40. The author of this article argues that the country of Sacchar can best solve its
current trade deficit problem by lowering the price of its main export, sugar. The line of
reasoning is that this action would make Sacchar more competitive with other sugar-
exporting countries, thereby increasing sales of Sacchars sugar abroad and, in turn,
substantially reducing the trade-deficit. This line of reasoning is unconvincing for a
couple of reasons.
In the first place, this argument is based on an oversimplified analysis of the trade
deficit problem Sacchar currently faces. A trade-deficit occurs when a country spends
more on imports than it earns from exports. The authors argument relies on the
assumption that earnings from imports will remain constant. However, the author
provides no evidence that substantiates this assumption. It is possible that revenues from
imports will increase dramatically in the near future; if so, the course of action proposed
by the author might be unnecessary to solve Sacchars trade deficit problem. Conversely,
it is possible that revenues from imports are likely to decrease dramatically in the near
future. To the extent that this is the case, lowering sugar prices may have a negligible
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