Portfolio Projects Explore Your Own Case in Point: Understanding How Regional Integration Blocs Affect Your Chosen Company After reading this chapter, you should be prepared to answer some basic questions about your favorite company. Pick whatever company you want.

1) Identify regional trading blocs with which your chosen company operates. Identify the benefits that your company gains because it is part of those trading blocs. Is your company taking advantage of the situation?

2) Which trading bloc is most attractive for your company, and why? Explain the importance of that bloc in terms of economic geography (i.e., business density, distance and infrastructure, and intra-regional trade barriers).

3) If you could advise your company about the benefits of regional trading blocs, which trading bloc would you recommend that the company consider next? Why?

4) Would your company be better off under a system of multilateral trade liberalization like the WTO or with bilateral or regional trading blocs?