CONSTANT-COST INDUSTRY: A perfectly competitive industry with a flat, or perfectly elastic long-run industry supply curve that results because expansion of the industry has no affect on production cost or resource prices. For a constant-cost industry the entry of new firms, prompted by an increase in demand, has no affect on the long-run average cost curve of each firm nor its minimum efficient scale of production.

     See also | perfect competition | supply | supply curve | industry | demand increase | minimum efficient scale | production cost | resource prices | economies of scale | increasing-cost industry | decreasing-cost industry |

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Goods and services produced by the foreign sector and purchased by the domestic economy. In other words, imports are goods bought from countries. Imports are the counter to exports--goods produced by the domestic economy and purchased by the foreign sector. Imports, together with exports, are the essence of foreign trade--goods and services that are traded among the citizens of different nations. Imports and exports are frequently combined into a single term, net exports (exports minus imports).

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