Questão | Responda |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | 1947! treaty that promoted trade in, replaced by WTO in 1995 |
(WTO) | forum for trade-related negotiations with 150 members based in Geneva, dispute mediator, can enforce, can impose sanctions |
Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) | lower barriers for more trading special treatment within PTA |
Free Trade Area | 1. Eliminates tariffs and quotas among members only NAFTA |
Customs Union | 1. eliminates tariffs and quotas AND 2. has a common external tariff (CET) and quota system SICA |
Common Market | 1. eliminates tariffs and quotas, 2. sets a common external tariff (CET), 3. AND eliminates restriction on factor movements Andean Community |
Economic Union | 1. eliminates tariffs and quotas, 2. sets a common external tariff (CET), 3. eliminates restriction on factor movements, AND 4. harmonizes economic and social policies MERCOSUR |
NAFTA | established free trade, promotes economic growth through tariff reductions and expanded trade, no common external tariff |
Central American Integration System (SICA) | moving toward common market but still customs union, common external tariff, retains tariffs on goods also produced in importing country |
Andean Community | customs union which abolished foreign exchange and established common external tariffs |
Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) | customs union wanting to become common market, no internal tariffs, external tariff up to 20% |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) | trading partners- US, EU, China geographically close, historically divided |
European Union | began with 1958 treaty of Rome, harmonizes national laws, free-flowing, 1991 Maastricht Treaty merged currency into euro |
Middle East | oil, muslims, arabs, persian, jews |
Gulf Cooperation Council | 45% of world's oil, attempting to diversify indistries |
Global Marketers' Task | study and understand cultures to do business in, not be ethnocentric and have cultural myopia |
Culture | ways of living, built up by a group, transmitted across generations conscious and unconscious, physical and non-physical |
Attitude | tendency to respond in a consistent way to a given object or entity |
Belief | organized pattern of knowledge that someone holds to be true |
Value | enduring belief/feeling that a certain behavior is more moral than another |
Red | blood, wine-making, heat, vibrancy bad in some African countries good in China |
white | purity in the west death in the east |
gray | inexpensive in china and japan expensive in US |
yellow | indicates a merchant in china |
blue | in England and U.S. = fidelity |
McDonaldization of Culture | protest against the opening of McDonald's in Rome led to establishment of Slow Food movement |
High Context culture | information resides in CONTEXT emphasis on values and status less emphasis on paperwork focus on personal reputation polychronic |
Low Context culture | words carry a lot of weight emphasis on paperwork non-personal monochronic |
Hofstede's Cultural Typology | PIMULI/c power distance indulgence masculinity uncertainty avoidance long-term orientation individualism/collectivism |
Self-reference criterion | unconscious reference to one's own cultural values; creates cultural myopia; connected to ethnocentrism |
Cultural myopia | define the problem or goal make no value judgments isolate the SRC and examine it redefine the problem without SRC |
Diffusion Theory: Adoption Process | awareness interest evaluation trial adoption |
Diffusion Theory: Characteristics of Innovation | five factors affect it: relative advantage compatibility complexity divisibility communicability |
Political Environment | governmental institutions, political parties, and NGOs ---political culture |
Political Risk | Risk of change in political environment, a country will have a difficult time attracting foreign investment when perceived political risk is high |
Taxes | Government taxation policies: high taxation can lead to black market growth Corporate taxation: companies attempt to limit tax liability by shifting location of income |
Expropriation | governmental action to dispossess a foreign company of investor, includes compensation |
Confiscation | seizing a company, no compensation |
Nationalization | a government takes control of some or all enterprises in an industry |
Creeping expropriation | limits economic activities of foreign firms, squeezes a project |
International Law | rules and principles that nation-states consider binding among themselves |
Common Law | disputes are decided by reliance on past decisions, companies are legally incorporated by state authority, U.S. Uniform Commercial Code |
Civil Law | legal system reflects the structural concepts and principles of the Roman Empire, companies form contracts between two or more parties, China |
Jurisdiction | refers to a court's authority to rule on particular issues, courts have jurisdiction if it can be demonstrated that the company is doing business where the court sits |
Patent | gives an inventor exclusive right to make, use, and sell an invention for a specified period of time |
Trademark | distinctive mark, motto, device, or emblem used to distinguish it from competing products |
Copyright | establishes ownership of a written, recorded, performed, or filmed creative work |
Counterfeiting | unauthorized copying and production of a product (against a patent) |
Associative Counterfeit/Imitation | product name differs slightly from a well-known brand (trademark) |
Piracy | unauthorized publication or reproduction of copyrighted work |
Antitrust | laws designed to combat restrictive business practices and to encourage competition SHERMAN ACT- Don't trust Sherman! to avoid monopolies |
Licensing | a contractual agreement in which a licencor allows a licensee to use patents, trademarks, secrets, etc could be dangerous if licensee creates competition! |
Trade Secrets | confidential information or knowledge, use confidentiality contracts |
Bribery and Corruption | U.S. has Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act allows some bribery "grease" payments |
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