Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 17:4

"he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants." — Ezekiel 17:4 (ASV)

Into a land of traffick. —Literally, a land of Canaan, the word being sometimes used for merchant or merchandise, as in Hosea 12:8 (verse 7 in English versions); Isaiah 23:8; Zephaniah 1:11. The parallelism of the next clause shows that this is its meaning here. Babylon has already been called Canaan in Ezekiel 16:29, probably from its commercial character.