1. Good Morning 12-6-11 Write down your EQ and Homework for today. Take out your handout on the 4 economies SPONGEA mountain, a river and a valley; which of these area trade barrier? Explain your answer.

2. Trade Barriers EQ: What are characteristics of the three types of economic trade barriers? How are they present in Europe?Ansley BennettLanier Middle School

3. International Trade Involves the exchange of goods or services between countries This is described in terms of Exports: the goods and services sold to other countries Imports: the goods or services bought from other countries

4. Free Trade Vs. Trade Barriers Free Trade: Nothing hinders or gets in the way from two nations trading with each other. Trade Barriers: Trade is difficult because things get in the way. There are costs and benefits related to free trade as well as trade barriers.

5. Physical Trade Barriers Geographic barriers can slow down trade between nations by making it harder and more expensive to move goods from place to place EX) Swiss Alps to allow goods to move through Switzerland more quickly, the government is building tunnels through the mountains

6. Question #1 List/draw as many trade barriers as possible and how they would impact trade. Can you think of any more examples from Europe?

7. 3 Economic Trade Barriers The most common trade restrictions are: 1. tariffstaxes on imported goods 2. Quotas limits on the quantity of goods that are imported 3. embargoes-- a complete ban on trading between countries

8. Question #2 How might these trade barriers impact European economies?

9. What is a Tariff? A tariff is a tax put on goods imported from other countries The effect of a tariff is to raise the price of the imported product It makes imported goods more expensive so that people are more likely to purchase products produced in the home country

10. Question #3 How might a tariff be good for a country? How might a tariff be bad?

11. Tariffs in Europe When countries outside of European Union want to sell their goods in the EU, they must pay tariffs This makes the non-EU products more expensive than the products made by EU members Which would you buy? EX) If a US company wants to export fruit to a country in the EU, the US company must pay a tariff (makes US fruit more expensive)

12. QuotasA quota is a limit on the amount of goods thatcan be imported from another countryPutting a quota on a good creates a shortage,which causes the price of the good to rise. Consumers are less likely to buy this good because its now more expensive than the good produced in the home country. Quotas encourage people to buy domestic products, rather than foreign goods (boosts countrys economy)

13. Quotas in Europe The EU places a quota on the amount of steel that can be imported from certain countries The effect is similar to a tariff, because it makes steel from those countries harder to get, and more expensive Helps steel producers within EU sell more steel

14. Question #4 How are tariffs and quotas different? How are they similar?

15. Embargos Government orders a complete ban on trade with another country The embargo is the harshest type of trade barrier and is usually enacted for political purposes to hurt a country economically and thus undermine the political leaders in charge.

16. Question #5 How would an American embargo against China effect both America and China?

17. Embargoes in Europe Recently, EU began placing embargoes on the sale of certain weapons and other technologies to Iran This was done because the countries of the EU suspected Iran was trying to build a nuclear bomb EU countries hope that the embargo will make it difficult for Iran to build this type of weapon

18. Question #6 How are the three economic trade barriers present in Europe? Give examples without looking at your notes. Hi mrs pardee