Q and Z's PPFs   13. A 100% tariff means that the tariff is as much again as the price. Since the best price Q could negotiate for a bag of coffee from Z is 0.5 a MP3 Player, a 100% tariff would mean that a bag of imported coffee would cost (at those terms of trade) 1 MP3 Player (0.5 for the imported coffee and 0.5 for the tariff).

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