trade policies
Import and export rules
Trade policies are the rules and strategies governments use to regulate international commerce—tariffs, quotas, subsidies, and trade agreements.
Countries may adopt protectionist trade policies to shield domestic industries or free-trade policies to encourage open markets: The administration's trade policies favored American manufacturers.
Trade policy debates often pit economic efficiency against job protection.
- embargoesRestrictions on international commerce
- subsidiesFinancial aid from government
- tariffsTaxes on imports
- quotasMandated numerical limits
- most favored nationBest available trade terms
customs procedures · export controls · safety certifications · supply chain · product standards · tax incentives · level playing field · exports · labeling requirements · retaliation · agreements · industrialization · negotiations · NAFTA · dumping · currency manipulation · outsourcing · customs
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
- trade policytariff, quotas, protectionism, sanctions, tariffs
- Trade Termstariffs, imports, exports, customs, quotas
- Two SiciliesNaples, Sicily, Palermo, Messina, Bourbons
- commercebanking, merchant, imports, sales, exports
- business resourcesbusiness directories, training guides, business strategy, investment guides, business plans
trade policiesfree trade
Unrestricted international exchange
protectionism · free markets · trade barriers · open borders · economic nationalism
trade policiesfree markets
Commerce without state intervention
deregulation · laissez-faire · market forces · non-intervention · invisible hand