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Diane, Knovia, Robert,
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**1. Smart Board**

 * This item is a hassle-free and multi-tasking item that is a must-have in every classroom. You will no longer have to worry about frequently purchasing expo markers or chalk. No electrical current issues will be encountered since Canada and the US run on the same electrical system. The size of the screen ranges from 48 to 94 inches in length. It has sensitive touch-screen so now you can write with your finger and erase with you palm. Font color, size, etc is also programmed. Some SmartBoard models come with an LCD projector built in, and multi-tasker for two people to use at the same time. Data storage is avalaible for notes to be saved as you left it.

**2. Foreign Business Environment **

 * The only issue may be language issues for some parts of Canada, but the Smart Board is programmed with several language options, therefore it won’t be a problem.
 * Canada is our neighbor, country wise, therefore shipping by freight trucks would be a cheaper way to transport.
 * Only during the winter time, it will be dangerous to transport through a freight truck because of the mountains and icy roads located in Northern US and Canada. It would be best to get these items delivered by August, right before school starts.
 * We would have to pay the tax policy tax and the trade restrictions are not really needed because America and Canada has NAFTA.

**3. Market Potential**

 * The type of customer I would primarily sell my product to would be school districts, they are the people who purchase everything needed and used in schools. After that, any businesses looking for any presentational materials.
 * Methods that can be used to attract customers would be by forwardly contacting the school districts. Sending them advertisements in the mail. And after that, billboards or tv commercials may be played publicly for those in the business world or any kind of people that deal with presentations.
 * A SmartBoard is going to have a positive outcome in sales in Canada because it is a large developed country.

**4. Export Transaction Details **

 * There won’t be any duty or tax on the imports to Canada because we are in a trilateral agreement with Mexico. According to NAFTA, we have agreed to not tax each other on imports because we are borderline countries.
 * The NAFTA has established a U.S.-Canada Free Trade that has been effective since 1989 and removes trade barriers such as tariffs, duties, and taxes.
 * Shipping from New York CIty to Montreal, Canada will take approximately one month by transporting on highway 87 with Freight on Board (FOB)

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INTRO (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ACTIVITY)- Rodrigo H. International business activity has five forms of activity 1.importing and exporting 2.licesing 3.franchising 4.strategic alliances 5.joint venture and foreign direct investment. International business is used to collectively describe all commercial transactions like (private and governmental, sales, investments, logistics, and transportation) that take place between two or more regions, countries, and nations beyond their political boundary. Some functions of business marketing, global manufacturing and supply chain management, accounting, finance, human resources. Overlaying alternatives: choice of countries, organizations and control mechanisms. Mutations A multinational enterprise (MNE) is a company that has a worldwide approach to markets and production or one with operations in more than a country. An MNE is often called mutation corporation (MNC) or transnational company (TNC). The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) allows business persons to engage in certain business activities without an employment authorization, provided they otherwise comply with existing immigration requirements applicable to temporary entry, NAFTA also helps Canada to sell products to countries over sea and they can get a better economy. Examples are conducting market research, marketing products, negotiating contracts, or taking orders. Canada’s activity’s help other countries with supplies. Canada’s economy is good. Other countries trust making business with Canada is a good trade partner. Some of Canada’s famous business are dairy queen. Some of Canada’s marketing is branding, online marketing, marketing on budget. Canada’s marketing is really high especially for the help of the United states. A fact of Canada is its economy goes up when there are especial event like the Olympics’. = = =**Economic Conditions - Robert Hatter**=

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">The economic conditions of Canada are fairly close to the economy in the United States with its market oriented economic system. Thus, the federal government has the exclusive authority to appoint and pay the judges of the superior or upper-level courts in the provinces. The [|head of the economy] is the Supreme Court, and then it is the Court Martial Court, Provincial Court, and the Federal Court of Appeal. This structure of government helps the economy because the power of the country is limited to different sections and each section has its own authority. Thus the people have to follow what each section tells them to do. This is also called having limited power. Like Americans, Canadians tend to have high levels of disposable income. This disposable income increases the Canadian economy as consumers spend their extra money on a variety of products and services. This creates demand for increased production and the development of new products, which also means more and better-paying jobs. Canada originally has had a relatively stronger economy than many other countries but has recently weakened a little due to European debt problems. However, when it did increase it emerged greatly with the 2008 global financial crisis, the Canadian economy turned out to be one of the strongest advanced economies in the world at number 8 on the[| GDP]list.Canada’s primary sector, namely the logging and oil industries, remains an important element to the economy, which has helped the economy strive and helps Canada’s business to generally stay ahead.



<span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">http://www.blakes.com/guide/html/legal_system.html <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/dept-min/pub/just/ <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/fact-econ-canada.html <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">[] = = = = = = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**EXPORT IMPORT - Robert Hatter** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Canada is the world’s tenth largest importer and the world’s twelfth largest importer. The United States of America is Canada’s biggest import partner. In agriculture, both countries are its counterpart’s largest export market with the US importing more than half of Canada’s food products while Canada importing nearly 20 percent of the US’s food product. Canada is a resourced based economy which means the country imports more materialistic things and goods. With that, Canada’s biggest [|exports]are petroleum with sixty four billion dollars, passenger vehicles including cars and vans with 37 billion dollars, car parts and accessories with 16 billion dollars, aluminum products with eight billion dollars and lumber with seven billion dollars. With those being the biggest exports, the biggest growing exports are sugar, zinc, expensive metals, oil drilling equipment, and copper. The total value of Canada’s exports is 406.8 billion dollars in the United States of America currency. After the United States of America they also export with the United Kingdom and China. With their imports, the value is 406.4 billion. With commodities of machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, crude oil, chemicals, electricity, and durable consumer goods. The United States of America, China, and Mexico are the biggest import partners. Most of the imports and exports from Canada are to make money from their resources that they naturally have and then Canada basically imports what they do not have, mostly electronics and other natural resources from other countries such as oil from the [|United States of America]. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">[|http://www.i][|nternational.gc.ca/controls-controles/index.aspx?view=d] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">[]

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When it comes to the business world in Canada, it’s extremely important to know the simple business rules, which are: to not abuse dominance, truth in advertising, and the environmental protection act. Abuse of dominance is what created the [|Competition Act]in 1986, prohibits businesses from engaging in practices which unfairly discourage competition, including price-fixing, monopolizing a product market, coercing suppliers to favor certain customers, and buying up product with the intention of inducing scarcity Violations are referred to the Competition Tribunal and civil penalties can be levied. The Competition Act also affiliates with the rule of being truthful in advertising. In this act, pyramid schemes, misleading contests and untested claims are prohibited in order to enforce the truthful advertisement law. The Environmental Protection Act was created in 1999 for the basic environmental conservational reasons: promote sustainable development, and reduce pollution. Some of the regulations imposed by the act on businesses include the interprovincial movement of hazardous waste and hazardous recyclable material regulations, which governs the transportation and storage of toxic waste, the passenger automobile and light truck greenhouse gas emission regulations, which sets targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and the living modified organisms regulations, which restricts the business use and transportation of certain genetically modified organisms. Both Canada and the United States happen to be on the same page when it comes to being truthful in advertisement. No country wants to be known as a false claiming, product selling advertiser therefore this rule is strongly enforced in both nations. Another common rule is the environmental protection rule, both countries are eco-friendly.

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The most common food exports from Canada are cocoa, coffee, cotton, flowers, fruit, gold, grains (rice & quinoa) spices and herbs, nuts and oils such as shea butter and olive oil, sports ball, sugar, tea, and wine. Another major export is [|petroleum]. Six billion barrels are located outside of the oil sands, they make up about 1/5 of Canada’s total trade exports. The mining industry is basically the backbone of Canada’s economy, because of the handful of resources that are available in Canada. Vehicle parts, lumber, and aluminum are the big industrial items that can be found on Canadian land. Because Canada is a densely populated country that’s located in a harsh climate area the land and availability of trees is very high. Minerals contribute to Canada’s natural resources, the three most productive items are zinc taking up twenty nine percent, petroleum taking up 49 percent. and gold with twelve percent. Relating to petroleum, vehicles are a fast-selling product, therefore auto mobile parts are a necessity to have available. Because vehicles are a popular product, any service affiliated with auto mobiles will be available. This is one of their most important services. It’s also on the chart of Canada’s top exports,

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Currency/Values-Rodrigo H. Canada has an extensive history with regards to its currency. Beginning in the early 16th Century, items such as wampum and furs were actually considered currency. With the colonization of France and England, various coins were introduced in the 18th and 19th Century. In the 20th Century, it has issued many commemorative coins into circulation, temporarily replacing current coinage designs. For information on some non-circulating coins. The Canadian Dollar is up over 5% in value over each of these major currencies; that’s a pretty rapid ascent in the last few months. Again, note that other than the Mexican Peso, the Canadian Dollar has gained more from the U.S. Dollar than it has from any other currency. From the statistics gathered in this article, it’s clear that the huge jump in the Canadian Dollar relative to the American Dollar over the last six months is due to both the Canadian Dollar appreciating on world foreign exchange markets and the U.S. Dollar falling in value. The CAD's value against the US dollar rose sharply in 2007 because of the continued strength of the Canadian economy and the US currency's weakness on world market. The rise in value has affected the book and book publishing industry, where buyers have been accustomed to fixed prices on the backs of their books: one for the Canadian market and another one for the American market. The rise of the values affected some of the marketing products. Since the economy has rised up more products are produced. []

=**Small Businesses- Knovia Bell**=
 * There are many difficulties faced when starting or operating a small business. However, the ones that are commonly faced in Canada are lack of management skills, lack of a plan, lack of information about what is and isn’t working poor procedures, and lack of focus. The areas of weakness dealing with lack of management skills could be in finance, human resources, marketing; any area where the current management does not have the expertise, or the time to deal with the issues. Ways to solve this problem could be to assign the responsibility to an existing manager with a requirement to watch for the obvious pitfalls or to hire a person part-time or a consultant. Lack of plan is a very common failing for most small businesses, except for the ones that are growing very rapidly. Lack of information about what is and isn’t working can be a big issue in the business. Often, companies don’t review their results well enough so when something occurs, positive or negative, they may not know what caused it. Ways to keep this problem from occurring would be to implement a process for measuring for measuring or tracking key performance indicators on a weekly or monthly basis. Last but not least, lack of focus is another problem that many small businesses face. Lack of focus is mostly a challenge for entrepreneurs in small businesses. A way to fix this problem would be to be clear on your long-term objectives and the opportunities that will facilitate you’re achieving this. Then evaluate other opportunities by the extent to which they draw resources away from your ability to achieve those long-term goals. **

Conclusion Canada is a country of natural resources. The country is advanced and has a big global trading inustry. The economic conditions of Canada are fairly close to the economy in the United States with its market oriented economic system.The most common food exports from Canada are cocoa, coffee, cotton, flowers, fruit, gold, grains (rice & quinoa) spices and herbs, nuts and oils such as shea butter and olive oil, sports ball, sugar, tea, and wine.Canada is the world’s tenth largest importer and the world’s twelfth largest importer. The United States of America is Canada’s biggest import partner. In agriculture, both countries are its counterpart’s largest export market with the US importing more than half of Canada’s food products while Canada importing nearly 20 percent of the US’s food product. With all this being said Canada is very similar to United States.

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 * Canadian to American Dollar Currency Change ||
 * ||  |||| 1 American Dollar (USD) = 1.02 Canadian Dollars (CAD) ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || Item || American Value (USD) || Canadian Value (CAD) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Candy Bar || 1 || 1.02 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Soda || 1.5 || 1.53 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || French Fries || 2 || 2.04 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Pizza || 10 || 10.2 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Video Games || 50 || 51 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Cell Phone || 100 || 102 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Ipod || 200 || 204.01 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Laptop || 1500 || 1530.06 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Taxi Fare || 20 || 20.4 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Train Ticket || 200 || 204.01 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Plane Ticket || 400 || 408.02 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Automobile || 10000 || 10200.42 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Hotel Room || 150 || 153.01 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Apartment || 55000 || 56102.31 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Condo || 150000 || 153006.31 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || House || 250000 || 255010.51 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Movie || 10 || 10.26 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Theme Park || 20 || 20.52 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Sporting Event || 60 || 61.57 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Concert || 100 || 102.61 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Theme Park || 20 || 20.52 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Sporting Event || 60 || 61.57 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Concert || 100 || 102.61 ||  ||   ||   ||

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The government's politcal system is a constitutional monarchy The title of the current leader is Prime Minister and his name is Stephen Harper. The politcal parties are the Conservative Pary, Democratic Party, Liberal Party, and the Green Party. The Conservative Party is now in power.

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According to GDP, economic development during the years of 2008-2010 for Canada it has been stable and consistent; for Italy it has slightly decreased; as well as Germany. These changes show that Canada's economy hasn't really changed compared to Italy and Germany which might have experienced a decrease in inflation. GDP, per capita income, balance of trade, and unemployment rate are all related in their contribution to the economy and the way it circulates. A company can use these graphs and help determine with what other countries they would like to associate with in order to have a successful outcome.

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