Economics: Private and Public Choice
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Author: James D. Gwartney; Richard L. Stroup; Russell S. Sobel
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The impact of high tariff on steel import on the employment of Country A’s auto industry.
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China placed tariffs on the importation of US soybeans. Assume that the domestic market for soybeans in China is described by the following equations:
Demand: P = 11.5 – Q Supply: P = 5.5 + Q
Price is in 10 Yuan (¥) per bushel of soybeans and the units for Quantity are 100 million bushels per year. This is to make graphing simpler. This does NOT mean that the price is 10 and quantity is 100. Rather it means that if the price was 40¥ and the quantity was 7,500,000,000 bushels, this would plot as 4 and 7.5 respectively.
The world price for soybeans is ¥65/bushel (this would graph as a horizontal line at 6.5).
Graph the soybean market in China showing equilibrium both with no barriers to trade and with a ¥15/bushel tariff. Be sure to fully and clearly label the graph including: Domestic Demand curve (D), Domestic Supply curve (S), the World Price (WP), and the Price with tariffs (PT), along with the quantities imported both with and without the tariff.
Based on your graph, what…
GlobalCell is an American firm producing cell phones. GlobalCell imports cell phone components from Japan and assembles them domestically. Suppose
that in the United States, a cell phone sells for $100 and that 60% of the cell phone's value comes from the value of the imported components. The United
States imposes a 30% tariff on cell phones and a 10% tariff on the cell phone's components. Assume that costs of producing components are the same in the
United States and Japan and that transit costs are nonexistent.
Based on the information provided, the effective rate of protection that GlobalCell receives from the tariff is
A. 60%
B. -20%
C. -13.3%
D. 26.7%
Potato SA's head of marketing Willie Jacobs has explained that the practice of potato dumping holds some harmful consequences. These include further economic decline and hitting where it hurts most, the livelihoods of South African farmers and workers and their families. He added that irregular imports are detrimental to a viable local economy; hence the implementation of consistent anti-dumping measures is essential." If demand theory is used to explain why South African farmers feel their businesses are under threat, it is because they believe that... A. They would have to sell their produce at a low price resulting in losses. B. They are expecting prices to rise in the future. C. There is not enough demand for potatoes in the market. D. The dumped potatoes shift the supply curve outwards resulting in price that is too high for consumers to afford.
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