How to say "commodity" in Japanese

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商品しょうひんJLPT N3approx.Common
nounCovers the core commercial sense of 'commodity' as goods or merchandise traded and sold. Choose this when talking about products a business handles, stocks of goods, or items offered for sale.
食料品しょくりょうひんと衣類いるいの陳列ちんれつ台だいにある商品しょうひんは非常ひじょうに安やすかった。↗
Goods at the food and clothing stalls were very cheap.
品目ひんもくCommon
nounBest for the counting or listing sense: an individual item or line entry in an inventory, tariff, or price list. It treats the commodity as one item among many rather than as merchandise itself.
これらの品目ひんもくは入手にゅうしゅがかなり困難こんなんだ。↗
These items are rather hard to obtain.

Use 商品 for a commodity as goods bought and sold in commerce, and 品目 when 'commodity' means an entry on a list or inventory of items.

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