LEST WE FORGET HISTORY_ SERIES OF AMERICA_S RETURN 2 18TH CENTURY TRADE THINKING PWTRELY NEWS is running a series of our Prez takes America back to the 18th Century Trade Thinking. Remember that the past never disappears. It repeats, reshapes, and returns in ways we don't always see at first. Our Prez is trying to rebuild America's economic relationships using 18th-century trade principles. The same principles that shaped the Rum Triangle between Britain, the Caribbean islands, and the American colonies.