6A Assignment Identifying Opportunities in Economic & Regulatory Trends

• "U.S-Mexico trade deal may allow Trump to put tariffs of up to 25% on Mexican auto imports"
• https://globalnews.ca/news/4415594/us-mexico-trade-deal-trump-tariffs-auto/
• This suggests that an opportunity may exist because if this high of a tariff was imposed on imported auto parts from Mexico into the United States it would increase the costs of cars that aren't manufactured in the U.S.
• The most likely customer to have a need for this opportunity is any consumer that is going to be purchasing a car or having to have any parts replaced or ordered for their car, if their car manufacturer is based in Mexico. I think this opportunity might be difficult to exploit because you would be up against major car companies that are manufactured in Mexico and will not want to move their companies to America because it is more cost effective for them out of the country. For example, Ford Fusion's, RAM, Chevrolot Silverado, Nissan Sentra (http://www.toledoblade.com/Economy/2017/02/09/Made-in-Mexico-popular-on-U-S-roads.html.)
• I saw this opportunity because it has been all over the news about the proposed tariffs for imported goods from President Trump but nobody has really casted light on opportunities to fix it.

• "NYU makes tuition free for all medical students"
• https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/health/nyu-free-tuition-medical-school/index.html
• This opportunity may exist because there are a lot of college students pursuing a degree in the health care field but do not continue onto medical school because of the cost of medical school and the amount of student loan debt that they would accumulate upon graduation.
• The most likely customer to have a need for this opportunity is any current college student that is looking to attend medical school after graduation. I think this opportunity may be an easy one to exploit because Americans have known for decades how increasingly expensive medical school is to attend, so the news of the free tuition offered at NYU for medical school should not be very difficult to provide the opportunity to people. 
• I saw This opportunity because I know that from personal experience people in my family have attended medical school and I know how expensive the tuition can become and there is a need for people with this profession in the United States, so this opportunity was a very easy one to see and hopefully exploit. 

• "Army Corps to increase Lake Okeechobee discharges"
• https://www.wptv.com/news/region-martin-county/army-corps-to-increase-lake-o-discharges
• This opportunity exists because the discharges that have been occuring in Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie waterways have caused harm to not only wild and aquatic life that inhabit those waters, but to the residents living around the contaminated waterways as well. 
• The most likely customer to have a need for this opportunity are the residents and business owners living in this area surrounding the St. Lucie waterways that have been contaminated by the green algae blooms due to the discharges from Lake Okeechobee. I do think that this opportunity will be hard to exploit because a lot of other citizens of these areas agree with my opportunity but the Army Corps of engineers, the controllers of the discharges, are hard to negotiate with.
• I saw this opportunity because this is happening in my hometown along the St. Lucie waterways and this summer I saw my beaches and rivers become corroded with this toxic green algae and it has had a huge effect on the economy in Martin County.  

• "Arizona company to make 27 million paper straws per day"
• https://www.wptv.com/news/national/arizona-company-to-make-27-million-paper-straws-per-day
• This opportunity exists because it sets an example of what every company and restaurants should be doing to contribute economically to the environment in getting rif of plastic straws.
• The most likely customer for this opportunity are the people who care about the environment and want to end the era of plastic straws littering beaches, streets and cities causing endangerment to animals. I think this will be a hard to exploit opportunity because people can be very set in their ways and not willing to make changes, especially if those people do not care about the environment.
• I saw this opportunity because living by the beach I am exposed first hand to the danger that plastic straws can pose to the animals as it floats into the water and the animals think that it is food.