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| the buying and selling of goods and services by people from different countries |
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| Multinational Corporation |
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| a corporation that owns businesses in two or more countries |
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| Direct Foreign Investment |
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| A method of investment in which a company builds a new business or buys an existing business in a foreign country |
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| government-imposed regulations that increase the cost and restrict the number of imported goods |
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| a government's use of trade barriers to shield domestic companies and their workers from foreign competition |
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| a direct tax on imported goods |
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| non-tax methods of increasing the cost or reducing the volume of imported goods |
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| a limit on the number or volume of imported products |
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| Voluntary export restraints |
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| voluntarily imposed limits on the number or volume of products exported to a particular country |
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| Government import standard |
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| a standard ostensibly established to protect the health and safety of citizens but, in reality, often used to restrict or ban imports |
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| government loans, grants, and tax deferments given to domestic companies to protect them from foreign competition |
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| a classification assigned to imported products by government officials that affects the size of the tariff and imposition of import quotas |
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| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(GATT) |
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| a worldwide trade agreement that reduced and eliminated tariffs, limited government subsidies, and established protections for intellectual property |
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| World Trade Organization (WTO) |
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| as the sucessor to GATT, the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations |
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| areas in which tariff and non-tariff barriers on trade between countries are reduced or eliminated |
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| Masstricht Treaty of Europe |
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| a regional trade agreement between most European Countries |
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| North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
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| a regional trade agreement between the U.S, Canada, and Mexico |
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| when a multi-national company has offices, manufacturing plants, and distribution facilities in different countries and runs them all using the same rules, guidelines, policies, and procedures |
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| when a multi-national company modifies its rules, guidelines, policies, and procedures to adapt to differences in foreign customers, governments, and regulatory agencies |
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| selling domestically produced products to customers in foreign countries |
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| an agreement in which a foreign business owner pays a company a fee for the right to conduct that business in his or her country |
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