AICE Econ AS Unit 4 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Export | Goods and services sold to another country. |
| Import | Goods and services purchased from another country. |
| Balance of Payments | The record of a country's economic transations with the rest of the world, usually over the course of a year. |
| Multilateral Trade | Trade between a number of countries. |
| Bilateral Trade | Trade between two countries. |
| Absolute Advantage | A situation where, for a given set of resources, one country can produce more of a particular good than another country. |
| Comparative Advantage | The reason for trade. Even with an absolute advantage in production, another country may have a lower opportunity cost of production. |
| Protectionism | Policies used to protect an economy from foreign competition. |
| Tariff | A tax that is imposed on imports and exports. |
| Quota | A physical restriction on imports. |
| Export Subsidies | A policy designed to make a nation's exports more competative on the international market. |
| Dumping | Selling goods in an overseas market at below their cost of production. |
| Sunrise Industry | A newly created industry within an economy. |
| Infant Industry Argument | The case for protecting new firms in a developing economy. |
| Globalisation | The process by which the world's economies are becoming increasingly dependant upon each other. |
| Economic Integration | The process whereby individual economies get together to form a single unit. |
| Free Trade Area | Where member states agree to remove any restrictions on trade among themselves. |
| Customs Union | Free trade among members and common external terrif on imports. |
| Economic Union | Member states agree to common economic policies and, sometimes, a common currency. |
| Terms of Trade | A numerical measure of the relationship between export prices and import prices. |
| Trading Possibility Curve | A representation of what trade is possible for given terms of trade. |
| Balance of Trade | The difference between exports of goods and services and imports of goods and services. |
| Current Account | Part of the balance of payments. A record of the trade in goods and services, investment income and current transfers. |
| Financial (Capital) Account | Part of the balance of payments. Shows the transfer of financial assets between a country and the rest of the world. |
| Trade Creation | The high cost of domestic production is replaced by more efficiently produced imports from within a customs union. |
| Trade Diversion | Where trade with a low cost country outside a customs union is replaced by higher cost products supplied from within. |
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