International business involves trade across national borders to acquire supplies from other countries in exchange for goods they value more. When Europeans discovered America, they realized they could trade crops grown in North America, like corn, for needed supplies. Companies get involved in international trade for more customers and larger profits, though they must consider advertising appropriately to local cultures and meeting consumer lifestyles in foreign markets. Global trade greatly impacts consumers through access to goods made in other countries. A company's decision to trade internationally considers a country's resources, population, and needs.

2. An international business is any business activity needed to create, ship, and sell goods and services across national borders.

3. Global dependency is when items that consumers need and want are created in other countries.

4. Domestic business is a business that is run in a certain country while an international business is a business that is run through a different country.

5. International business is very important because it is a way for you to acquire new and needed supplies from other country in return for supplies they might value more than you do.

6. The European explores that discovered America were actually trying to find a more affective and quicker route to Asia to trade for supplies they needed. When they discovered American and the North Americans they realized they could trade with them for their supplies. They traded for supplies like crops originally grown by the North Americans. (Corn)

7. Lands’ End got involved in international trading because of the opportunity for more customers and a larger profit.

8. The internet was a key factor in the way international trading takes place now.

9. Some problems might occur because of international trading are advertising your products in the countries the correct way and without cause any problems. Another problem would be having what you make fit the lifestyle of the local natives.

10. One of the main ways the company meets the needs of consumers in the foreign countries that they have were you may view the website in you native language.

11. We are affected enormously by international trading because a lot of the clothes we wear and the objects we play with and use for everyday activities are made and shipped in from other countries.

12. Two main factors that affect if a company would try and trade with a foreign country are its resources and supplies, populations, their needs.