Trade Barriers

By : Christie Nance
 Standard
• Compare and contrast different types
of trade barriers such as tariffs ,
quotas,and embargoes.
 Essential Questions
1)How do trade barriers (tariffs ,
quotas , and embargoes) hinder
voluntary trade from occurring
between countries ?
2)How does the EU encourage voluntary
trade among its members ?
 What are trade barriers ?

vA term that describes any

government policy that restricts
world trade .
 What is a tariff ?
• A tax on imported goods.
 What is a import quota ?
• An import quota is a type of
protectionist trade restriction that
sets a physical limit on the quantity
of a good that can be imported into
a country in a given period of time.
 What is a embargo ?
• An embargo is the prohibition of
commerce and trade with a certain
country, in order to isolate it and to
put its government into a difficult
internal situation, given that the
effects of the embargo are often
able to make its economy suffer
from the initiative.
• They pervent the contries from
trading.