Transnational Business Law Test Bank
Course Introduction
Transnational Business Law explores the legal frameworks, principles, and challenges associated with business activities that cross national borders. The course examines key topics such as international contracts, dispute resolution mechanisms, choice of law and jurisdiction, the role of international organizations (such as the WTO and UNCITRAL), and regulatory compliance in areas like trade, investment, and intellectual property. Students will analyze case studies and treaties to understand how global legal systems interact, adapt to cultural differences, and respond to emerging issues in a rapidly evolving marketplace. The course prepares learners to identify and navigate the risks and opportunities in transnational commercial transactions.
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International Business Law 6th Edition by Ray A. August
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Chapter 1: Introduction to International and Comparative Law
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Q1) Jus cogens is a peremptory norm of general international law, recognized by the international community of states as a norm from which no derogation is permitted.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Customary international law is applicable domestically only after it is adopted by legislation, court decision, or local usage. This is called the ________.
A) constitutive doctrine
B) declaratory doctrine
C) doctrine of transformation
D) doctrine of incorporation
Answer: C
Q3) Distinguish between customs union and free trade area.
Answer: A group of states that have reduced or eliminated trade barriers among themselves and have established a common external tariff is called the customs union. A group of states that have reduced or eliminated trade barriers among themselves but maintain their individual tariffs in dealing with other states is called the free trade area.
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Chapter 2: State Responsibility and Environmental Regulation
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Q1) If the injury is done directly to a state, then the objection of failure to exhaust all remedies cannot be raised.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The OPIC's coverage for currency inconvertibility only insures an existing legal right to convert.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) ________ is a statement designating objectives and priority actions for the international community leading up to the year 2000 and beyond. These include the promotion of sustainable and environmentally friendly growth, the prevention of pollution, and the protection and conservation of the Earth's natural resources.
A) Agenda 21
B) Kyoto Protocol
C) Resolution 2389
D) Article 5
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Dispute Settlement
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Q1) Diplomacy is also known as alternative dispute resolution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The ________ holds that a foreign state is not immune when the cause of action for a suit is based on conduct unrelated to the state's governmental activities.
A) most significant relationship doctrine
B) doctrine of sovereign or state immunity
C) rule of absolute sovereign immunity
D) theory of restrictive sovereign immunity
Answer: D
Q3) ________ jurisdiction is the power of a court or tribunal to determine the rights of a party who appears before it.
A) Contentious
B) In personam
C) Advisory
D) In rem
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Multinational Enterprise
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Q1) Setting up a subsidiary can benefit a multinational firm because the subsidiary's company status insulates the parent from unlimited liability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following tests is used to determine whether a court has subject-matter jurisdiction in an American antitrust case?
A) the effects test
B) the minimum contact test
C) the national eligibility test
D) the per se test
Q3) A business that grants licenses to a foreign national or foreign business entity is not a multinational enterprise.
A)True
B)False
Q4) With regards to trade prohibitions, Article 81 of the European Community Treaty is analogous to Section 2 of the Clayton Act.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Foreign Investment
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Q1) Depository receipts are identical to the securities themselves.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A bond is an equity security.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true of bonded warehouses?
A) They are operated by transportation firms.
B) They are intended to be places for trade and business.
C) They help shippers in avoiding tariffs and quotas.
D) They are owned by the government.
Q4) Which of the following terms refers to the assurance of a host state government that foreign investors will be able to take out of the state both the investment capital they brought in and the profits they earned?
A) nondiscrimination guarantee
B) repatriation guarantee
C) stabilization clause
D) appraisal right
Q5) Describe the significance of foreign investment policies.
Q6) Differentiate between nationalization and expropriation.
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Chapter 6: Money and Banking
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Q1) What is the role of the International Development Agency (IDA) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in connection with the World Bank?
Q2) Accounts in domestic banks that are maintained and paid in a foreign currency are commonly free of the monetary control restrictions imposed by their issuing country.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following parts of the IMF gives the final approval for the quota a state seeking to join the IMF should pay?
A) member states having at least 85 per cent of the total vote share
B) all the member nations of the IMF
C) the IMF Board of Governors
D) the IMF Executive Board
Q4) One of the functions of a central bank is regulating the quantity of money in circulation.
A)True B)False
Q5) Explain the role of the Bank for International Settlements as the central banks' bank?
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Chapter 7: Trade in Goods
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Q1) A countervailing measure is a duty specifically levied to offset dumping.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ is the customs value of imported goods that is based on the price actually paid for similar goods by unrelated persons in the importing country at about the same time.
A) Transaction value
B) Deductive value
C) Computed value
D) Derived value
Q3) The ________ is a GATT scheme that allows developing states to grant tariff preferences to each other without having to grant them to developed states.
A) National treatment rule
B) Generalized System of Preferences
C) South-South Preferences
D) Escape clause
Q4) Differentiate between general exceptions and security exceptions.
Q5) Differentiate between free trade area and customs union.
Q6) Enlist the five main organs of the WTO.
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Chapter 8: Services and Labor
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Q1) What are visas? How many types of visas are allowed with respect to duration?
Q2) Which of the following is a similarity between the Governing Body and the General Conference of the ILO?
A) Both of them function as the secretariat of the ILO.
B) Both of them have the power to adopt recommendations.
C) Both of them have the power to approve conventions.
D) Both of them consist of a tripartite representation of government, labor, and employer.
Q3) Which of the following terms refers to a GATS requirement that a WTO member state accord to services and service suppliers of other member states treatment no less favorable than what the member grants its own like services and service suppliers?
A) nolo contendere rule
B) market access
C) national treatment
D) foreseeability standard
Q4) Recommendations are issued by the ILO when there is no consensus on the subject at hand.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Intellectual Property
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Q1) ________ is the right of an author to place a copy of a copyrighted work into circulation for the first time.
A) Right of reproduction
B) Right of distribution
C) Property right
D) Neighboring right
Q2) Industrial property is itself divided into two categories: inventions and ________.
A) trademarks
B) pecuniary rights
C) service marks
D) artistic property
Q3) A collective mark is a mark used exclusively by a licensee or franchisee to indicate that a product meets certain standards.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the different types of franchise?
Q5) A patent pool is an agreement to exchange licenses.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Sales
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Q1) Which of the following is true under the CISG if the offeree dispatches a rejection and an acceptance to the offeror?
A) both the acceptance and the rejection would be considered void
B) whichever reaches the offeror first would take precedence over the other
C) rejection would take precedence over an acceptance
D) an acceptance would take precedence over a rejection
Q2) The subjective intent approach differs from the objective intent approach in that the subjective intent approach _______.
A) tries to interpret the conduct of the parties involved
B) tries to interpret the intent of the parties involved
C) is considered an inferior form of interpretation
D) is only used when objective intent cannot be interpreted
Q3) Which of the following is a remedy available to both buyers and sellers?
A) missing specifications
B) avoidance of an installment contract
C) specific performance
D) reduction in price
Q4) What is the buyer's obligation for payment?
Q5) List out the remedies that are unique to a buyer.
Q6) Explain the seller's remedy of avoidance of installment contracts.
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Chapter 11: Transportation
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Q1) A bill of lading is an instrument issued by an ocean carrier to a shipper with whom the carrier has entered into a contract for the carriage of goods.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A "with average" policy contains a ________ that provides for payment only if the loss exceeds a specified minimum amount.
A) Himalaya Clause
B) franchise clause
C) constructive loss clause
D) loss payee clause
Q3) The trade term " ________" is used when the seller fulfills his obligations to deliver by handing over the goods, cleared for export, to a carrier named by the buyer.
A) ex works
B) free carrier
C) charterparty
D) demurrage
Q4) What is a charterparty?
Q5) What is the purpose of issuing a bill of lading?
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Chapter 12: Financing
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Q1) Describe the unconditionality feature of a bill or note.
Q2) What is a bearer paper?
Q3) In which of the following cases can the holder of an instrument seek recourse from the parties with secondary liability?
A) if the instrument has been physically damaged
B) if the instrument is not presented on time
C) if the instrument has been dishonored
D) if the instrument is found to be forged
Q4) According to the fictitious payee rule, when the instrument is issued in the name of a fictitious payee, the person purporting to be that payee can make an effective endorsement.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Barter is an example of a countertrade.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What features should be present in a bill so that it meets promissory requirements?
Q7) Explain the role of the advising bank in a letter of credit transaction.
Q8) Describe the ways in which a bill or note can be paid.
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