Fourth Edition Internatio nal Business
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Chapter Focus
The political reality of free trade is that while nations are nominally committed to it, they intervene and take actions to protect the interests of politically important groups.
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Chapter FocusThe political reality of free trade is that while nations are nominally committed to it, they intervene and take actions to protect the interests of politically important groups.
This chapter explores the political and economic reasons for intervention; to restrict imports and expand exports, but, more recently, for ‘social’ reasons.
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Chapter Focus
The political reality of free trade is that while nations are nominally committed to it, they intervene and take actions to protect the interests of politically important groups.This chapter explores the political and economic reasons for intervention; to restrict imports and expand exports, but, more recently, for ‘social’ reasons.
The chapter describes the range of intervention instruments used by governments and considers the case for free trade in light of government actions.
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The 7 Instruments of Trade Policy
AntidumpingDuties
LocalContent
Requirements
Tariffs
VoluntaryExports
Restraints
Subsidies
AdministrativePoliciesImport
Quotas
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Tariffs: Import Taxes
Tariffs could be
SpecificFixed charge
per unit
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Tariffs: Import Taxes
Tariffs could be
SpecificFixed charge
per unit
Ad ValoremCharge is
a proportion of the goods value
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Tariffs: Import Taxes
Tariffs could be
SpecificFixed charge
per unit
Ad ValoremCharge is
a proportion of the goods value
Oldest form of protection.
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Tariffs: Import Taxes
Tariffs could be
SpecificFixed charge
per unit
Ad ValoremCharge is
a proportion of the goods value
Oldest form of protection. Good for the Government.
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Tariffs: Import Taxes
Tariffs could be
SpecificFixed charge
per unit
Ad ValoremCharge is
a proportion of the goods value
Oldest form of protection. Good for the Government. Good for producers.
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Tariffs: Import Taxes
Tariffs could be
SpecificFixed charge
per unit
Ad ValoremCharge is
a proportion of the goods value
Oldest form of protection. Good for the Government. Good for producers.
Leads to inefficiency. Bad for consumers.
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5-13Subsidies: Help domestic producers to compete
internationally
Government payment to a
domestic producer couldBe in the form of
Cash Grants
Tax Breaks
Low InterestLoans
GovernmentEquity
Participation
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Import Quotas and Voluntary Export Restraints
Direct restrictionon the quantity of a
good that canbe imported into
a country.
Import Quotas
Quota on trade imposedby the exporting
country at the requestof the importing
country’s government.
VERs
Quotarent
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Local Content Requirements
A specificfraction of a
good must be domestically
produced.
A specificfraction of a
good must be domestically
produced.
Physicalamount
Value
Widely usedby developingcountries to
develop their manufacturing
base.
Used by developedcountries to
protect local jobsand industry from
foreign competition.
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Administrative Policies
Bureaucratic rules designed to make it difficult for imports to enter a country.
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ProtectIndustryand Jobs.
Most common political argument.
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Retaliation
Risky strategy. If governmentfails to heed warnings and imposes its own higher tariffs, the result is higher tariffs allaround and a correspondingeconomic loss.
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ProtectConsumers
Battleground for biotechnology such as hormone-treatedbeef and genetically altered crops.
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FurtherForeign Policy
Objectives
Used to build relations withanother country or punish it(so-called rogue states). Policyis unilateral and easily defeated by other countries ignoring it.
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ProtectHumanRights
Basis for the use of “MostFavored Nation” status topersuade China to change itspositions on human rights.
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Political Arguments for Intervention
FurtherForeign Policy
Objectives
ProtectIndustryand Jobs.
NationalSecurity
Retaliation
ProtectConsumers
ProtectHumanRights
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Economic Arguments for Intervention
InfantIndustry
Infant industry is the oldest economic argument for government intervention, dating to 1792 and Alexander Hamilton. Protect developing country’s new industry from developed countries better established industries. Recognized by GATT.
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Economic Arguments for Intervention
StrategicTradePolicy
Strategic trade policy can help a firm gain ‘first mover’ advantages or overcome barriers created by a different (foreign) first mover.
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Economic Arguments for Intervention
InfantIndustry
StrategicTradePolicy
Infant industry is the oldest economic argument for government intervention, dating to 1792 and Alexander Hamilton. Protect developing country’s new industry from developed countries better established industries. Recognized by GATT. Strategic trade policy can help a firm gain ‘first mover’ advantages or overcome barriers created by a different (foreign) first mover.