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Global Trade - WTO Survey
 
 

 


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1.  The purpose of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been to pave the way for a productive new era of harmonic global trade. Agree
Disagree
2.  In the five years since the WTO was created it has become an agreement to disagree on an international scale. Agree
Disagree
3.  From the N.Y. Times, December 1, 1999:
     "President Clinton quietly tried -- and failed -- to persuade leaders of major countries to attend a huge trade conference in Seattle in order to break political deadlocks over workers' rights, agricultural subsidies and America's self-proclaimed authority to block low-cost imports."		 Agree
Disagree
4.  Following the December, 1999 WTO meeting, citizens of Seattle will now tend to be more supportive of which position? More control from WTO-type world organizations
Bilateral trade agreements (US & others one at a time)
5.  Expansion of global trade is good for the US. Agree
Disagree
6.  Expansion of global trade is good for US workers. Agree
Disagree
7.  Inflation will be kept low because manufacturing can be performed in many nations and will be performed where material costs are low and labor is reasonably efficient. Agree
Disagree
8.  The WTO should be abolished. Agree
Disagree

9.  The US should quit the WTO.
 Agree
Disagree

10.  WTO members were obligated to accept China into the WTO.
 Agree
Disagree

11.  The idea of one world trade control body is wrong for the US.
Agree
Disagree

12.  The idea of one world trade control body is the wrong way to promote global trade.
Agree
Disagree

13.  Global trade will grow fruitfully with little government involvement.
Agree
Disagree

14.  Over time global trade will correct the injustices and abuses exploitative labor.
Agree
Disagree

15.  Global trade will grow naturally because it is good for most nations.
Agree
Disagree

16.  The existence of the Internet insures that global trade will grow regardless of
        controls and rules.
Agree
Disagree

17.  The G-8 nations, the eight largest economies in the world, produce 50% of the world's economic output.  In the United States the wealthiest 2% control over 60% of the nation's capital.

       The macro world operates similarly to the micro economic world --- the smart and successful do well.

 Agree
Disagree
18.  How important is the issue of global trade? Very important
Somewhat important
Not very important
I don't understand the issues

19. I am:
 Female
Male
20.  My age group is: Under 20
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70 & older

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