What is international trade ?

The basic idea of international trade and investment is simple: each country produces goods or services that can be either consumed at home or exported to other countries.

The main difference between domestic trade and international trade is the use of foreign currencies to pay for the goods and services crossing international currencies. Whenever a country imports or exports goods and services, there is a resulting flow of funds: money returns to the exporting nation, and money flows out of the importing nation. Trade and investment is a two-way street, and with a minimum of trade barriers, international trade and investment usually makes everyone better off. In a interlinked global economy, consumers are given the opportunity to buy the best products at the best prices. By opening up markets, government allows its citizens to produce and export those things they are best at and to import the rest, choosing from whatever the world has to offer.

Some trade barriers will always exist as long as any two countries have different sets of laws. However, when a country decides to protect its economy by erecting artificial trade barriers, the result is often damaging to everyone, including those people whose barriers were meant to protect. The Great Depression of the 1930s, for example, spread around the world when the United States to erect trade barriers to protect local producers. As other countries retaliated, trade plumpered, jobs were lost, and the world entered into a ling period of economic decline.

Вариант 3

1. Поставьте предложения в страдательный залог (Образец: Mother waters the flowers in the evening. — The flowers are watered in the evening (by mother). Переведите исходное предложение и предложение в страдательном залоге.

1. She took a long time to write the composition. 2. Don't put the cup there: somebody will break it. 3. They invite me to the party. 4. We met many difficulties but all the same we finished the work in time. 5. We shall leave you behind if you are not quick.

2. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Active или Passive Voice. Переведите предложения.

1. My dog (took/was taken) the food from the table. 2. During the second time the footballer (has been taken/has taken) to the hospital.3. The sandwich (will be made/will make) for me in time. 4. He (had washed/has been washed) his sweater in the hot water. 5. My sister (sells/is sold) insurance polices.

3. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Passive Voice. Переведите предложения.

1. The composition must (to hand) in on Wednesday. 2. Yesterday he (to tell) to prepare a speech. 3. The article (to publish) last week if I am not mistaken. 4. The lectures (to attend) by all of us. 5. A taxi (to call) fifteen minutes ago so we are expecting it any moment.

4. Переведите текст на русский язык. Выпишите предложения в страдательном залоге, подчеркните сказуемое, укажите время сказуемого, пользуясь таблицей «Времена в страдательном залоге»