International Business Transactions : A Problem-Oriented Coursebook

by Folsom, Ralph H.; Gordon, Michael Wallace; Spanogle, John A., Jr

• ISBN13: 9780314263179
• ISBN10: 0314263179
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: West Information Pub Group

Table of Contents

Dedication	iii
Preface	v
Acknowledgments	ix
Table of Cases	xxxix
Part One THE CONDUCT OF BUSINESS IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY
Commerce or Isolation: The Decision to Trade	2	(10)
The Actors: The Nations and Institutions of International Trade	12	(28)
Who Are the Foreign Traders?	12	(3)
Nonmarket Economies and State Trading Organizations	15	(1)
Dependent, Developing and Advanced Developing Countries. The New International Economic Order and a Law of Development	16	(2)
International Economic Institutions	18	(4)
The Role of Counsel in International Business	22	(18)
Forms of International Business	40	(8)
Trading Goods Across Borders: Exports and Imports	40	(2)
Licensing Production Abroad	42	(2)
Foreign Investment	44	(4)
Part Two INTERNATIONAL TRADING OF GOODS
Agreements for the International Trading of Goods	48	(204)
The Basic Transaction-Toys to Greece	48	(27)
Formation of an International Transaction: Insulation to Germany	75	(29)
Commercial Terms, Bills of Lading and Insurance Books to Bath	104	(30)
Wars and Other Frustrations: Oil From Araby	134	(32)
Electronic Commerce: Professor Pedro Buys a Book	166	(32)
The Bill of Lading: Computers to Caracas	198	(27)
Selling Through Distributorships/Agents and the Use of Countertrade: Growfast in Mexico and Russia	225	(27)
Financing the International Sale of Goods	252	(94)
Letters of Credit	252	(2)
The Letter of Credit and Electronic Communication: Gold Watch Pens For France	254	(33)
Enjoining Payment of Letters of Credit for Fraud: VCRS From Japan	287	(25)
Standby Letters of Credit: Electronics to Israel	312	(34)
Part Three REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Tariff and Nontariff Trade Barriers	346	(214)
An Overview	346	(4)
The World Trade Organization: Oxicorp Trades With Nonmarket and Transition Economies	350	(31)
Customs Classification and Valuation: Peanut Butter and Jelly Swirl From China	381	(43)
Nontariff Trade Barriers: Shrimp From India and Beef From Europe	424	(44)
Free Trade Areas and Customs Unions: Japan's Perspective	468	(30)
Tariff Preferences for Developing Nations: Import World and Leather Goods	498	(32)
Contract Preferences for Local Producers: Government Procurement of Photocopiers	530	(30)
Responses of Domestic Producers to Import Competition	560	(67)
Protection from and Adjustment to Imports	560	(9)
Subsidies and Countervailing Duties: Tires From (and to) Canada	569	(29)
Antidumping Duties: Supercomputers to the United States	598	(29)
Exports	627	(139)
Controlling and Promoting Exports	627	(6)
Licensing Exports From the United States: Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) to China	633	(23)
International Economic Boycotts: Machine Lathes to Cuba and Qatar	656	(46)
Questionable Payments to Foreign Officials: Processed Foods in Nigeria	702	(38)
Trade in Services: Section 301 Proceedings, The Gats and U.S. Insurance Exports	740	(26)
Part Four TRANSFERS OF TECHNOLOGY
Licensing, Theft and Protection of Intellectual Property	766	(134)
Intellectual Property and International Transactions	766	(10)
Franchising and Trademark Licensing: Colonel Chicken Goes Abroad	776	(33)
Protection of Intellectual Property: Pirated and Gray Market Rocket's Tapes and CDs	809	(30)
Protection of Intellectual Property: Section 337 Proceedings, Special 301 Procedures, Trips and Pharmaceuticals from Thailand	839	(31)
Patent and Knowhow Licensing: Oil Drilling Bits in Germany and Mexico	870	(30)
Part Five FOREIGN INVESTMENT
Establishing and Operating a Foreign Investment	900	(250)
The Decision and Ways to Invest Abroad	900	(6)
Risk Analysis and the Decision to Invest: Domestic Goods, Inc., Considers Foreign Direct Investments, Especially in Transitional and Developing Nations	906	(29)
Choices Upon the Formation of the Foreign Investment: ``Greenfields'' Investment, Merger or Privatization; Branch or Subsidiary: Domestic Goods, Inc., Invests in Europe	935	(40)
Issues Confronting the Established Investments-Currency Controls, Transfer Pricing and Insolvency: Domestic Goods, Inc., Five Years Later	975	(35)
Third World Debt: The IMF, Amabank and World debt in Asiana	1010	(34)
Project Financing-Mogul Liquefies Gas	1044	(34)
The Taking of an Investment by a Third World Nation; Obstacles to Recovery; and Lump Sum Settlements, Claims Commissions, and Insurance: Fishing Rods in Marnesia	1078	(38)
Foreign Investment in NAFTA: Drill-Bit of the U.S. in Mexico and Munson of Canada in the U.S.	1116	(34)
Part Six DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
The Resolution of International Disputes	1150	(183)
Dispute Settlement Options	1150	(15)
Resolution of International Disputes: Televisions Everywhere	1165	(34)
Choice of Law and Choice of Forum Clauses: Dolls to Europe	1199	(33)
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and Discovery: Antitrust, Air Travel and the North Atlantic	1232	(30)
International Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: Cars from Malaysia	1262	(28)
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments	1290	(43)
Appendix: The European Union	1333	(28)
Index	1361