Chapter 21: Q 3. (page 521)
Explain how trade barriers save jobs in protected industries, but only by costing jobs in other industries.
Short Answer
Because trade barriers affect other industries.
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Chapter 21: Q 3. (page 521)
Explain how trade barriers save jobs in protected industries, but only by costing jobs in other industries.
Because trade barriers affect other industries.
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You have just been put in charge of trade policy for Malawi. Coffee is a recent crop that is growing well and the Malawian export market is developing. As such, Malawi coffee is an infant industry. Malawi coffee producers come to you and ask for tariff protection from cheap Tanzanian coffee. What sorts of policies will you enact? Explain.
How does protectionism affect the price of the
protected good in the domestic market?
Is international trade likely to have about the same effect on everyone’s wages?
Who gains and who loses from trade?
What are some ways that governments can help people who lose from trade?
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