By implementing the right policy measures, countries that open to free international trade can always avoid the production structural changes that free trade generates.
Clearly indicate if the statement is true or false and briefly explain your answer
The statement is false. No trade policy can gurantee that the structural change will definitely be preserved. While it is true that cetain level of structure can be maintained by incentivizing or penalizing or other policy changes, but it does not gurantee such structure. For example, Qatar is a small nation on desert. Production cost of agriculture is huge. So, without free trade, they have to be self-sufficient and have to produce crops, but with free trade, the cost of agriculture will be far lower by importing, thus the structure of the economy or sector will change even with policy intervention by incentivizing farmers.
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