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A tax of 18 cents per unit of imported cheese would be an example of a.
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A. Compound tariff
B. Effective tariff
C. Ad valorem tariff
D. Specific tariff
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All of the following are credit items in the balance of payments except.
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A. Investment inflows
B. Merchandise exports
C. Payment for American service's to foreigners
D. Private give to foreign residents
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If tastes are identical between countries then comparative advantage is determined by
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A. Supply conditions only
B. Demand conditions only
C. Supply and demand conditions
D. Can't tell without more information.
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International dumping may involve.
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A. Selling goods to foreigners at a price below that charged domestic consumers
B. Selling goods to foreigners at a price below the cost of production
C. antidumping duties being levied on the imported dumped goods
D. All of the above
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The balance of trade can only worsen if income________ relative to absorption
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A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Adjustment mechanism
D. Currency contract period
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Industrial policies intended to foster comparative advantage for domestic industries could result in the implementation of.
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A. Research and development subsides.
B. Loan guarantees
C. Low interest rate loans
D. All of the above
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The result of antidumping tariffs is to.
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A. increase consumer surplus in the importing country
B. Decrease producer surplus in the importing country
C. Impose a price floor on foreign prices in the importing country
D. Impose a price celling on foreign prices in the importing county
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If a nation has an open economy it means that the nation.
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A. Allows private ownership of capital
B. Has flexible exchange rates
C. Has fixed exchange rates
D. Conducts trade with other countries
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When one country provides most favored nation status for another if agrees to.
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A. Change that nation's product a lower tariff than any other nations
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. Export to that nation any products that it wants to purchase
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___________ are quotas that lead to a complete abolishment of trade.
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A. Nontariff barriers
B. Embargoes
C. Voluntary export restraints
D. Orderly marketing agreements
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A feasible effect of international trade is that a
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A. Monopoly in the home market become an oligopoly in the world market
B. Oligopoly in the home market becomes a monopoly in the world market
C. Purely competitive firm in the home market becomes an oligopolistic
D. Purely competitive firm in the home market becomes a monopolist
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All of the following are trade problems of developing countries except.
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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.
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Should international transpiration costs decrease, the effect on international trade would include a.
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A. Increase in the volume of trade
B. smaller gain from trade
C. Decline in the income of home producers
D. Decrease in the level of specialization production.
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Most tariffs have
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A. Only revenue effects
B. Only protective effects
C. Both protective ad revenue effects
D. Neither protective or revenue effects
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Small nations whose trade and financial relationships are mainly with a single partner tend to utilize.
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A. Pegged exchange rates
B. Freely floating exchanged rates
C. Managed floating exchange rates
D. Crewing exchange rates.
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An important feature of a___ is that the holder has the right , but not the obligation, to buy or sell currency
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A. Swap
B. Foreign exchange arbitrage
C. Foreign exchange option
D. Futures market contract
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That the division of labor is limited by the size of th market best applies to which explanation of trade.
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A. Factor endowment theory
B. Product like cycle theory
C. Economics of scale theory
D. Over lapping demand theory
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The exchange rate system that best characterizes the present international monetary arrangement used by industrialized countries is.
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A. Freely fluctuating exchange rates
B. Adjustable pegged exchange rates
C. Managed floating exchange rate.
D. Pegged or fixed exchange rates
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Mercantilism.
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A. Is the philosophy of free international trade.
B. Was a system of export promotion and barriers to imports practiced by government .
C. Was praised by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations
D. Both a and c
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The difference between a country's balances of payments and its balance of international indebtedness.
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A. Is equal of official reserve transactions
B. Occurs because of foreign exchange fluctuations
C. Reflects statistical discrepancies
D. Reflects the difference between flow and stock concepts
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