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International Marketing 10th Edition Czinkota Test Bank 1
International Marketing 10th Edition Czinkota Test Bank 1
TRUE/FALSE
1. Political and legal factors often play critical roles in international marketing activities.
2. In making decisions about a firm’s international marketing activities, managers will need to
concentrate on the legal circumstances of the host country but not the home country.
3. The term “embargo” refers to products that are packaged in one country in a particular way, and then
altered to fit the international marketplace in another country.
6. One key concern with trade sanctions is the fact that governments often consider them as being free of
cost.
7. Permitting a foreign national from a controlled country to have access to a highly sensitive computer
program in the United States is not considered as an export.
9. Today’s export controls use a “strategic balance” approach affecting specific hotspots rather than the
“tactical balance” approach.
10. Voluntary restraint agreements are self-imposed restrictions aimed at avoiding punitive trade actions
from the host.
12. Political risk can be the result of government action, but it can also be outside the control of
government.
14. Code law is based on tradition and depends less on written statutes than on precedent and custom.
15. Countries with the common law system have much more rigid laws than those with the code law
system.
16. Lobbyists are well-connected individuals and firms that can provide access to policymakers and
legislators.
17. If supply chains are complex and multinational, the effects of terrorism can potentially spread across
the globe from an initially local focus.
18. Corporate governance frameworks ensure the board of directors’ accountability to the company and its
shareholders.
19. As firms become increasingly multinational, governments respond by increasing global cooperation to
achieve the same principles of taxation and corporate ethics laws across nations.
20. Bribing foreign officials in order to gain contracts is considered permissible in the United States.
1. When products and goods enter a market in ways not desired by their manufacturers, this is known as
_____ market activities.
a. black
b. white
c. green
d. gray
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 133
OBJ: LO: 5-1 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic | BUSPROG: Ethics
STA: DISC: International Perspective KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
2. _____ refer to governmental actions that distort the free flow of trade in goods, services, or ideas for
decidedly adversarial and political, rather than strictly economic, purposes.
a. Gray market activities
b. Tariffs and barriers
c. Trade sanctions and embargoes
d. Expropriation and confiscation
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: p. 134
OBJ: LO: 5-2 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: International Perspective KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
3. The charter of the United Nations allows for sanctions as an enforcement action by regional agencies.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a regional agency?
a. The Organization of American Unity
b. The Organization of African Unity
c. The Organization of American States
d. The Arab League
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: p. 134
OBJ: LO: 5-2 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: International Perspective KEY: Bloom's: Application
4. When the United Nations (UN) votes on economic sanctions for a country:
a. it will apply only to nations who are members of the UN.
b. any permanent member of the Security Council can veto the sanctions.
c. the government must consider them as being free of cost.
d. a new set of rules must be written for the specific infractions.
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging REF: p. 134
OBJ: LO: 5-2 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: International Perspective KEY: Bloom's: Comprehension
5. _____ are designed to deny or at least delay the acquisition of strategically important goods by
adversaries.
a. Antidumping laws
b. Export control systems
c. Voluntary restraint agreements
d. Domestication activities
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 135
OBJ: LO: 5-2 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: International Perspective KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
8. As required by government mandate, anyone wishing to export a product from the United States needs
a(n) _____.
a. extended collective license
b. quasi-contract
c. voluntary export restraint agreement
d. export license
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 136
OBJ: LO: 5-2 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic | BUSPROG: Ethics
STA: DISC: International Perspective KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
10. When firms refuse to do business with someone, often for political reasons, this is known as _____.
a. image tarnishing
b. expropriation
c. boycotting
d. confiscation
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 141
OBJ: LO: 5-2 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic | BUSPROG: Diversity
STA: DISC: International Perspective KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
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