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... Appleyard & Field also state "The average yearly outflow of FDI increased from about £25 billion in 1975 to a record $430 billion in 1998". "Between 1984 and 1998, the total flow of FDI from all countries increased by over 900 percent, while world trade grew by 121 percent and world output by 34 percent". (Appleyard & Field, 2001. p.183) An important point to remember is that the concept of Foreign Direct Investment would not exist if there were free trade globally. If free trade existed, countries would freely move goods and services where and how they see fit but that is not the case. There are now barriers that prevent countries from importing and exporting goods as freely as they would like to, such barriers include quotas and tariffs. Quotas are set up to ensure that only a certain amount of a good can be imported into a country. This ...