TRADE

Who is Canada's main trade partner?

• France

• Mexico

• The U.S.

• Great Britain

What goal led to the formation of trade agreements like the former NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) now called the United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement?

• to keep communism out of Western Europe

• to reduce environmental pollution

• to increase economic cooperation between member nations

• to eliminate global climate change.

Globalization has become the norm for most countries in the Western Hemisphere. Which of the following is ONE CONCERN of globalization.

• many consumers now have access to products that are cheaper and of higher quality.

• information and updated technology is more available to people around the world

• the increased exposure to the culture, attitudes and values of people in other countries.

• workers in developed countries may lose out to workers in countries with cheaper labor.

Factories along the U.S. border that manufacture goods for export are called

• finance development

• maquiladoras

• trade agreement factories

• import tariff industries

The political cartoon above is objecting to what economic controversy?

• The rapid expansion of jobs in the service industry.

• the unequal distribution fo wealth around the world.

• the increase of tariffs on American made product

• the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries.