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protective tariff

NOUN
  1. a tariff imposed to protect domestic firms from import competition

How To Use protective tariff In A Sentence

  • When I wrote, imprecisely, that domestic subsidies for agricultural commodities are equivalent to protective tariffs, I was groping at the notion that in both cases (1) domestic consumers/taxpayers pay a premium above the world price and (2) that foreign producers are discouraged from entering the domestic market. The Case for Free Trade, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • His intention was to assist in the creation of a viable and efficient indigenous cement industry, and it was part of the strategy to build up an industrial base here behind protective tariffs.
  • British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by protective tariffs.
  • The aim of the protective tariff is to undo the undesired consequences of the rise in domestic costs of production caused by government interference.
  • We would see all other taxes ended before we surrender any part of the protective tariff system.
  • British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by protective tariffs.
  • In spite of the protective tariff levied on imported decorated ceramic wares, many American art potteries were unable to survive the influx of foreign wares.
  • (McDonald was referring to the politics of the 1830s and 1840s, when "good issues ... included protective tariffs and the recharter of the Bank of the United States; emphatically not good issues, because they were genuinely moral and potentially explosive, were slavery and Indian policy.") Close Up: The Mind of George W. Bush
  • But the protective tariff infuriated the predominantly agricultural South.
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