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JA Terms
Term | Definition |
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Appreciate | To gain value. |
Bilateral Agreement | An agreement between two nations. |
Business Practice | A usual way of doing business. |
Capital Resource | A good used to make a finished product. |
Consumer | A person who buys products or services. |
Culture | The way of life of a group of people who share traditions, interests, beliefs, and everyday activities. |
Currency | A nation's money. |
Delegation | A group of people sent to speak and act for others. |
Depreciate | To lose value. |
Dispute | An argument, debate, or quarrel. |
Domestic Trade | An exchange of goods or services with people and businesses in your own country. |
Economy | How a country manages its resources to produce and distribute products. |
Embargo | A ban on trade with another country for one or all of its goods. |
Emigrate | To permanently leave one country for another; people who emigrate are emigrants. |
Entrepreneur | A person who starts his or her own business in hope of earning a profit. |
Ethics | A code of conduct that helps determine what is good, right, and proper. |
Exchange rate | The price of one nation's currency in terms of another nation's currency. |
Export | A good or service sold to another country. |
Franchise | A special right given to a businessperson to sell a company's product. |
Free trade | A belief that products should be free to move from country to country without barriers. |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | The basic law of international trade; countries that are members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agree to obey GATT rules. |
Global trade | Occurs when goods or services are marketed around the world. |
Good | An item that can be bought and sold. |
Human Resource | A person who works at company, business, or organization. |
Immigrate | To permanently enter a new country from another; people who immigrate are immigrants. |
Import | A good or service bought from another country. |
Input | The number of workers, their resources, and the length of time worked to produce a product. |
Intellectual Property | Any product of the human intellect that is unique, novel, and marketable. Examples include: an idea, invention, literary or musical creation, name, business method, industrial process, chemical formula, or computer program process. |
International Trade | An exchange of goods or services with people and businesses in other countries. |
Manufacture | To make products by hand or machinery. |
Market | A place where trade occurs. |
Multilateral Agreement | An agreement between more than two nations. |
Natural Resource | The raw material necessary to make a finished product. |
Negotiate | To discuss a deal or problem in hope of reaching an agreement. |
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | An agreement between the governments of the United States, Mexico, and Canada to lower trade barriers on one another's products. |
Output | The amount of a good produced. |
Producer | A person who makes or produces a good and/or service. |
Productivity | The amount of a good produced (output) by a certain number of workers, their resources, and the length of time worked (Input). |
Quota | A control on the amount of a product that can be imported into a country. |
Resource | Something of value that can be useful (Natural, human, capital). |
Respect | To feel or show honor for a person, her or his rights, and way of life. |
Restrict | To keep within bounds or to set limits. |
Service | Work done by someone for someone else. |
Standard | A requirement that stops or limits the sale of a product not meeting certain specifications. |
Subsidy | A government action that decreases an Industry's productions costs, which also decreases the price of the industry's good(s). |
Supply and Demand | The amount of a good or service available and the desire of buyers for it. |
Tariff | A tax on a good imported into a country. |
Technology | To accomplish a task using specialized tools, methods, or knowledge. |
Trade | An exchange of a good or service. |
Trade Barrier | A regulation or law that slows or percents trading with other nations. |
World Trade Organization (WTO) | An organization acting as a court to hear and settle trade disputes among its member nations. |