Fair trade, from purchase intention to action, what solutions? The case of Alter Eco
Case study - 4 pages - Green marketing
The Hamon law of 2014, as well as the Macron law of 2015, defines fair trade. It is about ensuring relations with producers in southern countries gathered in structures with democratic governance. The sustainability of the commercial commitment, the payment by the buyer of a remunerative...
Trade and finance - USA-China trade war
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
2018 was the year a bilateral economic conflict between the world's two biggest economies, the United States and China, began. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, made the first step by imposing trade barriers on its rival such as tariffs. This was in order to respond to...
Will Brexit change the UK trade structure?
Essay - 17 pages - Foreign markets
This article will try to discern how Brexit will affect the UK's trade structure. The article will start with a description of the current UK trade partners. This section will describe the main UK's trade partners and kinds of goods and services exported and imported...
Trade, Merchants and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age - Gojko Barjamovic, Thomas Chaney, Kerem Cosar and Ali Hortaçsu
Essay - 4 pages - Ancient history
Long before our time, many ancient cities prospered across the world, exchanging and trading with one another, while building the very foundations of modern civilisation. While some of them still exist nowadays, others have completely disappeared from the surface of the Earth, leaving historians...
Can Fair Trade and corporate social responsibility become a competitive advantage ? The Example Of Max Havelaar
Market study - 16 pages - International economy
In our presentation, we have decided to present to you Max Havelaar, which is one of the most famous stamps of Fair Trade. Max Havelaar is present around the world under three different names: Max Havelaar, Fairtrade and Transfair. Max Havelaar doesn't sell any product. It is just an...
Colon Free Trade Zone
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In recent years, numerous governments about the globe have sought to provide financial incentives to investors. These incentives are tailored to attract investment and the growth of trade and thus benefit the local people. One of the methods they are currently applied to attract investment...
Saudi Arabia - Trade elasticity
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
As a result of the spike in prices of oil in the 70s together with an increase in the production of oil and high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) averaging to more than 11 percent in a year, the Saudi Arabian economy grew tremendously. However, in the 1980s, oil pieces began to fall leading to an...
The principle of non-discrimination in the world trade organization
Worksheets - 7 pages - International economy
The principle of non discrimination in the frame of the WTO is one of the core principles at its base. Indeed, two ideas are at the heart of the WTO: liberalization of the market, and no discrimination of the trade partners herein. However, the notion of discrimination should first be...
Environment and international trade
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
The warming of the planet and global climatic change has been the centre of heated debate for the last few years. The environmental problems, by the force of nature, somehow set themselves to the political agenda of the planet. In this paper I'd like to see if the concepts of trade and...
How has international trade underdeveloped the Less Developed Countries (LCDs)?
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
Following the decolonization period and the collapse of USSR (1989), a lot of countries gained their independence and entered the arena of international trade, arena previously created by few states known today as the North, or the developed countries. Therefore, the structure of the...
Has the WTO shaped the right balance between the smooth operation of international trade and sustainable development? Discuss in the light of the GATT panel decisions on the environment
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
“God is dead. WTO replaced him” . It's what we could read on the notice of a demonstrator in front of the WTO's headquarters on the occasion of the celebration of the fiftieth birthday of the GATT in May 1998 in Geneva. Since the beginning of 2000s, the environment is in the center of...
The fair trade trend, an explanation
Essay - 13 pages - International economy
The current functioning of the world economy suffers from more and more blatant imbalance which affects particularly the producers of tropical farm produces, the victims of the agro-industrial politics based essentially on the returns and the profit. The prices and the conditions of purchase...
Fair Trade
Essay - 17 pages - International economy
Recently, economy organization suffers imbalances which affect agricultural product producers. Price and purchase conditions are imposed without possibility to negotiate and in the majority of the cases, the price of purchase are not sufficient to cover production costs. According to United...
Japanese Foreign Trade and Economic Relations with the Rest of the World from the Tokugawa Times to the Present
Essay - 4 pages - International economy
The history of modern Japan is history by itself. It reflects around the increasing contact with the outside world. As opposed to previous Japanese historic periods, modern Japan as a whole can be characterized as an era in which the country interferes with foreign nations more than ever before....
Evaluate the impact of global recession on international trade and investment with respect to the country of your choice. Support your arguments with the use of relevant examples whenever possible
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
We assume that prosperity is indivisible and that growth to be sustainable must be shared. We believe that the only sure foundation for a sustainable globalization and increasing prosperity for all, is an open economy based on market principles, effective regulation and stronger global...
Free trade agreement in the wine sector
Dissertation - 19 pages - International economy
Nowadays, Australia is dealing with some new free trade agreements, such as the Australian-Chinese free trade agreements. We will be looking on how can it benefit to Australia and can change the economic situation of the country. To support this theory, we choose to focus our...
The French-speaking Fur Traders in Early North-America
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
During the sixteenth century a vast French-speaking Empire was claimed by a few brave adventurers. New France was the name of this vast Empire in North-America. It was a territory that spread from historic Acadia (present day Canadian Maritime provinces), past Quebec and the great lakes (then...
Evaluate the evolution of the world trade system
Essay - 7 pages - International economy
Before the creation of a world trade system in 1947, the countries had protectionist economic policies or preferential trade agreements for the Empires as the one of Britain and France. In the 1930s, these policies clearly showed their limits with the economic depression and the...
Foreign Trade of China
Sectorial analysis - 5 pages - Tourism marketing
Nowadays, we can say that the Chinese economy is growing rapidly. It is probably one of the most dynamic economies in the world. This can be showed by the fact that over the last 20 years the Chinese GDP has grown by 9. 5 %. We can also classify China, according to its GDP. On the one hand,...
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its consequences
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
The agreement NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) defines a free trade area of 430 million inhabitants trained by the United States, Canada and Mexico. Signed by the presidents of these three countries on October 7th, 1992 in San Antonio (Texas), the treaty came into effect...
The choice of trade shows to promote products
Course material - 2 pages - Marketing theories
Trade shows or exhibitions are a popular way of promoting a company's products or services to the consumer and organizational markets. The major advantage of trade shows is that they bring together under one roof an entire market for a few days. The marketers have the...
When a famous bank ( Société Générale ) is plunged into the world's largest financial fraud ever known by a simple junior trader
Case study - 16 pages - Finance
In January 2008, the financial world was disrupted by the world's largest financial fraud case known to date. The famous French bank, Société Générale, recorded a loss of 5 billion euros due to false positions taken by a junior trader, Jérôme Kerviel. To fully appreciate how he did this, it's...
International Trade and Finance
Case study - 4 pages - Finance
International trade involves exchange of goods and services across the international borders. It allows for competition of goods and services in the market resulting to more affordable goods to the consumers. Through international trade goods and services are made available in the...
International Trade and Growth
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
Now, in 2007, international exchanges in the world has become very frequent. Since 1945, we have seen a very strong growth of international exchanges, the world exports has progressed twice as quickly as world production. World trade accounted for 10% of the world wealth in 1960 whereas it...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) - success and failures
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
In order to make the world trade as free as possible, the World Trade Organization (WTO) relies upon principles. Firstly, the non-discrimination principle ensures that no country benefits more from trade than another country. The WTO wants to promote equality among the...
World and Irish Trade Organization
Case study - 29 pages - Management
International trade business is taking a bigger and bigger place in our daily life. It permits us to access to more resources. For example, we would not be able to buy banana from Cameroon if international trade did not exist. Thanks to this notion, people from very different...
Study of regional free trade areas
Case study - 13 pages - International economy
The free trade area was founded on 26 March 1991 in Asuncion with the Treaty of Asuncion. There are 5 members (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina since 1991 and Venezuela since 2006) and 5 associate members - Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. The motto is 'Our North is...
International trade and business: Case study
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
A free trade system is a market form in which goods and services can be exchanged between and within countries without any kind of government restriction or regulation. The free trade debate is obviously the most important debate of the 20th century. It has been very much...
Is Fair Trade a tool to appease the conscience or a political lever?
Essay - 14 pages - Services marketing
Fair Trade is an approach based on precise criterion of sustainable development; relations of exchanges of long duration and direct relations removing the intermediaries. According to these criterions, the Fair Trade organizations of North thus begin to buy these products at a just...
Fair Trade: Evaluating the model's success based on its workability as a market-based model
Worksheets - 3 pages - Brand management
In order to create a niche market, a quantitatively significant group of consumer in developed countries must be willing to purchase Fair Trade agricultural products instead of mainstream products. Consumers' role in international trade is to create demand for a given product, as...
