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International Trade Economics 4800
Practice Problems - NTBs
The following table summarizes two hypothetical situations for the US sugar market. The first column depicts the situation in the presence of a quota.
The second column depicts the situation with no quota.
Assume transportation costs are zero and that demand and supply curves are linear.
With Free
Quota Trade
World price of sugar
$280/ton $300/ton
US price of sugar
$470/ton $300/ton
Sugar bought in US/year
8500 thousand tons 9300 thousand tons
Sugar produced in US/year
6400 thousand tons 5100 thousand tons
US workers in Sugar
industry
12,150 9,890
A) Is the US a "large" or "small" country in this market?Why?
B) Represent the effect of the quota in a graph. Be sure to show the free trade equilibrium and the quota equilibrium in terms of consumption, domestic production, imports, and prices. Use the information in the table to label the significantpoints.
C) Calculate the loss of the domestic consumer surplus from the imposition of the quota.
D) Calculate the gain to domestic producers from the imposition of thequota.
E) Calculate the quotarents.
F) Calculate the net welfare change due to thequota?
G) What would the net welfare change be if this were a VER instead of aquota?
H) In the case of a VER, calculate the cost to societyper US job "saved" in the sugarindustry.