Constructed Response Task
When importing goods into country A, importers have to pay a 3% import tax for the first
$2,000 value of the imported goods, 6% for the next $2,000, and 9% for any amount above
$4,000.
Country B charges an 8% import tax on the total value of the imported goods.
A)
Company Z paid a $306 import tax to country B. What was the value of the goods
imported?
B)
If Company Z wants to import goods valued in $6,000 into country A. How much
money would they have to pay in import tax?
C)
If Company Z paid $351 in import tax for goods they imported into country A. What
was the total value of the imported goods? Show your work.