ASEAN Free Trade Area

Focus Question: How did Japan’s geographical location affect the course of early Japanese history, and how did it influence the political structures and social institutions that arose there? Japan is an island country that consists of four main islands. It has a temperate climate and natural harbors that provide protection from the winds and high waves. Japanese farmers have been able to harvest two crops of rice annually since early times, but it is very mountainous and only has about twenty…

Each nation has its own unique even though they are in the same area or in the same region. What do you know about America and about other countries? Do you know how different are they? The easiest example is the differences between the United States and Vietnam. The United States and Vietnam is different in many points, but the most significant differences are in the region, the size and the weather. First is the region where each nation is located. The United States of America is located in…

2015 The World Power: United States of America The Superpower is the nation which has dominant position among the relationship with other countries on the earth. The United States has ability to impact on the trade globally with its economic strength and dominant with military power. “A country that has capacity to project dominating power and has influence anywhere at the world, and sometimes, more than one region of the global at a time, so may…

Using the Euro as the main currency among the EU members a decreased in trades was inevitable while both China and Germany benefited. Thus the author notes that…

neoconservative arises through his policy of “family tax cut” (Geddes, 2015, section “Taxes,” para. 1) which follows the social conservative idea of income splitting, yet Harper does not maintain the neoconservative spending restraint expected of a “free-market-orientated” (section “Spending,” para. 1) state that primarily controls the spending of security. For instance, the Harper government approved a bailout worth nine billion dollars of General Motors and Chrysler during the 2009 recession…

contracts with other countries. It can be pretentious by domestic thoughts and the behavior of other states. America increased effect over Hawaii mainly because of economic and strategic benefits. They wanted it for economic reasons as it helped the trade with China and Japan. It acted as a stepping-stone and helped to defend ships. Also Americans owned most of everything on Hawaii. So Hawaii…

the profitable trading. In other words, mercantilism is where the colonies were forced to only trade and sell to Britain, in trade the colonists will be given manufactured goods from Britain if they kept to their end of the bargain. In result, the colonists made progress in both their population, and their financials. Britain however, gained much from the fact the colonists was only allowed to sell and trade with Britain. The colonies will soon build resentment for their mother country, for the…

When oil or petroleum is cheap there is less money getting sent to the producers,which makes us consumers happy,but the producer angry. Almost every single thing we use or buy comes from factories,factories use machines,machines use oil that makes products less expensive for example electricity is generated by oil which makes electricity cheaper.On one side most people are happy about cheaper oil, which means cheaper products, but on the other hand producers like companies in the Mideast are…

A favorable balance of trade was the primary goal of Britain as it developed economic policies to further its empire. This idea of a favorable balance of trade meant that the exports exceeded the imports. To make this goal a reality, the British were supplied with commodities from its colonies, which it would then export to foreign markets. This idea of intervening in trade to increase national wealth is known as mercantilism. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the British policy of…

bullionism, achieving economic self-sufficiency, encouragement of thriving agriculture, sea power, establishing colonies, trade, large population, avoiding luxury items, and state regulates and enforces all the economic policies. Bullionism is the economic health of a nation measured by the amount of gold and silver which it possessed. Bullionism dictated a “favorable balance of trade”. It dictated by placing high tariffs on imported raw materials than exported so that there would be more…