A. have tariff rates equal to zero suggesting a free trade policy for the United States
B. have lower tariff rates than the rates that apply to any other country sending goods to the United States
C. have tariff rates that are identical to the rates that apply to other countries to which the U.S grants most-favored nation treatment
D. have lower tariff rates than the rates that apply to other countries to which the U.S grants most favored nation treatment
Related Mcqs:
- When one country provides most favored nation status (normal trade relations) for another, it agrees to ?
A. charge the nation’s products a lower tariff than any other nation’s
B. charge that nation’s products a tariff rate no higher than that on any other nation
C. charge that nation’s products a higher tariff than any other nation’s
D. exports to that nation any products that it wants to purchase - The effect of the most favored nation (normal trade relations) clause is to ?
A. eliminate all tariffs between countries
B. increase all tariffs between countries
C. maintain a nondiscriminatory structure of tariffs
D. maintain a discriminatory structure of tariffs - Suppose there is no tariff on imported inputs and the ratio of the value of imported inputs the value of the final product is 0.5 If the nominal tariff rate on the final product is 10 percent, the effective tariff rate equals ?
A. 5 percent
B. 10 percent
C. 15 percent
D. 20 percent - If a nation fitting the criteria for the small nation model imposes a 10 percent tariff on imports of autos ?
A. The price of autos within the nation will rise by 10 percent
B. The price of autos within the nation will rise by less than 10 percent
C. The price of autos within the nation will rise by more than 10 percent
D. The price of autos will not rise because of internal competition - Suppose an industry emits a negative externality such a pollution and the possible methods to internalize the externality are command-and-control policies, pigovian taxes, and tradable pollution permits. If economists were to rank these methods for internalizing a negative externality based on efficiency ease of implementation and the incentive for the industry to further reduce pollution in the future, they would probably rank them in the following order (from most favored to least favored) ?
A. Pigouvian taxes, command-and-control policies, tradable pollution permits.
B. tradable pollution permits, Pigouvian taxes, command-and-control policies
C. tradable pollution permits command-and-control policies, Pigovian taxes.
D. command-and-control policies, tradable pollution permits, Pigovian taxes.
E. They would all rank equally high because the same result can be obtained from any one of the policies - 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 - 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 - If a nation fitting the criteria for the large nation model imposes an import tariff ?
A. the domestic price of the product will increase by more than the tariff itself
B. The domestic price of the product will increase by the same amount as the tariff
C. The domestic price of the product will increase by less than the tariff
D. None of the above - If the world price of steel is $500 a ton a specific tariff $50 is equivalent to an ad valorem tariff of______________?
A. 5 percent
B. 10 percent
C. 15 percent
D. 20 percent - Suppose that the nominal tariff rate on finished computers is 12 percent and that the weighted average of the nominal tariff rates on the inputs used in producing computers is 18 percent. Thus, the effective rate of protection for the computer industry must ?
A. be less than 12 percent and can be negative
B. be less than 12 percent but must be greater than zero
C. equal 6 percent
D. exceed 30 percent
