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Foreign Trade Global
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Prohibition on the export or import of a product
exports
embargo
200 - Thomas Malthus - nations - birth - famine - standard - living
World Trade Organization
2. Most favored ______ clause is important b/c it gives them the same tariff reductions the U.S. provides other _______
subsistence
GATT - Trade - trade - disputes
nation - nations
taxes - permits - incentive - pollute
3. Group of 10 Southeast Asian nations working to promote regional cooperation - economic growth - & trade
free trade area
nation - nations
nations - produce - trade - output
ASEAN
4. The national _______ for economic ________ has recommended a 5 point approach to _______ making & the final step is cost benefit ________
GATT - Trade - trade - disputes
fixed exchange rate
humanitarian - political
council - thinking - decision - analysis
5. The ____ was established in 1947 & evolved into the World _____ Organization which now tries to open nations up to _____ & settle ________
tariff
biomass
council - thinking - decision - analysis
GATT - Trade - trade - disputes
6. Balance of payments outcome when spending on imports exceeds revenues received from exports
free traders
gasohol
national defense - infant industries - protecting domestic jobs- keeping money at home
trade deficit
7. Barriers have been used to _______ the flow of products to _______ across the ______
capitalism - goals
endangered - boom - water - land
200 - Thomas Malthus - nations - birth - famine - standard - living
restrict - markets - globe
8. Malthus didn't take into account the advancement of _________ that would effect all of the factors
advantage - good
technology
tariff
hydroelectric - biomass - solar - wind - gasohol
9. International agency that administers trade agreements - settles trade disputes b/w governments - organizes trade negotiation - & provides technical assistance & training for developing countries
free traders
grow - attention
World Trade Organization
taxes - permits - incentive - pollute
10. Group of countries that have agreed to reduce trade barriers among themselves - but lack a common tariff barrier for nonmembers
free trade area
gasohol
problems - scale
ASEAN
11. The ___ & the World ____ are the 2 major international ________ that help w/ ___________
dumping
international
ASEAN
IMF - Bank - agencies - development
12. Deprived nations face the same ________ large nations encounter - just on a greater _____
problems - scale
taxes - permits - incentive - pollute
exchange - currencies
NAFTA - U.S. - Canada - Mexico
13. Programs including pollution _____ & pollution _______ are designed to give firms the ________ not to ________
embargo
problems - scale
resources: - oil - natural - coal
taxes - permits - incentive - pollute
14. [ESSAY] Major challenges of developing nations: high _____ rates - increasing ____ expectancies - shortage of __________ resources - limited ________ & technology - ________ - large scale __________ - aftermath of ___ - external ____
birth - life - national - education - religion - corruption - war - debt
capitalism - goals
markets - free - future
tariffs - quotas - licensing - health certification - voluntary quotas
15. True flexibility ________ enable the modern modified ____ enterprise economy to better deal w/ the unforeseen events of the _______
NAFTA
markets - free - future
biomass
national defense - infant industries - protecting domestic jobs- keeping money at home
16. A fundamental knowledge of ________ is key to understand our modern _______ b/c __________ has become the dominant economic ______ today
economics - society - capitalism - system
free traders
exports
free trade area
17. Mixture of 90% unleaded gasoline & 10% grain alcohol
World Trade Organization
gasohol
exchange - currencies
problems - scale
18. [FIB] U.S. sources of energy: ______________ power - _______ - ______ power - ____ power - _______
hydroelectric - biomass - solar - wind - gasohol
traders - arguments - consumer
free traders
dumping
19. Trade law allowing a third country to enjoy the same tariff reductions the U.S. negotiates w/ another country
IMF - Bank - agencies - development
restrict - markets - globe
grow - attention
most favored nation clause
20. Government confiscation of private or foreign owned goods w/o compensation
protectionists
NAFTA
embargo
expropriation
21. Tax placed on an imported product
tariff
biomass
free traders
nations - produce - trade - output
22. Foreign currencies used by countries to conduct international trade
humanitarian - political
IMF - Bank - agencies - development
foreign exchange
birth - life - national - education - religion - corruption - war - debt
23. More than ___ years ago - it was predicted by _______ _______ the problems that would be associated w/ developing _______ : high ______ rates - _____ - threat of a subsistence ________ of ______
foreign exchange
nations - produce - trade - output
200 - Thomas Malthus - nations - birth - famine - standard - living
World Trade Organization
24. Resource created from living & nonliving materials
expropriation
economists - pollution - incentives
biomass
ASEAN
25. The U.S. is extensively involved in _____________ trade
traders - arguments - consumer
international
tariff
tariffs - Depression - world - free
26. Person who would protect domestic producers w/ tariffs - quotas - & other trade barriers
nations - produce - trade - output
protectionists
nation - nations
council - thinking - decision - analysis
27. ___________ argue _________ can't be controlled until economic __________ to pollute are removed
markets - free - future
exports
gasohol
economists - pollution - incentives
28. ______ was created to open up free trade b/w the ____ - ______ - & ______
ASEAN
trade surplus
NAFTA - U.S. - Canada - Mexico
nations - produce - trade - output
29. Selling products outside of the country for less than it costs to produce them at home
dumping
economists - pollution - incentives
nations - produce - trade - output
fixed exchange rate
30. Today there are 1.2 _______ people who make less than $_ a day
subsistence
billion - 1
population - governments
national defense - infant industries - protecting domestic jobs- keeping money at home
31. Free enterprise system w/ some government involvement
council - thinking - decision - analysis
modified free enterprise economy
technology
exchange - currencies
32. System under which the value of currencies were fixed in relation to one another
fixed exchange rate
subsistence
free traders
nations - rate - currencies
33. Individual who favors fewer or even no trade restrictions
free traders
markets - free - future
nations - rate - currencies
imports
34. Legislation is passed on a continuing basis as it continues to ____ & demand immediate _________
ASEAN
grow - attention
credits - certificates - ton - atmosphere
trade - advantage
35. [FIB] Most widely used non renewable _________ of today: ___ - _______ gas - ____
markets - free - future
imports
technology
resources: - oil - natural - coal
36. The value of foreign exchange is determined in foreign ________ markets where __________ are bought & sold
imports
exchange - currencies
taxes - permits - incentive - pollute
billion - 1
37. The goods & services that a nation buys from other nations
protectionists
embargo
imports
trade surplus
38. High _______ were one of the primary causes associated w/ the Great __________ - yet the _____ has moved toward ____ trade ever since the
international
tariffs - Depression - world - free
economists - pollution - incentives
tariff
39. Carbon _______ are tradable ___________ that give the right to emit 1 ___ of carbon into the ____________
technology
credits - certificates - ton - atmosphere
tariffs - Depression - world - free
exchange - international
40. The goods & services that a nation produces & then sells to other nations
floating - flexible - supply - demand - currency
dumping
exports
grow - attention
41. The basis for _____ today is called comparative _________
trade surplus
nation - nations
technology
trade - advantage
42. State in which a society produces barely enough to support itself
hydroelectric - biomass - solar - wind - gasohol
flexible exchange rate
subsistence
expropriation
43. Situation occurring when the value of a nation's exports exceeds the value of its imports
trade surplus
tariff
grow - attention
free traders
44. Foreign ________ is the lifeblood of ____________ trade
markets - free - future
subsistence
problems - scale
exchange - international
45. Some smaller ______ use a fixed ____ that ties their value to that of other major _________
national defense - infant industries - protecting domestic jobs- keeping money at home
nations - rate - currencies
expropriation
population - governments
46. System that relies on supply & demand to determine the value of one currency in terms of another
dumping
flexible exchange rate
resources: - oil - natural - coal
free traders
47. Agreement signed in 1993 to reduce tariffs b/w the U.S. - Canada - & Mexico
NAFTA
nations - produce - trade - output
modified free enterprise economy
nations - rate - currencies
48. If people & _______ specialize in the things they _______ relatively more efficiently - & if they engage in _____ to secure the things they do no produce then total world ______ will increase
nations - produce - trade - output
fixed exchange rate
capitalism - goals
resources: - oil - natural - coal
49. [FIB] Protectionists support trade barriers on the basis of:
endangered - boom - water - land
hydroelectric - biomass - solar - wind - gasohol
national defense - infant industries - protecting domestic jobs- keeping money at home
exchange - currencies
50. It was the oil _______ of the early ____s that pushed the U.S. to seek out new sources of ______
nations - produce - trade - output
tariffs - quotas - licensing - health certification - voluntary quotas
resources: - oil - natural - coal
embargo - 1970 - energy