The United States and many other countries often impose trade sanctions on other countries. These sanctions
A) decrease producer and consumer surplus in both the sanctioned and sanctioning countries.
B) tend to increase total welfare.
C) tend to decrease the deadweight loss.
D) tend to decrease consumer and producer surplus only in the sanctioned country.
A
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