The correct answer is: "limiting competition"
Regional trade blocks are intergovernment treaties through which several countries agree to eliminate trade barriers among its members, so that they can enjoy free trade and enhance competitiveness within the region. Moreover, they establish a joint external trade policy, setting tariffs and other trade barriers to favour<u> domestic producers cope with competitors from outside the block, limiting the foreigner's ability to compete with products from the trade bloc. </u>
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But one of thier impact was strong food shortages
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "becoming more self-sufficient." Trading centers in other countries helped the mother country in all of the following ways except for: becoming more self-sufficient gathering sufficient.
The monarchs had used their wealth to fund expeditions for explorers. The explorers would’ve worked for them in exchange for expedition fund or to at least acquire a better chance at being funded.