International sourcing .txt

• -trade regulations
• -lack of trade regulations
• -lack of enforcement of trade regulations

• -disregarding customs' compliances
• -violating intellectual property rights
• -engaging in unfair business practices
• -abandoning social responsibility

When goods are transferred through a hird country to avoid tariffs and/or qoutas

China, Armenia, Hong Kong, Russia, Taiwan

• -creates properity that can benifit the poor as well as the rich
• -allows the market place to determine tha flow of goods and prices
• -funds political parties in rich countries and sponsors corruption in poor ones
• -hurts the middle class in developed countries (job loss)
• -allows manucturers to search out low wages, desperate workers which fosters the destruction of livelihoods, cultures and enironments

• -Monitor imports and exports
• -assess and collect tariffs
• -report import and export against quota
• -protect the country's borders against illegal entry

• Textiles- where the fabric is knitted or woven
• Apparel- where the most important process or transportation occurs

products of human intellect have commercial value

Literary, musical, artistic works, and software

Grants a monopoly for a limited time for the use of the invention

any formula, pattern, idea, physical device or process

covers words, pictures, symbols or logo

• -a description of the merchandising property
• -a definition of the product that can bear the property
• -a time frame
• -the responsibilities of the licenser
• -the responsibilities of the licensee
• -the basis of the royalty
• -the amount of the royalty
• -the guarantee or minimum royalty amount

the Trade- Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

transferring intellectual property right to someone else

forging, copying, or imitating something without the right to do so and with the intent to deceive or defraud

the original goods but sold by unauthorized vendors

• -flea markets and street vendors
• -retail shops
• -internet
• -organized crime has gotten involved
• -funding terrorism

• -an imitation of the original usually of lesser quality components and sold at lower prices
• -legal imitations because they carry no trademarks or suggestions that the product is the original design or brand

• involves practices for conducting business in which firms make decisions based on how their actions affect others within the market place
• -fair treatment of the human resources
• -sustaining environments
• -supporting laws

a statement of principles and standards by which business decisions are made

• -19 organizations
• -17 countries
• -they do certification of factories

• -12 companies
• -175 colleges & universities