International Trade Liberalization

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Trade liberalisation is when different nations remove and reduce barriers or restrictions on free exchange of goods. It applies to the reduction or removal of tariffs and non-tariffs. The World Trading Organisation encourages multi-lateral trade agreements. Multi-lateral trade agreements are pacts between nations. The goal of these agreements are reducing tariffs and to make it easier for countries to import and export, thus making it easier to enter each others markets.
Bilateral trade is trade agreements between two countries which are not necessarily close to each other. E.g. South Africa and China ; Between a country and a trading block e.g. Morocco and the EU ; or between 2 trading blocks. E.g. EFTA and SACU.
Countries support trade liberalisation …show more content…

This includes Economies of scale, competition and investing.
Economies of scale: With an expanded market, member countries can penetrate local industries and other member countries more freely, enabling producers to obtain scale benefits, eg. Increase in production to reduce unit cost of products by specialization (labor and capital).
Competition: An expanded market can promote competition among manufacturers in a trading block. Local manufacturers must become more competitive or may run out of business with less limited trade.
Capital investment:Trading blocks could also attract capital investment if non-member countries decide to establish subsidiary operations inside blocks in order to avoid the payment of inport tariffs.
It should be clear that the primary motivation for the establishment of a trading block is the expansion of market opportunities which in return leads to economies of scale in production, greater volumes of competatively priced goods sold, and higher profits for members of the block.

What contributes to the growth in bilateral trade …show more content…

Bilateral transactions doesn't attract allot of attention and reduces pressure from competition and increases negotiation rates. They are also easier to close.
Trade commitments reduces discrimination that can occur between non-members of trading blocs and because of political or strategic reasons. Trade blocs have consists of trade agreements that reflect economic integration. Bilateral transactions tend to attract little attention that reduces pressure from opponents and increases the rate of negotiations.
In conclusion, the growth in trading blocs are due to the fact that there are plenty to gain by joining/forming one and the deep objective of trading blocs are to integrate economies with protectionist policies. Trading blocs are also formed to favor of exchange among a selected nations. Trading blocs offer allot of advantages for example cheaper internal prices thus ensuring more internal sale. The home country gets extra money. The biggest advantages are that members of a bloc gets access to all markets and thus creating trade(free trade). Jobs are created and protecting economies. Economies of scale which means that if a country orders products in bulk, they get lower costs which means they make more

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