Editing Hanseatic League (section)

====Major trade goods====

{| class= "wikitable floatright"
|+Imports and exports, 18 Mar 1368 – 10 Mar 1369<br />(in thousands of Port Lübeck marks)
|-
!Imports!! !!Origin, Destination!!Exports!! !!Total!!%
|-
|150|| ||London/Hamburg|| 38 || ||188 || 34.4
|-
|44|| ||Livonian towns:|| 51 || || 95 || 17.4
|-
| || 10 || Riga || || 14 || ||
|-
| || 34 || Reval (Tallinn) || || 14.3 || ||
|-
| || -||Pernau|| || 22.7 || ||
|-
|49.4 || || Scania || 32.6 || || 82|| 15
|-
|52 || || Gotland, Sweden|| 29.4|| || 81.4|| 14.9
|-
|19 || || Prussian towns:|| 29.5|| || 48.5|| 8.9
|-
| || 16|| Danzig|| || 22.8|| ||
|-
| || 3|| Elbing|| || 6.6|| ||
|-
|17.2|| ||Wendish & Pomeranian <br />towns:|| 25.2|| ||42.4|| 7.8
|-
| ||5.5|| Stettin|| || 7|| ||
|-
| || 4|| Stralsund|| || 7.5|| ||
|-
| || 2.2|| Rostock|| || 4.6|| ||
|-
| || 5.5|| Wismar || || 6.1|| ||
|-
|4.3 || || Bergen|| – || || 4.3|| 0.8
|-
|3 || || Small Baltic ports|| 1.2|| || 4.2|| 0.8
|-
|338.9|| || Total || 206.9 || || 545.8 || 100
|}

Starting with trade in coarse woolen fabrics, the Hanseatic League increased both commerce and industry in northern Germany. As trade increased, finer woolen and linen fabrics, and even silks, were manufactured in northern Germany. The same refinement of products out of the cottage industry occurred in other fields, e.g. etching, wood carving, armor production, engraving of metals, and  [[Woodturning|wood-turning]].

The league primarily traded beeswax, furs, timber, resin (or tar), flax, honey, wheat, and rye from the east to [[Flanders]] and England with cloth, in particular [[broadcloth]], (and, increasingly, [[final good|manufactured goods]]) going in the other direction. Metal ore (principally copper and iron) and herring came south from Sweden, while the Carpathians were another important source of copper and iron, often sold in [[Toruń|Thorn]]. Lubeck had a vital role in the salt trade; salt was acquired in Lüneburg or shipped from France and Portugal and sold on Central European markets, taken to Scania to salt herring, or exported to Russia. [[Stockfish]] was traded from Bergen in exchange for grain; Hanseatic grain inflows allowed more permanent settlements further north in Norway. The league also traded beer, with beer from Hanseatic towns the most valued, and Wendish cities like Lübeck, Hamburg, Wismar, and Rostock developed export breweries for hopped beer.<ref name="Jahnke2010">{{cite book
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