Name:	Andrew Stoler
Role:	Course Coordinator
Location:	Level 6, Nexus 10
Telephone:	+61 8 8313 6900
Email:	andrew.stoler@adelaide.edu.au  or andrewlstoler@gmail.com

Name:	Graeme Thomson
Role:	Expert lecturer and Associate Expert, IIT
Location:	Canberra
Telephone:	+61 2 6247 0947
Email:	thomsonsgm@ozemail.com.au

Name:	Geoff Upton
Role:	Expert lecturer and Associate Expert, IIT
Location:	Trade Focus (Adelaide)
Telephone:	+61 439 863 078
Email:	geoff@tradefocus.com.au

Name:	Patricia Holmes
Role:	Assistant Secretary, Trade Law Branch
Location:	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Canberra)
Telephone:	+61 2 6261 2187
Email:	patricia.holmes@dfat.gov.au

Name:	Alexandra Williams
Role:	Program Advisor
Location:	Faculty of Professions Undergraduate Hub
Telephone:	+61 8 8313 4497
Email:	alex.williams@adelaide.edu.au

Office Hours: Monday - Friday from 9:00AM - 5:00PM

The International Trade: Strategies & Opportunities course aims to build internationally competitive knowledge and understanding in the area of international trade by challenging students to engage in cognitive and critical thinking skills; and requiring them to demonstrate the ability to analyse and integrate information across the broad disciplines of economics, law and politics in both a domestic and international context.

The course is designed to enable students to:

1	Understand the new opportunities in international trade through studying global supply chains, regional integration and the entrance of major Asian countries into the WTO (i.e. China, Chinese Taipei & Vietnam)
2	Understand the basic elements of regional trade integration by reviewing the main free trade agreements and from a sectoral aspect
3	Understand how the practical aspects of international trade including the entering of export markets, financing and export assistance, legal regulations and documentation as well as government controls such as quarantine and customs
4	Understand the “new issues” in international trade including investment, trade in services, competition policy and trade and climate change policies
5	Develop an understanding of how international trade agreements influence the development and adaptation of Australian trade policy through domestic legislation
6	Critically examine the operation and application of international trade agreements in a practical context
7	Develop effective skills, both orally and in writing, in the construction of policy argument and analysis on international trade issues
8	Develop effective skills in international trade research

Module I: New Opportunities in International Trade – Required Reading

• International Economics: Theory and Policy – Chapter 10
• Multinational Production Networks and the New Geo-Economic Division of Labour in the Pacific Rim Countries – (reader)
• Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation – Case Study: 27 Mauritius and Zambia – Regional Economic Cooperation
• Trade and Poverty Reduction in the Asia-Pacific Region – Case Studies 1.4 TNCs and Footwear Production in Indonesia; 1.6 Intel’s Investment in Vietnam; 4.1 Migrant Labour and Remittances in Bangladesh
• + Press Clippings to be distributed on My Uni ahead of class

Module II Practical Aspects of International Trade – Required Reading

• Australian Export: A Guide to Law and Practice Justin Malbon & Bernard Bishop 2006, Cambridge University Press ISBN 9780521613958 : 0521613957 - Chapters 3, 4 & 5
• International Business: Strategies, Management and the New Realities, Tamer Cavusgil ,Gary Knight and John Riesenberger, 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, ISBN 0131738607 – Chapters 9, 12, 13 & 14
• Criminal Code Amendment (Bribery of Foreign Public Officials) Act 1999
• Appendix: Sample Outline for the Export Business Plan
• International Commercial Terms – INCOTERMS 2000

Module III: WTO’s “New Issues” – Required Reading

• The Political Economy of the World Trading System – The WTO and Beyond – Chapters 7, 8 & 13
• WTO Market Access: Unfinished Business – Post Uruguay Round Inventory and Issues – Pages 97-139
• Competition Law Insight - WTO decides its first competition case, with disappointing results
• Competition Policy and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System 
• International Economics: Theory and Policy – Chapter 11
• Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation: 45 Case Studies – Case Studies: 4 (Barbados); and 39 (Sri Lanka)
• Telecommunications Services - Reference Paper 
• Press Clippings – to be provided in advance on My Uni

Students should consider purchasing the following TEXTBOOKS from the University of Adelaide Unibooks. They are also available for loan from the Barr Smith Library or the Institute for International Trade (IIT) Office

• China and the World Trading System: Entering the New Millenium, D.Z. Cass et al (Eds), 2003, Cambridge University Press
• The Political Economy of the World Trading System – The WTO and Beyond, Bernard Hoekman and Michael Kostecki, 2001, Second Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press
• Australian Export: A Guide to Law and Practice Justin Malbon & Bernard Bishop 2006, Cambridge University Press ISBN 9780521613958 : 0521613957
• International Business: Strategies, Management and the New Realities, Tamer Cavusgil ,Gary Knight and John Riesenberger, 2008 Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, ISBN 0131738607
• Market Access: Unfinished Business – Post Uruguay Round Inventory and Issues, World Trade Organization, 2001, WTO, Geneva(Available from IIT Office)
• International Economics: Theory and Policy by Paul R. Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld, 2006, Seventh Edition, Boston, Addison Wesley
• Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation: 45 Case Studies, Peter Gallagher, Patrick Low, Andrew Stoler, Australia, Cambridge University Press (Available from IIT Office)
• Trade and Poverty Reduction in the Asia-Pacific Region, Andrew Stoler, Jim Redden, and Lee Ann Jackson, Cambridge University Press
  
  
  

Books Students Can Obtain for Free from www.dfat.gov.au/

AANZFTA – Guide to the Agreement: http://dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/aanzfta/official-documents/Documents/aust_guide_whole.pdf

Trans-Pacific Partnership: http://dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/tpp/Pages/trans-pacifici-partnership-agreement-tpp.aspx

APEC: http://dfat.gov.au/international-relations/regional-architecture/apec/Pages/asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-apec.aspx

Investment & OECD PFI: http://www.oecd.org/investment/pfi.htm

Competition Policy: http://www.oecd.org/competition/

Information Students Can Obtain for Free from:

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Overview and Key Outcomes of the AANZFTA	www.dfat.gov.au/fta/aanzfta/aanzfta_overview_and_outcomes.html
Trans-Pacific Partnership	www.dfat.gov.au/fta/tpp/
Korea-Australia FTA Official Documents	www.dfat.gov.au/fta/kafta/official-documents/index.html
Trade and Economic Framework Between Australia and the People’s Republic of China Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	www.dfat.gov.au/geo/china/framework/economic_framework.html

The course will be presented by way of three (3) intensive one day and a half modules offered over Semester 2 of the academic year.

Teaching will be partly by way of lecture and partly on the basis of a discussion of written case studies. Please ensure you bring your materials to the classes, and use the classes to address any issues that have arisen in your preparation.

To successfully pass your course, you will need to allocate an appropriate time commitment to your study. In addition to the formal contact time required for each of your courses (e.g. intensive modules delivered by lectures, case studies and group work), you will need to allocate non-contact time.

Non-contact time will be required for a range of activities which may include, but are not limited to, assessment tasks, reading, researching, note-taking, revision, writing, consultation with staff, and informal discussions with other students.

Students in this course are expected to attend all classes throughout the semester. Please refer to Access Adelaide for your timetable and enrolment details http://www.adelaide.edu.au/access/

In addition to time spent in class and reading materials required for active participation in the class, students will be required to write two 1,500 word take-home essays as part of the assessment process for this class. Overall, students in Trade 5001 should expect to devote 36 contact hours and 156 non contact hours to study in this course.

 

Module I: New Opportunities in International Trade	In this module, students learn about WTO rules that govern regional trade agreements (RTAs), as well as RTA negotiating modalities and techniques; how production sharing arrangements influence trade policy and economic development, and the role of RTA's in the modern global economy. Specific reference is made in the module to negotiating issues in RTAs and experience with Australia's RTA with ASEAN and New Zealand, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Also covered in this module and RTAs impact on the movement of people and mutual recognition agreements. APEC is studies as a model of non-binding regional cooperation and case studies are assigned to show how theory relates to practice in these areas.
Module II: Practical Aspects of International Trade	This module is focussed on practical preparations for entering export markets; partnership possibilities in international trade; and assistance in exporting. The module addresses challenges to importers and exporters, trade complexities affecting new exporters and barriers to exporters, international trade terms (INCOTERMS), risk management and methods of payment, and Australian Government requirements and controls affecting both importers and exporters.
Module III: WTO's 'New Issues'	The final module of TRADE 5001 is focussed on the interaction of trade with investment, competition policy and climate change and trade. The objectives of competition policy are reviewed, including the promotion of economic efficiency and consumer welfare and students are exposed to various trade-related agreements designed to promote pro-competitive trade environments. The relationship between international trade and foreign direct investment is explored in depth and various types on international investment agreements are reviewed. The interaction of trade and climate change mitigation policies is studied from the standpoints of substantive rights and principles, potential enforcement and conflict of law issues and international cooperation and case studies on climate change policies and trade.

As this is an intensive course, students in this course are expected to attend all classes throughout the semester.

There are two aspects of assessment for this course: two take home essay assignments and a final examination. Each part of the assessment is compulsory. This means that if any one of the items of Assessment is not undertaken/submitted, the marks assigned for that assessment will be forfeited, subject to the exceptions identified in the following section, and the final mark obtainable will be reduced by that amount. 

Module I Assignment [25%]

Assignment questions will be distributed in class, as well as posted on MyUni on the first day of each Module, under the ‘Assignments’ section.

The assignment for module I will be due at COB on Monday, 8 August 2016.

Module II Assignment [25%]

Assignment questions will be distributed in class, as well as posted on MyUni on the first day of each Module, under the ‘Assignments’ section.

The assignment for module II (TBA) 

Final Exam [50%]

Exam Date: Please check your personal examination timetable via Access Adelaide

As this is an intensive course, students are required to attend all classes.

As this is an intensive course, students are required to attend all classes.

The take-home essay assignments given to students after modules I and II of the course will be designed to gauge how well they have learned the material presented in the modules. Typically the assignments will contain 2 or 3 questions that must be addressed in the 1,500 word essay.

If you do not hand in the assignment by the specified due date, and have not organised an extension beforehand, the assignment will not be accepted.

The final exam will consist of approximately 20 multiple choice questions and 4 to 6 short essay questions. Students will be given 2 hours and ten minutes to complete the final examination.

Assignments must be submitted in:

Softcopy through Turnitin on MyUni

Your assignment MUST include the IIT assignment cover sheet which can be downloaded from MyUni under “Assignments”. Each page must be numbered with your student ID and name.

All assignments must be presented professionally with clear headings, appropriate referencing and using one and a half spacing.

Extensions will only be granted if requests are received in writing to the course coordinator at least 24 hours before the final due date unless they are requested on medical or compassionate grounds and are supported by appropriate documents.

Please contact the course coordinator, preferably by email, at any time to make an appointment for assistance or guidance in relation to course work, assignments or any concerns that may arise. Assignments will normally be returned two weeks after they have been submitted.