When a nation reduces the barriers to international trade:

A. each individual citizen becomes worse off.
B. the total value of all goods and serviced produced by the nation rises.
C. each individual citizen becomes better off.
D. the total value of all goods and services produced by the nation falls.


Answer: B

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