Task 1: researching today’s trade agreements
the international trade administration (ita) is a division of the us department of commerce that focuses on the nation’s trade issues and companies do business in and with other countries. the ita website contains a wide variety of information on issues related to international trade. read about the trade agreements the united states is currently negotiating, and answer the questions that follow.

choose a trade agreement that the us is currently negotiating that you would like to learn more about. which trade agreement did you choose?

He set of companies a product goes through on the way to the consumer is called the a. economic utility b. cottage industry c. market saturation d. distribution chain

This activity is important because as a marketing manager, you must allocate resources to reach your target market. during the strategic marketing process, managers move through three important phases to determine how to optimally allocate resources: a planning phase, an implementation phase, and an evaluation phase. in this interactive exercise, you are asked to review various strategic marketing actions and determine where in the strategic marketing process the action would occur. the goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of the strategic marketing process and related marketing actions.

Imprudential, inc., has an unfunded pension liability of $572 million that must be paid in 25 years. to assess the value of the firm’s stock, financial analysts want to discount this liability back to the present. if the relevant discount rate is 6.5 percent, what is the present value of this liability? (do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions, rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 1,234,567.89)