9 marks
Q2(g) Data response: what South Korea's car industry gains from the Philippines scrapping tariffs.
Edexcel · 4EC1
Tariffs comes up in 14 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 58 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 12 marks. The commonest instructions are Draw/Diagram (8), Assess (2), Identify (MCQ) (2). Specification points covered: 2.2.2.
Q2(g) Data response: what South Korea's car industry gains from the Philippines scrapping tariffs.
Q1(f) Diagram question: a tariff on Chinese coal - show the effect on equilibrium price and quantity.
Q1(f) Diagram question: India scraps a tariff - show the effect on tomato price and quantity.
Q3(c) Diagram question: show what scrapping a tariff does to the price and quantity of Malaysian palm oil imported into the UK.
Q3(e) Data response: what Brazil stands to gain from putting a tariff on tyres.
Q1(f) Diagram question: show what a tariff does to the price and quantity of large tyres (context: China).
Q1(f) Diagram question: show what a tariff does to the price and quantity of Australian barley.
Q1(f) Diagram question: show what cutting a tariff does to US lobster imports into the EU.
Q1(f) Diagram question: a tariff on toys brought in from China - show the effect on price and quantity.
Q1(b) Multiple choice naming a tax on imports.
Q2(a) Multiple choice picking the diagram showing a market after tariffs are introduced.
Q1(f) Diagram question: show what a tariff does to a good's equilibrium price and quantity.
Q4(a) Work out the final price of clothing in yuan once the tariff is added.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up what China gains from cutting tariffs on imports.
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