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Identify and explain 5 barriers to international trade.  Use a brief example to help illustrate each.

Which raw materials of note was Canada supplying to the United States in the 1700s? 

Which of the following would be considered a trade sanction?

What percentage of China’s exports are from factories that foreign investors own, either outright or in partnerships with Chinese firms?

Foreign trade or international trade means the same thing as international business. 

Which country is Canada’s top trading partner in the Middle East? 

—In nuclear energy, steam generated through the fission of uranium fuel creates electricity.

Stable currencies, such as the euro, and the U.S. and Canadian dollars, which are easily converted to other currencies on the world exchange markets.

Which of the following statements concerning the five approach of ethics is TRUE?

 We considered Plato’s story of the “Ring of Gyges.”  Gyges, who finds a magical ring which allows him to become invisible chooses to use the ring to steal, seduce, abuse and kill.  Because he is invisible there are no “consequences” for his actions.  The question that Plato’s character, Glaucon asks is, “Why shouldn’t he do as he pleases?”  “Why should he care about morality?”    This approach to ethics would say that one’s actions should produce the MOST good for the MOST people.