Format:

Completed Worksheets $(5$ Word documents$)$ and Excel file

Purpose:

To complete the data collection portion of the Feasibility of International Trade Research project by gathering data and information from reliable secondary sources that will allow you to compare your current market to a potential new market for the product identified in the Research Proposal. The data and information should help you to develop an understanding of the market, competition, costs regulations and other risks for your product as well as the impacts the findings would have on your decision to enter the new market.

Components

Worksheets $($see BlackBoard under Assignments $-$ Market and Competition Part $1$ available now. Cost, Regulations and Risk will be available after Reading Week$)$

Use MarketLine, WTO, Statistics Canada, Conference Board of Canada, Global Edge, Reference Canada, OECD, Business Source Complete, Culture Grams, Population Reference Bureau, World Bank and any other relevant sources to complete the sections of the worksheets $($typed$)$

Provide answers to the specific questions on the worksheet using the data and information reviewed and collected in Excel for each potential market

Comment on how the findings will impact your product and whether those impacts will be positive or negative

Cite your sources in the worksheet

Excel File

Collect data in Excel as you review sources that answer the questions in the worksheets

Create or collect the required graphs in Excel $($see worksheets for requirements$)$ that visually display the most relevant$/$impactful data

Use the graph type that best fits the data displaying

Include all titles, labels and legends $($if required$)$

Source the data below the graphs in Excel

References

List all sources used $($Worksheet and Excel$)$ on the Reference pages in the Worksheets $($APA format$).$