Foreign Trade of the United States of America - case study of automobile industry

Barbora Mandrysz

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The bachelor thesis is focused on foreign trade of the United States of America, concretely on automobile industry. Main goal of the thesis is to analyze foreign trade in the United States with the intention of automobile industry. This thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. Theoretical part of the thesis firstly deals with a significance of foreign trade and consequently there is described development of foreign trade in terms of economic theories. In the thesis there were used comparative and descriptive methods. Practical part is focused on the analysis of automobile industry in the United States. At the beginning, there are more detaily described exports and imports of the U.S. Within the frame of analysis of automobile industry, the thesis is more closely focused on factors determining the competitiveness in automobile industry in the United States and furthermore it investigates the influence of this sector on employment in the U.S.The research has found that the automobile industry is considered to be one of the most significant industries within the United States because of its economic impact, large employment and geographic reach.

Keywords

automobile industry, import, GDP, The United States of America, export, foreign trade

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 9. 3. 2016

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Mansoor Maitah, Ph.D. Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme / field:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management