Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Geography article review for Geo 381

This article discusses the trade relationship between the United States and Canada. The United States is Canada's largest trading partner and is the largest market for Canadian goods. The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement have both been crucial to increasing market opportunities for Canadian exporters in the U.S. International trade trade between Canada and the U.S. has gone through noticeable changes since the inception of the free trade concept. Free trade is the act of exchanging goods or services between countries for minimal tariffs or fees. In Canada, free trade with other countries is embraced and as a direct result, both business and consumers experience great economic and social prosperity. Trade connections between the two States has gone through important shifts since the birth of free trade. The scale at which that change was measured has not been properly analyzed. This article introduces the concept of spatial analysis and how it will be applied in this situation to to trace the effects of free trade between the United states and the provinces of Canada. Researchers will attempt to monitor the impact of the bilateral trading agreement between the two States. Through spatial analysis, geographers can examine the economic relationship between Canadian and U.S. Furthermore, a spatial view of the free trade agreement between the two States will allow geopgrahers to research the rises and pitfalls of trade across the border between the U.S. and Canada and its influence on foreign policy. In this article, the geogrpahers have discovered that that the level of variation in the international trade waves is related to the shifts in the provincial tariff rates.

The economies of both the U.S. and Canada are both industrialized. U.S. Yet, there are major difference between the two States. One of the differences between the Canadian economy and its neighbor to the South can be tracked to the opposing political ideals of the role and structure of the federal government in the economic realm. A different economic connection exists between the government of Canada and its provinces. Canadian provinces have substantially more control over their own economic affairs than do "states" in the U.S. For instance, many resources like lumber and beef are regulated by the provincial authorities and not the Canadian federal government. Although the Canadian government continuously makes attempts at creating broad federal procedures concerning all of the provinces, the provincial policymakers still debate full governmental control over their affairs. As a result, trade with the United States is more suitable for the Canadian federal government and often less expensive than Canadian inter-provincial trade. I think the content of the article was very logical, rational and well written. I could fully comprehend all of the information and concepts in the article. Points were presented clearly and concisely. I agree that the paper was a little too detailed and descriptive. This relates to the political geogrpahy concept of boundaries. More specifically, boundaries between States. With the contiuned expansion of free trade between the U.S. and Canada, how have the Canadian provinces been affected. There may have been inter-provinicial boundary disputes that caused the Canadian federal government to increas trade negiotiations the United States.



AS with the changing for of the city. did it's points of demarcation or delimitation change. As a result of the transformation. THe U.S. Canada have a mutual agrrement to trade along their boundaries. They each know the limitations of their own State's boundaries. And they have no intentions or desires to expand into the other's boundaries doing so would cause conflict and dispute. There are no boundary disputes between these two States. THey boundaries are clearly marked and demarcated.

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