Trade Barriers

1. Company XYZ produces cheese in Scotland and exports the cheese, which costs $100 per pound, to the United States. A 20% tax would require Company XYZ to pay the United States government $20 to export the cheese

2.In 2010, Mexico imposed a limit of 250,000 tons of sugar that could be imported into Mexico.

3. In 1962, the United States prohibited all imports and exports to and from Cuba.

4. In 2006, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution to restrict the export to and the import from Iran on certain items and technology potentially related to nuclear weapons.

5.In 2010, China announced that it would impose an import tax on American poultry of up 105.4 percent.