protectionist

protectionism | Business English

protectionism
noun[ U ]
 ECONOMICSuk /prəˈtekʃənɪzəm/us
actions of a government to help its country's trade or industry by putting taxes on goods bought from other countries or by limiting the amount of goods that can be imported:
The committee will discuss the relative merits of free trade and protectionism.
economic protectionism

Examples of protectionism

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Local protectionism existed at early stages of economic reforms, but with the deepening of decentralization, it was constrained.
Protectionism is paternalistic, essentialises the child, and denies the child a voice.
This was most visibly illustrated by the willingness of environmental groups to work with business - on everything from safety standards to free trade and protectionism.
This situation may be triggered by less protectionism in agricultural trade, so pa increases.
Politicians unsurprisingly often opt for protectionism in response to pressure from domestic groups.
In the data protection case, allegations of protectionism played a much less important role.
Indeed, the musical circuit seems to have been relatively circumscribed and one subject to an active protectionism.
The economic liberals were swept aside; protectionism and the balance of trade triumphed.
He only looked at pre1914 experience and his analysis did not control for factors other than protectionism that might have accounted for faster growth.
It is thus important to acknowledge that, like protectionism and children's rights, an ethic of care may also develop flaws in practice.
While protectionism and children's rights go some way towards understanding children as relational beings, both are fundamentally incompatible with such a construction.
Rather than professional protectionism, this is about preventing duplication and working together effectively for the benefit of the community.
Instead of developing and becoming efficient in the competitive struggle, it loses its fighting strength in the unhealthy atmosphere of monopolistic protectionism.
He also argues that regionalism is a compromise between globalism and protectionism.
Grain producers and heavy industrialists, up to then suspicious adversaries, converged upon a common interest in protectionism.
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