A. it reduces the sovereignty of member countries
B. favors free trade over the quality of the environment
C. it has no way to solve trade disputes among member countries
D. it is a puppet of multinational corporations
Related Mcqs:
- International trade in goods and services is sometimes used as a substitute for all of the following except ?
A. International movements of capital
B. International movements of labor
C. International movements of technology
D. Domestic production of different goods and services - All of the following are fundamental to the World Trade Organization except ?
A. bilateral tariff reductions to promote trade liberalization
B. the use of the most-favored nation clause (normal trade relations)
C. nondiscrimination in trading relationships
D. the prohibition of import quotas and export quotas - Which round of international trade negotiations resulted in the creation of the World Trade Organization ?
A. Kennedy Round of 1964-1967
B. Tokyo Round of 1973-1979
C. Uruguay Round of 1986-1993
D. Doha Round of 2003-2007 - When did World Trade Organization replace General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
A. 1st January 1995
B. 1st January 1998
C. 1st December 1999
D. 1st June 2000Submitted by: Syed Nizakat Ali Shah
- When free trade areas are set up the member countries trade with each other grows faster than their trade with other countries This is due to what economist call ?
A. trade diversion
B. trade channeling
C. trade creation and trade diversion
D. trade creation - The purchasing power parity theory has limitations in forecasting exchange rate fluctuations for all of the following reasons except ?
A. inflation effects exchange rates
B. international capital flows affect exchange rates
C. governments sometimes impose trade restrictions such as tariffs and quotas
D. not all products are internationally tradeable - Following World War II the United States and other countries sought to liberalize trade among each other the first major postwar step toward trade liberalization was the ?
A. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
B. World Trade Organization
C. Smoot Hawley Organization
D. McKinley Agreement on Trade policy - Arguments for free trade are sometimes disregarded by politicians because ?
A. Maximizing domestic efficiency is not considered imports
B. Maximizing consumer welfare may not be a chief priority
C. There exist sound economic reasons for keeping one’s economy isolated from other economies
D. Economists tend to favor high protected domestic markets - With free trade suppose that the rest of the world can supply computers to Norway at a price of $1,500 Norway’s imports will now equal. Compared to What occurred in the absence of trade, Norway’s consumers surplus will _____ and its producer surplus will ____. Can you calculate these amounts? Try plotting the information of this table on a sheet of graph paper ?
A. 1,600 computers, decrease, increase
B. 1,600 computers, increase, decrease
C. 1,200 computers, decrease, increase
D. 1,200 computers, increase, decrease - With free trade, suppose that the rest of the world can supply calculators to Canada at a price of $30. Canada’s imports would now equal _____ and its consumer surplus would ____ relative to what occurred in the absence of trade. What is the change in consumer surplus? Refer to the figure that you have plotted ?
A. 20 calculators increase
B. 25 calculators decrease
C. 25 calculators increase
D. 30 calculators increase
