BIS Review 77/2006  Adjusting to changes in the terms of trade As I noted, the recent rise in Canada's terms of trade stems from two main sources: reduced prices for imports, especially from emerging-market countries such as China and India, and substantially higher prices for many of our commodity exports due to strong global demand, particularly from Asia.
Transfer of money via banking channels is still expensive and slow and sometimes takes as long as five days. Plus, banks in Serbia are not very much interested in attracting those transfers.