Essays Tagged: "trade barriers"

Advantages of technology in the international market

Technology plays a major role in international trade. Databases, overnight delivery and faxes have opened the world market to not only larger compa ... profits and governments are beginning to listen.Since 1986 (GATT) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade have taken the incitive to move towards the liberalization of international trade. GATT member ... ards the liberalization of international trade. GATT members agreed to reduce tariff and non-tariff trade barriers. From 1986 to the present due to GATT's lead many markets have been open to the Unite ...

(3 pages) 210 0 3.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Globalisation.

of multinational customers demanding standard input, it's important to gain global efficiency. Low trade barriers and low product weight/value ratio, and stable group of global competitors are other ...

(7 pages) 547 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Free trade area of the americas and Brazil.

FTAA (Free trade area of the Americas)- 34 democracies of the Americas (except Cuba and Guiana)- aims for the e ... cas)- 34 democracies of the Americas (except Cuba and Guiana)- aims for the eventual elimination of trade tariffs between all participating countries.- 9 FTAA negotiated groups: market access; investm ... e unleashed by the abandoning on tariff barriers.- government remains skeptical about the potential trade benefits- whether or not to join FTAA ultimately depend on the willingness of the US to tackle ...

(1 pages) 84 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. What is it? Current Status. Obstacles to passage.

Free Trade Agreement of the AmericasThe Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) is a trade agreement ... ery country in the Americas, except Cuba. It is essentially an expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to encompass the Western Hemisphere. The FTAA was formally launched at the F ... he Americas, held in Miami in December 1994. At the beginning of that year, the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA (Canada, Mexico and the United States) officially came into effect. The expan ...

(2 pages) 84 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Case Study: Kanzen Berhad: The United States and AntiDumping Duties Globalization, international business, non-tariff barriers, and international trade issues.

ct, many things have changed - including how countries operate with each other. Thus, international trade has evolved into a complex system of trade barriers to ensure the protection of domestic indus ... stem of trade barriers to ensure the protection of domestic industry and its workers interests. The trade impediments and subsidies include protective tariffs, import quotas, non-tariff barriers i.e. ...

(6 pages) 479 0 2.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

With Reference to at least three companies of your choice, critically evaluate Dunning's Eclectic Paradigm as a framework explaining the reasons why companies engage in Foreign Direct Investment.

space-shrinking technologies of transport and communication, in unison with the overall decline in trade barriers, help to make possible the internationalisation of economic activity and also the dev ... isation.As the three principles are derived from a variety of theoretical approaches: organisation, trade and location, the notion is labelled as eclectic.The first condition is that of the "Ownership ...

(12 pages) 348 2 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Pros and Cons of Free Trade

Geography: Pros and Cons of Free TradeFew can contend that the world is more interconnected and interrelated more than ever. This ... onnected and interrelated more than ever. This web of interdependency is primarily made possible by trade, and in the twenty-first century, a large and significant portion of trade is conducted on a g ... of trade is conducted on a global scale. Furthermore, while the majority of people agree that free trade can benefit both parties in terms of economic development and an increase in overall producti ...

(6 pages) 469 0 3.9 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Foreign Direct Investment

m invests resources in business activities outside its home country. Many barriers to international trade took the form of high tariffs on imports of manufactured goods. Such tariffs aimed to protect ... ch tariffs aimed to protect domestic industries from "foreign competition". In addition to reducing trade barriers, many countries have also been progressively removing restrictions on barriers to for ...

(11 pages) 359 1 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

A Look At NAFTA

NAFTA is defined as the North American Free Trade Agreement between the Governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This pact calls fo ... Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This pact calls for the gradual removal of tariffs and other trade barriers on most goods produced in North America. The agreement was finalised by the governmen ... nd the U.S.A. to be a success but in Canada public support is fairly even. The main reason why free trade was being pushed was because in the early 1980's inflation and unemployment ratings were sky r ...

(4 pages) 115 1 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Discussion of the contribution of Dunning's Eclectic Theory

nvestment (FDI) in the last 20 years throughout the world. FDI has been growing at a high rate, and trade barriers have fallen extensively at the same time (De Santis and Stahler, 2003; Javalgi, Griff ...

(8 pages) 131 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

History of GATT and WTO, its difference and advantages to US.

rces attempted to work out the arrangements for the post war era. General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was formed by an International conference held at Geneva in 1947. The US initiated nego ... o regulate different tariff rates. GATT was formed as an agreement among member nations to decrease trade barriers and to place all nations within the trading relation. GATT began its provisional exis ...

(3 pages) 161 1 3.9 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

NAFTA

on it seems logical to implement a regional economic integration system such as NAFTA. By reducing trade barriers throughout Canada, United States, and Mexico NAFTA has enabled a powerful threshold t ... l environment to act as a team of cooperative countries. Furthermore, I believe that if other free trade organizations are integrating forces that eventually they could obtain a sustainable competiti ...

(1 pages) 85 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

A Critical Appraisal of the Determinants of Global Integration

economy is one of expeditious change. National economies, previously secluded from other nations by trade barriers, physical distance, time zones, different languages and culture, differences in gover ... es in government policy, and business practices are now merging. Determinants include reductions in trade barriers, advances in transport and telecommunications technology, and a convergence of materi ...

(7 pages) 143 0 3.5 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

WTO

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international organization dealing with the global rules of tra ... ucts, components, raw materials, and services that they use. They make this happen by ensuring that trade flows smoothly, predictably, and freely as possible.The United States is proposing ambitious r ... edictably, and freely as possible.The United States is proposing ambitious reforms for agricultural trade in the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. The U.S. proposal on export competition, m ...

(2 pages) 145 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Automobile Industry of Malaysia

digenous auto industry as his pet project. He has sought to develop the auto sector to avoid a huge trade deficit and to reduce the effects of volatile changes in rubber and palm oil prices on the eco ... passenger-vehicles due to the government's protective policies.U.S. Automakers Face a Multitude of Trade BarriersMalaysia maintains several measures to protect the local automobile industry: the high ...

(4 pages) 76 1 4.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

The Free Trade Area of the Americas

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) became effective in Canada, Mexico, and the United States on January 1, 1994 ... ada, Mexico, and the United States on January 1, 1994. This agreement removed the tariffs and other trade barriers on goods produced and sold in North America. NAFTA forms the world's second largest f ... and sold in North America. NAFTA forms the world's second largest free trade area. The largest free trade area is the European Economic Area, which also became effective in 1994. Talks began in late 1 ...

(2 pages) 123 0 4.3 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Has NAFTA helped or hurt the United States?

Has NAFTA helped or hurt the United States?The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a very significant aspect of international trading in North America, whos ... ications, no one nation can separately compete on the foreign market. NAFTA was designed to improve trade between the North American countries by removing tariffs on the exportation of international g ... ortation of international goods, as well as weakening borders between the nations. "A world of free trade is far more likely to be prosperous (and peaceful) than a world of tariffs and borders" (Hufba ...

(4 pages) 164 0 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

NAFTA: Good or Bad

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) became effective in Canada, Mexico, and the United States on January 1, 1994 ... da, Mexico, and the United States on January 1, 1994. This agreement removed the tariffs and other trade barriers on goods produced and sold in North America. NAFTA was built upon a prior 1989 trade ... responsible for tariff reductions between the nations. NAFTA forms the world's second largest free trade area. The largest free trade area is the European Economic Area, which also became effective ...

(3 pages) 135 0 2.5 Dec/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

European Parilment along with European Union

ion created in 1958 providing for the gradual elimination of customs duties and other intraregional trade barriers, a common external tariff against other countries and gradual adoption of other integ ... ional sovereignty rights to the Union (e.g. currency, monetary policy, the internal market, foreign trade), the EU begins to resemble a federal state. However, the Union is not organised federally but ...

(15 pages) 138 1 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Strategies to entry China manufacturing market

ive point of view: the reactive motivations are - "increasing international competition, increasing trade barriers, host-country rules, and customer demands"; the proactive ones are - "seeking economi ... ntives". Like what Czinkota, et al (2005, P. 4-5) said,Since the 1950s, the growth of international trade and investment has been substantially larger than the growth of domestic economies. Technology ...

(14 pages) 283 0 4.1 Dec/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management