protectionist measure
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protectionist
adjective
uk/prəˈtek.ʃən.ɪst/us/prəˈtek.ʃən.ɪst/
relating to actions by a government to help its country's trade or industry by taxing goods bought from ...
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measure
noun
uk/ˈmeʒ.ər/us/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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Not content with endorsing such nonsense, this text makes the fight against anyprotectionistmeasurethe central piece of its argument.
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It is not aprotectionistmeasureand as soon as it is safe to remove it we shall do so.
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I deny the statement made by my two noble friends behind me that this is aprotectionistmeasure.
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Unless they are in place, there will be competitive devaluation, which is aprotectionistmeasure.
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They see that as aprotectionistmeasurethat would make the new trade round meaningless because it would erect trade barriers.
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The arrangement is not aprotectionistmeasure, and never has been, but it allows for limited textile imports.
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This is essentially aprotectionistmeasureabout which we ought to be circumspect.
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I am fully convinced that this tax was imposed purely as aprotectionistmeasure.
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We regard that as a damaging andprotectionistmeasure.
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We are also glad that we resisted the propsoal for a tax on oils, which would be a furtherprotectionistmeasureand would have an adverse impact on developing countries.
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Their position is to some extent being used as a sop to our better feelings in relation to the developing world, and to justify aprotectionistmeasure.
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It is clearly aprotectionistmeasure.
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That must mean that our industry gets a smaller share of the home market or itself exports, so how can it be described as aprotectionistmeasure?
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His point on the alleged temporariness of protectionist controls is not unique to bananas, as the argument is used to justify almost everyprotectionistmeasurethat is introduced.
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There has been some talk of other countries possibly engaging in some form ofprotectionistmeasurethat might compel us to reintroduce the export rebate scheme.
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Developing countries also hold legitimate fears that the attempts to incorporate labour standards may be used as a thinly veiledprotectionistmeasure.
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Not only could this open the window to protectionist measures, but it would leave ambivalent the question of who decides what are fair trade measures.
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Such protectionist measures are most severe in precisely the areas - textiles, footwear, agricultural products -where poor countries would otherwise be most competitive.
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We have already seen that policy before 1939 did not take a pro-artisan direction in the sense of promoting the sort of protectionist measures for which many artisans had clamoured.
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But it is no good just bewailing the emergence of protectionist measures.
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