Country X can make apples and plums at a lower cost than country Y. It can also grow strawberries, but doing so is more expensive there than it is in country Y. As a result, country X produces only apples and exchanges them for plums and strawberries from country Y. Which economic theory could account for this trade pattern?
- Aplums: absolute advantage country X; strawberries: absolute advantage country X
- Bplums: absolute advantage country Y; strawberries: comparative advantage country Y
- Cplums: comparative advantage country Y; strawberries: absolute advantage country Y
- Dplums: comparative advantage country Y; strawberries: comparative advantage country X