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 ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

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. According to the factor price equalization theorem, the ________ factor should oppose free. trade policies in any given country?

   A. abundant
   B. scarce
   C. neither
   D. can’t tell without more information

5. 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

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. With free trade, suppose that the rest of the world can supply calculators to Canada at a price of $30. Canada’s imports would now equal _____ and its consumer surplus would ____ relative to what occurred in the absence of trade. What is the change in consumer surplus? Refer to the figure that you have plotted ?

   A. 20 calculators increase
   B. 25 calculators decrease
   C. 25 calculators increase
   D. 30 calculators increase

9. 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

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