Across
- 2. Government policies to reduce or block imports.
- 6. many of the different stages of producing a good happen in different geographic locations
- 7. international trade of goods within the same industry
- 9. Forum in which nations could come together to negotiate reductions in tariffs and other barriers to trade; the precursor to the World Trade Organization.
- 11. taxes that governments place on imported goods
- 12. Economic agreement between countries to allow free trade in goods, services, labor, and financial capital between members while having a common external trade policy.
- 14. how a good is produced in stages
- 16. The argument that there are compelling national interests against depending on key imports from other nations.
- 18. Economic agreement between countries to allow free trade between members, a common external trade policy, and coordinated monetary and fiscal policies.
- 19. Laws that block imports sold below the cost of production and impose tariffs that would increase the price of these imports to reflect their cost of production.
Down
- 1. Ways a nation can draw up rules, regulations, inspections, and paperwork to make it more costly or difficult to import products.
- 3. Organization that seeks to negotiate reductions in barriers to trade and to adjudicate complaints about violations of international trade policy; successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
- 4. Selling internationally traded goods below their cost of production.
- 5. When production locates in countries with the lowest environmental (or other) standards, putting pressure on all countries to reduce their environmental standards.
- 8. a country that can consume more than it can produce as a result of specialization and trade
- 10. Economic agreement between countries to allow free trade between members.
- 13. Innovative new product or production technology which disrupts the status quo in a market, leading the innovators to earn more income and profits and the other firms to lose income and profits, unless they can come up with their own innovations.
- 15. when one country can use fewer resources to produce a good compared to another country; when a country is more productive compared to another country
- 17. Numerical limits on the quantity of products that a country can import.
