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Advisor Class Shares | T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price

Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund—Advisor Class

SUMMARY
Investment Objective
The fund seeks to provide high current income and,
secondarily, capital appreciation.
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund’s Advisor Class

Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
Advisor Class Shares
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund-Advisor Class
Redemption fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed on shares held for 90 days or less) 2.00%
Annual fund operating expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a
percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
Advisor Class Shares
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund-Advisor Class
Management fees 0.79%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees 0.25%
Other expenses 0.56%
Total annual fund operating expenses 1.60%
Fee waiver/expense reimbursement (0.35%) [1]
Total annual fund operating expenses after fee waiver/expense reimbursement 1.25% [1]
[1] T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. has agreed (through April 30, 2017) to waive its fees and/or bear any expenses (excluding interest, expenses related to borrowings, taxes and brokerage, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees) that would cause the class' ratio of expenses to average daily net assets to exceed 1.25%. The agreement may be terminated at any time beyond April 30, 2017, with approval by the fund's Board of Directors. Fees waived and expenses paid under this agreement (and a previous limitaion of 1.25%) are subject to reimbursement to T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. by the fund whenever the class' expense ratio is below 1.25%. However, no reimbursement will be made more than three years after the waiver or payment, or if it would result in the expense ratio exceeding 1.25% (excluding interest, expenses related to borrowings, taxes and brokerage, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees).
Example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, the fund’s operating expenses remain the same, and the expense limitation currently in place is not renewed. The figures have been adjusted to reflect fee waivers or expense reimbursements only in the periods for which the expense limitation arrangement is expected to continue. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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Advisor Class Shares | T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund | T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund-Advisor Class | USD ($) 127 471 838 1,871
Portfolio Turnover
The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 115.1% of the average value of its portfolio.
Investments, Risks, and Performance

Principal Investment Strategies
The fund will normally invest at least 80% of its net assets (including any borrowings for investment purposes) in bonds that are issued by companies that are located or listed in, or conduct the predominant part of their business activities in, the emerging market countries of Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The fund considers frontier markets to be a subset of emerging markets and any investments in frontier markets will be counted toward the fund’s 80% investment policy. The fund relies on JP Morgan or the International Monetary Fund to determine which countries are emerging markets.

While it is expected that the securities held by the fund will primarily be U.S. dollar-denominated, the fund may also hold securities denominated in emerging market currencies and other non-U.S. currencies. The fund does not generally attempt to cushion the impact of non-U.S. currency fluctuations against the U.S. dollar. Although the fund expects to generally maintain an intermediate-term weighted average maturity, there are no maturity restrictions on the overall portfolio or on individual securities purchased by the fund.

Most of the fund’s investments are expected to be rated below investment grade (BB or lower, or an equivalent rating) by a major credit rating agency or by T. Rowe Price. However, the fund may purchase bonds of any credit quality and there are no overall limits on the fund’s holdings that are unrated or rated below investment grade. Investments in below investment-grade corporate bonds, also known as “junk” bonds, should be considered speculative.

The fund may sell holdings for a variety of reasons, such as to alter geographic or currency exposure, to adjust the portfolio’s average maturity, duration, or credit quality or to shift assets into and out of higher-yielding or lower-yielding securities.
Principal Risks
As with any mutual fund, there is no guarantee that the fund will achieve its objective. The fund’s share price fluctuates, which means you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in this fund are summarized as follows:

Active management risk The fund is subject to the risk that the investment adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, or potential appreciation of the fund’s investments may prove to be incorrect. If the investments selected and strategies employed by the fund fail to produce the intended results, the fund could underperform in comparison to other funds with similar objectives and investment strategies.

Fixed income markets risk Economic and other market developments can adversely affect fixed income securities markets. At times, participants in these markets may develop concerns about the ability of certain issuers of debt securities to make timely principal and interest payments, or they may develop concerns about the ability of financial institutions that make markets in certain debt securities to facilitate an orderly market. Those concerns could cause increased volatility and reduced liquidity in particular securities or in the overall fixed income markets and the related derivatives markets. A lack of liquidity or other adverse credit market conditions may hamper the fund’s ability to sell the debt securities in which it invests or to find and purchase suitable debt instruments.

International investing risk Investing in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involves special risks not typically associated with investing in U.S. issuers. International securities tend to be more volatile and less liquid than investments in U.S. securities and may lose value because of adverse local, political, social, or economic developments overseas, or due to changes in the exchange rates between foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar. In addition, international investments are subject to settlement practices and regulatory and financial reporting standards that differ from those of the U.S.

Emerging markets risk The risks of international investing are heightened for securities of issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic structures that are less diverse and mature, and political systems that are less stable, than those of developed countries. In addition to all of the risks of investing in international developed markets, emerging markets are more susceptible to governmental interference, local taxes being imposed on international investments, restrictions on gaining access to sales proceeds, and less liquid and less efficient trading markets.

Frontier markets, considered by the fund to be a subset of emerging markets, generally have smaller economies and less mature capital markets than emerging markets. As a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries. Frontier markets are more susceptible to abrupt changes in currency values, less mature markets and settlement practices, and lower trading volumes that could lead to greater price volatility and illiquidity.

Currency risk Although the fund primarily invests in U.S. dollar-denominated bonds of emerging markets issuers, the fund may invest in securities issued in foreign currencies and is therefore subject to the risk that it could experience losses based solely on the weakness of those foreign currencies versus the U.S. dollar and changes in the exchange rates between such currencies and the U.S. dollar.

Credit risk This is the risk that an issuer of a debt security could suffer an adverse change in financial condition that results in a payment default, security downgrade, or inability to meet a financial obligation.

Junk bond risk The risk of default is much greater for emerging market bonds and securities rated as below investment grade (“junk” bonds). The fund is exposed to greater credit risk than other bond funds because companies in emerging markets are usually not as strong financially and are more susceptible to economic downturns. Junk bonds should be considered speculative as they carry greater risks of default and erratic price swings due to real or perceived changes in the credit quality of the issuer.

Interest rate risk This risk refers to the chance that interest rates will increase, causing a decline in bond prices (bond prices and interest rates usually move in opposite directions). Generally, securities with longer maturities or durations and funds with longer weighted average maturities or durations carry greater interest rate risk.

Liquidity risk This is the risk that the fund may not be able to sell a holding in a timely manner at a desired price. Reduced liquidity in the bond markets can result from a number of events, such as significant trading activity, reductions in bond inventory, and rapid or unexpected changes in interest rates. Less liquid markets could lead to greater price volatility and limit the fund’s ability to sell a holding at a suitable price.
Performance
The bar chart showing calendar year returns and the average annual total returns table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing how much returns can differ from year to year and how the fund’s average annual returns for certain periods compare with the returns of a relevant broad-based market index, as well as with the returns of one or more comparative indexes that have investment characteristics similar to those of the fund. The fund’s performance information represents only past performance (before and after taxes) and is not necessarily an indication of future results.

The fund can also experience short-term performance swings, as shown by the best and worst calendar quarter returns during the year depicted.
Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund-
Advisor Class
Calendar Year Returns
Bar Chart
  Quarter
 Ended
 Total
Return
Best Quarter   6/30/14  4.45%
Worst Quarter   6/30/13 -5.44%
In addition, the average annual total returns table shows hypothetical after-tax returns to demonstrate how taxes paid by a shareholder may influence returns. After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as a 401(k) account or individual retirement account. In some cases, the figure shown for “returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares” may be higher than the figure shown for “returns before taxes” because the calculations assume the investor received a tax deduction for any loss incurred on the sale of shares.
Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended
December 31, 2015
Average Annual Total Returns - Advisor Class Shares - T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund
1 Year
Since inception
Inception Date
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund-Advisor Class (0.67%) 3.33% May 24, 2012
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund-Advisor Class | Returns after taxes on distributions (2.69%) 1.39% May 24, 2012
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund-Advisor Class | Returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares (0.36%) 1.73% May 24, 2012
J.P. Morgan Corporate Emerging Market Bond Index Broad Diversified (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) 1.30% 4.22%  
Lipper Emerging Market Hard Currency Debt Funds Average (2.98%) 1.75% [1] May 31, 2012
[1] Returns as of 5/31/12.
Updated performance information is available through troweprice.com or may be obtained by calling 1-800-638-8790.