The Ministry also created the National Institute of Transit ( from the Spanish Instituto Nacional de Tránsito ), ( INTRA ) under the Transport and tariffs Directorate and was in charge of designing the first National roads plan with the support of many foreign multinational construction companies.

General Motors Company, commonly known as GM ( listed General Motors Corporation before 2009 ), is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and the world's largest automaker, by vehicle unit sales, in 2011.

Italy has a smaller number of global multinational corporations than other economies of comparable size, but there is a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, as in the Northern " industrial triangle " ( Milan-Turin-Genoa ), where there is an area of intense industrial and machinery production, notably in their several industrial districts, which are the backbone of the Italian industry.

In the mid-1990s, Russia remained the most important sponsor of Kazakhstan in economic and national security matters, but in such matters Nazarbayev also backed the strengthening of the multinational structures of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the loose confederation that succeeded the Soviet Union.

Presently Slovenia ( 89 % Slovene ), Croatia ( 88 % Croat ) and Serbia ( 83 % Serb ) could be classified as nation states per se, whereas Macedonia ( 66 % Macedonian ), Montenegro ( 42 % Montenegrin ) and Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 47 % Bosniak ) are multinational states.

* Orange ( telecommunications ), a multinational telecommunications subsidiary of France Telecom

(, ), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance have increased in recent centuries, mainly because of Industrialization, advanced transportation, globalization, multinational corporations, and outsourcing.

It advocates reduction and eventual elimination of the role the United States plays in multinational and international organizations such as the United Nations, and favors withdrawal of the United States from most current treaties, such as North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), and the World Trade Organization.

* addition, during the setting-up phase ( April – June 1991 ), UNIKOM included a Security Battalion consisting of a multinational Bn Staff ( SWE-FIN-NOR ) and five infantry companies, drawn from UNFICYP and UNIFIL.

Other major employers in the city include IBM, Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services business area headquarters, MedImmune ( recently purchased by AstraZeneca ), and the French multinational corporation, Sodexo.

( after the Shibaura district in Tokyo ), is a Japanese multinational electronics, electrical equipment and information technology corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

International Relations ( IR ) ( occasionally referred to as International Studies ( IS ), although the two terms are not perfectly synonymous ) is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations ( IGOs ), international nongovernmental organizations ( INGOs ), non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) and multinational corporations ( MNCs ).

Usually the goal of a structure is to increase foreign direct investment by foreign investors, typically an international business or a multinational corporation ( MNC ), development of infrastructure and to increase the employment.

The lead agency for developing Air Force doctrine is Headquarters, Air Force Doctrine Center ; the Air Staff International Standardization Office works on multinational standardization, such as NATO Standardization Agreements ( STANAGs ), and agreements between the American, British, Canadian, and Australian Armies and Navies ( ABCA ) that affect the Air Force.

The Austrian army, called Kaiserlich-königliche Armee ( Imperial and Royal Army ), was composed of multinational troops from across the Empire, including proper Austrians, Bohemians, Moravians, Hungarians, Romanians, Croatians, Poles and other ethnic groups, with regiments speaking various languages.

Instead, the UN authorised the creation of a multinational military force known as INTERFET ( International Force for East Timor ), with Security Council Resolution 1264.

A neo-colonialism critique can include de facto colonialism ( imperialist or hegemonic ), and an economic critique of the disproportionate involvement of modern capitalist business in the economy of a developing country, whereby multinational corporations continue to exploit the natural resources and the people of the former colony ; that such economic control is inherently neo-colonial, and thus is akin to the imperial and hegemonic varieties of colonialism practiced by the empires of Great Britain, France, and other European countries, from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

One of Friedman's theses states that individual countries must sacrifice some degree of economic sovereignty to global institutions ( such as capital markets and multinational corporations ), a situation he has termed the " golden straitjacket.

Such entities can include multilateral international organizations, military alliance organizations ( e. g. NATO ), multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, or other institutions such as the Roman Catholic Church, Wal-Mart, or the Hanseatic League.

The project began as a student endeavor at École Centrale Paris ( France ), but after releasing the software under the free software / open source GNU General Public License, the project is now multinational with a development team spanning 20 nations.

Supporters believe that by the late 20th century those they characterized as " ruling elites " sought to harness the expansion of world markets for their own interests ; this combination of the Bretton Woods institutions, states, and multinational corporations has been called " globalization " or " globalization from above.

Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary wished for a continuation of the existence of the Ottoman Empire, since both were troubled multinational entities and thus the collapse of the one might weaken the other.

Beyond its general economic and political stability, the government has also encouraged the use of Chile as an " investment platform " for multinational corporations planning to operate in the region, but this will have limited value given the developing business climate in Chile itself.

Costa Rica also participated in the multinational Partnership for Democracy and Development in Central America.

Giant, multinational corporations have for the most part replaced governments as centers of political, economic, and even military power.

Concurrently, Cairo has established itself as a political and economic hub for North Africa and the Arab World, with many multinational businesses and organizations, including the Arab League, operating out of the city.

Currently 7 of those blocks have been bid for by a combination of multinational oil companies and NUNAOIL.

With the exception of relatively recent, Asian-dominated investment in assembly firms along Honduras's northern coast, the country remains heavily dependent on United States-based multinational corporations for most of its investment needs in the early 1990s.

Based on the extent to which the application of neoliberal policies has contributed to income disparities and inequality, both Klein and Noam Chomsky have suggested that the primary role of neoliberalism was as an ideological cover for capital accumulation by multinational corporations.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

In March 1999 members of a local FARC contingent killed 3 USA-based indigenous rights activists, who were working with the U ' Wa people to build a school for U ' Wa children, and were fighting against encroachment of U ' Wa territory by multinational oil corporations.

In March 1999 members of a local FARC contingent killed 3 indigenous rights activists, who were working with the U ' Wa people to build a school for U ' Wa children, and were fighting against encroachment of U ' Wa territory by multinational oil corporations.

A Somali people | Somali soldier poses for a photograph during the multinational joint service exercise BRIGHT STAR ' 85.

Depending on the multinational bandplan for a given region, analog television channels are typically 6, 7, or 8 MHz in bandwidth, and therefore television channel frequencies vary as well.

Towards the end the siege, the US and European governments brokered an agreement guaranteeing safe passage for Arafat and the PLO — guarded by a multinational force of eight hundred US Marines supported by the US Navy — to exile in Tunis.

Pilbara Iron is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Rio Tinto Group, that manages assets for Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, and Robe River Iron Associates, an unincorporated joint venture between Rio ( 53 % and operator since 2000 ) and three Japanese steel companies Mitsui Iron Ore Development P / L ( 33 %), Nippon Steel Australia P / L ( 10. 5 %) and Sumitomo Metal Australia P / L ( 3. 5 %).

The domestic changes brought about by a continued entrenchment of Neoliberal economic policies in multinational trade agreements and economic forums has also led to a feedback loop, wherein influence within and thus support for such bodies predicates favorable national economic outcomes for the commercial constituencies that hold most political sway across the political spectrum in many nations.

Cheaper labor, commodity and compliance costs for multinational corporations, access of corporations to raw materials and consumer markets located in previously autonomous regions, and the ability to establish publicly-funded zero tax export zones with minimal regulation are major motivational factors influencing the growth of international trade law and property law harmonization across the world.

Also, free trade opponents point out that multinational corporations often receive tax incentives that make it difficult for homegrown businesses to compete.

Zug is a low tax region, and is headquarters for a number of multinational enterprises.

The aim of this structure is to effectively cater for an increasingly global clientele, who have multinational interests.