What is the number of countries that US has regional trade agreements with?
20
Name the member countries of USCMA
U.S, Canada and Mexico
What is the total number of members in the EU?
27
Give any two benefits of a regional trade pact?
Larger markets, economies of scale, reduce small country disadvantage
Is USMCA an optimum currency area? Yes or No
No
According to WTO, What is the total number of regional trade pacts globally?
355 RTA's in December 2022
In which year was treaty of Rome (the inception of EU) signed and how many members did it have?
1957;6
Regional Trade Agreements are discriminatory. True or False?
True.
How many member countries have joined WTO?
164
What is the difference between trade creation and trade diversion?
Trade creation is new trade, trade diversion is when trade is diverted from a non-member to a member of the FTA
Name any three countries in the ASEAN
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Phillipines
What was the GDP of the US in 2022?
$25.6 trillion
Name any three member countries of CAFTA
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominion Republic,
Name two advantages of adopting a common currency, Euro?
Elimination of currency fluctuation risk, easier transactions,economic efficiency from lower cost of conversion in currency, price comparison easier, stimulation in competition, trade, investment and travel.
What is an optimum currency area? Give an example?
Common currency; EU
What is the difference between a free trade area and a customs union in terms of tariff structure against non-members?
Members in a FTA may have different tariff structures against non-members; CU has the same tariffs structure against non-members.
Which year was NAFTA signed?
Which year was the USMCA signed?
1994
2020
What does BREXIT stand for? Which year did it go into effect?
Britain's exit from the European Union;2020
Which was the last country to join the EU? Which year did it join?
Croatia;2013
As the physical distance between countries increases by 1%, trade between them drops by_____%
1.1%
An Economic Union is more integrated than an Economic Monetary Union. True or False?
False