A. Grain prices would rise in the Soviet union
B. Consumer surplus would decrease for the soviets
C. Grains prices would rise in the united States
D. Export revenues would decrease for U.S producers
Related Mcqs:
- For year the U.S government levied quotas on inexpensive oil imported from the Middle East The quotas led to cost increases for U.S consumers totaling $3 billion for oil products. An apparent justification of this policy was that ?
A. U.S oil companies and workers deserved higher incomes
B. U.S oil was of superior quality and merited higher prices
C. one should not be too dependent on foreign suppliers of crucial resources
D. The U.S government needed the quota revenue to balance its budget - What is called a group of countries that have removed all tariffs, quotas, and export subsidies on trade among themselves ?
A. Close-trade zone
B. Free trade zone
C. Both of them
D. None of them - Quotas are government-imposed limits on the _________ of goods trade between countries?
A. prices
B. quantity
C. revenue
D. costs - Suppose that the world price of tin is above the target (ceiling) price that is defined by an international commodity agreement. To move the world price toward the target price, a buffer stock agreement would require its buffer stock manager to ____ tin and an export quota agreement would require that member countries _________ their export of tin?
A. purchase; decrease
B. purchase; increase
C. sell; increase
D. sell; decrease - Trade creation will more likely outweigh trade diversion for Country X that forms a customs union if the level of tariffs in Country X prior to the customs union is ________ and the total number of countries forming the customs union is _________?
A. relatively high; relatively large
B. relatively high; relatively small
C. relatively low ; relatively large
D. relatively low ; relatively small - What is called the difference in the value of a nation’s imports over exports or exports over imports ?
A. Trade deficit
B. Trade simples
C. Both a & b
D. Not a nor b - Which of the following government policies is least likely to increase likely to increase growth in Africa ?
A. increase expenditure on public education
B. eliminate civil war
C. All of these answers would increase growth
D. increase restrictions on the importing of American tractors and electronics - In the Px = export price index, Pm = import price index, Qx = export quantity index,and Qm = import quantity index. Developing countries tend to maintain that their commodity term of trade have declined over the long run suggesting that _________ has declined?
A. Px/Pm
B. Pm/Px
C. (Pm/Px)Qm
D. (Px/Pm)Qx - The booming of North Seas’ gas export revenues in the 1970s that appreciated the guilder, making industrial export more costly in foreign currencies and increasing foreign competition and unemployment is known as ?
A. Trade deficit
B. Blind river disease
C. Dutch disease
D. Economic turmoil - Micheal Roemer’s three-sector model shows that growth in the booming export sector I- reduces the price of foreign exchange II- retards other sectors’ growth by reducing incentives to export other commodities III- reduces incentives to replace domestic goods for imports IV- raises factor and input prices for non-booming sectors ?
A. I and III only
B. II and III only
C. I, II and III only
D. I, II , III only IV
