Five more projects

Here you have some more projects about the secondary and the tertiary sectors. These students have researched on different activities: telecommunications and electrical installations, industry, carprentry, transport and retail trade. We hope you like these projects and learn a lot of things about these activities. Please, leave your comments. 

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Challenge number 8

Source: www.capital.es 

Trade is the topic of this week’s challenge. You will have to research Spain’s commercial relations with other countries and answer the following questions:

QUESTION 1

Who are Spain’s major trade partners? What five countries receive the highest percentage of Spain’s exports? From what five countries does Spain import the most products?

QUESTION 2

What products does Spain export to other countries? What products does Spain import?

QUESTION 3

What are Spain’s commercial relations with the USA? What kind of products does Spain export to the USA? What kind of products does Spain import from the USA? Does Spain have a deficit or surplus trade balance with the USA?

QUESTION 4

Economy and politics are closely linked many times. Why is Spanish official policy so generous towards countries such as Equatorial Guinea, Libya or Saudi Arabia? What commercial interests does Spain have in these countries?

The WTO and free trade in some cartoons

Here you have some cartoons about the role of the WTO in international trade relations. Free trade has benefited the most developed countries and the multinational corporations, but it hasn´t been so good for developing countries and for many workers in the world. 

  Source: http://jacobsongj.wordpress.com/

Source: http://theomahaproject.org/module_display.php?mod_id=98&review=yes

Source: http://www.polyp.org.uk/corporate-rule_cartoons/cartoons_about_corporaterule_and_democracy.html

Source: http://www.polyp.org.uk/cartoons/democracy/polyp_cartoon_WTO.jpg

Source: http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/taxonomy/term/3162

Source: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12876 

And the last cartoon reflects another blatant reality: the European free market is closed for the poorer. 

Source: http://itssddisguisedtradebarriers.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html

Trade balance

On this short video you will  understand  better how the trade balance works and the differences between the trade balances of the most and the least developed countries in the world. 

And here you have a link to a webpage where you can see the Spanish trade balance in the last two years. It is obviously negative. This means that the country has spent more money buying products than the money it has earned selling its products to other countries. This is called deficit:


http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/Balance-Of-Trade.aspx?Symbol=esp