Implementing a regional free-trade agreement may have an effect in which, due to reduced tariffs, a nation in the agreement begins to import a product it had previously produced itself. This effect is called:
a. trade creation.
b. trade diversion.
c. reciprocal trade agreements.
d. the employment effect of FTAs.
Ans: a. trade creation.
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