Mercantile comes from the word merchant where it is traded or engaged in the traffic of goods and is used as an adjective to be applied to those activities, actions, phenomena or processes that are related to the market and the purchase and sale of goods of various types.
The market is the space where people meet to offer the services and goods they require, and in exchange they pay a sum of money or other products. In commercial we can associate three aspects such as merchandise, merchandise and commerce.
A merchandise is any commercial object or service intended to satisfy the needs and desires of people but they are also interchangeable for other things, that implies that you can see some type of equivalence between the different interchangeable merchandise through action are those that are delivered and are receives a different one and the action through money is when a certain amount of money is delivered that is equivalent to the merchandise and therefore the merchandise is no longer direct.
A merchant is a seller who deals with salable goods such as merchandise or merchandise of different qualifications depending on the merchandise with which they work as a merchant of iron, fabrics, finances, recipes, etc.
Trade refers to the commercial agreement that is carried out with the objective of buying or selling a product; On the other hand, trade is also called the commercial premises, business, batica or entity of social and economic activity that implies the acquisition and transfer of merchandise.