Mexican officials claimed that U. S. apple growers were when they appeared to be selling red and golden delicious apples in Mexico for less than the cost of producing them. This resulted in Mexico adding a tariff to these products.

1. back-channel marketing
2. parallel importing
3. countertrading
4. dumping
5. microfinancing

Organizational portfolio plan, the final phase of the strategic planning process, involves? a. identifying strategic business units (sbus) and establishing methods to determine how resources should be allocated among the various sbus. b. designing marketing mix strategies c. setting organizational objectives d. creating organizational strategies

According to the law of demand, there is an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded. that is, the demand curve for goods and services slopes downward. why?

Electronics assembly inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global company. the company would assemble three models of cell phones in the same assembly cell. setup time between the phones is negligible. electronics assembly inc. operates two 8-hour shifts for 275 days per year. cell phone demand forecast (phones/year) processing time (minutes/phone) mars 47,000 19.8 saturn 35,000 20.7 neptune 7,500 16.2 a. calculate total capacity required by line. b. determine the total operating time available. c. calculate the total number of assembly cells. (round up your answer to the next whole number.)