For example, England and the East India Company played a big role in China's trading policies during this time period. ... In the early nineteenth century England traded with China through the East India Company. ... Soon private British merchants tired of the East India Company and wanted it to cease. ... The East India Company trading monopoly ended in 1834. ... The Opium War was the cause of misunderstandings between two countries that had completely different goals. ...

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If you want to see the capital, the globalization of goods, the free flow of labor and services all over the world, by a very large business company, it has a huge control world economy, beyond national boundaries. ... Economic globalization has greatly encouraged the introduction of free trade agreements, such as GATT (tariff trade agreements) since the Second World War. ... For example, after World War II, the United States worried about the rise of communism, to encourage and support the interests of film advertising and effective capitalism in the global scope of the United States of Ameri...

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It was on the losing side of both world wars and was under communist rule until 1991. The reason for no long-term settlement has been the wars that continue to plague the area, even today. ... The Yugoslavia war in 1997 put Bulgaria's economy in a hard downfall that they are just now getting out of. ... This system is less expensive, but it does not give workers control of their companies (eabg.org). ... The gas and coal companies should be privatized shortly also. ...

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The term "globalization" refers to the process in which people, governments and companies of different countries interact and integrate with each other through various processes such as trade, investment and information technology. ... Partnering up with another country means you are obligated to follow whatever military decisions they make as well even though it is at your inconvenience, and can result in great alliance wars. An infamous example of how the alliance system had caused a detrimental outcome is the world war one; countries were hauled into the war by their alliances res...

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He/she appears in all the public debates, be brief comments in television and watchwords in posters, places in the net and versed newspapers, you debate parliamentarian, directory of companies or workers' assemblies. ... The companies constituted in a country invest more and more in the establishment and operation in other countries. In 1998, you sign Americans they invested in the external US$133.000 millions and foreign companies invested US$193.000 millions in the United States. ... That acme of the globalization declined in the first half of the XX century, time that was characterized...

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At the same time, local banks, securities, exchange and insurance companies grew up. After 1990, the world has changed more rapidly than other times since the World War II ended in 1945. ... Total market value of all listed companies (2,800 companies) in the New York Stock Exchange is US$15 trillion currently and ranked the 1st in the world. ...

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Many factory towns in Maine are being described as looking like "war zones," because their economies are hit so badly (Ferdinand 1). You may be asking what happened to make the company lay off all of its workers, the answer is simple, it was GATT. ... If a company can import and export freely, won't consumers benefit by being able to buy products from around the world? ... The agreement will change the way US companies produce and sell products and services at home and internationally. ... It will be easier for United States companies to invest and build plants in foreign countries. ...

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Intensified security due to arising fear and the war on terror also played a part in the diminishing of the global market. ... Small companies need to protect themselves from an increase in foreign market trade in the United States. ... Entrepreneurs need to converse with the customer to see what other companies are offering. ... In order to get all-important information inside the company; the employee can't be promised a future with the company, but has to feel secure in their job. ... A good way to keep an employee committed to the company is to let them pick out a charity for the busi...

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It also means ensuring that individuals, companies and governments know what the trade rules are around the world, and giving them the confidence that there will be no sudden changes of policy. ... In China, competition from a second mobile phone company was at least part of the reason for a 30% cut in the price of a call. ... Before World War 2 that option was not available. After the war, the world's community of trading nations negotiated trade rules which are now entrusted to the WTO. ... Once a ruling has been made, countries concentrate on trying to comply with the rules, and perhap...

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In the early sixties, they formed a company named Blue Ribbon Sports, which they ran from Knight's mother's laundry room. Then Phil Knight purchased two hundred shoes from the Japanese shoe company Asics. ... He helped to convert many athletes to wearing the young company's shoes. ... Nike became the number 1 seller of shoes in Canada and the company reaches out and forms Nike International Ltd to service more than forty foreign countries. ... In causes a lot of controversy due to the Cold War and fear of communism. ...

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The Americans argued that since the majority of the Canadian forests were government owned lumber prices were subsidized, therefore selling below the market price while American private companies were suffering. ... This dispute has caused nearly 18,000 job losses, and company losses of 1.5 billion. ... Canfor Corp a Canadian lumber company had to pay $107.6 million in taxes based on the imposed duties. NAFTA has stimulated this trade war between Canada and the United States since the idea of free trade meant losses in the U.S lumber industry so tariffs were imposed that went against the obje...

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China's economic prosperity amazed the entire world and makes them the leading destination for the Global companies for doing their business operations. ... Lot of multinational companies is inclined to enter the India market to tap their huge growth potential. ... A growing number of companies in United States and other developed nations are outsourcing their job to India which in turn stimulates India's economic growth. ... Free trade helps the multinational companies to import the inputs from outside and thereby enjoy the cost advantage. ... Financial integration helps to combat h...

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Aspects of Globalization • The tendencies for the trans-national corporations to organise production on a global basis: (a) TNCs now comprise over 500,000 foreign affiliates established by some 60,000 parent companies based mainly in developed countries. ... " (b) it is suggested that the GISDN (Global Integrated Services Digital Network) infrastructure currently being developed will be as important for today's economy as the railways, roads and canals were for the industrial era, and automobiles in the post-war boom. ... It usually benefits the larger, wealthier countries w...

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Castro made his pact with the devil and became a pawn in the Cold War, but out of economic necessity. ... In agriculture, many large US companies had investments in sugar, cattle, and tobacco. ... The Helms-Burton Act allows a US nation to sue any foreign company that benefits from the use of property that was exporritorial from them by the Cuban government. ... Europe eventually reached an agreement with the US to not prosecute multinational companies doing business in Cuba, in exchange for the EU refusing to provide government assistance to firms that profited from investing in confiscated p...

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The multilateral trading system is one of youngest international organizations and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) established in the wake of the Second World War (WTO in brief, 1.) ... US companies will be allowed to invest in Chinese Internet content providers. ...

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1. Executive Summary China is a country that is developing day by day. China was a country that had problems with growth and struggled economically. It wasn't until the early part of 2001, when China officially maintained a steady growth economically. There are records that would show that Ch...

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Introduction: The United States of America is located in North America between Mexico and Canada. The capital city of the entire U.S.A. is Washington D.C. The common language spoken there is English, but there are many people with different ethnic backgrounds who speak different languages that call the United States there home. The population according to the U.S. Bureau of Census as of October 31st, 2003, is 292, 475,565. ...

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It involves integration of the people, institutions and companies and also governments of different states. ... It has been able to affect the speed and character of the globalization process by itself, by upholding the bodies that integrated national economies after World War II. ...

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Furthermore, bilateral agreements often risk leading to trade wars, which disrupt normal trading relations. ... "It perpetuates technological superiority of the bug companies so that they can have control of the market and keep consumer retail prices far above what they would otherwise be if there were competition." ...

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