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Trade Barriers
You work at a pharmaceutical company that is considering entering India, Chile, Canada, China and Turkey. Conduct the appropriate level of research in a trade barriers database to identify information on Turkey’s current requirements (tariffs, duties, non-tariff barriers, investment-related barriers, and intellectual property rights). Also, the company is worrying about potential corruption. Using Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) that is a comparative assessment of a country’s integrity performance, find how the above countries rank. Further, identify the five countries with the lowest and the five with the highest CPI scores according to this index. Do you see any trends between CPI scores and the level of economic and social development of a country? Your report should be a maximum of 1 page, double-spaced, Word . However, you can have unlimited number of exhibits that should be put in an Appendix in the same file.
Hint:
Trade Barriers Database:
The quickest way to reach this information would be to search GlobalEDGE using the phrase “trade barriers database.” Select the Market Access Database website. Once there, select “Trade Barriers Database”. Then under sector, select Pharmaceuticals; under country select all (e.g., highlight all countries or just the countries you need), and under measure select all. A series of reports are listed from which those with more general titles will provide adequate insight fo

r the exercise.
Search Phrase: “Trade Barriers Database”
Resource Name: Market Access Database
European Commission Market Access Database website
Corruption Perception Index
Go to the Global Edge Resource Desk website
Search Phrase: “Corruption Perceptions Index”
Resource Name: Transparency International – Corruption Perceptions Index
globalEDGE™ Category: “Research: Rankings”
Transparency International website
Transparency International Archival Data
keep the report to 1 page and no need of a reference or cover page. include few exhibits like table or graphs in Appendex page
there no nothing else. please be sure to include 2-3 exhibits in Appendix page
thanks
Answer Preview……………….
 While making the choice of a potential investment option, different investors consider the ease of engaging in business activities within a particular economy. However, such ease is often not a sufficient indicator used in making the decision on the foreign investment. In addition, the company often seeks to understand the host country’s performance on issues such as corruption, which could end up determining the level of transparency in working with other organizations in the said economy. Ultimately, there would be limited chances that any investor would choose to work in a country that performs relatively poor on the corruption perceptions index, as such would indicate potential challenges in meeting the different objectives of the firm in question…………..
APA 329 words