Did you know that without international trade you would not be wearing Nike shoes or Gap clothes, eating pineapples or bananas or have the computer equipment necessary to access this website? At the very least, you would not have this stuff at the price you paid. People all over the world would not be able to eat bread made from Saskatchewan wheat, fry fish in Saskatchewan canola oil or grow crops without Saskatchewan potash. Without international trade, the world would look drastically different. But have you ever thought about how international trade works, why it works or how some of the problems that it creates might be resolved? We hope that this site will give some answers to these questions.

Now, you might want to work through this site just to satisfy your curiosity. Great. However, to entice you to examine international trade in detail, we have created this site so that it can easily become part of your high school law, economics, social studies or geography course. To work through the entire site will take between 3 and 4 hours. It will give you a basic understanding of how international trade works, some problems that it creates and some attempts that have been made to resolve them.

One thing you will find out about international trade is that there are a lot of specialized words. We call these buzzwords. Throughout the site whenever a buzzword comes up you can click on it to get a quick definition. You can also go to the buzzword section at anytime for an overview of all the trade terms used on this site.

There are four topics covered on this site.

You can work through the different topics in any order or just choose the ones that interest you the most. Each topic has information about the topic followed by a test your knowledge section. You can navigate between topics by clicking on the different topics at the top of the page.

Click on the cover graphic to the left to view/print/download the accompanying teacher's resource TRADE! in Adobe Acrobat PDF format (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this resource). This resource contains further information on international trade as well as activities & handouts. TRADE! is also available on PLEA's Teacher's Resource CD-ROM, which you can order online at www.plea.org/yas/yashome.htm.

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