For countries forming a customs union, the trade-creation effect represents a welfare loss and the trade-diversion effect represents a welfare gain.
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In the short run, Mexico would realize overall welfare gains from becoming a member of the North American Free Trade Agreement if the resulting diseconomies of scale effect more than offset the competition effect.
A. 对
B. 错
Trade creation occurs when imports from a low-cost supplier outside of a customs union are replaced by purchases from a higher-cost supplier within the union.
A. 对
B. 错
If a customs union includes the low-cost supplier of the world, there would be no adverse trade-diversion effwct that would counteract the positive trade-creation effect.
A. 对
B. 错
The potential for trade diversion is smaller when a custom union's external tariff is lower rather than higher.
A. 对
B. 错