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=Trade Balance: Imports and Exports= You are part of an import-export company's purchasing department. Your company has come under public and government pressures to achieve an import-export balance or trade surplus favoring the United States. The federal government is offering generous tax breaks over the next five years for any import-export company that achieves a neutral or positive trade receipts. Your company is located in California and does business exclusively with the Pacific Rim nations. To do a good job of achieving a desirable trade balance, it will be important to investigate the business climate of your trading partners. Try to simulate the free trade environment of the world trade scene today. You must make your trade deals a win-win situation for all parties. If you are working on this project as a member of a team, divide up the tasks and responsibilities. One person needs to be responsible for keeping the group on task. Others members of the group need to take task which are best suited to their particular talents. All members of the team must be involved in the decision making. All members of the team must accept their responsibility for accomplishing the task. In a team it takes cooperation to achieve success. In the business world it is the companies with the best team efforts that are most successful.

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