This document describes a hypothetical scenario involving two countries, Glacer and Congaree, that can each produce chinos or pistachios. It provides production amounts for each country and their opportunity costs. Glacer has a comparative advantage in pistachios while Congaree has one in chinos. If they specialize, Glacer would produce pistachios and Congaree would produce chinos. They could then trade, with Congaree exporting chinos and importing pistachios from Glacer. Specialization increases total production and allows both countries to gain from trade through increased consumption.

1. Suppose there exist two Imaginary countries, Glacler and Congaree. Thelr labor forces are each
capable of supplying four million hours per day that can be used to produce chinos, plstachios, or
some combination of the two. The following table shows the amount of chinos or pistachios that
can be produced by one hour of labor. Suppose that Initially Glacler uses 1 million hours of labor
per day to produce chinos and 3 million hours per day to produce pistachios, while Congaree
uses 3 million hours of labor per day to produce chinos and 1 million hours per day to produce
pistachios. As a result, Glacler produces 12 million pairs of chinos and 72 million pounds of
pistachios, and Congaree produces 24 million pairs of chinos and 32 million pounds of
plstachios. Assume there are no other countries willing to engage In trade, so, In the absence of
trade between these two countries, each country consumes the amount of chinos and pistachlos it
produces. Glacler's opportunity cost of producing 1 pair of chinos is of plstachlos, and
Congaree's opportunity cost of producing 1 pair of chinos Is of plstachlos. Therefore, has a
comparative advantage in the production of chinos, and has a comparative advantage In the
production of pistachlos. Suppose that each country completely speclalizes In the production of
the good In which it has a comparative advantage, producing only that good. In this case, the
country that produces chinos will produce millon palrs per day, and the country that produces
plstachios will produce million pounds per day. In the following table, enter each country's
production decision on the third row of the table (marked "production"). In the following table,
enter each country's production decision on the third row of the table (marked "Production").
Suppose the country that produces chinos trades 26 million pairs of chinos to the other country in
exchange for 78 million pounds of pistachios. In the following table, select the amount of each
good that each country exports and imports in the boxes across the row marked "Trade Action,
"and enter each country's final consumption of each good on the Ine marked "Consumption."
When the two countries did not speclalize, the total production of chinos was 36 million pairs per
day, and the total production of pistachios was 104 million pounds per day. Because of
speclalization, the total production of chinos has Increased by million pairs per day, and the total
production of pistachlos has Increased by million pounds per day. Because the two countries
produce more chinos and more pistachios under speclallzation, each country is able to galn from
trade. Calculate the gains from trade-that is, the amount by which each country has increased its
consumption of each good relative to the first row of the table. In the following table, enter this
difference in the boxes across the last row (marked "Increase in Consumption").