Post AIdentify a country that’s name starts with the first letter of your first name. This will be "Your Country". For example, someone named "John" would use the letter “J.” (Note: If no country exists that meets this criteria, chose the next closest letter. The Observatory of Economic Complexity provides international trade information and does so in a manner that is relatively easy to interpret. Click to go the website of the Observatory of Economic Complexity here (Links to an external site.). Select the Visualizations tab. Use selections in the menu on the left to build the visualizations needed to answer the questions below. Clicking on the boxes in the visualization can give you additional information. Note: the most recent info available in this database is for 2017.1. What was the value ($s) of Your Country’s total imports from the United States for 2017? What were Your Country’s top three imports from the United States in 2017? Discuss some reasons why you think Your Country might be importing these particular products from the United States. 2. What was the value ($s) of Your Country’s total exports to the United States for 2017? What were Your Country’s top three exports to the United States in 2017? Discuss some reasons why you think Your Country might be exporting these particular products to the United States.Post B1. Review the submissions your peers made in Post A. 2. Go to the website of the Observatory of Economic Complexity. Use selections in the menu on the left to build the visualizations needed to answer the questions below.3. Select a peer's country. Identify some good that was exported from Your Country to one of your peer’s countries in 2017? What was the value ($s) of those exports? How did those specific exports change in value over the prior five years? Discuss some reasons why you think those exports may have changed. 4. Select another peer's country. Identify some good that was imported by Your Country from one of your peer’s countries in 2017? What was the value ($s) of those imports? How did those specific imports change in value over the prior five years? Discuss some reasons why you think those imports may have changed. 5. Identify a country with which Your Country had no imports or exports in 2017.

Resources: Marketing Plan and OutlineDevelop a minimum 700-word branding strategy and marketing communication plan in Microsoft® Word. This document should address at least 5 elements of the Situational Analysis and the Product, Place/Distribution, Promotion, and Price Strategies (modified below) sections of the marketing plan (from the Situational Analysis and the Product, Place/Distribution, Promotion, and Price Strategies lists below). The five elements you select should only come from the options provided below. You must include a measurement of customer loyalty and retention in your strategy document. You may include more than the minimum to provide clarity and coherence to your document. Situational Analysis:Vision , Mission, Strategic objectives, ValuesStrengths/WeaknessesCompetitor's Strengths/WeaknessesMarket SegmentsProduct, Place/Distribution, Promotion, and Price Strategies:Creating a Brand ImageMaintaining Brand ImageBranding ConcernsPromotion/Integrated Marketing CommunicationAdvertising Strategy/ObjectivesPush and PullMedia StrategyAdvertising ExecutionPublic Relations/StrategiesNote: Charts/graphs/tables do not count toward the word count.The plan will be a continuation of your global or multi-regional business you chose in Week 1. This will be incorporated into your overall marketing plan for Week 6.Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Assignment StepsNote: the Social, Ethical, and Legal Implications assignment is part of the total marketing plan as outlined in the grading guide. It is not a separate paper.Resources: Marketing Plan and OutlineProducing and marketing a product without regard to ethical, legal, and social considerations is detrimental to the overall success of any company.Assess in a maximum of 700 words the ethical, legal, and social issues affecting your product or service in two markets: the United States and one international market. Domestic market generally means the market where the company headquarters are located. If you choose a domestic market that is not the U.S., then your other market is required to be the U.S. marketplace. This will be added to the Target Market section of your Marketing Plan.Include the following:Develop a process to monitor and control marketing performance. This process could be a flowchart but a flowchart is not required (flowcharts do not count towards your word count requirement).Formulate a maximum 350-word executive summary including at a minimum the following elements to include in your marketing plan:Required executive summary elements:Strategic Objectives Products or Services Optional executive summary elements:Resources Needed Projected OutcomesIntegrate the previous weeks' sections, and incorporate corrections and suggestions from the instructor's weekly feedback. The marketing plan should contain elements from each week of the course, including:Understanding Target Markets (Week 2)Promotion and the Product Life Cycle (Week 3)Price and Channel Strategy (Week 4)Marketing Communication and Brand Strategy (Week 5)Executive Summary, Legal, Social and Ethical Considerations (Week 6)