4.2 Types of trade protection
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2022
- Topic
- 4.2
- Level
- HL
• Tariffs affect markets and stakeholders through price, production, consumption, expenditure, revenue, and welfare effects
• Diagram: tariff effects on price, production, consumption, expenditure, revenue, and welfare
• Quotas restrict import quantity and affect price, production, consumption, expenditure, revenue, and welfare
• Diagram: quota effects on price, production, consumption, expenditure, revenue, and welfare
• Subsidies affect domestic producers, consumers, governments, foreign producers, and welfare
• Diagram: subsidy effects on price, production, consumption, expenditure, revenue, and welfare
• Administrative barriers include standards and regulations
• They can restrict trade without using tariffs or quotas directly
• Calculate stakeholder effects of tariffs from a diagram
• Calculate stakeholder effects of quotas from a diagram
• Calculate stakeholder effects of subsidies from a diagram