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4.1 Benefits of international trade

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4.1.1—Benefits of international trade

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• Trade can increase competition, lower prices, expand choice, and provide access to resources • Trade can raise foreign exchange earnings, access larger markets, generate economies of scale, and improve resource allocation and production efficiency • Diagram: free trade illustrating exports when world price is above domestic price • Diagram: free trade illustrating imports when world price is below domestic price

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4.1.2 (HL)—Absolute and comparative advantage

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• Comparative advantage is based on lower opportunity cost • Specialization and trade can create gains from trade • Sources of comparative advantage explain why countries trade • Diagram [HL]: linear PPCs showing different opportunity costs and gains from specialization and trade • Calculation [HL]: opportunity costs from data to identify comparative advantage

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4.1.3 (HL)—Limits of comparative advantage

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• Comparative advantage theory has limitations in real-world trade analysis • Evaluation should consider assumptions, distributional effects, and practical constraints

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4.1.4 (HL)—Trade quantity and value calculations

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• Calculate quantity of exports and quantity of imports from a diagram • Calculate import expenditure and export revenue from a diagram

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