ch 18 Macroeconomics

• Conclusion:
• When contries specialize, total world output increases, and, therefore, the potential for greater total world consuption also increases.

Global trade allows a country to consume a combination of goods that exceed its production possibilities curve.

The ability of a country to produce a good at a lower opportuniy cost than another country

The ability of a country to produce a good using fewer resources than another country.

The flow of goods between countries without restrictions or special taxes.

The goverment's use of embargoes, tariffs, quotas, and other restrictions to protect domestic procedures from foreign competitions

A law that bars trade with another country

A tax on an import

An international organization of member countries that oversees international trade agreements and rules on trade disputes.

A limit on the quantity of agood that may be imported in a giving time period.

• Infant Industry Argument
• National Security Argument
• Employment Argument
• Cheap Foreign Labor Argument

A bookeeping record of all the international transactions between a country and another countries during agiven period.

The values of a nation's imports substracted from its exports. Balance of trade can be given in term of goods, services, or goods and services.

The number of units of one nation's currency that equals one unti of another nation's currency.

`A fall in the price of one currency relative to another

A rise in the price of one currency relative to another.