Major Ocean Ports of the World
Vancouver Seattle Tacoma Halifax Boston Philadelphia Oakland Los Angeles Long Beach Baton Wilmington Rouge Mobile Beaumont Houston Corpus Christi Veracruz Kingston South Louisiana New York/New Jersey Baltimore Port of Virginia
Charleston Savannah Jacksonville Port Everglades Miami San Juan
Cristobal
Major Ocean Ports of the World
(Maps not to scale)
Buenos Aires
Santos
North, Central, and South America
Gothenburg
Port Said Alexandria Jeddah
Dubai
Bremen Liverpool
Gdansk
Salalah Abidjan
Hamburg Felixstowe Rotterdam Southampton Le Antwerp Havre Marseilles Barcelona Algeciras Valencia Gioia Tauro
Durban
Europe
Africa and the Middle East
Dalian Inchon Chiba Tokyo Busan Qingdao Yokohama Nagoya Ulsan Shanghai Osaka Ningbo Kobe Tianjin Karachi Mumbai Kolkata Vizagapatnam Bangkok Kochi Colombo Klang Xiamen Guangzhou Keelung Taichung Kaohslung Shenzhen Hong Manilla Kong
Laem Chabang Singapore
Tanjung Priok
Melbourne
Port Botany/ Sydney Harbour Auckland
Asia, Australia and the South Paci c region
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Professor Emeritus (Ret.) Walker College of Business Appalachian State University
F ILIBERTO A GUSTI
Senior Partner Steptoe & Johnson LLP Attorneys at Law Washington, DC
B EVERLEY E ARLE
Professor Bentley College McCallum Graduate School of Business
Australia • Brazil • Japan • Korea • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States
International Business Law and its Environment, 7e Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, and Beverly Earle VP/Editorial Director: Jack W. Calhoun VP/Editor-in-Chief: Rob Dewey Acquisitions Editor: Vicky True Developmental Editor: Kendra Brown Marketing Manager: Jennifer Garamy Content Project Manager: Corey Geissler Production Technology Analyst: Emily Gross Technology Project Manager: Kristen Meere Website Project Manager: Brian Courter Sr. First Print Buyer:
Charleston Savannah Jacksonville Port Everglades Miami San Juan
Cristobal
Major Ocean Ports of the World
(Maps not to scale)
Buenos Aires
Santos
North, Central, and South America
Gothenburg
Port Said Alexandria Jeddah
Dubai
Bremen Liverpool
Gdansk
Salalah Abidjan
Hamburg Felixstowe Rotterdam Southampton Le Antwerp Havre Marseilles Barcelona Algeciras Valencia Gioia Tauro
Durban
Europe
Africa and the Middle East
Dalian Inchon Chiba Tokyo Busan Qingdao Yokohama Nagoya Ulsan Shanghai Osaka Ningbo Kobe Tianjin Karachi Mumbai Kolkata Vizagapatnam Bangkok Kochi Colombo Klang Xiamen Guangzhou Keelung Taichung Kaohslung Shenzhen Hong Manilla Kong
Laem Chabang Singapore
Tanjung Priok
Melbourne
Port Botany/ Sydney Harbour Auckland
Asia, Australia and the South Paci c region
S EVENTH E DITION
I NTERNATIONAL B USINESS L AW
AND ITS
E NVIRONMENT
R ICHARD S CHAFFER
Professor Emeritus (Ret.) Walker College of Business Appalachian State University
F ILIBERTO A GUSTI
Senior Partner Steptoe & Johnson LLP Attorneys at Law Washington, DC
B EVERLEY E ARLE
Professor Bentley College McCallum Graduate School of Business
Australia • Brazil • Japan • Korea • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States
International Business Law and its Environment, 7e Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, and Beverly Earle VP/Editorial Director: Jack W. Calhoun VP/Editor-in-Chief: Rob Dewey Acquisitions Editor: Vicky True Developmental Editor: Kendra Brown Marketing Manager: Jennifer Garamy Content Project Manager: Corey Geissler Production Technology Analyst: Emily Gross Technology Project Manager: Kristen Meere Website Project Manager: Brian Courter Sr. First Print Buyer: