Week 4 MNC Section IV - Multi-National Corporation

Week 4: MNC Section IV: Multi-National Corporation (MNC) (Toyota)

Conduct an analysis of the conditions of trade on your MNC(Toyota).  Home Country: JAPAN and Host: USA

Q.1 Indicate opportunities and challenges that affect your MNC, including any current policies or agreements that have been recently passed.

Q.2 Here you could examine the regional trade agreements of the host/home countries. Do they have Free Trade Agreements? If not, pick a host country that does have a trade agreement with your home country and inform us about that agreement.

Please make sure the data you provide here is current.

Professor instructions

The Importance of Free Trade to MNCs

Does the home country of your MNC have a trade agreement with the host country of your MNC? If so, how does this impact your MNC?

If your host country does not have a trade agreement with your home country, pick a different host country and tell us about the trade agreement and how it, in your opinion, it impacts your MNC to do business in that country.

Website to help with Trade Agreements:

Visit this site:  http://rtais.wto.org/UI/PublicMaintainRTAHome.aspx  (Links to an external site.)  and explore the trade agreements your home country has with a host country. Scroll down to the map, click on your home country, and then click on your profile. You will see the trade agreements it has with other countries.  Share your findings.

Q.3 Write the Conclusion of all the above findings.

Final Course Project Criteria

Section

Points

Description

Section IV

20

Conduct an analysis of the conditions of trade. Indicate opportunities and challenges that affect your MNC; including any current policies or agreements that have been recently passed. Here you could examine the regional trade agreements of the host/home countries. Do they have Free Trade Agreements? Please make sure the data you provide here is current.