Practice mode Non-Tariff Trade Barriers

If import licences are auctioned to domestic importers in a competitive market, who receives their scarcity value (the revenue effect)?

Correct answer A. The domestic government

Explanation

Competitive bidding drives the licence price up to the full quota rent, so that revenue goes to the domestic government that runs the auction.

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