Trade Barriers

U.S. farmers are allowed to obtain irrigation water from federal dam projects at very low prices to grow rice in the CA desert, if they promise to sell 90% of the rice to buyers in Asia.

• Subsidies
• Tarriff
• Quota
• Standard

U.S. State department officials decided to end the current prohibition of travel and some trade with Cuba.

• Tarriff
• Quota
• Embargo
• Standard

China’s most favored nation trading status will be taken away if congress and the President agree that the Chinese Government  is guilty of human rights abuses. All Chinese imports will experience a sharp increase in taxes if China is no longer considered a most favored nation.

• Tarriff
• Quota
• Embargo
• Subsidies

Japanese auto firms agree to limits set in Washington D.C., on the # of Japanese cars that may be sold in the U.S.

• Embargo
• Quota
• Tarriff
• Standard

Congress passes a law requiring that all foreign-grown vegetables sold in the U.S. must be organically grown (no use of chemical fertilizers and herbicides)

• Tarriff
• Standard
• Quota
• Embargo