#spices import

[logisticsandtransportation]

How Historical Trade Routes Influence Modern Export Policies

The movement of goods over long distances is as old as civilisation itself. Moving from the busy bazaars of ancient cities to today's high-tech logistics hubs, trade has always formed the lifeblood of human contact, culture, and economy. Amongst the treasures that move on such ancient routes, spices hold a special place. Their worth was more than gastronomic; it ran into the realms of being associated with riches and even with magic. Moving into the details of modern export policies, the reverberations of these ancient trade routes echo into how goods especially spices-move and are controlled around the world today.

Throughout history, spices have been among the most highly treasured items in the world. The Spice Routes of old, reaching from the Far East into Europe, were little more than routes of trade but conduits of culture, knowledge, and influence. Often hazardous or long, the routes joined the civilisation that urged diplomacy and even stirred wars. The demand for spices like cinnamon, pepper, and cloves was so keen that it whetted exploration appetites and laid the foundation for the network of global trade to which we are so accustomed today.

These various ancient routes - the famous Silk Road and oceanic routes across the Indian Ocean- provided the conduit through which the lifeblood of world trade ran. They connected regions as varied as the spice-rich Malabar Coast of India with the imperial courts of Rome and the thriving markets of Cairo. Traders who dared these routes were not mere merchants but carriers of stories, religions, and innovations. In many ways, these routes were forerunners of modern globalisation, weaving together the fabric of faraway cultures and economies through the simple yet strong act of trade.

With international trade came evolved mechanisms regulating it. The need for standardisation, regulation, and protectionism led to the establishment of policies related to export being necessary to ensure the products were of good quality, authentic, and safe. These, in many ways, are the direct descendants of the more ancient practices ruling trade across the spice routes. This would then be followed by a guarantee on the purities of the commodity traders who often had to obtain seals or certificates from local rulers to testify to the purity of their wares. This has today taken a more sophisticated turn with the intricate web of modern export regulations.

In fact, in the case of spices, one could trace this evolution of such policies to the demands of the old spice trade. This further encouraged modern regulations that required so much documentation, careful quality cheques, and certification before such goods get into international markets, so as not to adulterate spices and make them true to their origins. At least this shall ensure the rich heritage of the spice trade is conserved and updated towards modern commerce.

International trade in spices is a multibillion-dollar business today, with very deep roots in traditions of ancient times. Indeed, fascination with exotic flavours and growing demand for authentic quality spices continue to push the spice markets. Goods, though reaching farther and quicker than ever, trusting and tradition will not suffice in confirming integrity-they need robust certification processes.

The need for certification, especially in India, the largest spice producer in the world, is epitomised in the role of the Spices Board. It is a statutory body that came into existence under the Spices Board Act of 1986, entrusted with responsibilities to promote, develop, and regulate the spice industry. Among the many responsibilities it undertakes, one very important aspect is the issuance of the Spice Board Certificate.

Exporters or traders of spices exported out of India are required to have a registration certificate with the Spices Board. This is not just an administrative procedure but one that represents the seal of quality and authenticity on the spices exported. Indeed, this certificate affords evidence that spices conform to the high standards laid down for international trade so that the prestige of India as a supplier of high-quality spices is maintained accordingly.

Moreover, the Spices Board Act has made incorporation certificates necessary for completing the formalities regarding imports and exports. This further certification underlines the call for compliance and regulatory demands within the trade of spices, accounting for even the minute details of exports to be made transparently accountable.

Logistics have become very crucial in this fast-moving global market where time is crucial. This was a very time-consuming process from fields of Kerala to estates of Assam to tables of homes and restaurants around the world. Several steps are involved with multi-players in each step; every step needs to be performed well.

That would be the role of modern logistics companies - to provide that main link from producer to consumer. Companies like Prime Logistics may have specialised services to ensure the export process is smooth and compliant with all regulations, for example, Spice Board Certificate requirements. All these firms deal with the headache of complexities in documentation, transport, and customs clearance, making spice producers do what they know best: grow and harvest the best of spices.

Not always glamorous, and seldom at the forefront, logistics plays a very important role in the global spice trade to ensure the continuance of this rich cultural heritage and that spices reach their perfect condition in good form at their destinations.

Probably the best example is how even modern export policies are lent structure by the ancient spice routes. These routes were never about the exchange of goods but about the exchange of ideas, cultures, and practices. So many ways, regulations, and certifications that today govern the spice trade are continuums of that legacy to make sure the rich history of spice trading is duly honoured and preserved.

It is apt, as we step into the rapidly globalising world, to trace the origin of the beginnings of trade policy that would have sounded after all so intricate and bureaucratic. If anything at all, they are the modern manifestations of applications dating back to ancient times to preserve the integrity and authenticity of goods in transborder movements.

A Spice Board Certificate is not just a piece of paper, the link between the past and present, testifying to the eternal legacy of the spice trade. An essential ingredient of modern commerce, it keeps this most ancient and vital of industries alive.

While the world has moved some distance from the days of the ancient spice routes, fundamental guiding principles that dominated the activities of those early trust, authenticity, and quality-endure to this day and are as valid now as they were centuries ago. Exporters press on with the intricacies of international trade today, conscious of their standing in that rich and storied tradition which shapes the world monumentally and durably.

[ekkoh]

i really love it when people here are “not normal” about the things they love. yes!! break down the scene that you’ve been obsessing over for weeks! create incredibly intricate theories based on a few throwaway lines! explain why you love this character so much—458 reasons and counting, and with visual aids! i love to see people putting their heart and soul into not being normal!!!

[mellowtrait]

Got my chaos automatic One, two, three, it's systematic. START / PREV • NEXT.

[burningcheese-merchant]

cmon burningcheese headcanon generator 3000. I know you got some more in there so SPIT IT OUT ALREADY!!!

Should I change my blog name to that, I wonder 🤔

Rough day today so I'm going to answer this particular ask in an attempt at self-soothing because BurningCheese makes me happy haha

For Valentine's Day, Burning Spice likes to show off his surprising way with words by writing Golden Cheese poetry. Even today, after knowing him for so long (and knowing he's not dumb, far from it), she still can't help but feel astonished by the silver tongue he hides in his mouth. He's been doing this since long before they ever got together (he started when she began tolerating him enough to allow him near her outside of their usual sparring sessions lol) and he's never missed a day. Even when she still hated him, she was never able to refuse (both because he knew to play to her love of gifts, and because he wouldn't leave her alone until she took the damn envelope lol)... Nowadays she almost acts like a schoolgirl with a crush, in how excited she is to see what he writes her next. She keeps them all safe in an everything-proof box and it's one of her favorite things to receive from him (like so haha)

Likes To Bite x Likes Being Bitten (and it goes both ways lol. GC just waits until they're alone to give him a nibble. He loves it so fucking much you have no idea)

BS's main love language is physical touch, which he gives GC in spades. A hand on her shoulder, an arm around her waist, grabbing her and yanking her away from whatever she's doing and into an inescapable hug, holding her in his lap, smothering her with kisses, adult fun time (wink wink)... He simply cannot keep his hands off of her, nor does he want to, nor will he ever. (this also extends to fighting. They still spar all the time, for fun. Old habits die hard)

BS is extremely clingy at bedtime, he will grab onto GC and fall asleep and not let her go no matter what (he won't wake up either, he sleeps like the dead... Unless she tries to get up to drink water or something, then he's awake and grumbling and fussing like a spoiled baby until she's back in his indestructible cage of an embrace)

GC doesn't like spicy food at all. She indulges BS when he wants her to try food from his homeland because that's what lovers do for each other (and she's too proud to chicken out), but... goodness, those people are insane. They think this amount of spice in a dish is acceptable??? BS just thinks it's really funny to watch her sputter and her face turn red when she eats a mouthful of vindaloo lol (although he secretly hopes that any children they have do not inherit her spice intolerance)

BS helps GC preen or otherwise tend to her wings when necessary. She used to ask her attendants to help, now he's the only one who's allowed to (they've come a long way since this haha)

They're both very jealous and not jealous at the same time, if that makes any sense. Neither doubts the other's loyalty or devotion, not one bit. Buuuuut alsooooooo they don't like when anyone else tries anything with the other lol. Someone even LOOKS at GC Like That and BS is either getting in their face to intimidate them or being overly touchy with GC to establish dominance lol. (GC usually doesn't need to step in if the reverse happens, BS will just tell other women to fuck off point-blank. But if they don't listen, then it's HER turn to be overly touchy to establish dominance lol. Also, lots of mean girl insults. That's what you get for trying something with her man)

BS proposed to GC on the same cliff where he tore up her wings. Very macabre and tasteless on the surface, admittedly, but he saw it as undoing the dark, unfortunate significance that place held. Making new, happy memories to replace the old, unhappy ones, ykwim? (She understood what was meant by them being there when it happened, she was actually very touched)

BS is GC's new throne. Being significantly smaller than him means she fits really snug in his lap. An extra throne was not built for him after they married because GC said that he's allowed to sit in hers and she'll just sit in his lap when he does lol

GC tastes rich and a bit salty; BS tastes very hot and spicy. His is actually the only spice she can tolerate (and thinks is delicious)

Something kid-related just because: GC named their son, BS named their daughter. But you probably could've guessed that on your own haha

[shrews-art]

White chrysanthemums for grief, lavenders for devotion 🌸

[wilted-feathers]

[Centross puts his lips against Icarus', tasting the alcohol in both their mouths. He fumbles with the door to Icarus' house behind them.]

@the-violet-reaper

[They hold onto anything, clothes, hair, his body. They just needed him]

[littlebigmouse]

No you don't understand. Reigen does not commit tax fraud or insurance fraud. He doesn't actually have psychic powers, not even a little, or empath powers or what you have it. His family are regular ass people with regular ass jobs and frankly, so is Arataka, a young, self-employed guy living pay-check to pay-check because that's what most people starting out self-employed do. He spends most of the day at work and then gets take-out not because he's bringing college-student energy to the table, but because that's what the average single and fresh member of the japanese work force does. Because holding on to friends at that age is hard enough without existential-crisis-induced self-loathing.

It is so, so important to me that Reigen is the most statistically average twenty something japanese man there is. He's literally just a guy. A perfectly average middle schooler who liked to slack off and forgot his lunch that one time and wanted to be someone one day, when he was filled with youthful optimism, before life got complicated, before he realized he was just another fish in a really, really big ocean with a LOT of other fishes. One perfectly average fish among thousands of other, average fishes that become perfectly average members of society.

[tangents-from-an-awkward-void]

[SPOILERS]

CHANGE -- DESTRUCTION

how we feeling on episode 5 because goddamn

[revvethasmythh]

Thinking about returning to the Lighthouse after picking up the weekly groceries and how it's gotta be like, "oop, excuse me, Lucanis! I am here to restock your Bedroom, don't mind me." Like, the concept of the Panty-Bedroom(TM) is killing me currently. Imagine getting hungry in the middle of the night only there is A Man in the pantry standing between you and Midnight Cheese Snack? Imagine being the Man whose bedroom is the communal food pantry for eight weirdoes in the Fade? What levels of insane must your life have reached for you to be either of the people in this scenario

[mikehasfleas]

Life hack for people with short attention spans:

WATCH DUMB VIDEO ESSAYS!!

I am so goddamn serious. If you have a short attention span, the best thing I've found to help with that is video essays. Please bear with me on this post, or read the tldr:

My attention span was, and still is, totally fucked from my years on the internet and my adhd. I would spend hours on tiktok, instagram reels, yotube shorts, etc, and could barely sit through a TV show episode without opening pintrest to get even more mental stimulation.

But fast-forward to mid-fall last year, where I got really into video essays. Started out with 5 minute "storytime stickmen" videos, then 10 minute explanations of game lore bits, then 15 minute videos on punk subculture stuff, etc, and even though I was still using pintrest and reels relentlessly outside of that, after a little while, I realized that I had stopped pulling out my phone mid-video. The videos were actually grabbing and KEEPING my attention, even if I had little to no prior interest in the subject.

And by now, I've finished multiple 2.5 hour long videos on totally random stuff like the characterization of king candy, the making of a now lost-media tinkerbell movie, weird random stuff in fnaf security breach, etc. Now I actually SEEK OUT these longer videos, and even find myself getting involuntarily disappointed when a video essay I'm watching cuts out at 20 minutes! I actually enjoy sitting through long videos now!

And sure, I don't always watch them in one sitting, but if anything that's even better! I can come back to a video I was in the middle of and STILL keep my attention on it!

This is all to say, you can't just cold-turkey your way out of the instant-dopamine-rush of shortform content. It's just not gonna work. But if you do it gradually, you will likely find yourself getting actually INTERESTED in just the act of watching a longer video. And maybe by extension, you'll find yourself being more engaged in things like your classes because you're already GOOD at being engaged with lectures on random stuff, which will likely make you want to find MORE of that class content (the coursework) because you're used to the information being given for even longer periods of time than the classes are.

Now, this won't work for every type of content, and it obviously won't completely fix your attention span. Hell, I'm still addicted to plenty of online shortform content. But it is undeniably helpful to have even just one facet of your attention span be over an hour.

TLDR (since this IS a post directed at people with short attention spans); I used to have a detrimentally short-as-fuck attention span, but I basically exposure-therapy'd myself into enjoying long videos, and it did WONDERS for my attention span. I want to help you do the same.

So please, for the good of your brain,

WATCH DUMB VIDEO ESSAYS!!!

[canisalbus]

Whenever someone says "This would kill a Victorian child." Or "This would kill a medieval peasant." I have to think about Machete. Would he... would he survive eating a Dorito?

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[rambunctioustoons]

package instructions said you could make 24 cookies or 8 big cookies uh -

still tasty tho !!

[goatpunches]

may i request luo binghe and zhuzhi-lang hanging out? cousin bonding time 🥰

modern au, binghe teaching zhuzhi lang how to cook :3

[crazymanicherelmao]

School is beating my ass so far, this is new

[burningcheese-merchant]

Wake up, BurningCheese/GoldenSpice babes, new poorly drawn blorbos just dropped

They look cooler in my head, I swear.

the images didn't show up the first time wtf lol

The kids are finally here, yay. I promised I'd show you them, and I finally stopped being an asshole and followed through. Almost got 200 followers and I'm very grateful for it - really, I'm nobody. I'm just some clown who says dumb stuff and makes dumb memes and writes cringey stories, and yet I convinced almost 200 people to tune in. Thank you all so much, users on here and anons in my inbox alike. As a token of appreciation, you can all endure my rambling about my OCs and witness a person in their early 20s draw like a 12 year old.

The boy is Pepper Jack (or Pepper Jack Cookie). He's the firstborn and older than his sister by a few years. He takes after his mother in a lot of ways, primarily in her appearance (save for nabbing his father's red eyes). He's incredibly bright (and a smartass lol), preferring to think his way out of conflict rather than fight his way out... not that he's above violence at all, if that glaive doesn't give it away lol. He harbors a deep sense of love and loyalty towards his family and his peoples, and carries the weight of his responsibilities and heritage with as much confidence and poise as he can muster. (There are/will be times where he stumbles, of course. He's not perfect. He struggles a lot more than he lets on, really. But he tries his best, for everyone's sake.)

The girl is Matar Paneer (or Matar Paneer Cookie). Again, she's the younger one by a few years. She was all but made in her father's image, save for inheriting her mother's eyes. She's a little firecracker: lively and fun-loving and stubborn as a mule. She doesn't ask "can I have/do this thing", she tells you "I'm going to have/do this thing". Golden is proud as anything to see her daughter be so greedy... until that greed comes into conflict with her and Spice's authority lol. But she's a good kid, despite being such a handful. She has an enormous heart and is not afraid to stand up for others/what's right, and she loves her parents and brother more than anything in the world. She might doubt her own capabilities, she might secretly fear that she's not strong enough to do what she needs to... but she keeps pushing anyway, because she'd honestly choose death over quitting.

Your eyes are not deceiving you, Pepper Jack's wings are blue lol. There's an actual reason for that. And that USO (Unidentified Sitting Object) in Matar Paneer's hair is a lotus (the cheese one in the GCK decor set lol). There's a reason for that, too. I thought it would be cool to give Jack a glaive and swap out the normal blade for that of a khopesh sword (glaives are not Egyptian, they only saw use in Asia and Europe, but I just HAD to give him a glaive), to add that Egyptian touch. Paneer's supposed to be wearing a pattu pavadai, it's a traditional Indian dress for young girls. It's a blouse plus a skirt. She's holding katar, Indian knives (Cilantro Cobra has them, too). And her hair's supposed to be in a low ponytail.

Merchant thinks that if they explain what their terrible drawings are supposed to convey, people will understand their intended vision and the pain will stop

I sat down and did research into both Egyptian and Hindu mythology for the sake of drawing inspiration for them both. I'll explain in detail in another post, but basically: both of them take after one Egyptian god and one Hindu god each. Golden takes after Ra and Spice takes after Shiva, so I figured I'd follow along that line.

Please flood my inbox with questions about them now. I've really been dying to talk about them for ages now. I've drafted extensive character sheets for them both, I even made up in-game descriptions for them lol. They're my little fankid blorbos and I love them :') I hope you all come to love them, too

(Also, I'm sorry they're on lined paper. I'm visiting family rn and that's the only paper my grandmother has in her house. I'd have to drive to a stationery to get printer paper and I'd really rather not drive in this particular country lol (shit roads, even shittier drivers). I'll doodle them on printer paper whenever somebody remembers to bring me some)

[pennamepersona]

established cards/wines and once cards is acceptably batsexy enough spices tries to hit on cards to humiliate wines by stealing its lover

but cards looks at it with an open mixture of pity and disgust and literally says "yikes" and this is why spices hibernates until the next Summer Catastrophe when hopefully everyone will be distracted enough to forget how cringe it was