Chapter 6-8 Flashcards
The production process has also become much more fragmented due to vertical
Specialization and outsourcing
Changes In where production takes place are frequently tied to changes in patterns of
Foreign direct investment
Demonstrated the free trade increased efficiency and had the potential to make everyone better off
Law of comparative advantage
States can intentionally create comparative advantage is in the production of new goods and services simply by adopting… such as provision of cheap loans and export subsidies to domestic producers
Strategic trade policies
The principles of… treatment required dad important good be treated the same as equivalent domestically produced goods and that improves from one nation could not be given preference over those fun another
National Trippin and most favored nation
Free trade was slowly replaced as the central principle by the notion of
Fair trade
Liberalized trade in such things as banking in Insurance, transport and telecommunications services by applying the principles of national treatment and most favorite nation to them
General agreement on trade in services
Required countries to maintain a minimum standards for protection of patents,copy rights and trademarks and to effectively enforce those standards
Trade related aspects of intellectual property rights
The WTO uses…that rule on trade disputes giving the WTO an enforcement mechanism that the GATT do not have
Dispute settlement panels
NAFTA and Asia Pacific economic cooperation belongs to
Regional trade agreements
The WTO members’current mixture of economic liberal, mercantilist and sometime structuralist trade practices is best described as
Managed Trade system
Affect the value of everything a nation buys or sells on international markets
Currency exchange rates
Betting that the value of a currency or market price for a certain items or service will go up and earn the owner a Profit when it is sold
Speculation
Foreign investment in stocks and bonds not regulated by the state
Hot Money
A tightly integrated international order that existed until the end of World War One
Gold standard