Scenario: Gro-Tru Grows to Europe

Multiple Choice

Scenario: Gro-Tru Grows To Europe
Gro-Tru, a maker of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, sees enormous growth potential in Central Europe. The company has received several unsolicited inquiries from potential importers in the region, but in most cases, they have expressed difficulty in getting the hard currency to pay for the imports. Alistair Green, vice president for new business development, is exploring how Gro-Tru might meet the needs of the potential market.
-If Gro-Tru prefers an arrangement in which it offsets a hard-currency sale to a nation by making a hard-currency purchase of an unspecified product from the nation in the future, it would be engaging in a(n) ________ transaction.

A) barter
B) offset
C) switch trading
D) buyback