Global Business Today 8th Edition by Charles Hill

Exercise 27

International Trade Theory
Use the globalEDGE Resource Desk (http://globaledge.msu.edu/Reference-Desk) to complete the following exercises:
Your coffee firm is looking to find new locations from which to source coffee to sustain growth as it internationalizes. Currently, your company only purchases green coffee beans from South America and is hoping to begin purchasing coffee from the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama. Applying the most current information from FAOSTAT, a United Nations agency website that gathers data on food and agricultural trade flows, determine which three countries have the highest export quantity of green coffee as well as growth of export quantity over the last year of data available.