Trade Concepts
This is a tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
This area in the vicinity of San José California, is known for its Information Technology industry.
What is Silicon Valley?
This country is Canada's biggest trading partner.
What is the United States?
The pelt of this animal was an important trade good in Canada's early history.
What is the Beaver?
This trade organisation facilitated trade between Canada, the USA and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
This is the act of sending goods outside of the country to be sold.
What is exporting?
Harvard University is located in this old and densely-populated region.
What is New England / the Northeast?
Forestry is an important raw resource industry in this Western Canadian Province.
What is British Columbia?
European explorers in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries were trying to find a route to this region.
What is Asia/China?
This organisation sent peacekeepers to Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s.
What is the United Nations?
This is the total value produced by the country, divided by its population.
What is GDP?
Cotton and Tobacco were the traditional agricultural products in this region.
What is the South?
Canada contains more of this liquid resource than any other country in the world.
What is fresh water?
John Cabot discovered great amounts of this fish off the coast of Newfoundland.
What is cod?
This organisation is composed mostly of countries which share Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.
What is the [British] Commonwealth?
This measures the actual ability for a country to purchase goods, regardless of changes in currency exchange rates.
What is GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
This nickname was given to the former industrial heartland of the USA.
What is the rust belt?
This manufacturing industry is particularly important in cities such as Oshawa, Ontario.
What is the automotive industry?
This product, used to make clothes and fabrics, was in great demand in Europe in the Middle Ages.
What is Silk?
This organisation is composed mostly of French-speaking countries.
What is La Francophonie?
These are products created by humans using raw resources.
What are manufactured goods?
This U.S. state is partially populated by the descendants of French-speaking Maritimers.
What is Louisiana?
This zone of the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Newfoundland, is famous for its fishing.
What are the Grand Banks?
This explorer mistakenly thought fool's gold was real gold, while searching for raw resources to benefit France.
Who was Jacques Cartier?
This organisation promotes trade and cooperation among members who border on the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation / APEC?