Sainsbury's Protectionism: Impact Of The Global Market

For Example: Suppose a company cuts their workweek from 40 hours to 30 while keeping the wage the same. This will open up jobs, possibly making the total man hours the similar to before. There was no benefit for the company to do that at all. All that happened was that the employed had given up their pay for the unemployed. On the other hand, if the company reduced the work week and increased the wage, the firm would have to raise prices and cut profits. The biggest misconception of protectionism is the fact that merchants are looking at the short term benefits rather than the long term impact. When placing tariffs on common goods productivity and wages are reduced. In a protected industry it is contrast for wage and efficiency, but fall for the overall

Trading fairly- these are the rules the businesses need to follow which include; the business needs to run in an open manner, competition can only happen in between companies that belong to equal parties and making sure their customers are satisfied and are feeling secured with the business’s products and the quality of the products. All businesses need to make sure that they are honest to their customers and are describing their products as it is to their customers so that they do not get angry by getting the wrong information. Sainsbury’s use many products that are organic and make many fair-trade products such as; fresh fruits. They need to make sure all their products are traded fairly and are paying their suppliers and employees fairly and make sure they are now paying them below the national minimum wage. They cannot cheat on their employee by providing them with the wrong information about the product or charge their customers extra for the product. All businesses need to follow all the rules and regulations in order to run ethically.

This is true regardless if imports were subsidized in the country of origin. Even though the domestic firms would have to compete, these conditions serve for the betterment of the consumers and outweigh other losses. However, in the short term, as the prices adjust, unemployment is faced, and “market failures” might arise. These negative externalities do not imply that protectionist measures can fix the issue. In long-term, domestic companies may become reluctant, passive, and too reliant of government. In trying to satisfy the domestic market and resist external arbitration, the government may become the victim of its own strategy or success. This policy is appealing and rationalized only if it aims to release the domestic political pressure. In theory, by remedying the competitors from the outside, the US steel industry would have developed the industry while having more “confidence” and the means of acquiring more of the demand side. Proponents of the protectionist actions increase the profits and quantity of steel. Seeing profit, other steel-producing companies would join in domestic competition. This likewise optimizes and expands the steel industry. This kind of protectionism act was quite popular in the EU and the UK in the early industrialization era. This also makes possible to save and expand jobs. In this narrative, it would increase the citizens’ employments rates in steel industry. Moreover, it has significantly helped the US steel industry raise profits, in light of soaring demand worldwide from China and other manufacturing

Tariff and Tax: The trade of a business organization also gets affected by the tariff and Tax laws. This could influence both positively or negatively. If the global market’s tax and tariff rate is high then TESCO could face difficulties to compete with those countries companies.

This is because many developed countries may use protectionist measures to prevent developing countries from having free access to certain markets (which may include the markets for the developing countries’ primary product) thus making it more difficult for poorer countries to grow and develop.

Sainsbury’s have a long term goal to deliver their products and keep their customers happy. One of their objectives is to make life easier for their customers by offering products with good quality and service with a fair price. This also makes the customers happy and makes them want to shop

Sainsburys is currently the second largest chain of supermarkets within the UK, with a current supermarket sector share of 16.9%. Sainsbury’s was founded in 1869 and today operates in over 1,200 supermarket and convenience stores, and has over 161,000 employees. We will be looking at a number of areas internally and externally and see how they are effectively or not effectively performing.

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This report provides a view on operations of SAINSBURY’S , the third largest supermarket chain across United Kingdom. SAINSBURY’S , in spite of being the longest standing retail chain has been facing stiff competition from rivals like TESCO , MORRISONS. The competitors seemed to have developed at a faster pace since SAINSBURY’S has been through a difficult time in recent years and TESCO is now twice the size in terms of turnover.

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Protectionism by way of the price mechanisms such as tariffs, subsides, quotas, export licences and import duties (Rugman, 2009) are just some of the measures which can seriously impact on a foreign company. For example the American steel industry was afforded protection under the Bush administration when large tariffs were imposed on foreign steel imports in order to safeguard the jobs of the national steel workers (Mankiw and Taylor, 2008).

Free trade has long be seen by economists as being essential in promoting effective use of natural resources, employment, reduction of poverty and diversity of products for consumers. But the concept of free trade has had many barriers to over come. Including government practices by developed countries, under public and corporate pressures, to protect domestic firms from cheap foreign products. But as history has shown us time and time again is that protectionist measures imposed by governments has almost always had negative effects on the local and world economies. These protectionist measures also hurt developing countries trying to inter into the international trade markets.

In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith talks about international trade and subsequent government policies which became increasingly significant throughout modern history. Protectionism is the term for economic policies of restraining trade between countries when they want to protect their domestic industries from foreign competition. Trades nowadays have different forms and methods and involve more businessmen as well as consumers, which is why trade diplomats are looking to regional agreements. The US experienced two major economic declines during the 20th century, both of which had much to do with international trade. Smith mentioned tariffs in the 18th century, but the role and forms of protectionism have changed across time, so we should know whether the development of economy should actually be correlated with or decided by the political sector of the society and when protectionism will benefit or hurt economy.

One of the greatest international economic debates of all time has been the issue of free trade versus protectionism. Proponents of free trade believe in opening the global market, with as few restrictions on trade as possible. Proponents of protectionism believe in concentrating on the welfare of the domestic economy by limiting the open-market policy of the United States. However, what effects does this policy have for the international market and the other respective countries in this market? The question is not as complex as it may seem. Both sides have strong opinions representing their respective viewpoints, and even the population of the United States is divided when it comes to taking a stand in