Question

Indicate how each of the following transactions affects U.S. exports, imports, and net exports.

Effect On...
Transaction U.S. Exports U.S. Imports U.S. Net Exports
A French historian spends a semester touring
museums and historic battlefields in the United States.
Your parents go on a trip to Japan in late March
for the Cherry Blossom season.
Your auntie purchases a Panasonic camera.
The student bookstore at Yale University sells
books published by Cambridge University Press.
A European family goes to Disney World in
Florida for vacation.

Answer 1

export import net export

1. increases unchanged increases

2. unchanged increases decreases

3. unchanged increases decreases

4. unchanged increases decreases

5. increases unchanged increases

Step-by-step explanation:

export would comprise of goods and services produced in the US that are been sold to foreign countries

Import would comprise of foreign produced goods and services that are been sold in the US

Net export would increase when export occurs and decrease when import occurs

Net export = exports – imports

When the French historian visits the US museum and the European family visits Disney, they are enjoying US services, thus export increases and net export increases

The purchase of books from Cambridge in UK, Panasonic camera and the visit to Japan constitutes import. These increases import and reduces net export