Introduction
Over the last two decades, the desire for businesses to move into the import and export arena has grown and changed drastically in response to world developments, economic changes, consumer demands and advances in technology. The world is getting closer in terms of cross border trade and investment and by national differences in culture and business systems. Economies are merging into one huge interdependent global economic system.
Globalization is affecting firms that previously operated in a nice, easy and protected national market. However the world we live is not perfect. It is characterized by considerable amount of uncertainty regarding the demand, market price, quality and availability of own products and those
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Archaeological discoveries indicate that the Sumerians of Northern Mesopotamia enjoyed great prosperity based on trade by sea in textiles and metals. The Greeks profited by the exchange of olive oil and wine for grain and metal somewhere before 2000 BC. By around 340 BC, many devices of modern commerce had made their appearance in Greece and its distant settlements: banking and credit, insurance, trade treaties, and special diplomatic and other privileges. With the discovery of America in 1492, and sea routes to India in 1498, trade flourished and luxury goods and food products such as sugar, tobacco, and coffee became readily available in the markets of Europe.
The major characteristics of economic relations from 1900 until the outbreak of World War I were the further development of trade and the emergence of a world economy. This was the Dawn of Industrial economy
The volume of world trade in manufactures fell by 35 percent between 1929 and 1932, and prices also fell by a similar amount. This wave of protectionism produced a massive contraction of international trade and further aggravated the
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It is the most traditional form of international business activity as importing or exporting requires the least commitment and risk to the company’s resources. For example, a company could produce for export by using its excess production capacity. This is an inexpensive way of testing a product’s acceptance in the market before investing in local production facilities.
A company could also use intermediaries, who will take on import-export functions for a fee, thus eliminating the need to commit additional resources to hire personnel or maintain a department to carry out foreign sales or purchases.
Over the past few decades, the major emphasis of many developing countries had been on the liberalization of world markets for their exports. Their focus has now shifted from demanding tariff cuts, by wealthy countries for their exports to requesting technical assistance to increase production and exports. Hence
Major determinants of exports are
1. Presence of an entrepreneurial
However, following the Civil War, a new economy was born in the United States, mainly relying on steam-powered manufacturing, the transcontinental railroad, the electric motor, and the practical application of chemistry. Unlike the pre-Civil War economy and business, this new one was dependent on raw materials from around the world and it sold goods not only in Europe, but all around the world. After the Civil War, business organization also expanded in size and scale. As far as industrial changes go, the period after the reconstruction era was affected in that it used more modern methods to make goods that could be sold faster and more efficiently, with the new railroad system. By the beginning of the 20th century, the nation’s industry would be mainly fueled by banking, manufacturing, meat packing, oil refining, railroads, and steel, as opposed to the pre- Civil War era, in which many people were still farmers or factory
During the period of great depression business trade that went on between countries became stifled. Many farm produced was reduced and industry jobs were slowed down, especially the farm produced. Many farmers could not produce because of falling farm prices, less consumption and the continuous laying off of workers all affected the farmers so much that there was decrease in exports. Coupled with the effect of the post-world war 1, much of the thriving of 1920s was a recurrent sequence of debt for the American farmer, reducing from farm prices and the necessity to purchase expensive machinery. Thus, the rest of the nation’s felt and saw it as a severe drop and the United States loss much of his external
The war exposed the inefficiency of the transportation and financial systems. It also caused the growth of manufacturing by cutting off imports, producing chaos in shipping and banking. The war also emphasized the nation’s need for another national
Trade slowed to a trickle due to lack of buyers, unemployment spiked, inefficient leaders were in office and communist ideals surfaced in the people (Course Companion ) . After the First World War ended in 1918 much of the European landscape was in ruins. Economic troubles plagued many countries due to cost of the long war. Canada, at the time still a dominion of the British Empire, had entered the war in a declining economic state which only worsened as the war waged on and resulted in the loss of more money.
Overproduction, speculation, shaky banking, Restricted international trade was the factor caused economy to move from the prosperity of the 1920s to the severe depression of the 1930s. The effects of great depression were vast across the world. Not only it leads to the New Deal in U.S but more importantly, it was a direct cause of the rise of the intolerance in Germany leading to World War II. Some of the effects of the Great Depression were, Stock Market Crash of 1929, Bank failures, Reduction in purchasing across the board, American economic policy with Europe. During the Great Depression, the greatest problem facing American was widespread unemployment.
During World War I and the 1920s, the American economy was flourishing due to the increase in jobs and production which supported the war effort. However, underlying problems brought about by the end of the war: over speculation, inflation, and unemployment were growing increasingly detrimental. Eventually, after the stock market crash of 1929, the American economy fell into a depression. Faced with severe unemployment and food shortages, President Hoover struggled to restore the economy. In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president and he began to implement his New Deal programs.
Between the year of 1865 and the year of 1920, the United States moved towards becoming a more industrialized and developing society. With this change taking place, resulted in improvement with how people live with family and earned money differently. The three major aspects of industrialization during the 1865 and 1920 that influenced the politics, economy and society of the United States are: entrepreneurship, technology, as well as transport and communication network. Entrepreneurship: the period after the Civil War from 1865 to 1920 was characterized by fast economic growth in the country.
The period of time after the Civil War and before World War I was a period of tremendous change in America. Although immigration is a major tenet of the United States, due to the changing economy, improvements in transportation, a shifting of the American people to the city, and deepening class divisions, industrialization was the most powerful force shaping the country between 1865 and 1914, followed by urbanization, and finally immigration. The most noticeable effects of industrialization are changes to the economy, alterations in the distribution of wealth, and the rise of organized labor. Overall, the growth of industry raised the standard of living for most people.
During the time between the Civil War and the end of World War I industrialization was a big part in the economic, social, and political development of the United States. All three developed the way they did as an effect of industrialization. Economically more money was made from more manufactured goods. Socially living conditions became different. Politically more laws were passed to address problems.
The Great Depression started as a Recession, but with policy mistakes by the federal government with the Federal Reserve caused money supply to shrink which made the Recession worse, causing the Economy to drop even further which lead to the depression. Banks failures in the 1930’s caused over 9,000 to close, and surviving banks were less willing to grant loans because they were more concerned about their own survival. Reduction of buying materials all around the country which caused less products being built which lead to a shrink of the work force across the USA. The American Economic policy for Europe lead to much less trade between the USA and Other Foreign Countries. Drought in the Mississippi Valley made it extremely hard for Farmers to pay bills and taxes which lead to the Farmers selling their lands and Farms for little to no profits for themselves.
Shortly after, WWII came around and it pulled the economy back up by providing jobs for people. Not only did it provide jobs, but it also changed the way people lived and the ideas of consumerism. People now had more money to spend on things they wanted, rather than barely being able to afford necessities. The transformation of American society after WWII can be seen through suburbanization, the GI Bill, the automobile, effects of consumerism on society
Although there was a large period of significant technological development during the Interwar Period, it was also a large period of missed opportunity to further improve living standards across Europe and in the US. During WWI and the 1920’s there was a large shift towards greater production of consumer durables in new industries and a shift away from staple trades. This speed of this change in structure is thought to have made the market more vulnerable to instability, though has been recently questioned when compared to the speed of structural change was slower in the interwar period than after WWII during which no similar instability occurred. As a result it may be the nature of the structural change rather than the speed of said change
They used the Mediterranean Sea to connect to surrounding communities and civilizations. The trade flourished throughout the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf, and Arabian Sea with Greece. The classical Greece civilization was considered the Hellenic period. During the Hellenic period, Greece traded cereal, wine, cheese, honey, olives, animal meats, figs, tools, olive oil, perfumes, wool, and many more in addition. Greece traded with Turkey, Gibraltar, and Italy.
What is normally suggested is that if a firm is producing, manufacturing or reselling goods that they usually export since it is the easiest and least risky method. The risk that occurs if this type of strategy is used is that the firm depends on the company that will be exporting to and their customers in order for their product to be known. Yet other strategies include a joint-venture, licensing and franchising, foreign direct investment, and strategic alliances which even though they have more risk than just exporting they are more likely to be used than full ownership. These strategies give the firm the opportunity to still have some control, at different levels, of how the product will be managed in the foreign country. An example of this is Kia Motors direct investment in Slovakia in 2004 or Volkswagen’s joint-venture with Skoda for a period of time in 1991.
There are many different approaches to development in which countries over the years adopted to further develop and grow their economy. Some countries adopted the approach of import substitution in which they try to decrease their dependency on other nations and protect and foster domestic small companies. The disadvantage for an import substitution based industry, ISI, is although it achieves growth it does so through a greater period of time. On the other hand, growth and development from export oriented industries, EOI, has greater results and is so much faster than import substituting industries. Examples of countries that adopted import based industries are countries of Latin America while countries that adopted Export oriented Industries are countries of East Asia.