By Anna Von Reitz
To understand what American States and Nations Bank is, you have to understand the difference between commerce and trade.
Trade is business between unincorporated businesses and people.
Commerce is business between incorporated businesses.
Of course, unincorporated businesses can do business with incorporated businesses in the realm of international trade.
American state nationals naturally function on the land jurisdiction and participate in trade. They and their Mom and Pop businesses and even their larger more substantial private businesses all participate in trade.
When they step across the state (national) border they engage in international trade. Strange to tell, when someone from Georgia sells a car to someone in Florida, they are engaged in international trade. This is because each state is a nation.
When Porcupine and Sons, a local unincorporated family-owned sawmill in Three Pines, Georgia, sells a shipment of flat-sawn pine flooring to MacKenzie Restoration Design, Inc. located in Princeton, New Jersey, they are engaged in international trade.
Me selling ten raspberry bushes to my next door neighbor? That is intra-state trade.
Me selling the same ten raspberry bushes to someone in Oregon? That is international trade. (Why?