Members of the EU find that trade creation|| is fostered when their economies are ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. The trade model of the Swedish economies Heckscher and Ohlin maintains that ?

   A. Absolute advantage determines the distribution of the gains from trade
   B. Comparative advantage determines the distribution of the gains from trade
   C. The division of labor is limited by the size of the world market
   D. A country exports goods for which its resource endowments are most suited

5. Trade creation takes place when ?

   A. a country moves from autarky to free trade
   B. a movement to a customs union reduces the cost of trade through standardization
   C. economic integration results in a movement in product origin to a lower-cost member country
   D. economic integration results in a shift in product origin from a lower cost nonmember country to a member country having higher costs

6. 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

7. 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

8. Given free trade, small nations tend to benefit the most from trade since they ?

   A. Are more productive than their large trading partners
   B. Are less productive than their large trading partners
   C. Have demand preferences and income levels lower than their large trading partners
   D. Realize terms of trade lying near the MRTs of their large trading partners

9. Which approach predicts that is an economy operates a full employment and faces trade deficit currency devaluation will improve the trade balance only if domestic spending is cut thus freeing resources to produce exports ?

   A. the absorption approaches
   B. the Marshall Lerner approach
   C. the monetary approach
   D. the elasticities approach

10. 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 2000

    Submitted by: Syed Nizakat Ali Shah