Foreign direct investment is acquisition of foreign assets for the purpose of controlling them.TrueWhich stage of the international product life cycle does the innovating firm's country become a net importer of the product?standardized product stageThe requirement a sufficient portion of a product's content originate within a certain market to escape tariff chargesmarket imperfectionAccording to the market theory, competition is a common market imperfection.FalseRegional economic integration is also referred to asregionalismIndustries considered essential to national security often receive government-sponsored protection.TrueHigher levels of trade between nations result ingreater purchasing powerALADI refers to theLatin American Integration AssociationThe main purposed of the ______ is to debate and amend legislation proposed by the European Commission of the EU.European ParliamentIn this members eliminate internal barriers, adopt an external policy toward nonmembers, and eliminate barriers.common marketEconomic integration whereby countries remove all barriers to trade among themselves and restrictions for nonmembersfree trade area... encourages free trade among Canada, Mexico, and the US.NAFTAMercantilist countries used to amass wealth by acquiring less-developed territories around the world.TrueThe theory of absolute advantage measures a nation's wealth by the standard of living of its people.TrueThe theories of comparative advantage and absolute advantage assume that countries are driven only by the max productionTrue
