International Trade

Because of the increasingly globalized nature of the economy, manufacturers, retailers and service providers have more options to locate sources of supply and labor where overall costs are lower than in their home markets. In industry today, parts and supplies frequently come from many different countries, such as the Boeing 787, with 65% of its components outsources to foreign companies (Hill 2011). Another example is flat-screen TVs, which have their components manufactured in Asia, assembled in Mexico then shipped to distributers in the United States. Vizio has a small office in California with less than 100 employees to handle sales and service, but with all of the design, manufacturing and assembly done overseas. Even though American companies originally developed this technology in the 1960s, they did not continue with it and forfeited this market to Asian countries (Hill 2011). This has happened time and again in American industry,...
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