Q1(e) Evaluate the micro and macro consequences that a regional trade agreement linking the UK and the EU would produce.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Trading blocs comes up in 14 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 192 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on A Level Paper 2, A Level Paper 3, International A Level Unit 4.
Tariffs run from 1 to 25 marks. The commonest instructions are Evaluate (5), Discuss (3), Explain (2). Specification points covered: 4.1.5, 4.3.2.4.
Q1(e) Evaluate the micro and macro consequences that a regional trade agreement linking the UK and the EU would produce.
Q7(d) Analyse two jobs the World Trade Organization does, using the extract questioning its effectiveness.
Q7(e) Discuss what China stands to gain economically from its 28 free-trade deals and RCEP membership.
Q5 Deduce what kind of bloc the East African Community is, given its shared tariff on outsiders.
Q2(e) Evaluate at micro and macro level (Extract F) what Ghana's entry into the African Continental Free Trade Agreement would bring.
Q9 Evaluate the drawbacks for a country of joining a monetary union, with Romania's euro ambition in mind.
Q6(a) Using Extract A on the African Continental Free Trade Area, set out what a regional trade agreement means.
Q8 Evaluate what a nation stands to gain economically from trading bloc membership, as with the UK's February 2021 CPTPP application.
Q7(c) Set out what a customs union is, as referred to in Extract A.
Q7(d) Examine two economic gains Turkey could expect from European Union membership, using Extract A's closing paragraph.
Q7(e) Discuss what the EU could economically gain from a Mercosur trade deal, as set out in Extract B.
Q6(d) Assess measures Nigeria might adopt to answer worries its manufacturers and unions raise about the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
Q6(e) Discuss what deeper economic integration could deliver for countries across sub-Saharan Africa.
Q7 Evaluate how expanding trade blocs, notably the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement covering 26 African states with roughly £1 trillion of GDP, reshape world trade.
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