Case Study On Assessment Of Opposition

Case Study on assessment of opposition Canada vs. USA Rohit Kamra Mayank Bansal Harshika Shah Deepti Raja

Historical Background

Case overview Smaller companies may face difficulty in negotiating with larger ones  Problems Faced:

 Getting

attention from the larger organization  Being a victim of a weaker power base  Based

on the Oct 3, 1987 Free Trade Agreement between US and Canada  Canada dependent on US for its exports and US was getting more protectionist during that period  

Strategy adopted

APPROACH

Recommendations

US should have done a detailed cost benefit analysis of the agreement in the first place US shouldn’t have under estimated its opponents US clearly fell into the trap set by the Canadians solely because of the superpower over confident attitude they carried along Should have chosen a competent negotiator right from the beginning 

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After effects of the FTA Trade between Canada and the United States began to increase rapidly.  In the twentieth century, exports fairly consistently made up about 25% of Canada's GDP  1990 onwards exports have been about 40% of GDP  In 2007 the Canadian dollar rose above the US dollar  Benefits that Canada derived are now taken away by the decrease in the international value of the U.S. dollar  Agreement remains controversial to this day 

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