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Sweden issues international garlic smuggling warrant
19th January 2013
This has to be my new favourite story, and it will work particularly well for A2 but for AS too, with elements of micro as well as macro.......Did you know that China produces 80% of the world's supply of garlic?Did you know that in 2001 the EU introduced a 9.6% duty on imported garlic in order to protect European growers?Did you know that police in Britain, Ireland, Austria and Poland arrested smugglers for illegally importing at least €3m worth of garlic into the EU last year alone?
Many of us will be looking around for something to set as 'Snow Work' at the moment. Can I suggest something on the following lines - you could add to or delete any of the economic terms I have suggested:
Using the links above, write one side of A4 about this story, incorporating all of the following terms:
- protectionism
- law of unintended consequences
- government intervention
- black market
- merit good
- globalisation
- BRICs
- tariff
- quota
- trading bloc
- inward and outward development strategies
- consumer welfare
- government revenue
- unemployment