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Globalization: How Countries Depend on Each Other

  • Grade 6
  • Social Studies
  • 1 min 15 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC6-SS-15

Country A, which is warm and grows bananas, and Country B, which is cooler and grows wheat, trade by ship across the sea: each crop is an export for the country that sells it and an import for the country that buys it, so the two depend on each other (economic interdependence). A tariff on imported bananas adds a coin to their price in Country B and a trade agreement takes it away, then two more countries join the web of trade links to show that these growing links are a big part of globalization.

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The question this lesson answers

How do countries around the world depend on each other?

Country A has a warm climate, where bananas grow well.

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What the lesson says

How do countries around the world depend on each other?

Country A has a warm climate, where bananas grow well.

Country B has a cooler climate, where wheat grows well.

People in each country also want what the other country grows.

Goods that a country sells to other countries are called exports.

Goods that a country buys from other countries are called imports.

In the same way, Country B exports wheat, and Country A imports it.

So the two countries depend on each other.

Depending on each other through trade is called economic interdependence.

Sometimes a country puts a tax on imports, called a tariff.

A tariff usually makes imported goods cost more in the shops.

Countries can sign a trade agreement to lower or remove tariffs.

Today, countries all over the world trade with each other like this.

These growing trade links between countries are a big part of globalization.

Through trade, countries around the world depend on each other.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 6

Social Studies, Global issues: globalization and economic interdependenceBC6-SS-15

Previous: Using Natural Resources: Balancing Jobs and NatureNext: Countries Working Together on Global Problems

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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