You have just been hired by the U.S. government to analyze the following scenario. Suppose the U.S. manufacturing industry is concerned aboutcompetition from overseas low-cost producers exporting their goods to the United States, a practice that hurts domestic producers. Lobbyists claimthat implementing a tariff on imports would shrink the size of the trade deficit. The following exercise will help you to analyze this claim.The following graph shows the demand and supply of U.S. dollars in a model of the foreign-currency exchange market.Shift the demand curve, the supply curve, or both to show what would happen if the government decided to implement the tariff.SupplyDemandSupplyDemandQUANTITY OF DOLLARSGiven this change, the dollarFill in the following table with the effect of a tariff on the following items:Supply of Loanable FundsReal Interest RateNet Capital OutflowNet ExportsChange due to a tariffREAL EXCHANGE RATE (Units of foreign currency per dollar)

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Chapter23: The International Trade And Capital Flows

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