INT 650 MILESTONE ONE – OVERVIEW AND TRADE POLICIES

INT 650 Final Project Milestone One Guidelines

Prompt: To begin your final project, you will submit a short paper with your country, industry, and company overview, and a description of your country’s specific trade policies. Provide a brief overview where you select a specific international market and a company within a selected industry. Imagine you are an international consultant. You are working on providing a client with highly specific analysis of a particular international market, while keeping in mind the industry that the client is in.

Are the trade policies in your selected international market sufficiently competitive to attract new companies in a particular industry?
Are the trade barriers in your selected market low and beneficial in order for new companies to succeed in a specified industry?
What changes in trade policies, trade barriers, or new trade agreement alliances would make the country more competitive and desirable for your particular industry and company?

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

Country, Industry, and Company Overview:
- Provide brief overview of the chosen international
- Provide a brief overview of the chosen industry in which your company is
- Provide a brief background of the company you have
- Include the nature of the company’s products or
Trade Policies: Describe the country’s specific trade policies geared toward foreign multinational corporations (MNCs).
Define trade policies in your specific international Consider drawing from multiple sources in your definition.
Determine the implications of the trade policies on your company. Do these policies ease or hinder your company’s business? Why?
Determine the implications of the trade policies on your industry. Do these policies ease or hinder the industry within the specific international market? Why?
Determine the implications of the trade policies on consumers. Do these policies hinder the consumer’s purchasing power within the specific international market? Why?

Guidelines for Submission: Milestone One must be submitted as a 2–3 page (not including title and reference pages) Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Included should be at least two scholarly references. All references should be cited in APA format.

Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review the project instructions.