The United States has an absolute advantage in producing sugar over all of the other sugar producing countries. Does this fact mean that we should not import any sugar from the other countries?
What will be an ideal response?
Having an absolute advantage doesn't mean that the United States should engage in the production of sugar. If the opportunity cost of sugar in the United States is higher than in the other countries, then the other countries will have the comparative advantage. The countries with the comparative advantage are the ones that should do the producing. Quite likely these other nations have the comparative advantage and so it would be good policy for the United States to import sugar from these nations.
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