A. multilateral contracts
B. production and export controls
C. buffer stock arrangements
D. tariff-rates quotas
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - An export quota agreement to stabilize the price of bauxite tends to be more successful when the member producer countries as a percentage of the world’s producer countries is __________ and the _________ it is for the member producer countries to store/stock pile bauxite?
A. relatively small; more difficult
B. relatively small; easier
C. relatively large; more difficult
D. relatively large; easier - 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 - Export-led growth strategies tend to emphasize ?
A. resource allocation based on the principle of absolute advantage
B. resource allocation based on the principle of comparative advantage
C. trade protection for import-competing firms
D. trade protection for exporting-competing firms - Tariff levels in advanced countries tend to be __________ tariff levels in developing countries?
A. higher than
B. equal to
C. lower than
D. there is no general pattern - A widely used indicator to differentiate developed countries from developing countries is ?
A. international trade per capita
B. real income per capital
C. unemployment per capita
D. calories per capita - ________ is the practice of adopting policies and developing strategies that both sustain the environment and produce profits for the company ?
A. Environmentalism
B. Environmental sustainability
C. Consumerism
D. Consumer accountability - To help developing nations strengthen their international competitiveness many industrial nations have granted non-reciprocal tariff reductions to developing nations under the ?
A. international commodity agreements program
B. multilateral contract program
C. generalized system of preferences program
D. export-led growth program
