Assignment: Continue using your Zip-6 Scenario:
Zip-6 management has been approached with a proposition to buy out a Venezuelan soft drink manufacturer and bottler. The selling price appears to be slightly below book value for the assets. You have been retained as a consultant to investigate the legal, political, and economic climate in Venezuela and then make a recommendation. This Assignment asks you to:
1. Go to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) website https://www.cia.gov/index.html and use their World Factbook.
2. Develop an informative essay addressing the checklist items below.
Checklist:
a. Describe the political risks and you have identified with this offer.
b. Describe the economic risks and rewards you have identified with this offer.
c. Recommend a decision for Zip-6 management and explain your recommendation.
Draft your response addressing these points in 350 words or more in APA format and citation style with a separate title and reference page.
Discussion:
Respond to your Discussion topic after you have completed your reading Is China and Neo-Mercantilism Nation?
Reread The Country Focus: Is China a Neo-Mercantilist Nation and discuss the following:
a. Do you think China is pursuing an economic policy that can be characterized as neo-mercantilist?
b. What should the United States, and other countries, do about this?
Be sure to address the Discussion topic(s) in an initial post of at least 100 words no later than Saturday night Eastern Time. Be sure to respond to at least two others (not including the professor) and participate in the Discussion by posting on three different days of the unit.