ECO 305 Week 4 Quiz – Strayer
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Quiz 3 Chapter 5 and 6
CHAPTER 5
NONTARIFF TRADE BARRIERS
MULTIPLE
CHOICE
1. The
imposition of a tariff on imported steel for the home country results in:
a. Improving terms of trade and rising
volume of trade
b. Higher steel prices and falling steel
consumption
c. Lower profits for domestic steel
companies
d. Higher unemployment for domestic steel
workers
2. Which
of the following refers to a market-sharing pact negotiated by trading partners
to moderate the intensity of international competition?
a. Orderly marketing agreement
b. Local content requirements
c. Import quota
d. Trigger price mechanism
3. Suppose
the United States and Japan enter into a voluntary export agreement in which
Japan imposes an export quota on its automakers. The largest share of the
export quota's "revenue effect" would tend to be captured by:
a. The U.S. government
b. Japanese automakers
c. American auto consumers
d. American autoworkers
4. Suppose
the government grants a subsidy to domestic producers of an import-competing
good. The subsidy tends to result in deadweight losses for the domestic economy
in the form of the:
a. Consumption effect
b. Redistribution effect
c. Revenue effect
d. Protective effect
5. Tariffs
and quotas on imports tend to involve larger sacrifices in national welfare
than would occur under domestic subsidies. This is because, unlike domestic
subsidies, import tariffs and quotas:
a. Permit less efficient home production
b. Distort choices for domestic consumers
c. Result in higher tax rates for domestic
residents
d. Redistribute revenue from domestic
producers to consumers
6. Suppose
the government grants a subsidy to its export firms that permits them to charge
lower prices on goods sold abroad. The export revenue of these firms would rise
if the foreign demand is:
a. Elastic in response to the price
reduction
b. Inelastic in response to the price
reduction
c. Unit elastic in response to the price
reduction
d. None of the above
7. Because
export subsidies tend to result in domestic exporters charging lower prices on
their goods sold overseas, the home country's:
a. Export revenues will decrease
b. Export revenues will rise
c. Terms of trade will worsen
d. Terms of trade will improve
8. Which
trade restriction stipulates the percentage of a product's total value that
must be produced domestically in order for that product to be sold
domestically?
a. Import quota
b. Orderly marketing agreement
c. Local content requirement
d. Government procurement policy
9. The
imposition of a domestic content requirement by the United States would cause
consumer surplus for Americans to:
a. Rise
b. Fall
c. Remain unchanged
d. None of the above
10. Domestic
content legislation applied to autos would tend to:
a. Support wage levels of American autoworkers
b. Lower auto prices for American
autoworkers
c. Encourage American automakers to locate
production overseas
d. Increase profits of American auto
companies
11. Compared
to an import quota, an equivalent tariff may provide a less certain amount of
protection for home producers since:
a. A tariff has no deadweight loss in
terms of production and consumption
b. Foreign firms may absorb the tariff by
offering exports at lower prices
c. Tariffs are effective only if home
demand is perfectly elastic
d. Quotas do not result in increases in
the price of the imported good
12. Empirical
studies show that because voluntary export quotas are typically administered by
exporting countries, foreign exporters tend to:
a. Raise their export prices, thus capturing
much of the quota's revenue effect
b. Lower their export prices, thus losing
much of the quota's revenue effect
c. Raise their export prices, thus selling
more goods overseas
d. Lower their export prices, thus selling
fewer goods overseas
13. Concerning
the restrictive impact of an import quota, assume there occurs an increase in
the domestic demand for the import product. As long as the quota falls short of
what would be imported under free market conditions, the economy's adjustment
to the increase in demand would take the form of:
a. A decrease in domestic production of
the import good
b. An increase in the amount of the good
being imported
c. An increase in the domestic price of
the import good
d. A decrease in domestic consumption of
the import good
14. Assume
the U.S. has a competitive advantage in producing calculators, while the rest
of the world has a competitive advantage in steel. Suppose the U.S. and the
rest of the world enter into an agreement to lower import quotas below existing
levels on calculators and steel. Which of the following would least likely
occur for the U.S.? Rising levels of:
a. Consumer surplus for American buyers of
steel
b. Producer surplus for American
steelmakers
c. Production in the American calculator
industry
d. Producer surplus for American
calculator producers
15. A
firm that faces problems of falling sales and excess productive capacity might
resort to international dumping if it:
a. Can charge higher prices in markets
that are elastic to price changes
b. Earns revenues on foreign sales that at
least cover variable costs
c. Can sell at that price where domestic
and foreign demand elasticities equate
d. Is able to force foreign prices below
marginal production costs
16. A
producer successfully practicing international dumping would charge:
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