What is a mercantile system

The system of political economy that sought to enrich the country by restraining imports and encouraging exports.

Explanation:

An econimic policy under which nations spught to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

OR

A system of political economy that sought to enrich the country by restraining imports and encouraging exports. This system dominated Western European economic thought and policies from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries.

their both pretty much the same thing.

#1 im pretty sure its a.

honeslty bro its the same thing