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In your initial post, address the following as part of your response: List three products that you can purchase at a local store that are only available due to global trade, and discuss the impact of global trade on the local store. List an occurrence (for example, an earthquake, hurricane, or war) that prevented a product from being sold in your local market or that affected the product's condition or price significantly. Discuss how frequently you notice missing products or significant price changes due to events in other countries. Hello all, My name is Lindsey Young, and I am currently pursuing my bachelor’s degree in accounting. I currently reside in a small town in southern Iowa where I live on a farm with my sister and my puppy. I work full time and help run the family farm on the side, so I like to say that I don’t know what free time is. I enjoy being outdoors and working with youth, and my job allows me to do just that. There are a ton of products that I use on a regular basis that are not native to Iowa, or the United States for that matter. My family is a big farming family and there are a lot of pieces of equipment (tractors, discs, skid loaders, etc.) that are imported from other states and countries. I always wear a lot of Ariat Cowboy boots. These are made primarily in China and Mexico (Wabiszewski, 2023). The final item (resource) that I am able to obtain at a local store because of global trade is gasoline. Global trade can definitely have positive impacts on local stores, but don’t be fooled there are negatives as well. Local stores are able to offer a much wider selection of goods because they take advantage of global trade. Without trade, they would be limited to whatever was native to the area. In Iowa, we would have a lot of corn and cattle. There are also negatives to global trade as it takes away jobs from the home state/country. “The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), located in Washington, D.C., calls job losses the most easily understood negative effect of world trade” (Hall, 2021). The majority of the time, it is cheaper to outsource the production of a product to a lower income country than it is to pay someone here to make it. This can be harmful to the economy because if people are not able to work, they are also not able to make purchases at local stores. If people are not buying products, local stores will be forced to alter their prices which would cut into their profits. Global trade has major benefits but has to be used wisely as to not “upset the apple cart.” I feel like COVID-19 is the most recent example of an occurrence that prevented a product from being sold locally. The pandemic shut down virtually everything which also meant that it was very difficult to receive imports from other countries. The demand skyrocketed for a lot of items and the supply plummeted. This was the case for items such as thermometers, masks, and toilet paper. These items were harder to come by because suppliers were used to receiving imports from other countries and then sending those out. When the imports stopped, society did not know what to do. As restaurants closed
down, the need for food items at grocery stores also increased. Stores had trouble keeping items on the shelves because of the lack of transportation for the items. Not only did I struggle to get items, but I noticed the price increases as well. Items that were harder to come by received major price increases. Toilet paper was one of those items. They knew that people were going to purchase whatever they could find, so retail stores took advantage of that. The COVID-19 pandemic was a crazy time for retail stores and global trade. I look forward to learning more about the impacts of global trade. Lindsey Hall, S. (2021, November 20). Negative effects of world trade . Bizfluent. https://bizfluent.com/info-8376212-negative-effects-world-trade.html Wabiszewski, K., & Riser, K. (2023, December 16). Where are Ariat Boots made? 2024 update . All American Made. https://www.allamericanmade.com/where-are-ariat-boots-made/#:~:text=Most%20Ariat %20boots%20are%20made%20in%20China%20and,the%20Two24%20collection%20are %20made%20in%20the%20USA.
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