American business: foreign trade.

The World Trade Organization’s purpose is to improve the economic standing of its members.

The Townshend Act interfered with colonial commerce and led to a change in colonists’ consumption habits and colonial merchants’ purchasing.

During the formative years of the United States, tariffs were very important to the growth of the economy.

While protecting northern industrial interests, the tariff caused widespread economic hardship in the agricultural South...

Taiwan’s economy flourished after the Nationalists fled to the island and the United States provided economic and political support.

Slave trading across the Atlantic Ocean provided revenue for northern ports in American colonies and a labor source for plantations in the American South.

The Parliamentary Charter of 1763 was issued at the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War between France and Britain.

OPEC’s founding challenged the power of the “Seven Sisters,” the seven giant international petroleum companies—five of which were incorporated in the United States—that at the time dominated the production, shipping, and refining of oil outside the United States and Russia.

The North American Free Trade Agreement significantly altered the economic relationship among businesses in the United States, Canada, and Mexico by approximating the conditions of a common market.

A visit by the U.S. president to the People’s Republic of China that signaled an end to China’s isolation and opened a new era of Sino- American relations.

The Navigation Acts tied the American colonies into the British imperial market, restricting the colonies’ trade with other powers and encouraging smuggling.

American-based multinationals have contributed to the growth of the U.S. economy by acquiring greater access to foreign markets and increasing international sales.

Akey to modern Mexican-U.S. trade relations lies in the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, more commonly known as NAFTA, which was signed by the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

The Marshall Plan helped reopen the wealthy foreign markets of Europe to American products.

Historically linked by their geographical proximity and their shared histories of being created by European colonialism, the United States and the many nations of Latin America have long been important trading partners.

The United States forcefully entered into a trade treaty with Japan in 1853 to bolster its profitable trade with China.

With the advent of a national reliance on significant importing and exporting, the changes in international economics and the world trade policy have been important influences on manufacturing, on agriculture, and on employment.

The GATT helped reopen and maintain access to foreign markets and products following more than a decade of a global depression and an accompanying decrease in exports.

Food for Peace succeeded in facilitating the sale of increasingly large American agricultural surpluses to foreign buyers.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States helps encourage and maintain trade between the United States and other nations by reducing the risks associated with that trade.

Europe has always been an important trading partner of the United States, consistently providing a major import-export market.

The embargoes created an economic recession, but ultimately American industry became more reliant on the domestic market and less dependent on foreign trade.

Trade between communist China and the United States went from nearly nonexistent to hundreds of billions of dollars of imports in the twenty-first century, making China a major U.S. trading partner and a key supplier of many goods.