Trade+webquest+-+India

Simple Trade webquest - India
This year 9 assignment involves trade with India. This is a hardcopy handout

1 Find an article in the news about the ban on live cattle exports from Australia to Indonesia. In a word document, summarise the events that have lead to this ban. (100 words) Use a number of searches from: http://news.google.com.au/
 * Working in Groups of 2 or on your own, complete these activities and hand in to the relieving teacher for assessment. **

2 Access the website for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. ( @http://www.dfat.gov.au/index.html) In a word document, summarise what information you can find at this government department. (50 words) Select India ( @http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/india/index.html) and Include ‘advice for travellers’ and ‘some information on trade agreements with other countries’. (100 words)

3 Access the World Trade Organisation website. ( @http://www.wto.org/) What is the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (50 words)?

4 What is a definition of **//sovereignty//** when we are looking at Trade and International law?

5 What is - //United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods// (CISG)? Please write a description in a word document or outline how it works between countries with a diagram.

6 **The Hopetoun Wool Works Pty Ltd Managing Director – Curly P. Woolmaker ** Imagine you are the employee of a large wool retailing firm in Hopetoun (your local town). You have decided to **//export//** some wool to **//India//** so that it can be manufactured into wool clothing you have designed. Your director has agreed with this idea and left all the arrangements to you as he is currently in Ballarat. You need to find out which port your wool can leave from in Victoria and which port your goods will arrive at in India. The Indian factory is in **Jaipur** and you need to find out if it is easier to get your sea container of wool there by rail or road? What is the distance for the return trip by road or rail in kilometres? Could either option be used? You really want your goods back as soon as possible, and Mr Woolmaker has sent a text message asking if you can find what currency is used in India and today’s exchange rate for it with Australian Dollars? Put all this information in a word document and include some maps of India, the voyage from Australia to India and a map of how the sea container of woollen garments will get back to Hopetoun (your local town).

Reference: Sea container of woollen garments. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Dear Employee, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ‘As I am in Ballarat, can you please find out some information for me and put it into a word document. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> What is a **//Bill of Lading//**? The insurance company is asking for this to insure our woollen goods coming back from India.’
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">7 Email message __****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> from Managing Director - Curly P. Woolmaker **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">8 **__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Blackberry message __****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> from Managing Director – Curly P. Woolmaker ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reference: Woollen dresses, jumpers and jeans. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ‘Hi, a chap from India has sent me some photographs of these garments you have designed, not bad at all. I think we should be able to sell them if we have the right logo, yeah? Can you design me a **//logo//** that shows how the goods were made from Australian materials but manufactured in India? We need a new catchy name!!! I think we should also have a new advertising campaign for these goods. Please ‘smash out’ (make or create) a one page ad on Glogster for next month’s women’s and men’s magazines. Wish I was there but you know how it is!!!

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">9. Ok, you have done well on these tasks but I think that all this information on international trade, shipping, exports and logos should be put into a wordle document. Can you produce one and print it out. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|www.wordle.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">10. India has indeed become a popular trading partner of Australia’s. As a senior employee it would be good to know some facts about this country.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What is its population?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What is the urban / rural population split?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What is the religious persuasion of the peoples who live there (%)?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What are the major businesses that survive there?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What is the climate like?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Any other information you may find useful.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Try [|www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/go/pid/49] ; <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">www.newint.org/publications/reference/world-guide-11-cdrom/ @http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/405420/PwC_MelbourneInstitute_Asialink_Index_ANZ_Services_Report2010.pdf

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">11. Some websites that may assist your quest
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|www.indianconsulatesydney.org/]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|www.hcindia-au.org/]