Been playing with the Beta now through about 6 months and just find that compared to my previous non-beta games, there is a large amount of surplus goods on the market. Almost impossible not to be able to buy anything you want and, conversely, quite difficult to sell anything abroad since there is so little demand. Namely Steel, Coal, Nitrates, Cereals, Fish, Cattle, Sugar, Coffee (Brazil seems to have gotten a huge burst in it's economy between the versions. Now it has large amounts of Sugar, coffee, Tobacco and rum that were not there last version), Dye, and Tobacco are all much too common, especially when compared to last version.
Other than that, and the very frustrating North Pole crises', it's totally awesome.
Thanks for a great game and great support.
MJL