Title: Investigate major challenges to the United States as a trading nation.
Course: Opportunities in Global Trade, Advanced (12056-II) > Section: Examining Current World Trade Issues

Investigation should include economic, political, and environmental challenges with examples of each.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How do we identify the major challenges to the United States as an exporting nation?
- What various economic systems exist in the trading world? What challenges may arise when a country with one form of economic system exports to a country with another form of economic system?
- What are examples of political factors that create challenges to the United States as an exporting nation?
- What are major environmental factors that create challenges to the United States as an exporting nation?
- Why are countries becoming more interdependent?
- How have advances in technology aided or hindered the United States as a trading nation?
- How are current events in the news affecting the United States as a trading nation?