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JA Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Appreciate | To gain value. |
| Bilateral Agreement | An agreement between two nations. |
| Business Practice | A usual way of doing business. |
| Capital Resource | A good used to make a finished product. |
| Consumer | A person who buys products or services. |
| Culture | The way of life of a group of people who share traditions, interests, beliefs, and everyday activities. |
| Currency | A nation's money. |
| Delegation | A group of people sent to speak and act for others. |
| Depreciate | To lose value. |
| Dispute | An argument, debate, or quarrel. |
| Domestic Trade | An exchange of goods or services with people and businesses in your own country. |
| Economy | How a country manages its resources to produce and distribute products. |
| Embargo | A ban on trade with another country for one or all of its goods. |
| Emigrate | To permanently leave one country for another; people who emigrate are emigrants. |
| Entrepreneur | A person who starts his or her own business in hope of earning a profit. |
| Ethics | A code of conduct that helps determine what is good, right, and proper. |
| Exchange rate | The price of one nation's currency in terms of another nation's currency. |
| Export | A good or service sold to another country. |
| Franchise | A special right given to a businessperson to sell a company's product. |
| Free trade | A belief that products should be free to move from country to country without barriers. |
| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | The basic law of international trade; countries that are members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agree to obey GATT rules. |
| Global trade | Occurs when goods or services are marketed around the world. |
| Good | An item that can be bought and sold. |
| Human Resource | A person who works at company, business, or organization. |
| Immigrate | To permanently enter a new country from another; people who immigrate are immigrants. |
| Import | A good or service bought from another country. |
| Input | The number of workers, their resources, and the length of time worked to produce a product. |
| Intellectual Property | Any product of the human intellect that is unique, novel, and marketable. Examples include: an idea, invention, literary or musical creation, name, business method, industrial process, chemical formula, or computer program process. |
| International Trade | An exchange of goods or services with people and businesses in other countries. |
| Manufacture | To make products by hand or machinery. |
| Market | A place where trade occurs. |
| Multilateral Agreement | An agreement between more than two nations. |
| Natural Resource | The raw material necessary to make a finished product. |
| Negotiate | To discuss a deal or problem in hope of reaching an agreement. |
| North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | An agreement between the governments of the United States, Mexico, and Canada to lower trade barriers on one another's products. |
| Output | The amount of a good produced. |
| Producer | A person who makes or produces a good and/or service. |
| Productivity | The amount of a good produced (output) by a certain number of workers, their resources, and the length of time worked (Input). |
| Quota | A control on the amount of a product that can be imported into a country. |
| Resource | Something of value that can be useful (Natural, human, capital). |
| Respect | To feel or show honor for a person, her or his rights, and way of life. |
| Restrict | To keep within bounds or to set limits. |
| Service | Work done by someone for someone else. |
| Standard | A requirement that stops or limits the sale of a product not meeting certain specifications. |
| Subsidy | A government action that decreases an Industry's productions costs, which also decreases the price of the industry's good(s). |
| Supply and Demand | The amount of a good or service available and the desire of buyers for it. |
| Tariff | A tax on a good imported into a country. |
| Technology | To accomplish a task using specialized tools, methods, or knowledge. |
| Trade | An exchange of a good or service. |
| Trade Barrier | A regulation or law that slows or percents trading with other nations. |
| World Trade Organization (WTO) | An organization acting as a court to hear and settle trade disputes among its member nations. |