A. Canada
B. Germany
C. Mexico
D. United Kingdom
Related Mcqs:
- Suppose that tomatoes from Mexico face a 20 percent tariff in the United States and a 25 percent tariff in Canada. If the United States and Canada maintain free trade between each other, the these two countries belong to a ?
A. free-trade area
B. customs union
C. common market
D. monetary union - In recent years, which factor has been major reason for the economic tensions between the United States and China ?
A. China’s trade deficit with the United States was very high
B. The United States refused to place quotas on Chinese goods
C. The United States imported more from China than it exported to China
D. China lowered tariffs on goods imported from the United States - 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 - 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 - Recent pressures for protectionism in the United States have been motivated by all of the following except ?
A. U.S firms shipping component production overseas
B. High profit levels for American corporations
C. Sluggish rates of productivity growth in the United States
D. High unemployment rates among America workers - Suppose that the United Kingdom devalues the pound if both exports and imports are written in terms of pounds then the United Kingdom balance of trade during a currency contract period ?
A. improves
B. worsens
C. is unaffected
D. falls for a while before increasing - _____ 1954 study of U.S trade patterns showed that U.S exports were labor-intensive compared with U.S imports, even though the United States was widely regarded as a relatively capital-abundant nation ?
A. Paul Samuelson’s
B. Wolfgang Stolpher’s
C. Staffan Linder’s
D. Wassily Leontief’s - Which factor of production in the United States is most likely to be made worse off (its factor payment will decrease) because of the North American Free Trade Agreement ?
A. Capital
B. land
C. skilled labor
D. unskilled labor - Columbia’s Jagdish Bhagwati criticizes United States administrations inability to distinguish between benefits of free trade ?
A. and the dangers of free capital movements for LDCs with poorly developed financial institutions
B. and the dangers of a trade deficit
C. and the external openness of income growth among the poorest 40 percent of LDCs
D. and MNC domination and its effects on income distribution - Which American industry has least been affected by import competition in recent years ?
A. Automobiles
B. Steel
C. Radios and TVs
D. Computer software
