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What is balanced growth?
the PPC shifts out proportionately so that its relative shape is the same
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What is a tariff?
is a tax on importing a good or service into a country usually collected by customs officials at the place of entry
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What is a nontariff barrier?
any policy used by the government to reduce imports, other than a simple tariff on imports
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What is voluntary export restraint (VER)?
an odd-looking trade barrier in which the importing country government compels the foreign exporting country to agree "voluntarily" to restrict its exports to this country
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What is the Buy America Act of 1933?
the basic law that mandates that government-funded purchases favor domestic products
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What is biased growth?
the expansion favors producing proportionately more of one of the products
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What is a specific tariff?
a tax on the amount per unit of import
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What is import quota (quota)?
a limit on the total quantity of imports of a product allowed into the country during a period of time
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What are product standards?
this protects consumers and local producers and requires imports to meet certain requirements
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What is section 301?
gives the U.S. President the power to negotiate to eliminate "unfair trade practices" of foreign governments
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What is the Rybsynski theorem?
only one factor is growing-growth in the country's endowment of one factor of production, with the other factor unchanged
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What is an ad valorem tariff?
a tax based on the percentage of the estimated market value of the goods when they reach the importing country
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What is fixed favoritism?
the government simply assigns the licenses to firms or individuals without competition, applications, or negotiation
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What is a domestic content requirement?
mandates that a product produced and sold in a country must have a specified minimum amount of domestic production value, in the form of wages paid to local workers or materials and components produced with the country
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What is a nationally optimal tariff?
the tariff that creates the largest net gain for the country imposing it
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What is a small country?
one whose trade does not affect the international price ratio
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What is area b and d?
this area is a net national loss from the tariff
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What is an import license auction? (auction)
selling import licenses on a competitive basis to the highest bidder
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What is a mixed requirement?
stipulates that an importer or import distributor must buy a certain percentage of the product locally
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What is the production effect (area b)?
the extra cost of shifting more expensive home production
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What is large country?
one whose trade can have an impact on the relative international price ratio
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What is area c?
government collects this area for revenue from a tariff
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What are resource-using application procedures?
allocating quota licenses on a first-come, first-serve basis; on the basis of demonstrating need or worthiness; or on the basis of negotiation
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What is government procurement?
biased against foreign products/nontariff barrier to imports
many governments buy local |
What is the consumption effect (area d)?
the loss to consumers in the importing nation based on the reduction in their total consumption of bicycles
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