time it will deplete at most $log_{2}(p)$ (rounded down) times, because a level 1 mine never depletes. Treating a gold-mine as a discrete-time linear system it is possible to estimate the production over a given period of time.

A gold-mine in a province with a production development $p$, is equivalent to a $log_{2}(p)+1$ (rounded down)-th order system.

The discrete state matrix for a period of a year is:

$\mathbf {A} ={\begin{bmatrix}1-d_{0}&0&\cdots &\cdots &0\\d_{0}&1-d_{1}&0&\cdots &\vdots \\0&\vdots &\ddots &\cdots &\vdots \\\vdots &\vdots &\vdots &1-d_{n-1}&0\\0&\cdots &0&d_{n-1}&1\end{bmatrix}}$

Where $d_{i}$ is the depletion chance after the ith depletion

Given the initial state as : $\mathbf {X} _{0}=\left({\begin{matrix}1\\0\\\vdots \\0\end{matrix}}\right)$

After $y$ years the state of the system will be: $\mathbf {X_{y}} =\mathbf {A^{y}} \mathbf {X} _{0}$

Knowing that a base production 5 mine produces 40 ducats/year, the estimated yearly production is : $\mathbf {YearlyDucats} _{y}=8\mathbf {P} \mathbf {X} _{y}$

Where: $\mathbf {P} =(p,floor(p/2),\dots ,1)$

Then the cumulative production over a given number of years $Y$ is: $\mathbf {Ducats} =\sum \limits _{y=1}^{Y}\mathbf {YearlyDucats} _{y}$

Base production	5	10	15	20
max non-decayed prod per year	40	80	120	160
% chance to decay per year	0.12	0.49	1.12	1.99
gold produced over 100 years	3,863	7,148	9,359	11,109
gold produced over 200 years	7,469	12,967	15,685	18,002
gold produced over 300 years	10,846	17,879	20,656	23,430
gold produced over 400 years	14,019	22,152	24,888	28,035

Colonial nations

A colonial nation subject receives no income from gold and instead saves it up and sends periodic treasure fleets to their overlord, as long as their overlord's trade capital is located in a trade node downstream from the trade node the colonial nation's trade capital is located in. If this is not the case, the colonial nations simply collects the gold as normal and pays the normal amount in tariffs.

Privateers may plunder treasure fleets.

Slaves

When a country passes the Abolish Slavery Act, all its provinces producing slaves are immediately set to produce “unknown”. This will also remove any Trade Stations in the province if present, as well as the province modifier “Slave Entrepot”. A new trade good will be randomly reassigned at the beginning of the next month based on the new weights for that province. The War Against the World Doctrine for pirate republics and Dominicans holy order disallow slaves in a similar way.

Coal

Map of all potential coal-producing provinces

See also: Coal in the tradegoods table

After the appearance of the Enlightenment Institution, some provinces may change their trade good and produce coal. Coal allows the province owner to build a Furnace in said province, which gives a global +5% goods produced to the province owner.

Coal can appear in a province that fulfils the following conditions:

• Has Coal as a latent resource
• Has the Enlightenment present
• The owner has embraced the Enlightenment
• One of the following:
  • The Province has a Development of at least 20
  • The Province owner has at least 20 Innovativeness

Trade goods spawn

Tooltip of the unknown trade good in Cape (1177).

Colonies begin with “unknown” trade good and are randomly assigned a trade good after reaching a population of 400 colonists (40%). The trade good is determined by a system of scripted weights. All possible trade goods are shown by hovering the “unknown” trade good icon of the province interface.

Trade goods are weighted based on a variety of factors. The most common are geographic restrictions based on terrain, climate, and region, but some trade goods' probabilities are influenced by the culture and even religion (in the case of wine) of the colonizing nation. Silk will never be produced in a colony in a game with normal or historical nations, and cloth, glass, and paper, while not directly excluded, are likewise precluded by their high development level requirement. Coal is a latent trade good and can't directly spawn from colonizing, although it can appear later if the province has coal as latent trade good.

The chance of getting a given trade good in a province is presumably given by

${\text{P}}_{i}={\frac {{\text{base weight}}_{i}\cdot \prod {\text{modifiers}}_{i}}{\sum _{1}^{n}\left({\text{base weight}}_{x}\cdot \prod {\text{modifiers}}_{x}\right)}}$

where $P_{i}$ is the probability of a specific possible trade good, n is the number of possible trade goods in the province, $\prod {\text{modifiers}}$ are all the modifiers for that trade good multiplied with each other, and the sum in the denominator runs over all possible trade goods in the province.

If a colony has started to produce a trade good due to growing over 400 settlers, and the colony is later destroyed before becoming a city, the trade good in the province will revert to “unknown” and will be selected randomly in subsequent attempts at colonisation. Once a colony has reached 1,000 settlers and become a city, its trade good is fixed barring a few specific events (such as for slaves, see above).

List of trade good probabilities

This table shows the base weights and various modifying probabilities for each trade good. Note that all provinces get a weighting, since custom setup can cause any province to be uncolonized. In the case of provinces that normally have slaves, the weights determine what it gets if the owner abolishes slavery.

Icon	Trade good	Base weight	Modifiers
	Grain	35	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Terrain is Desert, Glacier, Coastline, or Arctic ×0.15 if: Terrain is Mountain, Coastal Desert, Forest, Woods, Hills, or Jungle ×0.25 if: Terrain is Highlands or Marsh ×0.25 if Climate is Arid or Tropical ×0.6 if: Terrain is Drylands, Savannah, or Steppe ×0.35 if: Province experiences severe winters ×0.5 if: Province experiences normal winters ×1.5 if: Terrain is Farmlands ×1.5 if: Province is in Poland or Ruthenia region
	Wine	5	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if any of the following is true: The province experiences severe winters Climate is Artic, Arid or Tropical Terrain is Jungle, Drylands, Steppe, Desert, Coastal Desert, Marsh, Savannah, or Glacier Religion is Sunni, Shiite or Ibadi religion ×0 if: Playing with normal or historical nations The province is not in: South America continent South Africa region Cuyo, Nehuenken, Alta California or Central Valley area ×0.25 if: The province experiences normal winters ×1.25 if: Terrain is Farmlands ×1.25 if: Terrain is Hills or Highlands ×1.5 if any of the following is true: Province is in Cuyo area Province is in France or Italy region ×1.1 if: Culture group is French, Iberian, or Latin
	Wool	30	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Glacier, Marsh, Jungle, Farmlands, Coastline, Hills, Forest, or Woods Province is in the Central Africa region Climate is tropical and province is not in Paraguay or Chaco area Climate is arctic and province is not in Tibet region The province experiences severe winters and province is not in Tibet, Hindusthan, Central Asia, or Caucasia region ×0 if: Province is in Caribbeans, Brazil, Colombia, Southeast, or Mississippi region Terrain is not Mountains ×0.15 if: Terrain is Grasslands, Hills, Forest, or Woods ×0.5: always ×1.25 if: Terrain is Desert, Savannah, Highlands, or Drylands, or climate is arid ×1.5 if: Province is in Central Asia region ×1.5 if: Province is in Tibet region
	Cloth	10	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Development is less than 18 ×2 if: Development is at least 22
	Fish	20	×0 if: Province does not have a port ×0.65 if: Province is in Caribbeans, Malaya, Moluccas, or Indonesia region ×15 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×1.1 if: Terrain is Coastline or Coastal Desert ×1.2 if: Terrain is Glacier
	Fur	15	×0 if: One of the following is true: Climate is tropical or arid Terrain is Drylands, Steppe, Desert, Coastal Desert, or Coastline The province does not experience normal or severe winters ×0 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Farmlands or Mountain Province is in South America Province is in Caribbeans, South Africa, Australia, or Central Africa region Province is in Newfoundland area ×0.75 if: Terrain is Savannah, Grasslands, or Highlands The province experiences mild winters ×0.5 if: Native size is less than 1 ×2 Native size is at least 1 ×1.5 if: Terrain is Forest ×1.6 if: The province experiences normal winters ×2.5 if: The province experiences severe winters Terrain is not Glacier
	Salt	5	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Terrain is not Desert, Marsh, Mountains, or Highlands The province is not adjacent to Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, or Lake Malawi ×2 if one of the following is true: Terrain is Desert Terrain is Marsh and climate is not Arctic (with the regular New World, this excludes most of Hudson Bay) ×2 if: Province is in Peru region ×5 if: Province is in Western Sahara area
	Naval Supplies	15	×0 if: Terrain is Glacier, Desert, Coastal Desert, Drylands, Savannah, Marsh, Steppe, Highlands, or Farmlands ×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0.65 if: Province is in Caribbeans region ×0.5 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Mountain or Grasslands Province is in Central Africa region ×0.5 if: Country controls no ports ×0.75 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Coastline Climate is Tropical ×1.5 if: Terrain is Forest, Woods, Hills, or Jungle
	Copper	15	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Any of the following is true: Terrain is Steppe, Desert, Coastal Desert, Drylands, Grasslands, Savannah, Coastline, Glacier, Jungle, Farmlands, or Woods ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not Maisouna (990) Province is not in Great Valley, Westsylvania, Hudson Valley, Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, Upper Ontario, Laurentia, Abitibi, Maryland, Minas Gerais, Diamantina, Mato Grosso, or Ofaie area Province is not in West Siberia, East Siberia, or Central Africa region ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Province is not in West Siberia or East Siberia region Province is not in the New World ×0.7 if: Province is in Central Africa region ×1.1 if: Playing with a Random New World Terrain is Mountain or Highlands ×1.5 if any of the following is true: Province is in Minas Gerais area, Diamantina, Mato Grosso, Ofaie, Great Valley, Westsylvania, Hudson Valley, Lake Superior, or Lake Champlain area Province is in West Siberia or East Siberia region
	Gold	5	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not in West Siberia, East Siberia, Cascadia, Australia, California, South Africa, Peru, Upper Peru, Mexico, Rio Grande, or Central America region Province is not in Goias Province is not in Mato Grosso, Ofaie, Minas Gerais, Diamantina, Guapore, Grao Para, Amapá, Ucayali, or Amazon area ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Province is not in the New World Province is not in West Siberia, East Siberia, Australia, South Africa, or Central Africa region ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Province is in the New World Terrain is Forest, Woods, Drylands, Grasslands, Savannah, Steppe, Jungle, Coastline, Coastal Desert, or Marsh ×1.5 if: Playing with a Random New World Terrain is Mountains Province is in the New World ×1.5 if: Not playing with normal or historical nations ×3.5 if: Province is in Peru region ×4 if: Province is Mexico (852), Tlapacoyan (853), Sayultecas (854), Huichol (2617), Zacatecas (856), Guichichil (857), Tamaulipas (858), Guamares (2615), or Transvaal (4781) ×3.5 if: Province is in Minas Gerais, Diamantina, Mato Grosso, Ofaie, Goias, or Pontal area ×2 if: the country or its colonial overlord have the flag por_bandeirantes_flag
	Iron	10	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Playing with normal or historical nations Province is not in West Siberia, East Siberia, or Central Africa Region Province is not Lappland (18) or Maisouna (990) Province is not in Great Valley, Westsylvania, Hudson Valley, Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, Upper Ontario, Laurentia, Abitibi, Maryland, or Ofaie area ×1.2 if: Not playing with normal or historical nations Terrain is Mountains, Hills, or Highlands ×1.5 if: Playing with a Random New World Terrain is Mountains Province is in the New World ×20 if: Province is Maisouna (990)
	Slaves	15	×0 if: Province is in an area that is assigned to the Dominicans order ×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if any of the following is true: Country has abolished slavery Continent is 'not Africa Province is Namibia ×0 if: Is an island ×2 if any of the following is true: Province is in Horn of Africa or Congo region Province is in West Africa Coast, Gulf of Guinea, or Benin area ×0.5 if: Province is in South Africa region
	Ivory	15	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Continent is not Asia or Africa Area is not Subarctic Islands or Greenland area (walruses) ×0 if: Terrain is not Jungle, Savannah, or Glacier ×0 if: Province is in West Siberia, East Siberia, Manchuria, Central Asia, or South Africa region ×0.5 if: Province is in Malaya, Moluccas, or Indonesia region ×1.25 if: Terrain is Jungle or Savannah
	Tea	15	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not in Malaya, Moluccas, Indonesia, Indochina, South China, Xinan, or Japan region Province is not in Taiwan, Assam, Banda Oriental, Rio Grande do Sul, Buenos Aires, Mesopotamia, Beni, Moxos, Paraguay, Sao Paulo, or Guayra area (South American areas represent production of yerba mate) ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Culture group is not East Asian, Central Indic, Dravidian, Western Aryan, Hindusthani, Eastern Aryan, Korean, or Japanese ×0 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Mountain, Desert, Drylands, Steppe, or Savannah Climate is arid The province experiences mild, normal or severe winter 1.2 if: Terrain is Farmlands 1.5 if any of the following is true: Province is in Assam area Playing with a Random New World and climate is tropical 1.5 if: Province is in Banda Oriental, Rio Grande do Sul, Buenos Aires, Misiones, Beni, Moxos, Paraguay, Sao Paulo, or Guayra area
	Chinaware	15	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Province is not in Malaya, Moluccas, Indonesia, South China, or Japan region ×0 if: Development is less than 8
	Spices	25	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Province is not in Malaya, Moluccas, Indonesia, Deccan, Bengal, Coromandel, Central America, or Mexico region Province is not in Indian Ocean Islands area Province is not Tahiti ×0 if: Terrain is Mountains ×0.75 if: Province is in Indian Ocean Islands area ×0.5 if: Provinces is on the North American or South American continent 1.25 if: Province is in Malaya, Indonesia, or Moluccas region
	Coffee	15	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not in Southern Ethiopia, Hadiya, Damot, or Shewa area Province is not in Malaya, Moluccas, Indonesia, La Plata, Peru, Brazil, Caribbeans, Central America, Mexico, or Colombia region ×0 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Glacier or Forest Climate is arctic Province experiences mild, normal or severe winter Province is Bermuda ×1.5 if: Province is in Colombia region ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Province is in the New World Climate is not tropical
	Cotton	20	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not in Southeast, Caribbeans, Mississippi, Rio Grande, Egypt, Hidusthani, Bengal, Deccan, Anatolia, or Mongolia region ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Province is not in Egypt, Hidusthani, Bengal, Deccan, Anatolia, or Mongolia region Province is not in the New World ×0 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Mountains, Highlands, Forest, or Jungle Climate is arctic or arid Terrain is Glacier or Desert Province experiences mild, normal or severe winters Province is Bermuda Province is in Europe (except Anatolia region) ×1.5 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Farmlands or Grasslands Province is in Southeast region
	Sugar	15	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Climate is not tropical Any of the following is true: Province experiences mild, normal or severe winters Terrain is Desert, Mountain, Hills, Highlands, Forest, or Steppe ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not in Caribbeans, Brazil, Mexico, Rio Grande, Central America, Colombia, Deccan, or West India region Province is not in Mascarenes area ×2.5 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not Bermuda Province is in Caribbeans region or Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia, Guyana, or Suriname area
	Tobacco	15	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not in La Plata, Northeast America, Southeast, Rio Grande, Brazil, or Caribbeans region Province is not in Vandalia or Overmountain area ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Province is not in the New World ×0 if any of the following is true: Climate is arid and terrain is not Grasslands or Farmlands Province experiences severe winter Terrain is Glacier, Mountain, Drylands, or Desert ×2.5 if: Province is in Northeast or Southeast region
	Cocoa	15	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not in Central America, Colombia, Peru, or Brazil region ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Province is not in the New World ×0 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Glacier, Steppe, Forest, Woods, or Marsh Climate is arid or arctic The province experiences mild, normal, or severe winters
	Silk	5	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Playing with normal or historical nations ×0 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Highlands, Mountain, Marsh, Steppe, Coastline, Desert, Coastal Desert, Hills, Drylands, or Glacier Climate is arid or arctic The province experiences mild, normal, or severe winters ×0.5 if: Not playing with normal or historical nations Religious group is not dharmic or eastern ×1.5 if: Not playing with normal or historical nations Province is in South China, Xinan, North China, Hindusthani, Bengal, Deccan, or Coromandel region Development is at least 20
	Dyes	15	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Terrain is not jungle ×0 if any of the following is true: Climate is arid or arctic Province experiences mild, normal, or severe winters ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not in Niger, Guinea, Congo, Central America, Mexico, or Caribbeans region
	Tropical Wood	25	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Terrain is not Jungle Climate is not tropical Province is not Hawaii ×1.5 if: Province is in Amazon area ×0.5 if: Province is in Malaya, Molucca, or Indonesia region
	Livestock	30	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Glacier, Marsh, Jungle, Hills, Forest or Woods Terrain is Coastline and the province is not Galápagos Islands (2002) Climate is tropical and the province is not in Paraguay or Chaco area Climate is tropical and the province is not in Central Africa, East Africa, Colombia, or Brazil region Climate is arctic and the province is not in the Tibet region ×0 if: Province is in Caribbeans, Brazil, Colombia, Southeast, or Mississippi region Terrain is not Mountain ×0.05 if: Province is Galápagos Islands (2002) ×0.75 if: Province experiences severe winters ×1.25 if any of the following is true: Terrain is Desert, Savannah, Highlands or Drylands Climate is arid ×1.5 if: Terrain is Steppe ×1.5 if: Province is in Central Asia, Tibet, or Central Africa region
	Incense	25	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Province is not in Arabia, Malaya, Moluccas, Indonesia, Deccan, Bengal, Coromandel, South East Pacific, or Australia region Province is not in Indian Ocean Islands area ×0 if: Terrain is Mountains ×0.5 if: Province is in Indian Ocean Islands area ×1.25 if: Province is in Arabia region
	Glass	5	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Development is less than 18 ×2 if: Development is at least 22
	Paper	5	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Development is less than 18 ×2 if: Development is at least 22
	Gems	5	×0 if: Province is in Newfoundland area ×0 if: Not playing with a Random New World Province is not in West Siberia, East Siberia, Australia, South Africa, Central Africa, Central America, Peru, Upper Peru, Colombia, Indonesia, Moluccas, Hindustan, Western India, Bengal, Deccan, Coromandel, or Indochina Province is not in the continent Oceania Province is not in Minas Gerais, Diamantina, Amazon, Bogota, Popayan, Venezuela, Guyana, Upper Guyana, Guapore, Amapá, Grao Para, Goias, Mato Grosso, Pontal or Guapore areas ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Province is not in the continent New world or Oceania Province is not in West Siberia, East Siberia, Australia, South Africa, Indonesia, Moluccas, Hindustan, Western India, Bengal, Deccan, Coromandel or Indochina region ×0 if: Playing with a Random New World Province is in the continent New world Terrain is Forest, Woods, Drylands, Savannah, Steppe, Coastline, Coastal Desert, or Marsh ×0 if: Terrain is not Coastline Continent is Oceania ×1.2 if: Province is in Moluccas region ×0.75 if: Province is in Indonesia region ×0.5 if: Continent is Oceania ×1.5 if: Continent is North America or South America ×2 if: Province is in Diamantina, or Bogota area ×1.5 if: Province is in Brazil region ×1.5 if: Terrain is Mountains, Jungle, Hills, Highlands, or Coastline ×1.5 if: Playing with a Random New World Terrain is Mountains Province is in the continent New world ×1.5 if: Not playing with normal or historical nations
	Coal	1	Doesn't spawn from colonizing. See the coal section for information on how it appears. On average 7 provinces in a random new world have coal as a latent trade good

See also

• Trade
• Trade goods strategy

Footnotes

Mechanics

Customization

Nation designer • Random New World

Ages and Institutions

Ages • Institutions

Innovativeness and Technology

Innovativeness • Technology

Defense

Fort • Zone of control