Colonial goods

In economics, colonial goods are goods exported from colonies to other regions. Typical colonial goods include coffee, tea, spices, rice, sugar, cocoa and chocolate, and tobacco.

The introduction of colonial goods can revolutionise consumer habits.

At a time when food and agriculture represented a relatively large proportion of overall economic activity, economic statistics often divided traded goods between "colonial goods", "domestic (agricultural and extractive sectors) production" and "manufactured (secondary sector) production".