Many people believe that the goal of international trade should be to create jobs. Consequently, when they see workers laid off due to a rm's inability to compete against cheaper and better imports, they assume that trade must be bad for the economy. Is this assumption correct\":I 1iti'liy, or' why not? Please support your answers by providing valid points and examples. Hi professor and everyone I believe that it's not correct because each nation could find something to do better than the others. Each nation have some special ability, nature resource, geographical situation, and many other factors that could bn'ng competitive advantage. They only should find and use it perfectly. Although they may lose some job opportunities because of importing some goods or services, they could compensate this gap by improving their export. If they resist to produce everything for being in depend and make job opportunities they will lose both goals because they couldn't compete in price, quality, and other factors with the countries that are melting specifically. I worked in the biggest car manufacture company in Middle East for 1D year. They are producing about 2500 automobile per day that means about Tft per year but for meet break event in a car manufacture oompany they should produce at least 1.5 million per year. So they are losing many job opportunities because they couldn't effort their expenses. In my opinion they should have concentrated on making parts for exporting these parts to big car' Manufacture Company instead of resisting in making the car because we have competitive advantage such as low wage worker, nature resources, and many others. Regards, Mohammad I think. the assumption is not correct; all counties can have more when specializes in the production of goods that they have a competitive advantage. if a product can be manufactured cheaper in a foreign country. then is not worth to have it to be produced with in the country. The firms should be working on products that they are really competitive. and by the sales of it. they wiil bring money back to the country. Also. he LIE regulation and barriers such as tariff. seeks to help to protect the local workers. from international competition. So. if even with this a Firm cant compete with the international market. then is better to have those laid off workers to put their efforts in products that can really be competitive. In my opinion. it's not exactly correct of this assumption. .IElS Soledad mentioned above. if the firm find the own products in the cheaper way. why would the firm need to import the products from other countries? In the meantime. the Firm which exports the products to other countries lose the revenue and might need to lay off the workers. In EU 1.2. Sony decided to close all the factories in China and United States in order to produce the