Trade
- The Staple, in English historiography, the entire medieval system of trade and its taxation
- Staple right, a medieval right of certain German ports to require merchant vessels to unload and display their goods for sale for a certain period, often three days
- Staple Inn, a building on the south side of High Holborn in London, England
- Statute of the Staple, a statute passed in 1353 by the Parliament of England
- Merchants of the Staple, an English company which controlled the export of wool to the continent during the late medieval period
- Company of Merchant Adventurers of London, brought together London's leading overseas merchants in a regulated company, in the nature of a guild
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