Trade Costs Can Vary from One Nation to Another

question 95

Multiple Choice

Trade costs can vary from one nation to another. All of the following tend to increase trade costs, EXCEPT:

• A) reduction of quota limits on imports.
• B) increased regulatory barriers.
• C) higher transportation costs.
• D) more liberalized trade.

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Definitions:

Consumption Per Person

A measure of the average amount of goods and services consumed by each person within a specific population.

World Commodity Prices

The prices at which basic products, which are traded globally, are sold and bought in the international markets.

Short Run

(1) In microeconomics, a period of time in which producers are able to change the quantities of some but not all of the resources they employ; a period in which some resources (usually plant) are fixed and some are variable. (2) In macroeconomics, a period in which nominal wages and other input prices do not change in response to a change in the price level.

Long Run

In microeconomics, a period of time long enough to enable producers of a product to change the quantities of all the resources they employ, so that all resources and costs are variable and no resources or costs are fixed. In macroeconomics, a period sufficiently long for nominal wages and other input prices to change in response to a change in a nation’s price level.