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>I did not go to college for economics
We get economics that is more advanced than this in our equivalent of middle/high school, but I have learned to keep my expectations low for the Anglo-Saxon races.

The trade screen is only useful in moments when you're noticing that some of your factories are making less and less profit to see whether some resource is too high in demand. The only decision you need to then make is maybe not open/upgrade another factory using said resource.

Other posters have already given good advice. In the base game glass factories, beverage distilleries and wineries are good baby's first factories if you have access to their required resources in your own economy.

Just keep in mind for resources in short supply that the priority for those goods first go to the countries that produce said good, then their shared sphere market, then non-sphere markets going from #1 GP down. If you have a hard time getting artillery as a LA country in 1836 then the economy works correctly.

I don't know if an autist fiddled with the RNG/factory economy at some point, but most mods' capitalist AI do an alright job with figuring out which factories earn a profit. Even clipper factories have their uses in the late game as a luxury good for aristocrats.

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How the fuck does this work. I did not go to college for economics.