Exam 18: Internet and Global E-Commerce

All three types of e-commerce transactions only occur globally.

Internet has made it easy to determine the origin of a product or a service, with concomitant implications for customs, tariffs, and taxation.

As in other realms of IB, finding the right balance between globalization and ___________ has proven difficult.

The impact of e-commerce extends to other realms. One example of this is the ease of determining the origin of a product or a service, implications for customs, and tariffs and taxation.

E-readiness refers to the degree to which a country has developed the infrastructure necessary to facilitate electronic transactions, which are at the heart of e-commerce.

Among developing nations, China has four times as many telephone lines and 18 times as many cellular telephones as India. This is a comparison between China and India's__________________.

The "digital divide" exists both domestically and globally. One example of this is the difference in number of Internet users in the U.S. versus India.

Internet usage level, which is dramatically lower in poorer countries, is a crucial (though not the only) component of e-commerce readiness.

In the EU, value-added taxes (VAT) represent a minor portion of government revenues.