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the opportunity cost of beef is 20/80 or 0.25 units of wheat. (d) Analyze comparative advantage and opportunities for trade between the U.S. and Argentina. The U.S. has a comparative advantage in wheat production and Argentina has a comparative advantage in beef production. If the U.S. can trade wheat to Argentina a a rate of more than 0.5 units of beef per unit of wheat, then the U.S. will benefit. I Argentina can trade beef to the U.S. at a rate of more than 0.25 unit of wheat per uni of beef, then Argentina will benefit. 14. Consider the two countries of Syria and UAE. A business man wants to do trade between the two countries. 3 a) If Syria produces maximum of 2 million kilograms of tomato and maximum of 4000 kilograms of Halwa, then draw the production possibility frontier b) What is the absolute value of the slope of this production possibility frontier? c) In the 2-factor, 2-good Heckscher-Ohlin model, why the two countries are different? d) What will happen when Syria's currency depreciates? e) What type of contract is he involved if he negotiates over the exchange rate for 30 days in future? 15. The gravity model is often used to not only explain trade between two countries, bu also to investigate the reasons why they don't. Ilustrate this anomaly with suitable examples and reasons in the case of Oman. 16. "The world's poorest countries cannot find anything to export. There is no resource that is abundant-certainly not capital or land, and in small poor nations not even labor is abundant." Discuss.