A. high transportation costs as a proportion of product value
B. different growing seasons of the year for agricultural products
C. product differentiation for good such as automobiles
D. high per capita incomes in exporting countries
Related Mcqs:
- 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 appreciation in the value of the dollar in the early 1980s is explained by all of the following except ?
A. the United States being considered a safe haven by foreign investors
B. relatively high real interest rates in the United States
C. confidence of foreign investors in the U.S economy
D. relatively high inflation rates in 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 - According to the trade theory of Staffan Linder trade tends to be most pronounced in manufactured goods when trading countries have ?
A. similar endowments of natural resources
B. similar levels of technology
C. similar per-capita incomes
D. similar wage levels - 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 - The World Trade Organization is sometimes criticized for all of the following reasons except?
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 - All of the following are trade problems of developing countries except?
A. unstable export markets
B. improving terms of trade
C. limited access to the markets of industrial countries
D. highly elastic demand curves for their products - Concerning a government’s trade policy, all the following generally apply except ?
A. economic downturn and recession generally result in greater protectionism
B. because domestic consumers outnumber domestic producer’s policy markers usually enact Free-trade policies to satisfy the consumer majority:
C. When domestic exporting companies are organized, policy tends to favor freer trade
D. Policy tends to favor freer trade in countries whose imports are inputs into critical industries - Criticisms against the North American Free Trade Agreement include all of the following except ?
A. wages in the United States will rise relative to Mexican wages
B. American jobs will be lost to workers in Mexico
C. The environment is not adequately protected by NAFTA
D. None of the above - Nontariff trade barriers could include all of the following except ?
A. domestic content laws
B. government procurement policies
C. health, safety, and environmental standards
D. antidumping/countervailing duties applied to imports
