Idle Time Gaming, Inc

question 248

True/False

Idle Time Gaming, Inc., needed silicon wafers that it knew could be mass-produced efficiently by Silicon City, Inc., a start-up firm in India. The Indian company needed MSG (metallurgical grade silicon) in order to make the wafers, which it knew it could get from a Chinese firm. The Chinese firm (mostly owned by the Chinese government) agreed to supply the silicon to the Indian company if it could get a certain quantity of gaming hardware from Idle Time. This beneficial exchange is described as countertrading.

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