Which of the Following Is a Reason for the Pressure

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a reason for the pressure for greater protectionism that occurred during the 1980s and early 1990s?

• A) The U.S. Congress erected an enormous wall of tariff barriers.
• B) Japanese economic failure strained the world trading system.
• C) The persistent trade surplus in the United States strained the world trading system.
• D) Many countries found ways to get around GATT regulations.

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Definitions:

Bootstrap Distribution

The distribution of a large number of bootstrap samples' statistics, used for estimating the shape of the true distribution of a statistic.

Normal

A term often used to describe data following a bell-shaped, symmetrical distribution around a central value, with predictable patterns as far as spread and outliers.

Bootstrap Distribution

A technique in statistics for estimating the distribution of a statistic by resampling with replacement from the original sample.

Normal

In statistics, this describes a distribution that is symmetric around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.