Title of Assignment: What role does the WTO play in international business? Argue the case that the WTO is either helpful or a hindrance to international trade, giving particular examples to support your case.
1. Introduction
International trade has been increasingly frequent since industrialisation. Today globalisation becomes well-known among people. As economies have become more open, countries become more dependent on one another. However, rarely is free trade truly free trade due to country interventions which aim to promote industrialisation or national interests, or protect employment or consumer (Morrison 2006). In an interdependent world the actions of one country has consequences for others. Hence The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has grown in importance because globalisation expands and countries become inter-dependent. WTO is the international body responsible for oversight of trade between nations.
The author will first check the role that the WTO plays in international business. This is followed by "argue the case that the WTO is helpful rather than a hindrance to international trade", supported by particular examples.
Some people do not see international trade favoura...
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Figure 2These two issues will then be covered in this essay.
Information collected for essay is from various existing sources (second data), e.g. Internet, related textbooks (especially books talking about international business and similar topics), Journal articles, newspaper, and so forth.
Limitations of this essay include: First, as this is the first time for the author to systematically research WTO, he may not provide a very professional discussion for the topic typically due to time restriction; second, the author will argue that the WTO is helpful rather than a hindrance to international trade, which may not be supported by many others as WTO does have encountered some criticism that may be unfavourable to the author's point of view.
2. The role that the WTO plays in international business
2.1 The origin of...