No they can't.
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They would stop buying sugar , molasses, and other sweetened goods.
You will hear both sides of the argument. People will say yes we should stop buying goods from other countries because we need to bring jobs back home and create our own products. Others will say no we shouldn't stop buying goods from other countries because we can save tons of money by using cheap labor from underdeveloped countries; it will be too expensive to make products in our own country compared to these countries we currently use laborers from.
Yes, Gandhi did encourage Indians to NOT buy British goods because it was too expensive in the olden days when India was under the British rule.
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An elastic product is one that if the price goes up, people will stop buying it. Examples of elastic goods are vacations, DVD's and other material items.
Gandhi encouraged the Indian populace to stop buying British goods through the promotion of swadeshi, which emphasized the use of locally made products. He organized boycotts of British textiles and goods, urging people to spin their own cloth (khadi) as a symbol of self-reliance and resistance. By appealing to national pride and highlighting the economic impact of British colonialism, he inspired widespread participation in these boycotts as a form of nonviolent protest against British rule.
One effect of high American tariffs caused foreign trade to almost stop. This had other countries angry with the US, which caused them to stop buying US goods and they raised their tariffs, which had a effect on the American economy.
The law of demand? I'm not quite sure if it's called that. Consumers will stop buying a product as and when they see that the price is set too high. It changes consumer to consumer - if the price of bread rises from £0.50 to £1, extremely poor people might stop buying it because they can't afford it, because the price is too high. Similarly, some consumers will never stop buying things because they are rich enough to afford the goods. Take a look at price elasticity of demand if you want to know more about when consumers stop buying products because of its price - the change of demand according to a change in price.