https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2 Our views and opinion of international trade en-us 2017-03-22 18:31:18 UTC 2026-03-24 18:28:09 UTC hello@padlet.com leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/161933882 http://tradecommissioner.gc.ca/exporters-exportateurs/guide-exporting-guide-exportation.aspx?lang=eng&gclid=CM_Cqfig6tICFda4wAodr3sMNg

The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service website gives a step by step description of how to export your company’s goods to numerous countries in order to grow your business. This website is a guide to: selling points, how to be competitive, how to close deals, how to enter more markets, and how to save time and avoid risks. This website is beneficial to our topic because it shows you the insides of how companies trade internationally and how it can be beneficial to the company’s growth. This website is a “how to”, guide for local businesses wanting to expand their services over seas. It has things such as statistics and detailed information showing import and export comparisons between countries. For example, Bi-lateral product trade Canada-Mexico 2016: Canada exported over 7 billion dollars worth of goods to Mexico and imported 33 billion dollars worth from Mexico.]]> 2017-03-22 18:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/161933882 leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/161936150 http://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/112503.asp

What is national trade? Well this website shows you the insides and outsides of what is involved in national trade. International trade is an exchange of goods and services between countries world wide. This can be beneficial to the economy because we can get finished goods (clothing), at cheaper prices than it would cost to manufacture them here in our country. We also get parts manufactured cheaper over sea’s to put into things like vehicles, thus giving the manufacturers greater profits. International trade allows us to enjoy things that our resources are unable to give us, for example, things like bananas, mangos and pineapples, which we are unable to grow here because of our climate here in Canada.]]> 2017-03-22 18:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/161936150 leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/161936603 https://edc.trade/?kw=international_trades&gclid=CMbB_-Gi6tICFQUuaQodPUcMuQ

The EDC websites focuses in on the statistics of how international trade is profitable for your company. For instance, “selling internationally can increase profitability by 121%, productivity by 30%, and innovation by 25%.” (EDC, 2016). This website offers links to scholarly articles, reports and guides to help show how international trade can make your business wealthy. However, this website also shows the risks and disadvantages to international trade. This website is very beneficial because it is not biased and shows both sides of the good-bad debate on international trade.]]> 2017-03-22 18:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/161936603 leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/163451419 Oshawa paint truck closes
As international trade has its benefits, there are also drawbacks. Products that were once made here are now being manufactured elsewhere due to many reasons. Cheaper employment, land, taxes hydro, the list goes on and on. But when you compile that list, add it up per person/employee it’s a huge difference. According to this video, closing of this plant alone affected 20,000 employees. That’s 20,000 people now looking for new work, creating higher unemployment rates ]]> 2017-03-29 15:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/163451419 leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/163579218 China, Canada to ratify free trade agreement. What do you think of when you hear this. How many times have you picked up something and looked at it and thought "why can’t we get things made here". With this agreement, my thought was that there was going to be even more things imported. But again, there’s another side of the coin that we don’t see. We get to export to China things like mining equipment, energy products, wood pulp and cooking oil. The deal which is called FIPA, Foreign Investment Protection Agreement was said to be valued at 65 Billion dollars to us here in Canada. Under the deal, it protects investors from one country when investing in the other country from unfair treatment, thus allowing foreign investment both ways without any worries. ]]> 2017-03-30 00:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/163579218 leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/163584391 You ever wonder how much we import or export to the States, China or some other country. This video shows you charts detailing how much money is going in and out of our country with our largest trade partners. I am not sure how reliable the source of this information is, but I did how ever get a couple of chuckles in. The narrator takes a few pokes at our great Prime Minister. But he does have every reason to. ]]> 2017-03-30 01:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/163584391 leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/163585785 picture taken from http://www.seanews.com.tr/images/haberler/2014_12/141126/portmetro.jpg
Unless you have actually been to a shipping yard, one cant fathom the size from a picture. But if you just take a second and look carefully just at the ship, ever square you see is the equivalent of a transport truck that you see going down the highway.

]]> 2017-03-30 01:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/163585785 leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/165283569 By: Leeann Rose and Glenn duQuesnay]]> 2017-04-07 00:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/165283569 leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/165285243 Port Of Halifax
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Though it may not be our busiest ocean freight port, importing and exporting goods. Its location is an ideal one. In an area with naturally deeper waters, and a low current. It has a large population that it can easily access with freight.]]> 2017-04-07 00:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/165285243 leeann_rose https://padlet.com/leeann_rose/3p6reiqvixs2/wish/165286589 Windsor/Detroit border, The Ambassador Bridge
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The scope of our trade looking at shipyards, rail yards doesnt really give you an idea to the amount of freight that is actually moved. But try driving through Windsor to goto Detroit, especially on a Sunday night. I have personally been stuck in a line up 11 miles(17Kms) long of trucks looking to cross the border. Thats a lot of trade.

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