Conflict diamonds: what are they? Where do they come from? What is the Kimberly Process? What does the supply chain in procurement, manufacturing, and consumption look like? Are you complicit in purchasing conflict diamonds? What role do Western nations play? please detail and cite sources

How does product life cycle (PLC) theory as proposed by Vernon (1966) explain international trade? Discuss its advantages (compared with classical theories) and limitations (in general) in explaining trade patterns.

Cross-market subsidization refers to A) supporting competitive moves in one country market with resources and profits diverted from operations in other country markets.   B) the practice of shifting company resources from nations where a company has big profit sanctuaries to nations where it has smaller profit sanctuaries.   C) the practice of getting a company's home government to help finance or subsidize its entry into foreign countries.   D) using cross-border transfer of a company's skills and expertise as a basis for successfully overcoming the barriers to entering new country markets. deliberatly operating at a loss in some country markets.

Various parties occasionally call for import limits or levies on foreign produced items , most notably automobiles, so how these likely to be beneficial or harmful ?