INTERNATIONAL TRADE (comercio internacional)

International trade is the exchange (intercambio) of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories. In most countries, such trade represents a significant share (tasa) of gross domestic product (GDP) (producto domestico bruto). While international trade has been present throughout much of history (see Silk Road, Amber Road), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries. Industrialization, advanced transportation, globalization, multinational corporations are all having a major impact on the international trade system. Increasing international trade is crucial to the continuance of globalization. Without international trade, nations would be limited to the goods and services produced within their own borders.

BUSINESS CYCLE
The term business cycle (or economic cycle) refers to economy-wide fluctuations in production or economic activity over several months or years. These fluctuations occur around a long-term growth trend (tendencia), and typically involve changes over time between periods of relatively rapid economic growth (an expansion or boom), and periods of relative stagnation (estancamiento) or decline (a contraction or recession). Business cycles are usually measured by considering the growth rate of real gross domestic product. Despite being termed (periodo) cycles, these fluctuations in economic activity do not follow a mechanical or predictable periodic pattern (patrn).

MANUFACTURING
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft (trabajos manuales/artesana) to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale. Such finished goods may be used for manufacturing other, more complex products, such as aircraft (aeronaves), automobiles, or sold to wholesalers (mayoristas), who in turn sell them to retailers (minoristas), who then sell them to end users the "consumers". Manufacturing takes turns under all types of economic systems. In a free market economy, manufacturing is usually directed toward the mass production of products for sale to consumers at a profit (beneficio). In a collectivist economy, manufacturing is more frequently directed by the state to supply a centrally planned economy. In mixed market economies, manufacturing occurs under some degree of government regulation.

SALES AND MARKETING

A sale is the act of selling a product or service in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity. The seller or salesperson the provider of the goods or services completes a sale in response to an acquisition or to an appropriation or to a request. There follows (sigue) the passing of title (property or ownership) in the item, and the application and due settlement of a price, the obligation for which arises (surge) due to (debido a) the seller's requirement to pass ownership. Ideally, a seller agrees (acuerda)upon a price at which he willingly (gustosamente) parts with ownership of or any claim upon the item. The purchaser does not execute the sale, only the seller does that. To be precise the sale completes prior to the payment and gives rise to the obligation of payment. If the seller completes the first two above stages (consent and passing ownership) of the sale prior to settlement of the price, the sale remains valid and gives rise to an obligation to pay.

The relationships (relaciones) between (entre) sales and marketing Marketing and sales differ greatly, but have the same goal (objetivo). Marketing improves the selling environment (campo de ventas) and plays a very important role in sales. If the marketing department generates a list of potential customers (clientes), that can benefit sales. A marketing department in an organization has the goal increasing (incrementando) the number of interactions between potential customers and the organization. Achieving (alcanzando) this goal may involve the sales team using promotional techniques such as advertising (publicidad), sales promotion, publicity, and public relations, creating new sales channels, or creating new products (new product development), among other things. It can also include bringing the potential customer to visit the organization's website(s) for more information, or to contact the organization for more information, or to interact with the organization via social media such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs. The relatively new field of sales process engineering views "sales" as the output of a larger system, not just as the output of one department. The larger system includes many functional areas within an organization. From this perspective, "sales" and "marketing" (among others, such as "customer service") label for a number of processes whose inputs and outputs supply (suministrar/proveer) one another to varying degrees. In this context, improving an "output" (such as sales) involves studying and improving the broader (amplio) sales process, as in any system, since the component functional areas interact and are interdependent. Most large corporations structure their marketing departments in a similar fashion to sales departments and the managers of these teams must coordinate efforts (esfuerzos) in order to drive profits (conducir beneficios) and business success. A good marketing program would address any potential downsides (desventajas) as well. The sales department would aim (se centrar) to improve the interaction between the customer and the sales facility or mechanism (example, web site) and/or salesperson. Sales management would break down (rompern) the selling process and then increase the effectiveness of the discrete processes as well as the interaction between processes. Each step (cada paso) of the process has sales-related issues, skills, and training needs, as well as marketing solutions to improve each discrete step, as well as the whole process. One further common complication of marketing involves the inability (incapacidad) to measure (medir) results for a great deal of marketing initiatives. In essence, many marketing and advertising executives often lose sight of the objective of sales/revenue/profit, as they focus on establishing a creative/innovative program, without concern (importar) for the top or bottom lines - a fundamental pitfall (peligro) of marketing for marketing's sake. Many companies find it challenging to get marketing and sales on the same page. The two departments, although different in nature, handle (sostienen) very similar concepts and have to work together for sales to be successful. Building a good relationship between the two that encourages communication can be the key to success - even in a down economy. GERUND PAST SIMPLE FUTURE SIMPLE