Trade allows countries to do what?

• A. Share goods
• B. Limit production
• C. Increase tariffs
• D. Reduce supply

Answer: (A)

Trade is about countries specializing in what they can produce most efficiently and then exchanging with others. By focusing on what each country does best, overall output rises, and each country gains access to more goods at lower cost than if it tried to produce everything itself. The idea is sharing goods through exchange, which creates gains from trade for both sides. The other options don’t capture what trade accomplishes: increasing tariffs or reducing supply aren’t the goals of trading, and trade isn’t about simply limiting production.