Question

In certain industries, Japanese employers do not lay off workers. Therefore, they sometimes have excess supplies of goods that they cannot sell on the home market without lowering prices. To hold down losses, they sell goods in overseas markets at prices well beneath those in Japan. This practice is best referred to as:
a. trigger pricing.
b. orderly marketing.
c. dumping.
d. domestic content pricing.

Answer 1

Answer: Option (C)

Explanation:

In discipline such as economics, Dumping is referred to as or known as type of an injuring pricing, which is especially in context to the international trade. It tends to occur when the manufacturers export a commodity or product to another nation at price which is below normal price in order to have an injuring effect. The main objective of the dumping is to help increase the market share of an organization in the foreign market, therefore done by driving out the competition and thus creating a monopoly where exporter are able to dictate quality and price of the commodity.