1) The principal objection to treaty making raised by domestic interests is: A treaty will require specialized legislation to implement it at the...

1) The principal objection to treaty making raised by domestic interests is:

a. A treaty will require specialized legislation to implement it at the national level

b. A treaty will require specialized legislation to implement it at the provincial level

c. A treaty always involves the surrender of some degree of state sovereignty

d. A treaty can only be signed by a sovereign state

2) In Canada:

a. The federal government has power to make treaties and to pass enabling legislation to implement a treaty in areas of both federal and provincial jurisdiction

b. The federal government has power to make treaties but the provinces have the power to enact legislation to implement those parts of a treaty that fall under provincial jurisdiction

c. The provinces have power to make and implement treaties that fall under provincial jurisdiction

d. The provinces play no role at all in the making an implement of treaties

3) The correct order of priority of the recognized sources of international public law is: 

a. Treaties and conventions, decisions of national courts and international arbitration panels, international custom, generally recognized principles, scholarly opinion

b. Treaties and conventions, scholarly opinion, decisions of national courts and international arbitration panels, international custom, generally recognized principles

c. Treaties and conventions, generally recognized principles, decisions of national courts and international arbitration panels, international custom, scholarly opinion

d. Treaties and conventions, international custom, generally recognized principles, decisions of national courts and international arbitration panels, scholarly opinion

4) According to the theory of comparative advantage, a country will export a good only if

a. It can produce it using less labor than other countries.

b. Its productivity is higher in producing the good than the productivity of other

c. countries in producing it.

d. Its wage rate in producing the good is lower than in other countries.

e. Its cost of producing the good, relative to other goods, is at least as low as in other countries. 

5) The GATT's Binding Concessions Rule says:

a. Once a member lowers a tariff it is bound by it and can never raise it again

b. Once a member lowers a tariff it is bound by it until it raises it again

c. A member is bound by the tariffs it had in force when it joined the WTO

d. A member can always raise a tariff as long as it makes reasonable concessions to other WTO members when it does so 

6) Examples of subsidies include all of the following except:

a. Waiver of taxes for a year

b. Direct cash payment by the government

c. Free rent in a government owned building

d. New public highway construction 

7) Regarding the international law standard for treatment of aliens by a host state, the Calvo Doctrine says:

a. The minimum international standard of treatment is higher than the national standard of treatment available to citizens of the host country and it applies when the national standard falls below the international minimum standard

b. The minimum international standard of treatment is the national standard of treatment available to citizens of the host country

c. The national standard of treatment is always higher than the minimum international standard

d. There is no correlation between the minimum international standard and the national standard

8) Bilateral Investment Treaties are important because:

a. They offer investors the right of entry and the right of establishment but they do not offer a level of protection greater than that offered by international law

b. They offer investors the right of establishment but not the right of entry nor better protection than that offered at international law

c. They offer investors the right of entry, the right of establishment and a better level of protection than that offered by international law

d. They protect the less-developed, capital importing nations from undue exploitation by their own, national investors

9) A major and highly contentious feature of modern Investment Treaties is:

a. The right of the injured foreign investor to sue in the local courts

b. The right of the injured foreign investor to request diplomatic protection form the home state

c. The right of the host state's courts to refuse jurisdiction over the injured foreign investor's claim

d. The right of the injured foreign investor to sue the host state directly

10) In international trade law the term "dumping" means:

a. Exporting goods at higher prices than they would sell for in their own country or selling them below cost

b. Exporting goods at higher prices than they would sell for in their own country or selling them above cost

c. Exporting goods at lower prices than they would sell for in their own country or selling them above cost

d. Exporting goods at lower prices than they would sell for in their own country or selling them below cost