We establish a three-country two-factor model to compare the optimal factor import policy with the optimal output export policy. In the model, there is a home country importing a factor from a foreign monopoly market, combining it with a domestic factor to produce a final product to be entirely exported to a third country. If the import demand for the factor is not too convex, the home country should impose a positive tariff on the factor import so as to diminish monopoly distortion. An export policy on the output serves also to diminish the distortion. In the case, the home government should tax (subsidize) the export if the importing factor is a normal (inferior) factor. Domestic welfare and output are the same under the two policies.