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国际贸易实务双语教程课后题答案
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Chapter1
I. Answer my questions
1. International trade is business whose activities involve the crossing of national
borders. It includes not only international trade and foreign manufacturing but also
encompasses the growing services industry in areas such as transportation, tourism,
banking, advertising, construction, retailing, wholesaling, and mass communications.
It includes all business transactions that involve two or more countries. Such business
relationship may be private or governmental.
2. Sales expansion, resource acquisition and diversification of sales and supplies.
3. To gain profit.
4. To seej out foreign markets and procurement.
5. There are four major forms which are the following:
Merchandise exports and Imports, Service Exports and Imports, Investment and
Multinational Enterprise.
6. It is the account which is a summary statement of the flow of all international
economic and financial transactions between one nation United States ) and
the rest of the world over some period of time, usually one year.
7. Merchandise Exporting and Importing.
8. Yes. There are great differences between them.
1) direct investment takes place when control follows the investment. It usually
means high commitment of capital, personnel, and technology abroad. It aims at
gaining of foreign resources and foreign markets. Direct investment may often get
higher foreign sales than exporting. And sometimes it involves two or more parties.
2) While portfolio investments are not under control. And they are used primarily
for financial purposes. Treasures of companies, for example, routinely more funds
from one country to another to get a higher yield on short term investments.
9. MNE is the abbreviation of the multinational enterprise. Its synonyms are NNC
(the multinational corporation) and TNC (transnational corporation).
10. Examples are travel, transport,