case studies

Question 1

apple tnc - production

Answer 1

developing countries - Foxconn china
- lower wages
- land cheaper
- direct global markets
- trade restrictions can be easily avoided

Question 2

apple impact on ireland

Answer 2

4000 workers
infrastructural improvements

Question 3

apple impact on china

Answer 3

health and safety
student and child labour
suicides (12 in 2014)

Question 4

apple environmental impacts on china

Answer 4

• non renewable energy
• toxic chemicals
• pollutants
• recycability

Question 5

apple spacial organisation

Answer 5

calfiornia - HQ and research centres
ireland - company operations due to lower tax on profits, 4000 workers
china - production outsourced

Question 6

world trade in bananas

Answer 6

grown in hot, tropical regions - large quanitites are produced and consumed in india, brazil and much of africa

Question 7

production of bananas

Answer 7

commercial production for export include central america and caribbean
africa - caribbean and pacifc
exports = latin america - acribbean
imports = EU and USA - each consumed 27% of exports

Question 8

banana wars

Answer 8

SDT was given to european colonies with preferential tariff free import quotas to supply EU markets
- 1992 TNC filed complaints to the WTO that the EU practice was unfair trade
- 1997 WTO ruled against the EU and order the EU to cease discrimination
- dispute not resolved as EU proposals did not satify larger producers

Question 9

race to the bottom

Answer 9

larger companies relocate plantations to west africa for lower labour costs and weaker legislation
- social and environmental standard are increasingingly lower
- sustainable bananas help smaller scale producers in the caribbean