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Trade and Investments
Military Power
Government Policies/Regulation
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Political Risk
100
A policy by which governments do not discriminate against imports or exports.
What is free trade?
100
Formed after the Second World War to provide leadership in fostering peace and stability around the world.
What is the United Nations?
100
They act as watchdogs over businesses ensuring that everyone plays by the rules in the marketplace.
What are government agencies?
100
Under what type of law does the justice system decide on cases by interpreting the law on the basis of tradition, precedent, and usage.
What is common law?
100
This arises from violent disturbances or disputes and can strongly discourage international companies from investing in a nation.
What is local conflict?
200
Tax on imports or exports.
What is a tariff?
200
The country that is considered to be the only truly global power.
What is the United States?
200
It is typically related to trade or commerce that takes place between two nations two companies that operate in separate countries.
What is international law?
200
The origins of this type of law can be traced back to Rome in the 5th century B.C.
What is civil law?
200
A means of making a political statement by forcing change through fear and destruction.
What is terrorism?
300
A direct investment into production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country.
What is foreign direct investment?
300
The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
What is terrorism?
300
Has been one of the best ways for government to make trading internationally much easier/cheaper for businesses between the US and a specific group of countries such as Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic.
What is Free Trade Agreement?
300
A legal tradition based on religious teachings.
What is theocratic law?
300
A means of incorporating risk into business strategies in order to manage political risk.
What is adaptation?
400
A reason why foreigners invest in the United States.
What is diversity risk?
400
The headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
What is the Pentagon?
400
Was formally established in January 1995 by the GATT which was instituted in 1947 with members of over 110 countries at the end of 1994 to ensure that trade flows freely.
What is World Trade Agreement?
400
Holds manufacturers, sellers, individuals, and others responsible for damage, injury, or death caused by defective products.
What is product liability?
400
This country's president recently nationalized that country's telephone, electricity, and oil industries.
What is Venezuela?
500
The country that the United States trades with the most.
What is Canada?
500
A political and military alliance of 28 North American and European countries, bound by shared democratic values, that have joined together to best pursue security and defense.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
500
Imposes extensive regulatory controls on agriculture markets that are intended to promote safety and reduce disease, while others restrict commodity and raise consumer prices on a domestic as well as an international level.
What is the U.S. Department of Agriculture
500
Laws designed to prevent companies from fixing prices, sharing markets, and gaining unfair monopoly advantages.
What are antitrust laws?
500
This US act was issued in 1977 and forbids US companies from bribing governmental officials in other nations, unless a person's life is in danger.
What is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?