Would closing your plant and moving your operations overseas help or hurt the U.S. economy?

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Please read pages 92 – 120 in your online textbook before you answer these questions.
1. Analysis
You own a company that employs about two hundred people in Maine to produce hockey sticks. You have meet with a company who can help you set up a production factory in Indonesia, outsourcing the production of the hockey sticks.
Would closing your plant and moving your operations overseas help or hurt the U.S. economy? Who would be hurt? Who would benefit? Now, armed with answers to these questions, ask yourself whether you would indeed move your facilities or continue making hockey sticks in Maine. Explain your decision.
2. Application
You have been given the opportunity to work overseas for one year. Your company needs a representative in one of the following countries: Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Russia, India, or China. Choose ONE of these countries, and then to help determine if you would like to work there, find the following information through an internet search. After learning about the work culture in this country, would you opt to spend a year there? Explain your answer.
Be sure to identify the website(s) where you find the information.
a. Expectations of timeliness
b. Gender role expectations
c. Conventional business greetings
d. Negotiation style
e. Body language cues
f. Dress code expectations
g. Attitude towards a work-life balance
3. Evaluation
Read this article from Bloomberg News (a respected business journal):
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-18/everything-you-need-to-know-about-trump-s-latest-tariffs
Based on what you have learned about tariffs in the article, the chapter reading, and the PowerPoint, how will the tariffs impact consumers? Businesses? The US economy? China’s economy? Do you think President Trump should continue to impose tariffs or back off? Explain your answer thoroughly!

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