ECON 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Economic Surplus, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, World Trade Organization

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5 Oct 2016
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They can help members to avoid trade wars. A large country may gain from a tariff, but only if other large trading partners don"t retaliate. A country can liberalize trade with: unilateral reductions in trade restrictions, multilateral agreements with many other nations, bilateral agreements with several other nations. General agreement on tariffs and trade (gatt), 1947. Effect is similar to tariffs if quota rents are obtained by home firms or governments. Agricultural subsidies: the primary reason is political; due to strong influence of agriculture sectors, especially large agriculture businesses. Costs of agricultural subsidies: raise domestic producer surplus, reduce consumer surplus due to higher food prices in the exporting country, net loss for an exporting country, especially for a large country due to reduced international prices. The job"s argument-trade destroys jobs in industries that compete with imports. Total unemployment does not rise as the number of imports increase because the number of jobs is offset by the export industries instead.

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