Q's Trading Region    14. If Q and Z specialize in production of the goods for which each has a comparative advantage, and trade, then Q's trade region is the area that lies between the best possible trades Q could ever hope to negotiate with Z, and the worst possible trades Q would ever consider. On the graph to the right, Q's trade region is made up of areas:
  1. 1 + 2 + 3.
  2. 1 + 4 + 5.
  3. 3 + 4 + 5.
  4. 4 + 5 + 6.
  5. 3 + 4 + 5 + 6.


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