Economics 0455 · IGCSE · Globalisation, free trade and protection

Globalisation, free trade and protection — practice question

It has been proposed that every country that manufactures arms should prohibit the export of weapons and reduce production so as to lower the danger of war. What would be the result if this took place?

  • AThe balance of payments on current account of countries exporting weapons would immediately improve.
  • BThe price of existing weapons would fall.
  • CThere would be a risk of structural unemployment in countries that are major producers of weapons.
  • DThere would be no overall effect on the balance of payments as countries would produce their own weapons.

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