The government intervention in international markets has various
benefits and drawbacks.
Benefits of government intervention in international trade:-
- The government intervention generates revenues and subsidies to
help the business to become highly competent in the international
trade.
- It opens up fair trade and equal opportunities among the
competing nation's.
- It prevents the businesses from performing illegal activities
and from doing things that create negative externalities.
- It protects consumer's and investor's from the abuses by
businesses.
Costs of government intervention in international trade:-
- With the government intervention in the international trade,
the producers are no longer free to produce as much as they want
and they are not free to set prices with their wish.
- There is an asymmetry in information available during an
international trade when the government intervenes.
- The market's taking part in the trade are no longer free to
react to the environment and the behaviour caused by the
environmenal changes.
- Government intervention leads to Higher price's and lowers
economic efficiency.