新编商务英语阅读教程练习参考答案

与贸易相关的竞争及投资政策; 激励措施,如补贴和税收减免;

各行业的贸易政策问题,尤其是农业与服务业的开放问题; 《服务贸易总协定》的承诺情况;

特殊差别待遇,包括市场准入及执行情况,尤其在海关估价、《与贸易相关的知识产权》及《与贸易相关的投资措施》方面;

实施世贸组织协定的技术支持、贸易援助的经验及综合框架。

III.

Passage one

The mercantilists believed that a nation could gain in international trade only at the expense of other nations. As a result, they advocated restrictions on imports, incentives for exports, and strict government regulation of all economic activities. According to Adam Smith, trade is based on absolute advantage and benefits both nations. That is, when each nation specializes in the production of the commodity of its absolute advantage and exchange part of its output for the commodity of its absolute disadvantage, both nations end up consuming more of both commodities. Absolute advantage, however, explains only a small portion of international trade today. David Ricardo introduced the law of comparative advantage. This postulates that even if one nation is less efficient than the other nation in the production of both commodities, there is still a basis for mutually beneficial trade. The less efficient nation should specialize in the production and export of the commodity in which its absolute disadvantage is less. Gottfried Haberler came to the “rescue” by explaining the law of comparative advantage in terms of the opportunity cost theory. This states that the cost of a commodity is the amount of a second commodity that must be given up to release just enough resources produce one additional unit of the first commodity.

Passage two

The Uruguay Round of trade negotiations was completed in December 1993. It called for the reduction of average tariffs on industrial goods from percent to 3 percent, for quotas to be replaced by tariffs, and f

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