In my country, some products and services are produced domestically while others are shipped from abroad if their price is cheaper or they have better characteristic. Anyway, independently of their origins, goods and services are perfectly reacheable by citizens.
Asking the proposed questions serves the purpouse of designing an economic system for the country.
The three main questions in economics are the following:
- What to produce
- How to produce
- To whom
If the goverment decides on those three questions then the economy of the country is governed by a centrally-planned system. If the answers are provided by the interactions occuring in the markets instead, then there is market-based economic system. If both goverments and markets have a say, then it is a mixed economic system.
