Down the road in an industrialized area, residents may not have land to raise gardens. As a result, they depend on each other for goods and services. A system of interdependence results, based in free exchange. When one crop is scarce, residents may grow more of another crop to satisfy the demand. If one community increases prices, the other community may counter with the same strategy to maintain a balance between the mutual dependency which exists between the two.
Intermediate directions are southwest, southeast, northwest, and northeast.
Solving problems involves a series of processes including analyzing the problem, breaking it into component parts, and establishing goals. Intermediate goals address parts of the problem which must be solved in order to arrive at the terminal goal, the final solution to the problem. An international free-trade agreement results from cooperation between at least two countries to reduce trade barriers and tariffs and to trade with each other. Developing countries have designated free-trade areas which do not set uniform tariffs for nonmembers. Other countries have formed customs unions, agreements which abolish tariffs and trade restriction among union members, and which adopt uniform tariffs for nonmember countries.