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KEY TAKEAWAYS<br />

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An export tax will lower the domestic price <strong>and</strong>, in the case of a large country, raise the foreign price.<br />

An export tax will decrease the quantity of exports.<br />

The export tax will drive a price wedge, equal to the tax rate, between the domestic price <strong>and</strong> the foreign<br />

price of the product.<br />

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With the export tax in place in a two-country model, export supply at the lower domestic price will equal<br />

import dem<strong>and</strong> at the higher foreign price.<br />

EXERCISE<br />

1. Jeopardy Questions. As in the popular television game show, you are given an answer to a<br />

question <strong>and</strong> you must respond with the question. For example, if the answer is “a tax on<br />

imports,” then the correct question is “What is a tariff?”<br />

1. The kind of power a country is said to have when its exports make up a significant<br />

share of the world market.<br />

2. The direction of change of the domestic price after an export tax is implemented by a<br />

domestic country.<br />

3. The direction of change of the foreign price after an export tax is implemented by a large<br />

domestic country.<br />

4. The price of tea in the exporting country if the exporter sets an export tax of $0.75 per pound<br />

<strong>and</strong> if the importer country price is $4.75 inclusive of the tax.<br />

5. Of increase, decrease, or stay the same, this is the effect on exports of wheat if an export tax<br />

on wheat is implemented.<br />

6. Of increase, decrease, or stay the same, this is the effect on foreign imports of wheat if an<br />

export tax on wheat is implemented by an exporting country.<br />

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